JUDY COLLINS - "Chelsea Morning" 1969

Judy Collins sings "Chelsea Morning" at a 1969 television taping. Judy Collins learned the song from it's composer, Joni Mitchell, and first recorded it during the Elektra Records sessions for the Who Knows Where The Time Goes LP. Elektra released it as a single in 1969. A second recording is featured on Judy's live album from 1971, the Elektra LP, Living. In the 1990s, Judy recorded the song yet again for her Elektra career anthology LP, Forever.

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• judy
• collins
• chelsea
• morning

[tomthefunky]

That was great. Boy, her eyes are truly hypnotic. And it's ironic that her father was blind.

[betahifi]

@tomthefunky Her large eyes are made even more so by the fact that she is wearing false eyelashes, and the overhead light is causing a shadow dropping down from the lashes onto her pupils. The lighting tech should have had the overhead spots positioned more in front of her, and lower. If you check out the video of her singing "Someday Soon" on the Smothers Brothers show, taped the same year, 1969, she is not wearing the lashes, and the lighting is better. The effect is much more natural.

[cg321]

thank you to judy collins and to whoever posted this. what a wonderful gift to have this performance available. a beautiful performance, her beautiful voice, and beautiful self, singing a great mitchell song. coming across this gift on youtube made a lonely guy a little less lonely this friday night in may.

[lhcarter]

Sorry but Joni Mitchell's version is way better...and Joni wrote it!

[romanticandperky]

I was astonished upon learning that her father was blind, and made his living singing on the radio (with his own show). I went to a boarding school in New Hampshire with her kid sister, Holly back in '70-71', and we had a blind German teacher who loved to sing, mostly Dylan tunes. Ironically, I don't recall her singing any Judy Collins' tunes, though she had the voice for it.

[Saskatchewan00]

@betahifi I think all those things combine to make her eyes look quite creepy.

[ghanick]

I love you Judy, but this one belongs to Joni.

[Brsbeach]

Thanks so much! It is hard to explain how many of us back then were TOTALLY in love with her and her voice!! <3

[CookieOfTheHousie]

@AlexandraMary1 Actually the "original" version was by Judy... Dyble, Fairport Convention's original female singer (Sandy Denny replaced her). Fairport's version is great too and Judy Dyble's got a magical voice, completely different. The thins is this song is so great, the three versions are outstanding!

[AlexandraMary1]

Judy actually released this before Joni, so technically hers is the 'original' even though Joni wrote it. Joni started out as a songwriter before she recorded her songs herself.

[elmerhdga]

a very very nice cover by Judy, maybe the best cover; seems that , (as usual) Joni puts her entire essence into the Original, and I'll love them both.

[Xesumaidem]

i like mitchell, and i like collins. both versions are equally good to me, even though joni's is the original. just good music all around.

[SnakeGartman]

Anyone else think she looks absolutely terrifying? at around :25 she looks like a human-serpent.