I Want to Live (John Denver song) explained

I Want to Live
Cover:	I Want to Live single label denver.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	John Denver
Album:	I Want to Live
B-Side:	Tradewinds
Genre:	folk
Length:	3:48
Label:	RCA
Prev Title:	How Can I Leave You Again
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Bet on the Blues
Next Year:	1977

"I Want to Live" is a 1978 charting single by John Denver from the album of the same name. Denver wrote the song "I Want to Live" after with folk singer Harry Chapin promoting the idea to President Jimmy Carter for a President's Commission on World Hunger. Denver conceived that the song should be used as the commission's theme song, though the commission produced little more than a report.^[1] Denver's interest was spurred by seeing a documentary film by Keith Bloom called The Hungry Planet.^[2]

Notes and References

1. John Collis John Denver: Mother Nature's Son 1780573308 - 2011 "The trigger point for Denver was a documentary film by West Coast director Keith Bloom called The Hungry Planet ... and its anthem was to be the title song on the album Denver was preparing at the time of Carter's election, 'I Want to Live'."
2. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 0160589347 "John Denver, the recording artist, who has also produced a film, "I Want to Live," directed toward the problem of world hunger"