Taffy Nivert
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Mary Catherine “Taffy” Nivert is an American folk-pop singer-songwriter who, with then-boyfriend Bill Danoff and John Denver, wrote “Take Me Home, Country Roads” — the 1971 Denver single that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a touring-bluegrass and country standard. She and Danoff later co-founded the Starland Vocal Band.
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- Began performing with Bill Danoff as the folk duo Fat City in the late 1960s on the Washington, D.C. and Greenwich Village club circuit.
- Co-wrote “Take Me Home, Country Roads” with Danoff and John Denver; the trio finished the song in Danoff and Nivert’s apartment on the morning of December 30, 1970.
- Denver introduced the song at the Cellar Door in Washington that night; his April 12, 1971 RCA single reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped country airplay surveys around the country.
- Married Bill Danoff in 1972.
- Co-founded the Starland Vocal Band with Danoff, Jon Carroll, and Margot Chapman in 1976; the group scored a No. 1 Hot 100 hit with “Afternoon Delight” that year.