Word: deutschendorf
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...boomer generation. They put him alongside George Burns in "Oh God" and they tried to hook their kids, with some success, on "Annie's Song." The LP "John Denver's Greatest Hits" has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and is still selling. By all accounts, Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., son of an Air Force pilot, was in life what he was on stage: a lovable hippie environmentalist who sang from the heart and thanked God he was a country boy. And you can bet that whether Denver was cool or not, sales of those "Greatest Hits" will...
Denver entered Texas Tech University as an architecture major, but spent much of his time playing folk or rhythm and blues at local clubs. After 2½ years, he pulled out for the hootenanny life of Southern California, along the way changing his name from Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. In 1965 he joined the Chad Mitchell Trio, replacing Chad Mitchell himself, who was going out on his own. With acid rock on the rise, those were hard days for folk groups, and the Mitchell Trio was already $40,000 in the red. Long after Denver had turned solo...
Plenty of Oomph. Northrop had little trouble selling VIPS to the Air Force. On a test flight in Texas, the system worked perfectly; its calm voice gave prompt warning of many simulated hazards. Then the pilot, Major H. T. Deutschendorf, started his landing approach. Gina spoke once more, warning that his airplane's alternator was out and that fuel pressure was low on the port side. The major had had enough tests for the day. "Shut the damned thing off," he shouted to his crew. A crew member replied that no more hazards had been simulated. Suddenly the major...
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