Joan Baez - For All We Know (1979)

[schiavolini]

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[ctmale1956]

WTF is she doing??? She just ruined this beautiful American standard --- the bitch!

[daddygargamel]

@ctmale1956 How is your soul so bruised?

[ctmale1956]

@daddygargamel How about cleaning your ears out? If you need Q-Tips, please let me know, I will be more than happy to provide you with them. Unlike yourslef, I have an opinion and will not back down from it either. Listen good - this bitch trashed this beautiful song -- just like that other bitch did at the Super Bowl. Why not get a set of balls (or did your wife or g/f cut them off on you) and have just a little pride in and provide w note worthy comment. You have wasted enough of my time.

[1dougdickens]

@ctmale1956 Like your opinion really counts

[MuscularDad60]

@ctmale1956 - there is always one sick bastard who hears things different than anybody else - maybe it's voices you hear and not baez. No one can deny her voice, the greatness. But apparently you're going to try!  Oppositional personality disorder anyone?

[ctmale1956]

@MuscularDad60 she blows dead bears......"muscular dad" - you fag.....

[StevePalRP]

A cappella, with perfect pitch while seated. She made this look easy. Yes Bob, Joan can sing better than you can or ever could. Yes Bob, she can also sing your own songs better than you can. And she can even write great songs, too! She probable could have juggled while singing this song, she was that good and still is.

[vsibirsky]

Well the vibrato is no longer part of her voice, range or intention. Treat yourself to listening to her newest release  Day After Tomorrow if you want to hear where this amazing voice has matured to.. and in fact it has done so without this (gorgeous!) vibrato.

If you can't get with the voice at this perioud you probably don't want to hear Issac Stern playing the violin, either.

[taddyd1]

the soulful angel.

[Velton500]

So much for US politics.

What about the rest of the word?

Joan Baez is a liberator and not constrianed by your party political system.

Grow up USA.

Maybe even get a passport?

[pantyflash]

Like, this video is hosed because it's low-res and horizontally stretched out of shape. Way to go, babes!

[fairgirl7]

how can anyone not hear the beauty of that voice.

[wings123us]

this kind of comment usually comes from someone who knows music intellectually instead of musically.  I'm sure it's not nearly as good as it sounds. ;)

[Rosky12]

some people just hate that kind of vibrato.

[sophiasebastien]

Sorry for them then... I respect that though, and so does she, I would think...

[Aurora2me]

Wow waht a powerful voice!

[leslieclark54]

It is really really hard to sing well while seated. That's some power.

[thewanksta36]

And also acapella! Hope I spelled that right...

[taddyd1]

Operatic doo wop! Can't touch that!

[taddyd1]

The sweetest voice ever!

[wrestlindad]

Absolutely beauty - that voice! Some bozos wouldn't know beauty like this if it bit them on the ass. Sad. Thanks Baez.

[taddyd1]

amazing grace!

[24dcambridge]

What an awful version... Donny Hathaway blows this away. I can't believe it lol..

[taddyd1]

in your dreams. this is pure straight on magic.

[woolly65]

Man i agree with you. She can sing but this is not the song. Simply awful version. Donny Hathaway is the best.

[emjayeuk]

I presume the people saying that this is awful just know and love the Donny Hathaway version and close their ears to another interpretation.

To me this is sublime.

[roseberry26]

ROSEBERRY26-7/22/08-I have always loved Joan Baez, her voice sounds like an angel's should sound. "For All we Know" ; I have never heard that video but it is wonderful. Her politics and great sense of justice is great too. I got her autograph and shook her hand but I was so nervous! She is also very beautiful. She always evokes strong emotions. My favorite for 35 years!

[maryel3]

This performance was taken from the Johnny Carson Show.

I remember watching it that night and getting the chills.

There is no one like Joan...I love her.

Thank you so much for posting it.

Thank you so much for posting this video.

[cholling]

Holy shit, this clip just floored me. Amazing. Beautiful.

[avoirdupois01]

Beautiful!Thank you!

[Cokacorla]

Thank you. I've been looking for this song for years. And while I can't remember what I did last week I can still remember all these words !Not as brilliant as I remember, but at least it exists!

[emjayeuk]

Outstanding!

[tambourineman36]

Also, does anyone know if Joan ever labeled herself as left or right? I haven't read her biography yet but she doesn't strike me as the type to be aligned with a major political party since, like someone said, she got slammed by both.

[taddyd1]

She was definitely left, but opposed violence and exploitation from both sides.

[tambourineman36]

I checked out that video on myspace, thanks for telling me about that. It was okay. Joan sounded great but all those strings made it almost unbearable.

[tambourineman36]

taddy, I didn't know she only took lessons that late in her career. WOW! I think she has some equally good live performances prior to this though.

[taddyd1]

She was untrained until 79 which is when this was recorded. She had amazing pipes but was starting to lose some of her upper range at that time so she finally sought formal training. Her singing took on a new power, but unfortunaltely she basically blew off therecord industry for 7 years, right AFTER the lessons started,so none of the "new" voice is documented very well on her studio recordings. Her live performances at this time were stunning!

[taddyd1]

on my space there's a live Christmas TV appearance in Frisco of her singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from this era.

[VideosTimes2]

Wonder why this looks so VERY familiar to me?

Jim

[quizzlie]

Maybe you've watched it a dozen times, like me? :)

[VideosTimes2]

No, it's a case of recognizing things from my collection when I see them, knowing that they're lifted!

[quizzlie]

Oh, tut tut.

[VideosTimes2]

What does tut tut mean?  Lifted from someone else??

[quizzlie]

Heh, no. It's just disapproval.

[taddyd1]

Do you have the rest of the show? Please post more of JB if you do!

[VideosTimes2]

MS Baez also sang "Time Rag", did a nice interview with guest host, Betty White, (don't recall where Merv Griffin was), and proudly displayed her latest book "And Then I Wrote." Joan's performance was prasied by the other lady guests, like Shirley Jones.

[taddyd1]

Thanks for the update!

[jerryinbklyn]

Nice voice, but lousy politics

[johnmcd7]

Well, if you call working courageously to end a war even the political and military leaders of the time have admitted was a mistake...speaking and marching against oppression, torture and death by dictators and fascist governments...supporting and bringing attention to the displaced, starving and homeless...if this is "lousy politics"...then, by God, it's MY lousy politics too! Brava Joan!

[jerryinbklyn]

Still lousy politics...way tooooo left-winged for me, like Nancy Pelosi and you know the rest. These people would probably want to negotiate with the murderous scum terrorists like Osama. Right???????

[johnmcd7]

Ahhhh, come on Jerry, you don't really believe that nonsense do you? The neo-con media machine isn't that good at leading the willfully ignorant....is it? Well, maybe so. Too bad.

[jerryinbklyn]

I still think Ms Baez has a beautiful voice, but like I said....you know the rest. The main problem is that liberals, mOST Democrats etc are still living in pre 9/11 times and belittle the threats to our national security today.

[taddyd1]

bush is the threat to our security. read the CIA reports. Terrorism is nourished by war and hate. And there's no way to stop terrorism militarily. Time for diplomacy and less of the USA ( that means ME too) exploiting the rest of the world. PEACE

[jerryinbklyn]

I take your comments to mean we should negotiate with the terrorist states of Iran and Syria...come on , give me a break!! These thug governments support, finance, and spread hate & terrorism around the world. To them diplomacy is one way-their way. In addition they desire that Israel be wiped off the map, deny the Holocaust, and much more! G-D bless George Bush!!!

[taddyd1]

Bush's war has caused millions of deaths/injuries/homeless. No terrorist has come close too the Bush totals. Bush diplomacy in Iraq was to go in shooting against the advice of the UN and Europe, and look at the mess he's caused. But his pig friends have feed at the war money trough.

[johnmcd7]

Jerry, I wish these issues were so simple. Yes, the actions and statements of some leaders in Iran, and other states are ugly and hateful, but if we can be honest about our own complicity in some of the ugliest regimes (Pinochet, et al) we supported, then we might be more credible as a standard for true liberty and freedom in the world. We have been lied to by our own gov., and when we ignore these facts and want to only view history through a 'USA above all others' prism, we share that blame.

[jerryinbklyn]

You make some valid points, John, but we are living in a new world now-post 9/11 and very scary at that. Just trust the Republicans now who seem to recogonize these threats to our national security better than the Dems. A case in point , of course, is the Clinton Admin in the early 1990s who reactly so meekly to Al Quaida scum after they attempted to bring down the Twin Towers in'93. They knew where Bin Ladin was then but refused to take him out. .

[jerryinbklyn]

As for Saddam's WMD , growing evidence is that he HAD THEM, AND THEY WERE SENT to Syria months or weeks before we invaded

[ceb2633]

Oh, Jerry, welcome to the real world. Has this administration ever told the truth about anything? What growing evidence; like that about Iran?

[ceb2633]

Jerry, you seem to forget, or maybe you weren't around; Clinton sent in a strike against where Bin Ladin was at the time and caught hell from everyone for doing it. Do some reading.

[taddyd1]

There a dozens of sicko gov'ts (the US might be incl. because of its military-industrial complex)but does that mean we rush inand invade? Burma, Saudi Arabia, No Korea, Russia, China,Somali, Nigeria etc......... NO

trade,economic and cultural ties and diplomacy. MUCH cheaper and humane.

[mthivier]

Before you lump Joan Baez in with the restd of the showbiz "left-wing liberals", do know that she also took a lot of hits from the left, when she blasted Hanoi for its treatment of their political prisoners in the late '70s (around the time this clip was filmed). The Human Rights group she founded, Humanitas, went after right AND left wing dictatorships. She once commented "repression is repression", regardless of the politics involved.

[Yaatzee23]

If you think anyone would want to negotiate with terrorists is pretty naive Jerry. I'm a Republican but can't stand the scare tactics you and idiot Bush forces on the American people. "Be scared because those other people will be soft on terrorist and try to negotiate"

[taddyd1]

We negociated with japan and they were much more "evil" then these current terrorists.

[Yaatzee23]

My exact point, no leader of ours will negotiate with terrorists. My point is the Bush adminstration forces on the American people that any other leaders would do so to scare the weak minded people in America.

[mtnman222]

Since military leaders of the time knew it was a mistake; does that make her that courageous? besides, it was definitely not her that ended the war.

[taddyd1]

Yes! those Military leaders weren't stickin their necks out with the Truth. Protesting against the war was MUCH more controversial then than now. Major Courage, just ask Bob Dylan(or read his autobiography)and see how scared he was to come out against the war.

[taddyd1]

She was the first musician to tour the South requiring integrated venues. She persuaded Carter to rescue the boat people. She has campaigned agressively against Commie torture in Hanoi, Russia, Poland, and Czechoslavakia.

She delivered 1000s of letters to POWs when the US was bombing it's own POWS. She sang at farmworkers funerals for Cesar Cahvez. She sang at Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk and Polly Klaus's funeral. What a disgrace!

sh

[johnmcd7]

Thanks for the reminder of who the real heroine is, and has always been. The one who speaks, marches, sings and has gone to jail for those most vulnerable...no matter the politics!

[legoemanuel]

A very beautiful voice!!!

Joan is a great singer.

In 1979 I was 4 years old...

But I am italian... and so...

Joan sei straordinaria, una voce insuperabile.

Sono cresciuto con le tue canzoni: Gracias a la vida", "We shall overcome", "Blowing in the wind"...

Una cantante unica. Emozionante!

Grazie di tutto, veramente.

[Funnybonedoc]

I remember that show. It was fabulous. Four women guests. Judit Krantz, Michelle Lee, Joan Baez and Shirley Jones. And the very funny Betty White as host. I would give anything to have a copy of that show on video. That a single talk show stuck in my mind as being so memorable 28 years later says something. Fabulous television!

[taddyd1]

did Joan or Shirley or Michelle for that matter sing anything else?

[taddyd1]

I agree that this is from 1979 and the fact that JB had recently taken her first formal vocal lessons (after the recorded version) is gloriously evident. What range, clarity and soulfulness! She also perfomed this from her chair on the Tonight Show (Bill Cosby hosting)around the same time.

[Baez971]

I just wanted to say that according to me this recording isn't from 1989 but 1979...

[SigugudPui]

Magnificent ! Joan's voice is a stunning instrument. I've always been amazed at the ease in which she sings.

-Al

[ITPP]

wow .. great and very special .. beautiful. Thanks for sharing!!

[wthight123]

I remember reading that Shirley Jones once said something to the effect that an acapella version of For All We Know done by JB on a talk show was the single most impressive display of talent and art she had ever been in the presence of. That's quite a statement, given Ms. Jones' history in the theatre. This must have been that show.

[Baez971]

So I don't agree with Shirley Jones and God knows how much I do appreciate JCB.

[taddyd1]

And Shirley is a big republican so she must have been impressed! Is that really a true story. The early 60s really loved the Diva sopranos: Julie Andrews, Shirley Jones, Marni Nixon and JB. They sold billions of records combined. Nowadays none of the current canaries dare try to sing (even if they could)in that legitimate soprano range.

[wthight123]

I can't tell you when or where, but I do remember hearing it, so I assume it's a true story. I can only imagine what it sounded like to Shirley on that sofa. You can hear the audio on this get a bit blurry when Joan's voice hits that pure pure pitch, tone and intensity. I guess the equipment couldn't handle it. I've always wondered what Joan sounds like to herself in the shower.

[thewanksta36]

Republicans and Democrats CAN complement one another you know...

[LuckyGuu]

Ever four years we are douped by Republicans and Democrats, whoever wins always works on The New World Order. I invite you to watch, The Obama Deception

Peace be with you!

[Baez971]

According to me the best version of this song by Joan Baez is in the "Honnest Lulluby" album. Here her voice isn't clear and a bit too high. In the album her voice's much more flexible and powerful.

[om92555]

I agree with you about her recorded version of the song. It has a piano accompaniment that compliments her. This is a good version though.

[taddyd1]

After a few listenings I hope you're able to appreciate the clear superiority of this version. I think the whole Honest Lullaby album had dead sound engineering wise.