Joni Mitchell ~ I Had a King Live

[TheBlueSauce]

Truly, one of the most beautiful things ever to be uploaded to Youtube. Beats the studio album with all that treble missing off the vocals.

[iamthemindseye]

The first Joni Mitchell song I ever heard....I was in love from that moment on !

[folkmusicgirl]

Joni Mitchell singing with such a pure and beautiful soprano voice. Love this early years of Joni's music. I know she was soon to change after the early 70's in her singing style, arrangements, etc and continued to write songs in a much different style - but I still favour this 60's Joni MItchell and love this song!

[sebuteo]

One of my favourite Joni tunes from one of my favourite Joni albums. She's unique. And, although her emotional intensity can wear me out at times, I never tire of her genius. Lyrics that are poetic, unusual chords and melodies that shimmer with incandescent beauty, and then the woman herself, a blonde goddess! What a combo!

[Mattiasgbg]

Oh my... Truly Amazing...

[handyman1017]

All this gushing over Mizz Mitchell is why she hides from her fans. She figures there must be a few nuts in the bunch and is rightly very careful.

[ImSoJohnDeleted]

@dvs1572 human creativity + human vocal chords = definitive proof of God.... ok then =/

Joni herself isn't even religious by the way... just google "Joni Mitchell slams Catholic Church"

[blowbackinevitable]

I still have a King, his name is Jesus the Christ...

[mishasdream]

@dvs1572 Namasta'

[lazurm]

@dvs1572 Nah, pure accident of evolution which is much more beautiful and miraculous.

[flydadj]

God I love this girl!

[pt8648]

From 1968. Thanks for posting.

[ArgentineJu]

I bought the album when it first came out in 1968 and I still play it with wonder and awe today, 42 years later. No finer tribute possible, no finer singer/songwriter probable. Joni - thank you for all the emotions your songs create within us. I love you.

[NeebruM]

I think I have had EVERY emotion in my years of folowing this remarkable woman:

lust, joy, sadness, yes, fear, respect and most of all, admiration and love.

I KNOW special people, and this one is on the top of the list!

(and isn't it amazing I feel all this for someone I have never met! And isn't that a testimate to her art!)

Thank you Joni...

[elliottdebra452]

to me , it sounds a lot like 1969....

[shout102]

I'm thrilled to find this. I had it or have it on vinyl somewhere but haven't heard it in years. Such a painful, beautiful, beuatiful song.

[zeldaworld7]

1967

[bhaktitube]

1968, at Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass.

[bhaktitube]

jan 10th.

[fadingad]

PM Dawn does a great homage to this in a song call Ways of the Wind

[fadingad]

Too bad Joni and Nick Drake never paired up

[21golden007]

both robert plant and jimmi page of led zeppelin both loved joni and wrote the song "going to california" about her. during live versions you can hear robert plant whisper the name "joni" after the stanza "to find a queen with out a king, the say she plays guitar and crys and sings" just found this to be interesting.

[Agoateeman]

this whole album is amazing from beginning to end. you can tell she's a real creative force right off the bat. and it was her first too!!

you go girl. :-)

[tonto4848]

The early Joni songs were just so personal and real for her, and they in turn grabbed the attention of thousands of lifelong fans immediately !

[vaughnsalem]

amazing guitar ,and lyrics ,,voice,Joni ,,,no one can be like this today

[slimukulele]

These first recorded songs blew David Crosby away! This one is about Chuck Mitchell. They lived in a gothic stone building in Downtown Detroit.

Salt rusted carriages are really about the fact that Detroit sits atop a giant salt mine and they throw it down on the street in wintter rusting all those lovely 60's Fords Buicks and Dodges.

[loganlark]

(that image at 1:44 kills me. that photo says it all.)

[loganlark]

Great....yeah the images are fantastic.

[icepickmikey]

I bought the vinyl version of "Song To A Seagull" in 1970 in Bahrain while serving in the RAF. I only have to listen to this song to be taken back to that time and place. Wonderful version - such a shame it is incomplete, but thanks for posting

[theonlyantony]

Sisotobell Lane is also sterling off first album...

[happylilsunbeam]

amazing. I know this is from her first batch of songs.

[signchris1]

I had never heard this until my girlfriend played it from her extensive Joni collection...I was mesmerized...thank you for this piece of Joni history that will live on.

[GLAMGLITZ]

The year was 1968... thank you for this! I have been waiting a long time for it to cross my path again! *smile*

[Shackamaxon]

This is hauntingly beautiful. David Crosby's influence is clear on this track. Thanks for sharing this.

[lancitos]

Mama Cass sang this on Carson one night,

and I spent years looking for it.

Silly me, I was always a big Joni fan, and thought "Clouds" was her first album.

Then I found Song to a Seagull years later, put it on the player,and this played. Of course it was a Joni song! She and Cass were friends,and only Joni could write a song like this!

[machinenation]

Thanks for posting this - beautiful images too. I've almost all of Joni's albums inside my head except this one but I've been listening to it over the last few days.

This song sounds medieval, somehow.

[wolfinthebreast]

One of mine favorite albums...

[goatcobain]

Love this song, my sister played song to a seagull almost to death! Enjoying Joni second time round for me. Great songs, great lyrics and didn' realise what a good looking woman.