Night in the City: Joni Mitchell
Today is debut album day. This is from Joni’s 1968 release Song to a Seagull.
Explore posts in the same categories: MusicToday is debut album day. This is from Joni’s 1968 release Song to a Seagull.
Explore posts in the same categories: Music
November 28, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Here’s the download:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?v9akw2w4oeiuv8b
November 28, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I just love Joni. This is a great song too! I also like the one below—>
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUmhsy3KuY&w=640&h=360]
November 28, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Brotherboo,
I haven’t heard this song in a long time. It’s still a great one. I added it to my music files!
November 28, 2011 at 2:35 pm
i was hooked from the first time i heard this…
November 28, 2011 at 3:03 pm
greg,
It is the consummate Joni. Anyone who hears this must automatically get hooked. How can it be otherwise?
To think this was her first album, and when we bought it, we didn’t know what pleasures to our ears were yet to come.
November 28, 2011 at 5:00 pm
The piano in the background sounds like something from Mamas and Papas. I haven’t heard this song in an eon–it’s soooo typical of the late 60’s. I think for me Joni’s best album (though it’s hard to choose) is the Blue album. We played this almost non-stop during our third year in Ghana on the cassette player.
November 28, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Bill,
During our second year we played Clouds over and over. I remember we kept trying to figure out incense owls in the last verse and would play it over and over as it didn’t seem to make sense.
Our Bic pens came in handy for rewinding those cassette tapes.
I have so much nostalgia wrapped around Clouds I’d be hard-pressed to pick another though Blue nudges it.
Because Song to a Seagull was the first album of hers, and I bought it almost as soon as I heard it, it too has a special place for me.
November 28, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Well, in 1968 I sure as heck wasn’t listening to Joni. My friends had Sargent Pepper and the White Album and Ogdens, and I was listening to 45s from Hey Jude to Lily the Pink ( complete McCartney domination) and the lovely Mary Hopkins, and….well it was a long time ago, Des O’Connor even snuck in there (didnt buy it)
November 28, 2011 at 11:57 pm
MyDear Hedley,
We weren’t limited to Joni. I had all the Beatles’s albums, Mary Hopkins, British invasion nagnds and so many more. Folk music was like a ruge for me, a quiet place. Jethrol Tull, did I mention Jethro?
November 29, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Musical tastes created very specific groupings down the Old Dorking Grammar School. Tull was clearly the front end of the Progressive Rock movement aka pretentious rubbish (Tony), some of the hard boys (Charlie and Kevin) favored blues with a tingle of rock TYA, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers and if they wanted to go commercial Cream.
The girls (Debbie Wilson, sigh) in general ran around with the latest edition of Motown Chartbusters which were appropriately ignored by the boys. Me, I kept it very simple – The Who and The Faces.
By the time we got to 1973 and the time to leave Ashcombe Road, the lines were clear. However one album did cross over and that was David Bowie’s “Hunky Dory” . Ziggy didnt get universal acceptance but was totally cool.
November 29, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Of course, I will admit that there was some interest in Joni when the naked butt album showed up
November 29, 2011 at 8:36 pm
My Dear Hedley,
I was at the tail end of 50’s music, the start of the twist and the birth of the Beatles. I heard blues and was totally smitten. Some jazz I love; some I do not. The Who I’ll always give an ear to but haven’t ever been a David Bowie fan.
Naked butt album? I missed it!
November 29, 2011 at 9:51 pm
For the Roses…cover hid Ms Mitchell standing nude in a rock looking at the ocean.
November 29, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Thanks, My Dear Heldey