How can anyone not love this song? Joni is so great I put it this one my list of best 16 singer-songwriter tunes that deal with winter. Please read on or click on my playlist in my youtube channel. Enjoy: h t t p : / / notnicolajames . wordpress . com
One of the most magnificent examples of American folk music by one of the most talented musicians of the 20th Century. Can you think of anyone else who so perfectly expressed the stunning melancholy of the change of seasons and life? This was an early appearance by Joni and became a seminal turning point in her career and folk music in general. Absolutely a historic treasure of musical broadcast!
This song is magnificent. However, if you care to read the many following comments, you can only form the opinion that there are worrying amounts of Americans who need serious help. And I don't say that just because their views differ from mine on this one. Many of these replies are pure mentalism. God bless you.
Here is just one simple example of why Joni Mitchell is perhaps the greatest lyrical poet of all time. Not only does the song evoke deep feelings of longing and sadness at the passing of summer and the love it gave and took away, as well as the restlessness of the poet's soul, but Joni's performance is also pure and moving. At such a young age she was already miles beyond her contemporaries, lyrically and musically. And then she got even better.
@mygirlruth I think she is just focused not stoic but for sure all the musicians seem to be looking her like they are in awe of an angel delivered to earth.
I love David Crosby's story about how when nobody in LA knew who Joni was, he'd invite his musician friends over, get them really stoned and then bring her in from the other room.
This reminds me of my very good friend, Sami, I hope she's happyand that she draws inspiration from her doppleganger (in beauty and intellect) xxxJxxx
Is this another one of her's or older ? So much like classic Celtic music.... like Pentangle of England or did they copy her later also ? Amazing talent....wiki has nice note about her guitar skills and innovations. Interesting how her serious brush with polio made her turn to singing. This type of work is so simple and perhaps even more satisfying than her later more stylized music.
I just discovered these old beautiful video's of Joni Mitchell and I am enjoying them and loving them so much, these are wonderful of Joni when she was so young.
Her voice is that of an angle and I see now she looked the part too.
There's a biography film about her available on Netflix Instant (you can check it out via free trial membership), and I heard this song for the first time. She said she had a big picture frame window in her childhood home where she watched everyone and all kinds of things coming and going, wondering where. She grew up in a small Saskatchewan town.
@b1naqm28 I was born in quebec and love quebec. But I love Canada far more. You wish me death? you wish me agony and pain? Too bad it's you that are suffering, suffering with an evil heart and desire to kill and do violence to innocents. seriously, you need help. One more death threat and I will get the police involved.
@b1naqm28 again with the death threats. you'll notice that I haven't said a bad thing towards you since you became a ballistic stalker. it's sad that you have so much hatred in you. it's sad that your life did not turn out so well. I pity you.
if you wonder just hpow good Joni was and is. Dylan's tanged up in blue is about him being mesmerized and lost in Joni for a while, lost in Joni's album blue.
The guy on the guitar (right at the end of the vid) has a look which says " how the hell are we gonna follow that "! I always found it surprising that Joni decided to drop this song from her Blue album....no worries thought the song is on her hits CD.
The start of her career was its pinnacle. Not the adulation, not the stardom, not the phenomenal works of art that ensued from 1966, not the megabucks, not the influence, not the lifestyle, not the sophistication, not the iconic status, not the achievement, not the genius: this is the crowning moment of Joni's career. No one was ever more blown away than the men in the band and the audience here in some minor Canadian studio in black and white in complete unpreparedness for what followed.
Thanks for the reply, but its not Tom Rushs version I have. This one is real up tempo, male/female alternating verses and mega choral harmonies on the chorus. Sort of like The Seekers on Acid !
Lovely! I have a great cover of this on cassette with no playlist. Late 60s Id guess with big male/female harmonies, drums, oboe, dont know who its by though?? Any suggestions out there?
@hydfawr That would be Tom Rush who had a record of the tune out before Joni ever did. Great record. of course, it's Joni's song and he was most grateful.
@hydfawr That would be Tom Rush who had a record of the tune out before Joni ever did. Great record. Of course, it's Joni's song and he was most grateful.
Since it hadn't been on any of her albums, but was the flip side of her single, "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)," which I couldn't find in the stores, we used to go to a pizza place and play this song on the juke box, along with Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain," similarly only on a single. Eventually I managed to find the singles, and later on they released the songs on compilation albums, but I still love this above or at least as much as any of her other songs.
I'd imagine that most folks of celtic blood have a latent streak of melancholy; I certainly do - but it's a dangerous mental state to indulge, one can become permanently despondent - so singing the blues in this manner is a little bit fraught, it's an invitation to feel blue, which can be cathartic when necessary, but is destructive if taken completely to heart - so the guys listening seem uncertain, uncomfortable that Joni is going there - but lonely blue does seem to be her nature, lifelong -
I have this masterpiece converted to mp3 so I could put it on my ipod so if anyone needs it drop me a line.I love this song when I just want to wallow in my sad worthlessness. Joni doesn't talk me out of it or tell me to make lemonade. She says feel it baby feel it until it's gone.......
man i cry sad noone gets down like this.. I dont know this and john lennons solo career make me cry my heart out im a 25 year old man is that normal..... Im a sucker for real people ....
another of the absolute greatest singer songwriters who mesmerize you with their haunting descriptions of something as simple and perennial as the season changes along with the push and pull of love and leaving. Joni Mitchell has these gents to her left and right in a state I'm sure they've never been in witnessing such a talent unfolding. Lisenting to Joni sing this as well as Tom Rush always brings a smile, miss these talents in todays music scene, thanks to You Tube for sharing a lost time.
"I get the urge for goin", how do you beat those lines. She was/is amazing! I mean look at the guys behind her. They have to be thinking, "what the hell".
Also, I read somewhere that by the time she recorded her debut album she had already written over 100 songs, many of which had been recorded by other artists. Anyone know if this is true & if any Joni demos exist of these songs?
joni is beyond awesome - i have loved her since i first heard her in 1962 at the age of 8. she strikes the same chord in me now as she did then. my god i guess... :-) hope you find what you're looking for. if you don't already have it, i recommend the dvd 'painting with words and music' - she's amazing!
@bookkeeper57 Is that really Harry Chapin? Why would he be playing bass on a Canadian TV show in 1966? I thought he was making boxing films in those days.
I like to think of myself as having a gift for poetry, and sometimes I can write snippets of gold. but this lace is not within my grasp, too delicate and far too complex a weave. i'll settle for crochet and bead pulling while Joni erects taj mahals in granite.
It alwys makes me laugh to watch these clips. Everyone tries to figure out the fingerings, but they'll never sound nearly as good. I'd sure hate to be the guy following her. lol.
Been listening to Joni Mitchell for over 40 years and still listening, all my children love her music, they have been brought up on it. I will be going out of this world on circle game, not for a while yet though. The best music ever! Pauline L'Boro
This song takes me back to an October afternoon in my younger days as my love and I gathered apples in the fading sunlight. The crisp air was alive but already with a hint of the winter cold to come. As we picked, I watched her quiet hands gently placing red apples in our basket, not knowing that by Spring, they would be still forever.
Absolutely mesmerising, thank you. This stunning song never fails to evoke complex feelings of comingled wonder, loss and sweet regret. Joni is incomparable. She must have been utterly overwhelming in person- check out the dude next to her completely in thrall.
@dvs1572 WE ALL RIDE DONKEY'S (DOCTRINE ETC) TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. WHY MOCK SOMEONE ELSE'S DONKEY UNLESS YOU WISH YOUR OWN TO BE MOCKED. *caps Just saying.
@binstence yep, I like those songs as well........they are perfect for the industry now. I wonder if when she wrote those songs, she could have ever imagined the industry could get even worse.
I agree, I think it's probably an out of reach idea to think there could ever be another Joni Mitchell. Especially if the music industry goes even farther downhill in the years to come. There probably is still true talent out there......singer/songwriter/legends. Only everything has to be about the almighty dollar....sent through a hit machine and packaged to the masses like sickeningly sweet candy.
I would do anything just to meet her and talk for an hour. I've been a fan for over 40 years. I was about 6 when this video was made. It is my favorite Joni song.
Wonderful to hear this; Joni rarely performs this song. On the other hand, this song has sort of "belonged" to Tom Rush since '69 or so -- if you haven't heard him perform it, you've been missing out. Check out barowsb's video.
this is a beautiful song . ive always loved it , however never saw her actually performing it . never knew she was once so pretty hmmm..... makes me wonder how gracefully ill age.
@31dawna, who said "[I] never knew she was once so pretty hmmm..... makes me wonder how gracefully ill age."
How cruel and inaccurate to say such a thing. Joni is STILL beautiful and always will be. Beauty comes from within. Perhaps when you gain a little more maturity you'll realize that. You'll be older than that someday.
@Joannexxx - about the missing verse - Could've been the time slot the TV show gave her, or could've been an earlier version, as the description says.
Look at Oscar's face as he is listening to this song. He obviously knows that he is not listening to just another singer or just another song. (Oscar is 90 now and is still on the radio on New York.)
she captures the bittersweet of canadian autumn in a few verses that manages to somehow encapsulate the feeling of age and time and our fate in a way that is delicate and poignant.
With the possible exception of Harry Chapin (bass guitar in background), she was the most talented performer in that venue. I think Tom Rush was in love with her.
I feel sorry for the guy who has to follow her: the expression on his face says it all.
I agree with your eloquence, Binstence! But you forgot to mention that Joni is a weaver of magic as well. She never fails to charm me and carry me away to where ever she goes. What a fantastic gift she is. I need her more than ever these days. . .
love the old gimmer on the right, his teeth nearly fell out, his look is a cross between wow she's blown me off stage and imagining her blowing him ;-)
Holy ass i've been looking for this song for hours, my sister had taught me how to play it a million years ago and i could not remember the name of it.
...she's like a living breathing doll !!!
OlymPigs2010 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
the men look suitably stunned
drobbi 2 weeks ago 2
love the MASSIVE ONGOING STANDING OVATION
ponchopenguins 2 weeks ago
what an aritst. truly blessed
animascat 1 month ago
Wonderful, thank you
andmoreagain9 1 month ago
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How can anyone not love this song? Joni is so great I put it this one my list of best 16 singer-songwriter tunes that deal with winter. Please read on or click on my playlist in my youtube channel. Enjoy: h t t p : / / notnicolajames . wordpress . com
notnicolajames 1 month ago
One of the most magnificent examples of American folk music by one of the most talented musicians of the 20th Century. Can you think of anyone else who so perfectly expressed the stunning melancholy of the change of seasons and life? This was an early appearance by Joni and became a seminal turning point in her career and folk music in general. Absolutely a historic treasure of musical broadcast!
fotogbill 1 month ago 2
This song is magnificent. However, if you care to read the many following comments, you can only form the opinion that there are worrying amounts of Americans who need serious help. And I don't say that just because their views differ from mine on this one. Many of these replies are pure mentalism. God bless you.
broadband0118 2 months ago
amazing!
MW2bklyn 2 months ago
It gives me chills. What a song, what an artist!
RockbertoRocks 3 months ago
@RockbertoRocks Amen!!! Nothing need more need be said. She makes the world a better place - no doubt about it at all!!!
altareggo 2 months ago
who the crap disliked this? Boot to the head!!
donelliottay 3 months ago
Thank you so beautiful.
RiaLake 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Joni Mitchell
Joni, Young or Old, a perfect voice... Just loively Thank You
IreneDelacorte 3 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell
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Love joni! Her voice is much deeper now,and her singing style has changed. One of the best singers songwriters of all time
jimbearnh 3 months ago
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broadband0118 3 months ago
Staggeringly brilliant. God given talent we can only be in awe of.
broadband0118 3 months ago
Here is just one simple example of why Joni Mitchell is perhaps the greatest lyrical poet of all time. Not only does the song evoke deep feelings of longing and sadness at the passing of summer and the love it gave and took away, as well as the restlessness of the poet's soul, but Joni's performance is also pure and moving. At such a young age she was already miles beyond her contemporaries, lyrically and musically. And then she got even better.
tome57a 3 months ago 8
HE'S LOOKING AT HER....(as all the rest are)....WHO IS THIS GIRL????
A few where hip to what a jewel this GIRL is.
She's so stoic in this performance.
mygirlruth 4 months ago
@mygirlruth I think she is just focused not stoic but for sure all the musicians seem to be looking her like they are in awe of an angel delivered to earth.
vsibirsky 1 month ago
The guy is looking at her like: "I'll have what she's having"
carlinhaml1 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Joni Mitchell
WOW!
charleshdowns 4 months ago in playlist More videos from henhenstoll
Love the way the other musicians are staring at her in disbelief, kind of thinking "How the heck can I top this?!"
ebquinn 4 months ago
@ebquinn
I love David Crosby's story about how when nobody in LA knew who Joni was, he'd invite his musician friends over, get them really stoned and then bring her in from the other room.
coy0te9 4 months ago
What an incredible song is this one, Joni; "he is three..."
rory8585 4 months ago
So cool to see how those other guys are completely ENTRANCED! Can you blame them?
tennis11ish 5 months ago
Impeccable. Her poetry is without fault.
bluenotejazz 5 months ago 2
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Duxinflite 3 months ago
She's got the urge for goin'............ all over the stage. Wee wee. She gets the urge for goin' after a tall glass of tea...... wee weee.....
nibblespeaches 6 months ago
ha ha the Guy at .22 looks like he's just realised this is not a Hank Williams tribute concert.
motney555 6 months ago
it's magical...
guadasp 7 months ago 3
*cries* I was just reading the Dear Sugar column where she says, "wanting to leave is enough." Heavy resonance.
unwoman 7 months ago
Taka ONE look at her and this song and you know what artistical quality looks and sounds like!!
Talks for posting this - after Joni Mitchell the rest ist silence!!
lekkerebek 7 months ago 2
my favorite song by her...actually, its my favorite song of all time
kenawena101 7 months ago 2
@kenawena101 ....yes, one of my top 3 all time, also.....haunting and beautiful...creates a musical world you actually live in and experience....
kevinjconroy 5 months ago
I don't think love performance gets much better than this, it's so damn good.
pianomags 7 months ago
goddess...
over1000times 7 months ago 2
Thumbs up if Jeff Davis brought you here! :D
thsusernmhasbntaken 7 months ago 16
@thsusernmhasbntaken How did Jeff David bring you to this song?
keelywearsprada 6 months ago
@keelywearsprada twitter. "I have to go to the tailor. While I'm away, watch young Joni Mitchell terrify the men around her: *link*"
thsusernmhasbntaken 6 months ago
This reminds me of my very good friend, Sami, I hope she's happyand that she draws inspiration from her doppleganger (in beauty and intellect) xxxJxxx
soleiljackson 7 months ago
they just have no idea what to think...she's so timeless!
opodj 8 months ago
wow, I always thought this was a Tom
Rush song, although he does a fine job, Joni is still my queen, thanks for posting this gem...
deborahkauffman09 8 months ago
No one makes darkness more beautiful than Joni Mitchell...
BrettGleasonMusic 8 months ago 3
one of the best on the tube-
hswatnik 8 months ago
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Tom Rush does it great as well
coonassization 8 months ago
I like the guys either side of Joni just can't believe how classy this is-they are completely dumbfounded....
GalaxyHorse 8 months ago
God, she was such a goddess back then.
kenmeyerjr 8 months ago
This is the youngest I've ever seen Joni before. She's got awesome eyes, a totally lovely lady in my book.
Joseph03743 8 months ago
I've listened to this many times after discovering it recently.....just about perfect I think.
An example of the beauty of English.
So many simple words to chose from,
that can flow so easily with a talented songwriter
and singer like her.
ohioguy7 9 months ago 14
I would play this on a local tavern's juke box and cry in my beer. It is so beautiful.
Ricbir1 9 months ago
Oh dear I wouldn't like to go on and play straight after Joni!!
Nezmundo00 9 months ago 2
ohioguy7 9 months ago
@ohioguy7 she wrote it at 22.
UpstairsMaid 7 months ago
Wonderful to see this original video. Joni - love you and your work.
johnwwhite2 9 months ago 2
I just discovered these old beautiful video's of Joni Mitchell and I am enjoying them and loving them so much, these are wonderful of Joni when she was so young.
Her voice is that of an angle and I see now she looked the part too.
These are beautiful videos of Joni.
Thanks so much for uploading them.
jenniferTex15 9 months ago
There's a biography film about her available on Netflix Instant (you can check it out via free trial membership), and I heard this song for the first time. She said she had a big picture frame window in her childhood home where she watched everyone and all kinds of things coming and going, wondering where. She grew up in a small Saskatchewan town.
SaarduLady 10 months ago
@b1naqm28 I was born in quebec and love quebec. But I love Canada far more. You wish me death? you wish me agony and pain? Too bad it's you that are suffering, suffering with an evil heart and desire to kill and do violence to innocents. seriously, you need help. One more death threat and I will get the police involved.
UpstairsMaid 10 months ago
@b1naqm28 again with the death threats. you'll notice that I haven't said a bad thing towards you since you became a ballistic stalker. it's sad that you have so much hatred in you. it's sad that your life did not turn out so well. I pity you.
UpstairsMaid 10 months ago
@b1naqm28 dude. seriously you need help. get some before you hurt someone.
UpstairsMaid 10 months ago
if you wonder just hpow good Joni was and is. Dylan's tanged up in blue is about him being mesmerized and lost in Joni for a while, lost in Joni's album blue.
UpstairsMaid 10 months ago
The guy on the guitar (right at the end of the vid) has a look which says " how the hell are we gonna follow that "! I always found it surprising that Joni decided to drop this song from her Blue album....no worries thought the song is on her hits CD.
Joeloflunik 10 months ago
The start of her career was its pinnacle. Not the adulation, not the stardom, not the phenomenal works of art that ensued from 1966, not the megabucks, not the influence, not the lifestyle, not the sophistication, not the iconic status, not the achievement, not the genius: this is the crowning moment of Joni's career. No one was ever more blown away than the men in the band and the audience here in some minor Canadian studio in black and white in complete unpreparedness for what followed.
oliverave1234 10 months ago
Thanks for the reply, but its not Tom Rushs version I have. This one is real up tempo, male/female alternating verses and mega choral harmonies on the chorus. Sort of like The Seekers on Acid !
hydfawr 10 months ago
Perhaps the most beautiful overbite in the world.
equifilibricum 10 months ago
Lovely! I have a great cover of this on cassette with no playlist. Late 60s Id guess with big male/female harmonies, drums, oboe, dont know who its by though?? Any suggestions out there?
hydfawr 10 months ago
@hydfawr That would be Tom Rush who had a record of the tune out before Joni ever did. Great record.
DScottDay 10 months ago
@hydfawr That would be Tom Rush who had a record of the tune out before Joni ever did. Great record. of course, it's Joni's song and he was most grateful.
DScottDay 10 months ago
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@hydfawr That would be Tom Rush who had a record of the tune out before Joni ever did. Great record. Of course, it's Joni's song and he was most grateful.
DScottDay 10 months ago
On a cold November day in Saskatchewan I'll listen to this song and be all at once be comforted.
KrazyMissKitty 10 months ago
Really hypnotic
joronedelchev 10 months ago
This is a hypnotic performance of a wonderful song. I'm 55, but listening to this makes me feel 15 again. Than you, Joni.
PhightinPhan 10 months ago
How could you not be head over heels in love with this girl!
gwennypent 10 months ago 2
Yep...poetry.
Cortez1595 11 months ago
Check out Graham Nash & David Crosby doing this one.
twinoak170 11 months ago
Who are the two idiots who disliked this video? Are they mental?Are they from another planet?... YES they obviously are!!!
dfaegrefigure8fab4 11 months ago
What I love about this film is the complete look of astonishment when the men realise how fantastic she is. the dude with the glasses is gob smacked!
follow that guys!
takeastresspilldave 11 months ago 3
@takeastresspilldave I noticed that too, they are enthralled. And this was like 1966 or something, the beautiful lyrics shone through even then.
geofosman 11 months ago
Since it hadn't been on any of her albums, but was the flip side of her single, "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)," which I couldn't find in the stores, we used to go to a pizza place and play this song on the juke box, along with Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain," similarly only on a single. Eventually I managed to find the singles, and later on they released the songs on compilation albums, but I still love this above or at least as much as any of her other songs.
davidlenander 11 months ago
I love this song! I've never heard it before today, and I've been a huge fan since I was 15 years old! In the 60's! Wow!
wmpaisley 11 months ago
Shows off her distinctly delicately plangeant vocal style beautifully .... entrancing .... thanks
kgs42 11 months ago
This song is just amazing, and I think compared to this, many of her so-called great songs are not great at all. Overall, she's overrated.
awnplmigo 11 months ago
I'd imagine that most folks of celtic blood have a latent streak of melancholy; I certainly do - but it's a dangerous mental state to indulge, one can become permanently despondent - so singing the blues in this manner is a little bit fraught, it's an invitation to feel blue, which can be cathartic when necessary, but is destructive if taken completely to heart - so the guys listening seem uncertain, uncomfortable that Joni is going there - but lonely blue does seem to be her nature, lifelong -
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woodsprout 1 year ago
I don't see this as a sad song, but a clear, deep, feeling song about transition.
Very moving, very powerfully written and performed.
woodsprout 1 year ago
I have this masterpiece converted to mp3 so I could put it on my ipod so if anyone needs it drop me a line.I love this song when I just want to wallow in my sad worthlessness. Joni doesn't talk me out of it or tell me to make lemonade. She says feel it baby feel it until it's gone.......
sizemeat 1 year ago
man i cry sad noone gets down like this.. I dont know this and john lennons solo career make me cry my heart out im a 25 year old man is that normal..... Im a sucker for real people ....
mrmugsone 1 year ago
man i cry sad noone gets down like this..
mrmugsone 1 year ago
she rocks from day one. don't worry, no one could match her.
54taqiyya 1 year ago
she probably wrote this at 22 or 23. LOL. artists with 10 years of fame would kill to write something like this.
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago
She is a genius and I miss her deeply.
messiahsez 1 year ago
Sublime!
Transterra55 1 year ago
another of the absolute greatest singer songwriters who mesmerize you with their haunting descriptions of something as simple and perennial as the season changes along with the push and pull of love and leaving. Joni Mitchell has these gents to her left and right in a state I'm sure they've never been in witnessing such a talent unfolding. Lisenting to Joni sing this as well as Tom Rush always brings a smile, miss these talents in todays music scene, thanks to You Tube for sharing a lost time.
littlebibs 1 year ago
Truly the embodiment of grace. I don't know what else to call it.
scanthat 1 year ago
I knew Joni was cute in a wholesome way, but she is stunning here!
mongojerrys 1 year ago
"I get the urge for goin", how do you beat those lines. She was/is amazing! I mean look at the guys behind her. They have to be thinking, "what the hell".
Treat her like the treasure she is. Luv you Joni.
spoiledbigtime 1 year ago
"I get the urge for goin", how do you beat those lines. She was/is amazing! Treat her like the treasure she is. Luv you Joni.
spoiledbigtime 1 year ago
Lovely as she is.
NYCkerz 1 year ago
I feel sorry for the guy with the guitar, about to play after her....how on earth do you follow a performance like that ? Superb, as always.
cbyam1300 1 year ago 3
Absolutely incredible! Thank you for this very special video!
ltssf 1 year ago
Anyonw know what year this was?
Also, I read somewhere that by the time she recorded her debut album she had already written over 100 songs, many of which had been recorded by other artists. Anyone know if this is true & if any Joni demos exist of these songs?
GanjaStuPipesUp 1 year ago
@GanjaStuPipesUp i believe it was 1965!
joni is beyond awesome - i have loved her since i first heard her in 1962 at the age of 8. she strikes the same chord in me now as she did then. my god i guess... :-) hope you find what you're looking for. if you don't already have it, i recommend the dvd 'painting with words and music' - she's amazing!
garyinsydney 1 year ago
She is amazing. Poetry in motion. ♥
KyrieEleison46 1 year ago 2
She never seems self conscous at all......totally relaxed ..... just real as can be
jeffsdolphin 1 year ago
Look at the faces behind her. They are amazed by the voice. She is is a gift.
spoiledbigtime 1 year ago
@bookkeeper57 Is that really Harry Chapin? Why would he be playing bass on a Canadian TV show in 1966? I thought he was making boxing films in those days.
tubatalabal 1 year ago
Its not just the flawless music but the poetry too. This defines what it means to be human.
metazoan10 1 year ago
There is some pretty decent Bass playing on this, never noticed it before, it complements the song well.
GalaxyHorse 1 year ago
@GalaxyHorse The bass line comes from Harry Chapin, seen behind her at one point, on the bass fiddle.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
sooo lovely
shalotlady 1 year ago
I like to think of myself as having a gift for poetry, and sometimes I can write snippets of gold. but this lace is not within my grasp, too delicate and far too complex a weave. i'll settle for crochet and bead pulling while Joni erects taj mahals in granite.
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago 4
she is so beautiful
lilkatio12 1 year ago 3
people around her are hipnotized, think it was a cultural chock listen this amazing artist at that time.
solredoc 1 year ago
@solredoc: They're witnesses at the birth of a stellar career--and they realize it.
aarfeld 1 year ago
It alwys makes me laugh to watch these clips. Everyone tries to figure out the fingerings, but they'll never sound nearly as good. I'd sure hate to be the guy following her. lol.
martinaxman 1 year ago
Been listening to Joni Mitchell for over 40 years and still listening, all my children love her music, they have been brought up on it. I will be going out of this world on circle game, not for a while yet though. The best music ever! Pauline L'Boro
LucilleeBee 1 year ago
simply wonderful, thank you Joni Mitchell.
thismoment23 1 year ago
those old guys look freaked out by her
bridget51992 1 year ago
This song takes me back to an October afternoon in my younger days as my love and I gathered apples in the fading sunlight. The crisp air was alive but already with a hint of the winter cold to come. As we picked, I watched her quiet hands gently placing red apples in our basket, not knowing that by Spring, they would be still forever.
birddog2017 1 year ago 41
@birddog2017 man. that is beautiful.
novan08 1 year ago
@birddog2017 That's so sad. :(
Gonnakillyou 10 months ago
@birddog2017 So sad
acninee 6 months ago in playlist Joni Mitchell- CSN&Y - J.Taylor- J. Browne
The best....nuff said.
backgame 1 year ago
brilliant
clairobics 1 year ago
It's late September, and this time of year I think about this song.
It's the ultimate "disappointment of approaching winter" song.
TheAcousticBob 1 year ago 2
MMMMmmmm... Joni (sigh)
TheAcousticBob 1 year ago
Absolutely mesmerising, thank you. This stunning song never fails to evoke complex feelings of comingled wonder, loss and sweet regret. Joni is incomparable. She must have been utterly overwhelming in person- check out the dude next to her completely in thrall.
67Evan 1 year ago
So, floor diving would've been uncalled for during this performance?
gorillabelly1 1 year ago
Everyone around her here looks "emotionally stalled". How could you not be? My god look at her.
dvs1572 1 year ago 34
@dvs1572 WE ALL RIDE DONKEY'S (DOCTRINE ETC) TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. WHY MOCK SOMEONE ELSE'S DONKEY UNLESS YOU WISH YOUR OWN TO BE MOCKED. *caps Just saying.
solonely8777 8 months ago
The Best i ever have heard. Could see and hear it every Day. Thank`s to henhenstoll and I love Joni Mitchell.
charleshenry1100 1 year ago
@binstence yep, I like those songs as well........they are perfect for the industry now. I wonder if when she wrote those songs, she could have ever imagined the industry could get even worse.
jtropic26 1 year ago
Thank You!
lightgearwire 1 year ago
tHIS is ridiculous. we struck an iceberg. all stop. This is a new age.
Before Joni, after Joni.
1dantown 1 year ago
@binstence
I agree, I think it's probably an out of reach idea to think there could ever be another Joni Mitchell. Especially if the music industry goes even farther downhill in the years to come. There probably is still true talent out there......singer/songwriter/legends. Only everything has to be about the almighty dollar....sent through a hit machine and packaged to the masses like sickeningly sweet candy.
jtropic26 1 year ago
My favorite song of hers. The lyrics represent exactly how I feel that time of year. She's simply amazing.
jtropic26 1 year ago
this was my first 'favourite' song of Joni Mitchell... It is still so close to my heart...
It reminds me of quiet evenings, and candles... :)
jesienna83 1 year ago
just totally floored. getting up slowly now...
lethe51 1 year ago
I would do anything just to meet her and talk for an hour. I've been a fan for over 40 years. I was about 6 when this video was made. It is my favorite Joni song.
aa8ky 1 year ago 2
I know this song by Mary Black... Had no idea it was a Joni-song.
1Natasya 1 year ago
@1Natasya same here
mbm909 1 year ago
beautiful.
54taqiyya 1 year ago
love the song
suziefleur 1 year ago
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering who he was. He seems a little blown away.
oliverave1234 1 year ago
That's Jimmy Driftwood on her left (our right), composer of 'Battle of New Orleans,' 'Tennessee Stud,' et al
andyburr 1 year ago
Has there EVER been a better song about winter? Makes me shiver just hearing it.
tintosangre 1 year ago
that's a 12 string she's playin sweet chops minor... timeless
willrobm 1 year ago
goddamn she looks like an alien, she probably is like a profet hybrid or somethin
diminbloom 1 year ago
Maybe the smelliest hippies are from Canada.
dickship2312 1 year ago
Wonderful to hear this; Joni rarely performs this song. On the other hand, this song has sort of "belonged" to Tom Rush since '69 or so -- if you haven't heard him perform it, you've been missing out. Check out barowsb's video.
nobigwoop 1 year ago
this is a beautiful song . ive always loved it , however never saw her actually performing it . never knew she was once so pretty hmmm..... makes me wonder how gracefully ill age.
31dawna 1 year ago
@31dawna : Once so pretty? Still pretty fucking pretty by my reckoning!
thpaine1950 1 year ago
@thpaine1950 I'll second that...
GalaxyHorse 1 year ago
@31dawna, who said "[I] never knew she was once so pretty hmmm..... makes me wonder how gracefully ill age."
How cruel and inaccurate to say such a thing. Joni is STILL beautiful and always will be. Beauty comes from within. Perhaps when you gain a little more maturity you'll realize that. You'll be older than that someday.
TheAcousticBob 1 year ago
Canadian female vocalists just seem to have something special...
eggynapalm 1 year ago
LET US ALL VISIT CANADA.
ABSTRACTTK1A 1 year ago
Great, beautiful song and nice to see Joni before she got a skull only paleontologists would love.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
Wonder why she missed a verse out?
Joannexxx 1 year ago
@Joannexxx - about the missing verse - Could've been the time slot the TV show gave her, or could've been an earlier version, as the description says.
TheAcousticBob 1 year ago
This clip and Just Like Me are great, but it's too bad Night In The City (from the same show) hasn't been on YouTube for quite some time now.
gorillabelly1 1 year ago
Look at Oscar's face as he is listening to this song. He obviously knows that he is not listening to just another singer or just another song. (Oscar is 90 now and is still on the radio on New York.)
MROSEN62 1 year ago
thank you. and fuck you joni. fuck you for making my cd's look banal and inept. fuck you for making me cry at 'river' and 'both sides now'
fuck you joni for making my favourites seem childish. for 55 custom guitar tunings. for making a dulcimer seem cool.
and really fuck off for 'urge for going' and the ache in my heart from it.
fuck you Joni, seriously - what the fuck am I supposed to listen to now?
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago
Don't be a hater :)
fosbury68 1 year ago
@fosbury68 :-)
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago
she captures the bittersweet of canadian autumn in a few verses that manages to somehow encapsulate the feeling of age and time and our fate in a way that is delicate and poignant.
this maybe the greatest song.
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago 2
With the possible exception of Harry Chapin (bass guitar in background), she was the most talented performer in that venue. I think Tom Rush was in love with her.
I feel sorry for the guy who has to follow her: the expression on his face says it all.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
I agree with your eloquence, Binstence! But you forgot to mention that Joni is a weaver of magic as well. She never fails to charm me and carry me away to where ever she goes. What a fantastic gift she is. I need her more than ever these days. . .
TheRjjrjjr 1 year ago
love the old gimmer on the right, his teeth nearly fell out, his look is a cross between wow she's blown me off stage and imagining her blowing him ;-)
MrSiddeney 1 year ago
she is really magic and beautiful such as her ancient harmony
elettrobetty 1 year ago
what a clear voice, like sparkle
FLASHBUDDHAI 1 year ago
That voice....O_O Joni Mitchell, why have I not begun listening to you earlier?!
xxxthoughtlessxxx 1 year ago
Dave Von Rok did it Ok too
sumiink 1 year ago
Tom Rush's version was slower, more "masculine" and very very good. Come to think of it, it was probably the first Mitchell song I ever heard.
sportsmediaamerica 1 year ago 2
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Here's the "Deal" with Joni Mitchell
-Her Music and Lyrics are Intensely Personal--
Thus Intensely Personal People Can Gyrate To Her Beat and Weep Over Her Incredible Ourpourings that are -- intensely persional and autobiographical...
Extremely well crafted poetry and imagry hellp her depict, thus they serve her greatly---it flows...
A Great Talent with Words.
So Be IT!
mhowardONE 1 year ago
Amazing recording.
LordCheebahawk 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite Joni songs ever; many thanks for sharing this with us.
billyguns2 1 year ago 2
Thank you just what i needed right now (:
keltickieth 1 year ago
beautiful joni...
futuristfood 1 year ago
Holy ass i've been looking for this song for hours, my sister had taught me how to play it a million years ago and i could not remember the name of it.
jirdimaster 2 years ago