I love this music. So refreshing and great to see someone singing without purple hair and silly garb. Brings joy and love to the heart. Jean from holygroundfarmorg
I love it. But I just love her voice and am glad to hear her sing almost anything. When someone sings someone elses song, comparisons will follow. They should both be appreciate and loved for who they are, not who does it better. This is not a race. Beauty and voice are in the eyes and ears of the beholders.
More ethereal than joan baez, more sweet and high. Mary's voice comes out of the sky, light and pure. Joan baez gives an emotional performance full of effort with superb background instrumentation, but she's half the singer Mary is,
Pure opinion, my friend.Just two different styles. Baez is no less performer nor singer. But far mor eformal of voice and less of a stylist than Hopkins.
True. I would never convince a Baez fan that Mary is better. But I have to say Mary's range is superior, and her voice is very haunting and high pure and strong with out the slow Pathos of Baez which is a bit painful to me. The key here is that if you dont like Mary's "Style" then you will never be convinced. I love Mary's style and the way she keeps the song moving and not dragging, something JB tends to do, despite her good voice and personality. I like JB but I love Mary.
That is exactly how I feel. I have huge collection of Baez music, but i play Mary's far more than I do her's... I love Joan Baez and have been to a lot of her concerts. But for me it's Mary every time.
In the U.S. we had Joan Baez and Judy Collins; in the UK, there were Mary Hopkins and the late Sandy Denny. The four most hauntingly beautiful females voices hat ever existed IMO. All four exquisitely beautiful and of the three still with us, Judy, Mary and Joan all sound as beautiful today as they did back in the day.
Huge fan of both, and I think their voices are equally beautiful for different reasons. Joan's voice is more powerful, which allowed her to provide a passion to soaring protest songs like "Joe Hill",, while Mary's voice was more sweet and nuanced and fragile and conveyed heartbreak that could literally bring tear to one's eyes. I adore both of them, as well as Sandy Denny and Judy Collins.
Joan Baez is the Queen and Mary, alas is but a poor lass in waiting. This song is about a whore house and Mary can hardly apply the blues rquired to convey the song's intent. If Joan is half the singer than why is Mary so obcessed with her?? Joan sang without a mike in thousands and thousands of concerts a round the world, Mary is a like a Beatle's tribute act, only to JB.
If there were a hotel they call the Rising Sun and there were a girl lovely and resembles Mary at 1:15, I had without hesitate to knocked the opportunity door.
I have half sleeping and made stroll here in YT hearing 浅川マキ and ちあきなおみ's covers (you can find out 朝日 with their names together in search box), and now came back to this, and saw your reply.
It's really great and treasured information from you! Thaks, thanks.
By the way confidential "against" is correct not "to" ;D
Another wonderful cover version I never heard before. Can you tell me whether this song had ever been released as single (B side) or not? Thanks for posting.
very like Joan Baez with a lighter touch and a little less power; soul sisters!
CattailsandRoses 5 months ago
Great song!!!!!!!!!!!!
pariah1975 6 months ago
Thanks a lot for sharing it! =)
Friedenspfeife321 9 months ago 2
A lovely woman with a lovely voice.
RLDUKE 11 months ago 2
I love this music. So refreshing and great to see someone singing without purple hair and silly garb. Brings joy and love to the heart. Jean from holygroundfarmorg
holygroundfarm 1 year ago
taddyd1 thinks he is Mary Hopkin
nakedBison69 1 year ago
troppo bella bella voce bellissimo testo bravissima cantante .....sono innamorato di lei
ciao Tommy
simaritalia 1 year ago 2
love it...
moshermassacre 1 year ago
this sounds EXACTLY like CAROLYN HESTER
taddyd1 1 year ago
@taddyd1 oh no it doesn't
richpat 1 year ago 3
@richpat Nicely done ! ! thanks for posting.
tolucawood 1 year ago
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ZackdelaRocha555 3 months ago
taddyd1 sounds exactly like carolyn hester
nakedBison69 1 year ago
I love it. But I just love her voice and am glad to hear her sing almost anything. When someone sings someone elses song, comparisons will follow. They should both be appreciate and loved for who they are, not who does it better. This is not a race. Beauty and voice are in the eyes and ears of the beholders.
theart1rm 1 year ago
Hello Pat, I had not heard this version before. I think it is very lovely too!
Camelea7 1 year ago
@Camelea7 Thanks for your comment...
richpat 1 year ago
I have not heard this version before, it is very nice
05Radar 1 year ago 2
I'm a fan of both but think Joan's version has that little bit more spookiness which makes it the definitive, for me
noritome 2 years ago 2
More ethereal than joan baez, more sweet and high. Mary's voice comes out of the sky, light and pure. Joan baez gives an emotional performance full of effort with superb background instrumentation, but she's half the singer Mary is,
griffcats 2 years ago 2
Pure opinion, my friend.Just two different styles. Baez is no less performer nor singer. But far mor eformal of voice and less of a stylist than Hopkins.
pattunes1 2 years ago 3
Hopkin (no S)
richpat 2 years ago
True. I would never convince a Baez fan that Mary is better. But I have to say Mary's range is superior, and her voice is very haunting and high pure and strong with out the slow Pathos of Baez which is a bit painful to me. The key here is that if you dont like Mary's "Style" then you will never be convinced. I love Mary's style and the way she keeps the song moving and not dragging, something JB tends to do, despite her good voice and personality. I like JB but I love Mary.
griffcats 2 years ago
griffcats
That is exactly how I feel. I have huge collection of Baez music, but i play Mary's far more than I do her's... I love Joan Baez and have been to a lot of her concerts. But for me it's Mary every time.
richpat 2 years ago
In the U.S. we had Joan Baez and Judy Collins; in the UK, there were Mary Hopkins and the late Sandy Denny. The four most hauntingly beautiful females voices hat ever existed IMO. All four exquisitely beautiful and of the three still with us, Judy, Mary and Joan all sound as beautiful today as they did back in the day.
mthivier 2 years ago 3
Huge fan of both, and I think their voices are equally beautiful for different reasons. Joan's voice is more powerful, which allowed her to provide a passion to soaring protest songs like "Joe Hill",, while Mary's voice was more sweet and nuanced and fragile and conveyed heartbreak that could literally bring tear to one's eyes. I adore both of them, as well as Sandy Denny and Judy Collins.
mthivier 2 years ago
Joan Baez is the Queen and Mary, alas is but a poor lass in waiting. This song is about a whore house and Mary can hardly apply the blues rquired to convey the song's intent. If Joan is half the singer than why is Mary so obcessed with her?? Joan sang without a mike in thousands and thousands of concerts a round the world, Mary is a like a Beatle's tribute act, only to JB.
taddyd1 1 year ago
@taddyd1 Only just spotted this comment??? What strange remarks you have made... "tribute act" ??
richpat 1 year ago
Does she sound like Joan Baez?
wendysuen163 2 years ago 2
thanks mary
simaritalia 2 years ago 2
grande voce...
marinalennon 2 years ago 3
Hi Pat,
Is it really recording of Mary's 18?
Pure virgin angel singing this!
If there were a hotel they call the Rising Sun and there were a girl lovely and resembles Mary at 1:15, I had without hesitate to knocked the opportunity door.
Sorry I am a old rude boy.
Confidential to MH and JM.
Take care!
Tommy
Kuramochi0214 2 years ago
Yes this is one of several songs Mary sang for Paul when she came to London to sing for him it was done at Dick James studios
richpat 2 years ago
Good morning!
It's ariund 5h30 AM Tuesday.
I have half sleeping and made stroll here in YT hearing 浅川マキ and ちあきなおみ's covers (you can find out 朝日 with their names together in search box), and now came back to this, and saw your reply.
It's really great and treasured information from you! Thaks, thanks.
By the way confidential "against" is correct not "to" ;D
Tommy
Kuramochi0214 2 years ago
Continued.
I can now understand Mary selected this, as "her" song portion (before the Apple days) at her concert in Expo Hall Osaka Expo'70.
All the best,
Tommy
Kuramochi0214 2 years ago
I don't think this was released on record bY mARY SO WHERE IS THIS FROM?
PertlyDaft 3 years ago 6
She has such beautiful voice. It sounds so meloncholic and sentiment, which suits so well with a mode of this song.
MinoYasue 3 years ago 7
I apologize unreservedly to Kuramochi0214.I was not intending to link the rising sun on the Japanese flag with the sentiments of this song.
maningreen7 3 years ago 4
Sorry, maningreen7.
In my mind I dislike the Japanese national flag. Here many of us think so because the flag is the symbol of feudalism and bad nationalism.
What I wanted to say is that Mary sang this song in the live at Osaka where her family were attending and heard she singing this there then (maybe).
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago 3
I'm surprised her dad allowed her to record a song about a house of Ill repute!Anyone got the sddress!
maningreen7 3 years ago 4
Why her dad against?
Mary sang this song at the live Osaka 1970. She accompanied her parents and a sister then.
Sad story but very beautiful song. I felt/also now think her cover is the best.
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago
After I have wrote this, I have compared this with "my heard" Osaka Expo '70 version.
Mary did not song whole the song then. She escaped the portion "my mother was a tailor...my father was a gambling man..."
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago
This arrangement is similar to the one on Live in Japan CD
Quite different from the animals...
Both very good
PertlyDaft 3 years ago 6
From which TV programme is this taken?
PertlyDaft 3 years ago 4
This is not from a TV show.
richpat 3 years ago
5+Star's! Great performance!
Great share, Tomoya! Thanks!
Very best of wishes, all!
GinMillBill
ginmillsinger 3 years ago 10
Very very nice!
Mary sang this at Osaka Expo 1970.
I AM gathering some photos of Streetcars (directopm "Desire" should be preferred?) in The City of New Orleans...
Kuramochi0214 3 years ago 3
Another wonderful cover version I never heard before. Can you tell me whether this song had ever been released as single (B side) or not? Thanks for posting.
whchanhk 3 years ago 10
No sadly ...
But we can live in hope that maybe she did record it and perhaps it will appear in the future!
richpat 3 years ago