i have an original vinyl of Song to a Seagull and the same thing that strikes me in the inner sleeve and this video is her mesmerising eyes! they say they're the mirror of the soul and my god I believe it!
Growing up with Let's Sing Out, you didn't stand a chance not to. One rainy day in Yorkville, she almost hit me in the nuts with her guitar case - then laughed. Was I ecstatic.
I wish I had lived my childhood in this time. I am 13 and I have to see slutty looking girls in my grade and listen to crappy pop music. And Joni is my favorite musician of all time. I just wish people my age could appreciate music like this.
@PickaxePig All I can say if at 13 you love Joni MItchell, it means YOU HAVE TASTE !! I discovered her late too but very uickly became my favorite musician of all time too !!
When music was not all about money, or street cred, or just being outrageous, or showing cleavage and booty and having kiss ass posses or insider PR flunkys . The Poet Nightingale that sang to all generations about affairs that affected the human experience, our folly and our little victories over adversity. She makes us feel good to be human. If pop music is the barometer of our Society( and it is IMO) Then we have been in serious trouble for some time he said stating the sad & obvious. .
I just saw "Legends of The Canyon" and to a man.... Crosby, Stills and Nash ALL said they were intimidated by her vast talent. Nobody could write, sing, or play guitar as well as her. Crosby said that the only guitarist he ever heard who could play at Joni's level was the late Michael Hedges (Windham Hill records). But he was ONLY a guitarist and Joni did EVERYTHING. Honestly, I think of nobody past or present who can match her talent. Vastly underrated and unappreciated.
Yes, please play Joni on the radio more often! How about a special "Joni Mitchell Hour", or at least a return to celebrating REAL ARTISTS! Love this woman...long may she sing.
the tale of a stubborn heart...i've been dealing with this exact man for 2 years...we mirror each other in so many ways and when i found this song i could not believe how on point of a description it is of him...i wish i could own this...she was such a beauty for her day and her lyrics are amazing and so poignant. way before my time but good stuff is good stuff no matter what era it comes from. a closed mind misses out on so many good things in life. i listen to this over and over...love it!
Watching this after watching the video from 1965 'Born to Take the Highway', shows a huge amount of growth in one short year, in Joni's confidence and her emerging individual style.
why isn't music like this any more! I'm 17 years old and all of my friends laugh at me for not listening to current music. but it's me who should be laughing at them because they will never experience the kind of connection and feeling music like Joni's creates. It's amazing it's like she is singing directly from her inner being to mine....I don't even know how to explain it. and now I'm starting to sound creepy....but it is so true.
@fated2pretend1 You are wise beyond your 17 years. when I was your age I was listening to her and had all of her albums....yes, real vinyl, not CD lol! =)
I'm 48 now, but when I was 15 my friends laughed at me for not listening to what was the most popular music then, too -- in 1977! There is a lot of good music today, but it's not on I-Tunes, not downloadable. The best does not reach the media. Just like so many of the best books are not and never will be on kindle. That's the danger of killing business channels for books, the danger of killing copyright before giving birth to copyleft.
@fated2pretend1 Do not feel bad ~ these great classic songs are timeless. Joni Mitchell wrote from her heart and that is why it touches a lot of people. So hold your head high - because you are the one who can turn around and laugh at your friends for not getting it. Great to hear young people loving a classic such as Joni. Have you heard of Bill Withers? Look up "Ain't no Sunshine When She's Gone"by Bill Withers ~ it was updated by a rapper but Bill Withers was the real deal
About to hit 60. Never seen this. Thanks to whoever posted it.
That cut to the guy wearing glasses is perfect. His helpless and shaken look tells me she is talking right to his soul. She would have been talking to mine at his age and she still is. Listening to her is so sweet it almost hurts.
Where are you finding this stuff. I'm the biggest Joni fan on earth since I first dicovered her in 1968 and these new unhedrd and unseen gems are incredible. Thanks for posting!
wow, this early stuff is really great.. i never seen any of these peformances ive been finding...youtube and the people who put this stuff up deserve many a thankyou..
That's so funny the announcer sound so patronizing when he announces her, like "oh this cute girl has written her very own song... isn't that sweet." And then she just blows everyone away with this super complex, psychologically penetrating song! Awesome.
She put Saskatoon on the map and that city has done squat for her. Canadians are incredibly humble, modest people, but they can take it to an almost pathological level where it stops being a virtue. It's sad. The greatest female singer/songwriter that has ever lived and her hometown hasn't recognized her in any way. It's shameful, really. They'll be sorry when she's gone. It'll be too late then. Idiots.
@ApocalypsePlough I dunno about Saskatoon, but Canada as a whole considers Joni a national treasure. and btw, forget greatest FEMALE singer/songwriter, best singer/songwriter PERIOD!!
wow,she really matured since her earlier performances on this program in '65..here she is called "Joni Mitchell" and sounds like the one we would come to know.fascinating!
Joni's music is comparable to no other. In my opinion, she proves there's a such thing as best. I'm 31 and discovered Joni about 3yrs ago, & let me tell ya, she's been hard to shake. I half to have a Joni "fix" every hour or so. I've found myself listening to the same song over and over, not realizing I've played this song all day, Crazy I tell ya, it's almost too much. With her looks and vocals, her gimmick is her songwriting abilities.
Wow, she's better by leaps and bounds here (voice, lyrics, song complexity and depth) compared to similar clips from '65, which seem almost silly and childlike in comparison.
Thank you so much for uploading this video! As I have posted many times before, I think Joni Mitchell is a treasure of all time, someone of stature comparable to, perhaps, Emily Dickinson, or any number of artists, male or female. But there really is no comparison. Joni is so truly unique. I have never heard this until now, and I thank you for the upload. It's a beautiful song and performance.
Thank you so much for uploading this video! As I have posted many times before, I think Joni Mitchell is a treasure of all time, someone of stature comparable to, perhaps, Emily Dickinson, or any number of artists, male or female. But there really is no comparison. Joni is so truly unique. I have never heard this until now, and I thank you for the upload. It's a beautiful song and performance.
I love to look at her and reflect on the greatness that was to follow. Her talent is almost overwhelming, though at times you can see the doubt in her eyes. Maybe she was wondering if we get it, if we have the capability to truly grasp what she was trying to say. She is a gift.
Back in those days, if you didn't see it on television, or were lucky enough to catch a live concert, you'd have missed this. Look at the advantage we have today with this treasure of old clips being posted by kind-hearted souls who are willing to share with the rest of us. Thanks so much!
it's wonderful that these performances of Joni still exist and can be seen and heard again, by anyone, anywhere. So much TV from that era has evaporated over the years.
I agree jst1998.. another thing I notice is nearly all singers are very beautiful, no overbites, big noses, pockmarked faces etc.... I love the REAL PEOPLE that use to sing...
If you listen to this recording you have to ask yourself why they are not playing this kind of music on radio anymore. Now it's all the same garbage over and over again and everything sounds the same. Thanks for posting.
@jst1998 I so agree, can hardly stand to listen to the radio anymore. Who are they to tell me what's in and what's popular? Were exposed to so little of what's out there. Here's to Joni Mitchell and to Phil Ochs and all the others who were great and are great ,but who have been allowed to fall through the cracks of our collective cultural conscienceness.
@jst1998 your so right, joni mitchell is a genius. she came from nothing [ Saskatchewan ] by train [ box car ] ,really she didn't become famous , because she couldn't spell ,play guitar or sing , we all have our own preference in life, music, seems to me ,get rid of the b-bopoprapcrap ,most dont know what there singing about. They sing garbage that some idiot wrote.They haven"t lived what they sing about. burns me up ! ! !
@jst1998 Yeah really....I think I'll dedicate this song to Eminem...lol........this is definetly a song about reality and the way certain people feels about themselves today....and trying to turn their lives around...should share this song with all my friends on facebook and put it to the test.
@jst1998 But think of it this way, good music can be put in the wrong hands...the people who cannot appreciate it. Wouldn't it be worse if Justin Beiber and Taylor Swift fans were obsessed with the legend Joni Mitchell? But of course I agree with your point too.
@melodel2 FYI Taylor Swift writes her own songs, so why are you putting down a artist that writes her own music and can play guitar and sing just like Joni did? Taylor may not be on the same calibur but she has the same dream, to write music that touches people. You may not like her songs but you can't deny that she is a songwriter just like Joni and is not on the same level as a controled product like Justin B. Or maybe you just didn't know she writes her own songs??
@jst1998 there's amazing music out there. You just have to give up on radio, unless it's college. this song is amazing, I just finished reading this cool book about Joni, Carole King and Carly Simon, putting them in a historical/socialogical perspective.
joni is a brilliant talent...this clip is from 1966...one year earlier joni gave birth to her daughter then gave her up for adoption..yet here she is singing away..nothing was gonna stand in the way of her carreer/fame...certainly not an infant...40 years later the daughter contacted joni and they were re-united..made for a nice story..photos and press releases of how they were bonding..few years later...joni slaps her 40 year old daughter in the face the LAPD come to joni's house...a real mess
How do I get video copies of these rare Joni performances and CDs of her rare songs? Please help. I've waited 34 years until today to hear any! Thanks so much.
I just found these old B&W videos. What a treasure chest! I thought that I had and had heard all of her music but clearly I had not. What an singer/song writer! She just got better and better as the years past. What is she doing today? Last I heard she was no longer singing and touring.
Yeah, it is too bad. What you might want to do is contact the original poster (just click on his profile at youtube). He says he has mp3s of the vids and, if I recall correctly, is willing to send them to people who request them. Just checked. He says: "I also possess the bare audio (mp3s) files of all of these recordings. So just ask if you're interested." Man, I love her early works - the later stuff, not so much.
Sincere thanks for your efforts... and I may well contact the poster for the mp3's... they're great... but on a broader question.... how come Canadians create the best singer songwriters? As an Aussie I'm always drawn to Joni.. or Lenny Cohen or Gordon Lightfoot etc... are there any theories out there?
I'm not sure that your statement is really true ... but there are certainly some fine musicians and writers who've come from Canada. I hope part of your "etc." is Loreena McKennitt. She's incredible. Canada is a wonderful country. Spent a lot of time in and around Vancouver when I was a kid. I'm in the American branch of a primarily Canadian extended family.
Carole King, Carly Simon, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, John Denver, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Neil Diamond, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Tom Waits, Phil Ochs, Jackson Browne, Brian Wilson etc.---are all Americans.
You might add to that list Jimmy Webb, Tom Petty, Burt Bachrach, Harry Chapin, Janice Ian, Linda Ronstadt, Laura Nyro, Roy Orbison, John Sebastian, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Lieber & Stoller, Everly Bros., Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, Paul Williams, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, John Hall, Buddy Holly, Robert Lamm, Pete Cetera, John Fogerty, John Phillips, to name just a few more.
yes ,the early albums of her great work are out there , i have them ,a great freind of mine downloaded them off a site last year ,i should put them up on utube soon,thanks ,
I agree with you blue is one of my all time favourite it took me a while to get used to the sound but i soon realised how amazing this album is it never gets old it is a true masterpiece and so is she.
Absolutely. Blue is phenomenal. Amazing songwriting, her voice and instrumental abilities masterful, and a vast sense of wustfulness and searching comes across, a genuinely artistic overlay of emotional expressin that is rare in recorded music.
i only discovered her on you tube bit by bit, then i read about her on wikipedia, where it said "Blue" was the 30th best album ever in Rolling Stone's list, so I downloaded all of it and I'm damn glad I did
I totally agree. Blue is the album that turned me into an instant Joni Mitchell fantatic. It is one of the albums that I heard and realized a whole new idea of how good music can be. I actually went four months with blue in the CD player in my car. I always listened to music when I was driving, and I never listened to the radio in that time. I just listened to Blue all the time and never got sick of it. It only ended because my stereo got stolen.
Lol...I think it's funny. Given her stupid comeback show with those ridiculous dancers, one might as well declare her dead (artistically, that is). She never should have gone synth/shit/newage in the 80s. The late 70s Jazz phase was bad enough. Funny, how she has such an immensity of song-writing talent; she could have kept going in her naturally strong genre.
Superstar folk-singer Joni Mitchell paid homage to Shelby Flint in a recent Mirabella Magazine interview by stating simply, "I started off copying a girl named Shelby Flint." Mitchell was referring to Flint's 1961 pop hit Angel On My Shoulder, an ethereally soft, lilting tune which displays the naïve-yet-alluring idealities of a young woman who saves lucky pennies, four-leaf clovers, and who wants "a love that lingers and is stronger through and through."
When I saw "Joni Mitchell-Just Like Me (1966)" I clicked on this on the outside chance that I just might wind up hearing the most bizarre cover of a Paul Revere & The Raiders tune ever recorded. But I'm not disappointed. This is a nice waltz.
This is a beautiful song...I am going to play it if it kills me.
issurchaim 1 week ago
Whoa!!! 'She looks beautifully at the camera." She couldn't have cared less. The performance is all. She was great. IS Great.
ctweebee 1 month ago
Thanks. I can hear the genesis of "That song about the Midway" in here.
willrothfuss 1 month ago
Joni is so gorgeous in face and spirit and voice here...Took my breath away.
vsibirsky 2 months ago
wow who knew that superstardom wasn't far. amazing times. supernatural?
animascat 2 months ago
Happy Birthday Joni!
bogey251 3 months ago
i have an original vinyl of Song to a Seagull and the same thing that strikes me in the inner sleeve and this video is her mesmerising eyes! they say they're the mirror of the soul and my god I believe it!
gordbard52 4 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell
i simply get frozen when she starts singing. pure talent.
cannonballmishell 4 months ago
weird intro. beautiful song.
jessicamariefarr 4 months ago
Growing up with Let's Sing Out, you didn't stand a chance not to. One rainy day in Yorkville, she almost hit me in the nuts with her guitar case - then laughed. Was I ecstatic.
Rips23 5 months ago
I wish I had lived my childhood in this time. I am 13 and I have to see slutty looking girls in my grade and listen to crappy pop music. And Joni is my favorite musician of all time. I just wish people my age could appreciate music like this.
PickaxePig 6 months ago 2
@PickaxePig All I can say if at 13 you love Joni MItchell, it means YOU HAVE TASTE !! I discovered her late too but very uickly became my favorite musician of all time too !!
frog222able 6 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Joni Mitchell
@frog222able :D Yes, she will always be my favorite musician of all time. I'm trying to get people to listen to her.
PickaxePig 6 months ago
@PickaxePig Hey Pickaxe, If you like Joni Mitchell, you might like Mary Win who is 22, and plays all original music.
woodsprout 1 month ago
@woodsprout Okay I'll check her out ;)
PickaxePig 1 month ago
I got chills.
pwk22 6 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell- CSN&Y - J.Taylor- J. Browne
what a beautiful song
jenniferlam90 6 months ago
Joni is a star child walk-in. No doubt about it. Lyran or some soul from a purely spirtual place. Love her for 40 years now.
MrPhatboy02 8 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell- CSN&Y - J.Taylor- J. Browne 2
Not sure who it was that inspired the song, but it's universal...we can all relate. And that is the (not so) simple artistry of Joni Mitchell!
FromaRandom 8 months ago 2
Yes Cactus Tree with some Night in the City too. It makes me want to learn it and sing it, Thank you very much Henhenstoll.
brightonmick 8 months ago
6 people have no souls.
bluestonepath 8 months ago
What a babe.
handyman1017 9 months ago 2
sounds like she used this as a jumping point for Cactus Tree
jaikwillis 9 months ago
Comment removed
Joseph03743 9 months ago
When music was not all about money, or street cred, or just being outrageous, or showing cleavage and booty and having kiss ass posses or insider PR flunkys . The Poet Nightingale that sang to all generations about affairs that affected the human experience, our folly and our little victories over adversity. She makes us feel good to be human. If pop music is the barometer of our Society( and it is IMO) Then we have been in serious trouble for some time he said stating the sad & obvious. .
1stheangelshare 10 months ago 2
@1stheangelshare u said it....too true i am afraid.
Suzep1 7 months ago
Q voz !
etralo92 10 months ago
Wow her best song!
socrates1818 11 months ago
Shes so perfect <3
1974Qball 11 months ago
Excuse me but Joni's front teeth look good behind those lips, much better than Taylor what's her name's.
oliverave1234 11 months ago
I just saw "Legends of The Canyon" and to a man.... Crosby, Stills and Nash ALL said they were intimidated by her vast talent. Nobody could write, sing, or play guitar as well as her. Crosby said that the only guitarist he ever heard who could play at Joni's level was the late Michael Hedges (Windham Hill records). But he was ONLY a guitarist and Joni did EVERYTHING. Honestly, I think of nobody past or present who can match her talent. Vastly underrated and unappreciated.
Cryo837 1 year ago 12
@Cryo837 soo true.
justinehosnani 1 year ago
JONI ALL THE WAY!
greeneups 1 year ago
BEST. SONGWRITER. EVER.
lkkerez 1 year ago 4
@lkkerez Completely agreed.
jacktojack69 1 year ago
Yes, please play Joni on the radio more often! How about a special "Joni Mitchell Hour", or at least a return to celebrating REAL ARTISTS! Love this woman...long may she sing.
zenpaganwarrior 1 year ago 2
yeah saskatoooon!
moonmoustache 1 year ago
How about a Joni Mitchell "Rarities" album? There r Lesser artists who have more bootlegs/unreleased material for us ravenous folks, why not Joni????
genebh1 1 year ago 3
the tale of a stubborn heart...i've been dealing with this exact man for 2 years...we mirror each other in so many ways and when i found this song i could not believe how on point of a description it is of him...i wish i could own this...she was such a beauty for her day and her lyrics are amazing and so poignant. way before my time but good stuff is good stuff no matter what era it comes from. a closed mind misses out on so many good things in life. i listen to this over and over...love it!
wishingonstars808 1 year ago
Watching this after watching the video from 1965 'Born to Take the Highway', shows a huge amount of growth in one short year, in Joni's confidence and her emerging individual style.
MsJCBurke 1 year ago
@MsJCBurke I noticed the same thing.
halbie71 1 year ago
She gives me goose bumps!
1974Qball 1 year ago
Hard to believe after all these years that clip and all the others are so IMMENSE! Thanks for posting these!
martinaxman 1 year ago
even then, she was changing the game with the alternate chord tunings. love love love
poeticjournalism 1 year ago
Musically, this is pretty similar to "Night in the City" on her first album
Ptrgamb 1 year ago
Great performance, and I really love her black and white outfit!
gorillabelly1 1 year ago
...arrepia, emociona...
AlexiaLabriola 1 year ago
why isn't music like this any more! I'm 17 years old and all of my friends laugh at me for not listening to current music. but it's me who should be laughing at them because they will never experience the kind of connection and feeling music like Joni's creates. It's amazing it's like she is singing directly from her inner being to mine....I don't even know how to explain it. and now I'm starting to sound creepy....but it is so true.
fated2pretend1 1 year ago 28
@fated2pretend1 i so know how you feel. =)
caringa0ala 1 year ago
@fated2pretend1 You are wise beyond your 17 years. when I was your age I was listening to her and had all of her albums....yes, real vinyl, not CD lol! =)
horsluva0758 1 year ago
Only mainstream music will find channels to survive if we leave it all to the free market alone.
TheFloripastral 1 year ago
I'm 48 now, but when I was 15 my friends laughed at me for not listening to what was the most popular music then, too -- in 1977! There is a lot of good music today, but it's not on I-Tunes, not downloadable. The best does not reach the media. Just like so many of the best books are not and never will be on kindle. That's the danger of killing business channels for books, the danger of killing copyright before giving birth to copyleft.
TheFloripastral 1 year ago
@fated2pretend1 right on i was born 4/24/66 and still catching up ! a deadhead 86-89 caught the Tail end then.
be sure to see her with csny live .
ms42466 4 months ago
@fated2pretend1 you're absolately right man..The music is not what was used to be:)) The golden greats will always be oldies
ccanver20 3 months ago
@fated2pretend1 Do not feel bad ~ these great classic songs are timeless. Joni Mitchell wrote from her heart and that is why it touches a lot of people. So hold your head high - because you are the one who can turn around and laugh at your friends for not getting it. Great to hear young people loving a classic such as Joni. Have you heard of Bill Withers? Look up "Ain't no Sunshine When She's Gone"by Bill Withers ~ it was updated by a rapper but Bill Withers was the real deal
azzyandlexie 2 months ago
About to hit 60. Never seen this. Thanks to whoever posted it.
That cut to the guy wearing glasses is perfect. His helpless and shaken look tells me she is talking right to his soul. She would have been talking to mine at his age and she still is. Listening to her is so sweet it almost hurts.
apolloman1 1 year ago
I love how unique she is. She helps me remember how to get back to my source of creativity.
fempixel11 1 year ago
what a talent
pandmbake 1 year ago 2
Where are you finding this stuff. I'm the biggest Joni fan on earth since I first dicovered her in 1968 and these new unhedrd and unseen gems are incredible. Thanks for posting!
QWK999R 1 year ago
She looks angelic here.
wildnites558 1 year ago
I won't lie I have a huge crush on Joni!
1974Qball 1 year ago
@1974Qball
how could a straight man not fall in love with her. I bet everyone's who's met or seen her has been overwhelmed with her charm.
dvs1572 1 year ago
Yes, everyone. How could any woman, straight or non-straight, not fall in love with her.
TheFloripastral 1 year ago
wow, this early stuff is really great.. i never seen any of these peformances ive been finding...youtube and the people who put this stuff up deserve many a thankyou..
sunchilde68 1 year ago
That's so funny the announcer sound so patronizing when he announces her, like "oh this cute girl has written her very own song... isn't that sweet." And then she just blows everyone away with this super complex, psychologically penetrating song! Awesome.
svrack 1 year ago 2
re: name change - no big secret or story... Roberta Joan Anderson went by "Joni" and married Chuck Mitchell in 1965.
See her bio on wikipedia.
(really interesting info about her youth... polio at age 9, meeting Harry Chapin at college - leaving school to sing)
slsmag 1 year ago
I love the way the announcer goes crazy in the end!!!!
NostalgicProcrast 1 year ago
Incredible song
OldiesMusicVideos 1 year ago
Why did she change her name?
0hN0y0ud1dnt 1 year ago
@0hN0y0ud1dnt She was married briefly to a guy with last name Mitchell
miarrem 1 year ago
A wonderful Joni Mitchell song - would have sounded wonderful on Blue or Clouds. It's a shame it was never recorded.
MrLovePoet 1 year ago
This beautiful! I've got all her recorded work but I didn't know these recordings existed.
gordbard 1 year ago
She put Saskatoon on the map and that city has done squat for her. Canadians are incredibly humble, modest people, but they can take it to an almost pathological level where it stops being a virtue. It's sad. The greatest female singer/songwriter that has ever lived and her hometown hasn't recognized her in any way. It's shameful, really. They'll be sorry when she's gone. It'll be too late then. Idiots.
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough I dunno about Saskatoon, but Canada as a whole considers Joni a national treasure. and btw, forget greatest FEMALE singer/songwriter, best singer/songwriter PERIOD!!
21dandandan12 1 year ago
wow,she really matured since her earlier performances on this program in '65..here she is called "Joni Mitchell" and sounds like the one we would come to know.fascinating!
sps242 1 year ago
Aw, sweet Joni <3 Thank you so much for sharing this!!! :) :)
BeautyInEverything7 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Joni's music is comparable to no other. In my opinion, she proves there's a such thing as best. I'm 31 and discovered Joni about 3yrs ago, & let me tell ya, she's been hard to shake. I half to have a Joni "fix" every hour or so. I've found myself listening to the same song over and over, not realizing I've played this song all day, Crazy I tell ya, it's almost too much. With her looks and vocals, her gimmick is her songwriting abilities.
dvs1572 1 year ago
Wow, she's better by leaps and bounds here (voice, lyrics, song complexity and depth) compared to similar clips from '65, which seem almost silly and childlike in comparison.
gorillabelly1 1 year ago
This is when she was still trying to be Joanie Baez, before she knew she was Joni Mitchell. Pretty stiff but she figured it out
alexeyre 1 year ago
haven't heard this song from Joni before
Jabulanison 1 year ago
. "Bob is not authentic at all," she said. "He's a plagiarist and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. JONI APRIL 2010
sunriseRISE 1 year ago
god this sucks
zeroskater088 1 year ago
@zeroskater088 go listen to your death metal and piss off, faggot
eirinikos 1 year ago 3
Thank you so much for uploading this video! As I have posted many times before, I think Joni Mitchell is a treasure of all time, someone of stature comparable to, perhaps, Emily Dickinson, or any number of artists, male or female. But there really is no comparison. Joni is so truly unique. I have never heard this until now, and I thank you for the upload. It's a beautiful song and performance.
ArkadyRenkovich 1 year ago 4
Apologies for the mis-scan repetition. I wish I could delete it, but I don't seem to have that option here.
ArkadyRenkovich 1 year ago
Thank you so much for uploading this video! As I have posted many times before, I think Joni Mitchell is a treasure of all time, someone of stature comparable to, perhaps, Emily Dickinson, or any number of artists, male or female. But there really is no comparison. Joni is so truly unique. I have never heard this until now, and I thank you for the upload. It's a beautiful song and performance.
ArkadyRenkovich 1 year ago
I love to look at her and reflect on the greatness that was to follow. Her talent is almost overwhelming, though at times you can see the doubt in her eyes. Maybe she was wondering if we get it, if we have the capability to truly grasp what she was trying to say. She is a gift.
TheRjjrjjr 1 year ago 2
Back in those days, if you didn't see it on television, or were lucky enough to catch a live concert, you'd have missed this. Look at the advantage we have today with this treasure of old clips being posted by kind-hearted souls who are willing to share with the rest of us. Thanks so much!
Damis101 1 year ago 36
@Damis101 you're SO right!
1972sissi 1 year ago
I wonder how many people love and loved Joni. Im sure its an overwhelming amount.
I love you Joni!
raajon 2 years ago 12
In his memoirs, Al Kooper claims to have
"discovered" Joni in a Greenwich Village tavern around '65 and circa 3am begged his pal Judy Collins to give her an audition.
noahf67 2 years ago
Yes, she is the BEST and her music has had a profound impact on many people's lives, including my own.
marc1john 2 years ago 3
njmus (above) says it best: "just the BEST"
wingman63 2 years ago 2
just the BEST
njmus 2 years ago 5
Hard to believe she ever sucked. It's almost as if she was less interested in vanity, the more time she spent on her art.
Bravo Joni!
@=
85bpm 2 years ago
"and she looks beautifully at the camera too." lol
andifadeaway11 2 years ago
Beautiful voice, beautiful face!
sporkbinder1 2 years ago
she turns 66 tomorrow. :)!!! <3 to joni!!
courtandspark86 2 years ago
I love Joni Mitchell and this is wonderful! Makes me wish we could turn back the clock.
MsJCBurke 2 years ago 4
it's wonderful that these performances of Joni still exist and can be seen and heard again, by anyone, anywhere. So much TV from that era has evaporated over the years.
jimbo129 2 years ago 2
sounds almost like a mezzosoprano here. normally she sounds like a very high soprano, maybe shes got a wide range.
i like both kinds of voices - the kind of mezzovoice and also the high soprano voice
natgab29 2 years ago 2
She had a simply wonderful range: sounded great through almost 4 octaves!! A true wonder in many ways :-+).
HolyMotherofGrid 2 years ago 4
From a true Joni fan, Thanks for posting this wonderful arrangement.
champlain9 2 years ago
I agree jst1998.. another thing I notice is nearly all singers are very beautiful, no overbites, big noses, pockmarked faces etc.... I love the REAL PEOPLE that use to sing...
grac27 2 years ago
If you listen to this recording you have to ask yourself why they are not playing this kind of music on radio anymore. Now it's all the same garbage over and over again and everything sounds the same. Thanks for posting.
jst1998 2 years ago 85
@jst1998 I so agree, can hardly stand to listen to the radio anymore. Who are they to tell me what's in and what's popular? Were exposed to so little of what's out there. Here's to Joni Mitchell and to Phil Ochs and all the others who were great and are great ,but who have been allowed to fall through the cracks of our collective cultural conscienceness.
VJ254 1 year ago
@jst1998 your so right, joni mitchell is a genius. she came from nothing [ Saskatchewan ] by train [ box car ] ,really she didn't become famous , because she couldn't spell ,play guitar or sing , we all have our own preference in life, music, seems to me ,get rid of the b-bopoprapcrap ,most dont know what there singing about. They sing garbage that some idiot wrote.They haven"t lived what they sing about. burns me up ! ! !
ihatemystupidcat 1 year ago
@jst1998
ihatemystupidcat 1 year ago
@jst1998 I TOTALLY AGREE =)
horsluva0758 1 year ago
@jst1998 Yeah really....I think I'll dedicate this song to Eminem...lol........this is definetly a song about reality and the way certain people feels about themselves today....and trying to turn their lives around...should share this song with all my friends on facebook and put it to the test.
rockinggirl50 1 year ago
@jst1998 But think of it this way, good music can be put in the wrong hands...the people who cannot appreciate it. Wouldn't it be worse if Justin Beiber and Taylor Swift fans were obsessed with the legend Joni Mitchell? But of course I agree with your point too.
melodel2 1 year ago
@melodel2 FYI Taylor Swift writes her own songs, so why are you putting down a artist that writes her own music and can play guitar and sing just like Joni did? Taylor may not be on the same calibur but she has the same dream, to write music that touches people. You may not like her songs but you can't deny that she is a songwriter just like Joni and is not on the same level as a controled product like Justin B. Or maybe you just didn't know she writes her own songs??
HydesBadAssChickFan 11 months ago
@jst1998 there's amazing music out there. You just have to give up on radio, unless it's college. this song is amazing, I just finished reading this cool book about Joni, Carole King and Carly Simon, putting them in a historical/socialogical perspective.
maddymud 11 months ago
@jst1998 Dumbing us down even through the music industry is the plan....
IraHayesIraHayes 7 months ago 2
joni is a brilliant talent...this clip is from 1966...one year earlier joni gave birth to her daughter then gave her up for adoption..yet here she is singing away..nothing was gonna stand in the way of her carreer/fame...certainly not an infant...40 years later the daughter contacted joni and they were re-united..made for a nice story..photos and press releases of how they were bonding..few years later...joni slaps her 40 year old daughter in the face the LAPD come to joni's house...a real mess
BabyGwar 2 years ago
Comment removed
dvs1572 2 years ago
relationships between mother and daughter are complicated.
cawiseguy 2 years ago 3
And? Really - so what. Life isn't a Disney film.
zenradio 2 years ago
Oops . . you've riled the Joni fans.
JonnyBoyMach2 2 years ago
sounds like nick drake
mark1800 2 years ago
How do I get video copies of these rare Joni performances and CDs of her rare songs? Please help. I've waited 34 years until today to hear any! Thanks so much.
victorX2000 2 years ago 2
I just found these old B&W videos. What a treasure chest! I thought that I had and had heard all of her music but clearly I had not. What an singer/song writer! She just got better and better as the years past. What is she doing today? Last I heard she was no longer singing and touring.
derkacs 2 years ago
Mitchell's vocal stylings here recall those of Joan Baez. For me, however, JM is MUCH better than JB --
stevevandien 2 years ago 2
Why hasn't she made this fabulous music available for people
regitze55 2 years ago
To say she's a genius is such an under statement! is there an album of these early compositions of hers?
rustino08 2 years ago 24
Hey, rustino - I looked and looked but, apparently, those early works just aren't out there anywhere. I wish they were. It's too bad.
cdd37 2 years ago
Thanks for looking. Maybe she never recorded them in a studio. Too bad eh.
rustino08 2 years ago
Yeah, it is too bad. What you might want to do is contact the original poster (just click on his profile at youtube). He says he has mp3s of the vids and, if I recall correctly, is willing to send them to people who request them. Just checked. He says: "I also possess the bare audio (mp3s) files of all of these recordings. So just ask if you're interested." Man, I love her early works - the later stuff, not so much.
cdd37 2 years ago
Sincere thanks for your efforts... and I may well contact the poster for the mp3's... they're great... but on a broader question.... how come Canadians create the best singer songwriters? As an Aussie I'm always drawn to Joni.. or Lenny Cohen or Gordon Lightfoot etc... are there any theories out there?
rustino08 2 years ago
I'm not sure that your statement is really true ... but there are certainly some fine musicians and writers who've come from Canada. I hope part of your "etc." is Loreena McKennitt. She's incredible. Canada is a wonderful country. Spent a lot of time in and around Vancouver when I was a kid. I'm in the American branch of a primarily Canadian extended family.
cdd37 2 years ago
Carole King, Carly Simon, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, John Denver, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Neil Diamond, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Tom Waits, Phil Ochs, Jackson Browne, Brian Wilson etc.---are all Americans.
My theory is that your theory is incorrect. (-:
InfiniteMusic 2 years ago
Bob Dylans parents came from Odessa, Russia
suninthefall 2 years ago
You're wrong.
Dylan's paternal GRANDparents emigrated from Odessa, and his maternal GRANDparents were from Lithuania.
Dylan and his parents were all born in the USA.
InfiniteMusic 2 years ago
You might add to that list Jimmy Webb, Tom Petty, Burt Bachrach, Harry Chapin, Janice Ian, Linda Ronstadt, Laura Nyro, Roy Orbison, John Sebastian, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Lieber & Stoller, Everly Bros., Willie Nelson, Harry Nilsson, Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, Paul Williams, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, John Hall, Buddy Holly, Robert Lamm, Pete Cetera, John Fogerty, John Phillips, to name just a few more.
wildnites558 2 years ago
yes ,the early albums of her great work are out there , i have them ,a great freind of mine downloaded them off a site last year ,i should put them up on utube soon,thanks ,
vaughnsalem 2 years ago
There's a nice studio version of "Urge for Going" on the album "Songs of a Prairie Girl". The rest of them that she did on "Let's Sing Out" - nope.
cdd37 2 years ago
@rustino08 not a genius, God blessed her with a talent =)
horsluva0758 1 year ago
I agree with you blue is one of my all time favourite it took me a while to get used to the sound but i soon realised how amazing this album is it never gets old it is a true masterpiece and so is she.
gar7777222 2 years ago 3
This sounds a little like Night in the city from songs for a seagull!man!Joni was Pretty in the old days
Viznel137 2 years ago
Beautiful! "Blue" wouldn't be in my top 5, but "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" or "Court and Spark" surely would be.
imaginationunreal 2 years ago
i love theses videos when she´s younger.
Blue is in my top 5 of best albums ever. anyone agree?
rhubarbtart 2 years ago
Absolutely. Blue is phenomenal. Amazing songwriting, her voice and instrumental abilities masterful, and a vast sense of wustfulness and searching comes across, a genuinely artistic overlay of emotional expressin that is rare in recorded music.
Blue is perfect.
AdrienneO 2 years ago
i only discovered her on you tube bit by bit, then i read about her on wikipedia, where it said "Blue" was the 30th best album ever in Rolling Stone's list, so I downloaded all of it and I'm damn glad I did
rhubarbtart 2 years ago
I totally agree. Blue is the album that turned me into an instant Joni Mitchell fantatic. It is one of the albums that I heard and realized a whole new idea of how good music can be. I actually went four months with blue in the CD player in my car. I always listened to music when I was driving, and I never listened to the radio in that time. I just listened to Blue all the time and never got sick of it. It only ended because my stereo got stolen.
thimoneus 2 years ago
Comment removed
thimoneus 2 years ago
I like "Blue" a lot, but "Song to a Seagull" is the one that really does it for me.
cdd37 2 years ago 2
Joni Mitchell,don't rest in peace dammit!,your not dead!,keep singing!
menotyoudude 2 years ago 2
Yes, Joni is so lovely and so very talented. I have been a fan of hers since her album "Blue". Thank you for these Beautiful videos.
Galacticplane 2 years ago 2
are you nuts? she didn't die!
parismemory 2 years ago
We'll miss you Joni...RIP
VERB65 2 years ago
Hahaha
preteengallery 2 years ago
WTF?? She isn't dead...
The666Gothika 2 years ago
Lol...I think it's funny. Given her stupid comeback show with those ridiculous dancers, one might as well declare her dead (artistically, that is). She never should have gone synth/shit/newage in the 80s. The late 70s Jazz phase was bad enough. Funny, how she has such an immensity of song-writing talent; she could have kept going in her naturally strong genre.
musicalidea 2 years ago
its a shame you just dont know thetruth man, you just cant see the truth.
they replaced her long ago with a robot. its true.
PINAPPLE1783 2 years ago
Couldn't agree more - what a pity she had to go through all that - just to stay in the public eye.
martinjp1958 2 years ago
absolutely right! those records were terrible !!!
jimmy281059 2 years ago
Just those lyrics...and so early!!
huwco 2 years ago
She is so beautiful! Thank you very much for posting this.
ecwheaton 2 years ago 5
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR FINDING AND POSTING THIS STUFF!!!
is there anything better than early joni?
LisaFishman 2 years ago 2
Absolutely the best. Still says so much after so many years.
talerdudansk 2 years ago
Comment removed
dvs1572 2 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this. one of my favourite songs now!
Yrjall 2 years ago
A cut above the rest. A giant.
johngotting 3 years ago
Superstar folk-singer Joni Mitchell paid homage to Shelby Flint in a recent Mirabella Magazine interview by stating simply, "I started off copying a girl named Shelby Flint." Mitchell was referring to Flint's 1961 pop hit Angel On My Shoulder, an ethereally soft, lilting tune which displays the naïve-yet-alluring idealities of a young woman who saves lucky pennies, four-leaf clovers, and who wants "a love that lingers and is stronger through and through."
smoothjazmine 3 years ago
beautifulll!
missyen78 3 years ago
masterpiece!!!!
riomat 3 years ago
When I saw "Joni Mitchell-Just Like Me (1966)" I clicked on this on the outside chance that I just might wind up hearing the most bizarre cover of a Paul Revere & The Raiders tune ever recorded. But I'm not disappointed. This is a nice waltz.
IDLERACER 3 years ago
Always go for the girl with the bangs!
Jeez, how far we have fallen since then.
LesbianVampireLover 3 years ago 4
so pretty
daliahme 3 years ago
The Sirens in Greek mythology have nothing on Joni Mitchell. They could take singing lessons from her.
thimoneus 3 years ago 10
Absolutely. Ulysses- and other other flesh and blood man- would have to chain himself to the mast. What a goddess, then and now. An enchantress.
slownoman