Aging Children - Tigger Outlaw/Joni Mitchell

[TheGLASGOER]

This is a beautiful song. It is different from Joni's but still stands as an equal, without doubt,

[robotics1x]

That's why it says Tigger Outlaw in my title. Do read the previous comments for the full story.

[brittanycurl]

all of these perfect vioces are just lost in time........ so sad.

[fredjackamikoons]

According to Arlo Guthrie, this isn't Joni Mitchell.

[robotics1x]

can't find it. Are you sure of the spelling?

[ohioguy7]

Look up Jude Maris version too.....very nicely done, haunting.....

[ohioguy7]

@ohioguy7 .....actually on their channel....by M L Wudwig

[lucysd1983]

I'd love to sing this version of this song. Do you know where can I find the chords to play this by guitar ?

[robotics1x]

@lucysd1983 BTW have you seen the other version I have on here. I think this one is slightly out of tune.As for the chords they are wonderful. I tried to figure them out myself once but gave up. But I just found them: coming up in bits as youtube seems not to like it... I just tried them and they sound right. As I suspected, totally alien harmonies! Totally awesome!

[robotics1x]

@lucysd1983 go to cosmic-kitchen

[robotics1x]

@lucysd1983 then add /song.php?id=mitchell.joni__So­ngsToAgingChildren

[TheZepmeister]

Buncha dirty damned hippies!,Lol just kidding.

[Penhock281]

I am going to increase the difficulty here....can anyone find this on karaoke? My father in law wants me to sing/record it for his birthday. Can anyone play this on guitar and send me the mp3? ok really reaching here.

[robotics1x]

We know. See previous comments.

[nohaylamujer]

this isn't joni mitchell. it's a cover.

[imajeepster]

I noticed the drawing of the centaur on his coffin...I always wondered if that meant the guy was a sagittarius.

[friendlier]

I got the VHS of Alice's Restaurant from my local library recently. I remembered this scene especially from when I'd first seen it at a drive-in when I was a teenager. I was very disappointed that they'd substituted this much inferior version of "Songs" for the Joni Mitchell version. The crystalline, ethereal double-tracked original was what made it so memorable for me. Or is that just a trick of memory?

[robotics1x]

@friendlier Hard to say. I heard this version first then heard Joni's on Clouds. I thought the double-track spoiled it.

[templars83]

@friendlier This "inferior" version is much better than the Mitchell one unless you were born deaf as a door nail.

[robotics1x]

Well that is pretty final. You were actually there!

I do have the DVD BTW and I've been meaning to upload that scene but haven't yet got my software to work (VOB to AVI). I can extract the music ok, but stuck on video.

Frankly the film in general is mediocre but hey - not everything that came out of the sixties was gold! But this scene and the song shone out.

[wolfchen75]

I was there at the filming of Alice's restaurant as an extra and Tigger ,who sang and played guitar in this scene was Jeffrey Outlaw's girlfriend ,haven't seen them for 40 years but recall it well

[elliottrainbow]

One of the actors in this movie is named Geoff Outlaw and I always wondered if he and Trigger Outlaw were married. I downloaded this clip and ripped the audio. I love Joni Mitchell, but this version is great.

[lucysd1983]

@elliottrainbow I did & I think exactly like you !



[svrex]

THIS IS NOT JONI'S VOICE, NO WAY NO HOW!!!!!!!!

[derek4ur]

Every lyric in this masterpiece song, which seems like a folk song which was refined over generations, reminds me of my mortality and is humbling in the best way, the most humanizing way. This tune calls the listener to the deepest mindfulness of life and finitude--and is spectacularly beautiful at the same time. This tune is every bit as great and important, to my taste, as, "It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding."

What have we become since the sixties? We mustn't simply fade away.

[MarlonDeanMcQueen]

adam1888888: uh, I have news for you. Tigger Outlaw is TIGGER OUTLAW. The woman singing the song in this scene in the film IS Tigger Outlaw. She may have previously recorded it and is lip synching it for this scene in the film, but she DID sing this version, which by the way, I like better than Joni Mitchell's rendition.

[templars83]

@MarlonDeanMcQueen Amen and much agreed - a superior performance and the only I care to listen to for that matter.

[54taqiyya]

i had joni's version, it is great, the gal playing it is not joni. her song is on, the album with her self portrait.

[derek4ur]

I want to hear Joni's version.

[derek4ur]

i like this version the best of the ones posted on YouTube, scratchy sounds notwithstanding. every other version I have heard is done with two vocalists and harmonies, and even keyboards in the background.

the song is both more powerful and more vulnerable when it is done solo voice and solo guitar.

this song sounds like a folk song which was refined over generations, but Joni wrote it her own self.

I think she is as great as any other songwriter, ever.

[derek4ur]

@derek4ur I know there are versions I haven't heard posted by solo artists--maybe some of them are good, too--but I bet this one is the best.

I think it is best with this kind of high tenor female voice.

This has to be one of Joni's very greatest songs.

"Alice's Restaurant" is great, too. Some people say the film has "aged oddly."

It could be that WE have aged oddly, and that therein is the explanation for why it strikes us differently now. Could be.

I need to see that film again.

[54taqiyya]

she is fat

[dakinisister]

This definitely is NOT Joni singing

[HeyEmerson]

great scene.

[Ipazia111]

troppo bella,.. brava Joni...

[7veilsphaedra]

It's lovely and Joni's the songwriter and composer, but the performer is Tigger Outlaw. Thanks for posting it, though.

[vortexnyc]

how can anyone possibly believe that the skank in the movie is joni mitchell or that this is jm singing...not that i actually give a shit about this crap film or this crap song...when did a crow or a raven ever "whistle"?..fucking retarded lyric

[onlyget1]

I met Tigger Outlaw recently and she is an amazing person and makes the BEST "RumBalls" :-)

[michaelj2108]

I would love to have had that chance! I prefer Tigger Outlaw's version in the movie to joni mitchell's, but she sure gets the nod for the song and lyrics, it totally rocks!!!! We played this song at my sister's funeral, btw. I had to import the AR Soundtrack CD from Germany, and it arrived the day before the funeral (thank you, god!). I still have the CD and listen to it occasionally. Very melancholy and I have asked to have it played at my funeral as well. Peace out, brother and sisters!

[michaelj2108]

I would love to have had that chance! I prefer Tigger Outlaw's version in the movie to joni mitchell's, but she sure gets the nod for the song and lyrics, it totally rocks!!!! We played this song at my sister's funeral, btw. I had to import the AR Soundtrack CD from Germany, and it arrived the day before the funeral (thank you, god!). I still have the CD and listen to it occasionally. Very melancholy and I have asked to have it played at my funeral as well. Peace out, brother and sisters!

[CircleCityEric]

This is the first version of the song I was made familiar with, beginning when I first saw Alice's Restaurant in 1999. (I really believed that was Joni, herself playing it.) My friend who shared the movie with me told me he wanted to hear this song played in his own memoriam (a request I will attempt to grant).

I've heard a few covers of the song on here. They sound excellent, but the performers are actually singing the harmony. LOL!

[billct2]

Tigger Outlaw sings Joni Mitchells song in the movie (and quite wonderfully).

Her husband (at the time) Geoff Outalw play Arlo's friend Roger. That's him towards the end leaning on the fence.

[billsname89]

I found this song on the score to the film on vinyl for .50 cents.

[adam1888888]

hello. i'm looking for mp3 of this song but with Tigger Outlaw is there anyone who has it? Please help me:)

[robotics1x]

That got me searching too. The only recording I can find is the alice's restaurant "original soundtrack". But it is all wrong, slower and it sounds like Joni Mitchell. I've seen it said that there was some argument over film rights and it was attributed to Tigger Outlaw but that she did really sing it. In other words Tigger Outlaw IS Joni Mitchell. I would have paid the Amazon 89cents for the mp3 but it is cr4p. This is the only decent recording I can find. Only recourse now is to buy the DVD,

[adam1888888]

ah..that's a pity..but thanks 4 answer.

if you'll have it Please share with me!:)

Greetings!

[michaelj2108]

I think I found it on skreemr...

[MarlonDeanMcQueen]

Uh, I have news for you chief. Tigger Outlaw is TIGGER OUTLAW. The woman singing the song in this scene in the film IS Tigger Outlaw. She may have previously recorded it and is lip synching it for this scene in the film, but she DID sing this version, which by the way, I like better than Joni Mitchell's rendition.

[jahtez]

She doesn't look anything like Joni, nor does she have anything like Mitchell's phrasing, timing, nor her aggression.

[quintolatini]

Joni was set to do her "Songs To Aging Children Come" in the film version of Arlo Guthrie's song epic, "Alice's Restaurant", but when the movie producers demanded a half share of the song's publishing rights just for the privilege of appearing in their major Hollywood feature film, she refused. The song was sung in the film anyway by a look-a-like hippie girl with long blonde hair and a ringing soprano. Definitely not Joni's voice AT ALL!

[Quag7]

I think it's a fine cover, personally, and I'm a big Joni Mitchell fan. The harmonies on Mitchell's version just sound kind of weird to me.

[myoavi]

im only 33yo, so i can't say ive been carrying this song in my head for as long as some others here...

but its there ever since i saw the movie as a teenager, ive never forgotten.

so beautiful, and more meaningful every time i listen.

thanks so much for the post!!

[happygreenshmoo]

actually, i'm pretty sure it is joni mitchell.

if you look at the New York Times review of the movie from 1969, it mentions her

[happygreenshmoo]

maybes its not.... this lady looks not like joni. is it possibly a voice oveR?

[tiedtotree]

this is from the dvd "alice's restaurant". if u go to special features, u can select a commentary (movie talkover) by arlo guthrie and he tells u the name of the artist. it is definitely not joni mitchell.

[robotics1x]

No it is not from the dvd. dvds had not been invented yet. I think I recorded it from TV as I recall, or maybe copied from a VHS. The singer is Tigger Outlaw as you can see from the comments below.

[tuxguys]

This scene, and this song, have haunted me for almost 40 years...kudos to all responsible for making it available to all of us.

[geezerstube]

The singer is Tigger Outlaw - the clip is from the Arlo Guthrie movie Alice's Restaurant.... A scene I've remembered for what, 40 years.... Glad to find it again. Ain't YouTube great?

[kozmic72]

all these years I wondered why no Joni Mitchell recording of this song sounded like the Alice's one...mystery solved. Thanks for the knowledge! I do have to disagree and say that this singer enunciates a lot like Joni Mitchell and has that same shrilly over-the-top soprano sound (thats my best description,and not meant to be a negative...they're very similar in my opinion.

[mahershalal]

Does someone know who the singer is on this recording? It doesn't sound like Joni Mitchell at all.

[robotics1x]

you could be right. I know she wrote the song and it looks to me like her but there was a Mitchell impersonator called Tigger something. It might be her. In any case its better than Joni's dual tracked version.

[mahershalal]

Indeed. Thanks.

[Smolley28]

This version is the better one, thats very sad.

[carrietide]

I disagree.Both versions are beautiful.

[Quickhand]

thx alot for sharing. great song, great scene, great film!

one thing though: i think the funeral is not for woody, but for the motorbike-driver. you know, the guy with the heroin-problem.

[robotics1x]

oh wow, I remember now! oops! I will change the text!

[kozmic72]

thank you so much for posting this...i sometimes watch this video simply for this scene. peace, kozzz

[myoavi]

what a beautiful scene from alice's restaurant!

what memories...

Thx for sharing!

[AttentionErnst]

:O This is so beautiful!

[robotics1x]

isnt it! How about a star? :)