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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:

jimf said...

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

jimf said...

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!)

jimf said...

> 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