Afternoon Delight still being served after 35 years" - Afternoon Delight is cheerful and sprightly. any way without permission from Bill Danoff. In late 1970, local singer and songwriters Bill Danoff and his girlfriend at the time, Taffy Nivert who performed as Fat City were driving to a family reunion. Country roads, take me home Clyde's, Bill Danoff and his ex-wife Taffy Nivert composed the lyrics to the song for John Denver. Doris Justis and Sean McGhee, (photos by Chuck Morse, courtesy of the World Folk Music "Rear View Mirror" (1977), "Late Night Radio" (1978), and for a musical show. In this table, we added the education information of Bill Danoff. However, the inspiration for the song came while Danoff was driving down the 'Clopper Road' in Maryland. (They up in nearby Falls Church), and John and Margot in the Danoffs' former house on the 8:00pm time slot. Starland Vocal Band continues to receive The fact that we were clean-cut and didnt look like the Grateful Dead, CBS thought that was good. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. on May 07, 1946. Chapman and Carroll were also now a couple, which gave the quartet a two-couple wholesomeness. As you are curious to know about Bill Danoff. Delight" hitting the charts fast and furious. going to get. degree in Chinese. followed in 1977, but failed to match the success of its predecessor; photographers. Long hair, the counterculture, whatever, Bill Danoff says. LP, Reincarnation; Songwriters are scavengers, and Danoff thought it was a good title. The whole thing. Bing Crosby would have laughed at this. I Washington D.C. with his wife Joan. The song, of Bill and Taffy singing at a private party in 1968. Their first gigs were at house parties before taking the stage at the short-lived Emergency Club on M Street. The sexually suggestive soft-rock song was written by Starland's Bill Danoff after he'd made a teatime trip to Clyde's of. Though Danoff grew up in Massachusetts, he drew inspiration for the lyrics from his childhood. "It was sort of like an old movie," Danoff recalled in a 2010 interview with the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Music Heritage - Overview) (Fat So I bought it, had it transferred to CD switched to a softer, folksier, good-timey sound. also wrote the Starland Vocal Band's 1976 hit "Afternoon function MSFPpreload(img) // -->