Interesting how she looks at him when they sing "got some pains and" (the first time through). Was this before they split up? It gives both their names as Tyson on the credits. They were one of my absolute favorites in the '60s and I still listen to them today. I even have their first Vanguard album autographed by them personally.
Ah, It brings back these great and beautiful singers as they were meant to be, treasured and golden in their years. None of the singers today captures the heart and soul of both Ian and Sylvia. Ian and Sylvia, once the best, always will be the best no matter how many years have gone by. Have I heard about their reunion then, I would have gone to see them in concert! However, thanks to the guys who brought these visionaries back to life again. To me, Ian and Sylvia are so beloved.
Saw them at the Golden Bear in the 60's when I was a young surfer and they were so good they opened with this Ian had a 12 string and the song became a part of you. He wrote some standards didn't he!
@srsteve12 Hey, dude---- I think I remember the Golden Bear. I saw Linda Rondstat there a long time ago. I think it was in Huntington Beach. I'm an old surfer too, and I only wish I'd been at that concert you went to with them. They did write this song, Someday Soon, which the We-5 did a great cover on. Surfs Up, and long live the 60's. Marc Trainor.
I saw Ian and Sylvia at the old Cellar Door Club in Georgetown(DC) around '64 or '65. Loved them then, still love them now. Great to see them perform together again.
I saw Ian and Sylvia at a Northern California ranch in 1964 when I paid a few bucks to camp for the weekend with a lot of folk singers. They were the stars and the draw for the weekend, and I loved her song long before it went "pop." Also featured that weekend was a young singer named Dan Hicks, who also went on to bigger things.
I also saw We Five perform it a few months later after it became a pop hit brilliantly arranged and produced by Michael Stewart.
What can you say about a couple who write You were on my mind (Sylvia) and Four strong winds (Ian) for their first songwriting attempts? Simply amazing!
@Powerglide1A No, - she's better. Actually she wrote the song. I always feel that the writer of a song is the best one to sing it. Examples are Bob Dylan and Warren Zevon.
Sylvia wrote a great song here, but We Five, especially Bev Bivens, really rocked it out. Now remember, We Five's version came out in 1965, whereas Sylvia wrote it in 64.
We Fives version was, believe it or not, the first 'electric' sound from the SF Bay area ever.
Look up Beverly Bivens on Wikopedia to find out all of the facts.
Joseph F
PS: This song was a runner-up for a grammy in 1966. Done by the We Five, of course.
@B52sguy Yeah, but....this version has the critical "I got drunk, and I got sick, and...I came home again". Sylvia's character in the song is much of what she was then; a hard drinkin' hard lovin' and hard livin' cowgirl who, when faced with romantic disappointment, goes and....ties one on.
I like that. Her voice is more folk and Bivens', (who had the perfect folk/rock voice--there is a difference) but I like both. )
@dennykdoe They sang this at my upstate NY college - 1964? Dynamite. What voices. I took photos for the yearbook, and Sylvia was one naturally gorgeous lady!
@macpduff stan getz had a record getz a go go at the cafe a go go and like ways the blues project [the lovin spoonful and the magicians around the corner]
Ian & Sylvia performed this tune originally, but much less famously than the We Five. The amazing We Five arrangement of this tune could have just as well been a re-write.
Most of this has been previously posted, though perhaps not the opening credits? I see that Murray McLaughlin is listed as "starring" but aside from singing backup on one song elsewhere posted, did he get the spotlight to sing something in the special? Thanks for posting, I've never seen the program broadcast in this area.
I think McLaughlin sang a solo song. This show first aired in 1986. It was replayed on Labor Day 1991 by CBC in Windsor, Ontatio which we have received in Detroit since 1953. I just happened to have seen an Ian Tyson concert in Texas earlier in 1991, and Ian's name caught my eye and I cranked up the VCR.
These 2 were magic when they sang together.This sure brings back memories.
Canada's most gifted folk./ country ever !
I never get tired of hearing them and singing along !
403rose 2 weeks ago
Interesting how she looks at him when they sing "got some pains and" (the first time through). Was this before they split up? It gives both their names as Tyson on the credits. They were one of my absolute favorites in the '60s and I still listen to them today. I even have their first Vanguard album autographed by them personally.
MaabudZ 3 weeks ago
@MaabudZ , no, this was eleven years after they divorced.
rachelazw 2 weeks ago
Ah, It brings back these great and beautiful singers as they were meant to be, treasured and golden in their years. None of the singers today captures the heart and soul of both Ian and Sylvia. Ian and Sylvia, once the best, always will be the best no matter how many years have gone by. Have I heard about their reunion then, I would have gone to see them in concert! However, thanks to the guys who brought these visionaries back to life again. To me, Ian and Sylvia are so beloved.
anne91276 2 months ago
So sweet accompanied with beautiful memories of their show.
Loved them then...love them now.
elainer1958 3 months ago
So sweet accompanied with beautiful memories of their show.
elainer1958 3 months ago
Sylvia wrote this.
biastg 5 months ago
Sylvia always under-rated
CharlesMcGlade 9 months ago 2
great writers alan4 sure capped it. four strong sings a tale, I love them with the rest of ya. gonna sing them 2.
Barb
barbaragreenemann 9 months ago
Good stuff. I'm always looking for the good stuff.
wisegeorge365 1 year ago
Saw them at the Golden Bear in the 60's when I was a young surfer and they were so good they opened with this Ian had a 12 string and the song became a part of you. He wrote some standards didn't he!
srsteve12 1 year ago
@srsteve12 Hey, dude---- I think I remember the Golden Bear. I saw Linda Rondstat there a long time ago. I think it was in Huntington Beach. I'm an old surfer too, and I only wish I'd been at that concert you went to with them. They did write this song, Someday Soon, which the We-5 did a great cover on. Surfs Up, and long live the 60's. Marc Trainor.
marctrainor 1 year ago
I saw Ian and Sylvia at the old Cellar Door Club in Georgetown(DC) around '64 or '65. Loved them then, still love them now. Great to see them perform together again.
skyhawkrg 1 year ago
I saw Ian and Sylvia at a Northern California ranch in 1964 when I paid a few bucks to camp for the weekend with a lot of folk singers. They were the stars and the draw for the weekend, and I loved her song long before it went "pop." Also featured that weekend was a young singer named Dan Hicks, who also went on to bigger things.
I also saw We Five perform it a few months later after it became a pop hit brilliantly arranged and produced by Michael Stewart.
DocBogus 1 year ago
What can you say about a couple who write You were on my mind (Sylvia) and Four strong winds (Ian) for their first songwriting attempts? Simply amazing!
alan4sure 1 year ago
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2 Canadian Songs
YOU WERE ON MY MIND - IAN and SYLVIA
who include the line - "I got drunk, I got sick, I came home again"
without which these wonderful lyrics don't make sense
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duckbiter 1 year ago
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duckbiter 1 year ago
Too country for my taste. And Sylvia's warble-vibrato-- oye!
CincyDude5 1 year ago
@CincyDude5 yeah, - isn't it/she great? :-).
Actually she was considered Folk at the time. And vibrato was "in" among many popular '60's female singers.
macpduff 1 year ago
Lovely..
Well well. :)
sidensvans67 1 year ago
Well, she's just not Bev Bivens. Not her fault.
Powerglide1A 1 year ago
@Powerglide1A No, - she's better. Actually she wrote the song. I always feel that the writer of a song is the best one to sing it. Examples are Bob Dylan and Warren Zevon.
macpduff 1 year ago
Sylvia wrote a great song here, but We Five, especially Bev Bivens, really rocked it out. Now remember, We Five's version came out in 1965, whereas Sylvia wrote it in 64.
We Fives version was, believe it or not, the first 'electric' sound from the SF Bay area ever.
Look up Beverly Bivens on Wikopedia to find out all of the facts.
Joseph F
PS: This song was a runner-up for a grammy in 1966. Done by the We Five, of course.
B52sguy 2 years ago
@B52sguy Yeah, but....this version has the critical "I got drunk, and I got sick, and...I came home again". Sylvia's character in the song is much of what she was then; a hard drinkin' hard lovin' and hard livin' cowgirl who, when faced with romantic disappointment, goes and....ties one on.
I like that. Her voice is more folk and Bivens', (who had the perfect folk/rock voice--there is a difference) but I like both. )
dennykdoe 1 year ago
@dennykdoe They sang this at my upstate NY college - 1964? Dynamite. What voices. I took photos for the yearbook, and Sylvia was one naturally gorgeous lady!
macpduff 1 year ago
@macpduff they had been performing in greenwich village around that time
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@spacepatrolman A lot of the music greats were performing at Greenich Village then.
macpduff 1 year ago
@macpduff stan getz had a record getz a go go at the cafe a go go and like ways the blues project [the lovin spoonful and the magicians around the corner]
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
Ian & Sylvia performed this tune originally, but much less famously than the We Five. The amazing We Five arrangement of this tune could have just as well been a re-write.
cy85141 2 years ago
Or rather, I prefer the We Five arrangement, since I guess this version came before them? Not sure.
jediphoenix 2 years ago
@jediphoenix Yes. Sylvia wrote the song. The We Five picked it up.
macpduff 1 year ago
Great singers, though I still prefer the original arrangement.
jediphoenix 2 years ago
Their harmony is spectacular. Takes me back to some wonderful years,
mainer98 2 years ago
no thanks
Bertfavs 2 years ago
Sort of puts me in mind that Ian and Sylvia is the Canadian version of America's John and June , I will say no more.
sweeteedon 3 years ago
Or.. a real life equivalent of Mick & Mickey
TimothyHorrigan 2 years ago
Mitch and Mickey rather...
jeffkahl 2 years ago
Sylvia: Canada's answer to Crystal Gayle!
dustinblythe 3 years ago
Most of this has been previously posted, though perhaps not the opening credits? I see that Murray McLaughlin is listed as "starring" but aside from singing backup on one song elsewhere posted, did he get the spotlight to sing something in the special? Thanks for posting, I've never seen the program broadcast in this area.
davidlenander 3 years ago
I think McLaughlin sang a solo song. This show first aired in 1986. It was replayed on Labor Day 1991 by CBC in Windsor, Ontatio which we have received in Detroit since 1953. I just happened to have seen an Ian Tyson concert in Texas earlier in 1991, and Ian's name caught my eye and I cranked up the VCR.
BRod313 3 years ago