Friday, November 08, 2013

Happy Belated Birthday Joni

This song couplet is probably my favorite, although with Joni favorites are more like hauntings. She turned 70 yesterday.

3 comments:

  1. (long) CBC Music interview with Joni Mitchell from June 10, 2013
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJuiZN3jI8

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  2. A beautiful unreleased song from a 1966 performance on
    a Canadian TV show "Let's Sing Out":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLOMBbRVB0

    The year before, on the same TV show, she was
    known as "Joni Anderson":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUNrZFreRx4

    (These are in the style of her first album
    "Song to a Seagull", but have never appeared
    on any of her albums, AFAIK.

    She's so young. And so serious!)

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  3. > A beautiful unreleased song from a 1966 performance on
    > a Canadian TV show "Let's Sing Out":
    > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCLOMBbRVB0

    Thematically very similar to "Cactus Tree" on her first
    album.

    But Oscar Brand, the host of that TV show, is still alive
    and working at 93, and has had an interesting career
    to say the least:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brand

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