I'm 21 and discovered her music relatively recently, like a few years ago and she basically has me in a chokehold by this point. She's so captivating in the best way possible.
@@MirthMama I don't concur with the "especially her time" part. To me, she is the greatest. Someone has to hold the absolute top slot and nobody else deserves the place more than Joni Mitchell (a trillion times more than the likes of Dylan or Cohen, in my imperfect world).
how anyone could "thumb down" this recording- its just crazy to me. For free is one of my favorite songs ever. And this performance is tops---- I was named after Joni and today is my birthday. Long live the queen of song
@@Dougdenslowe714 No idea; I can only make a few guesses. But she also sang "if it's wrong or real" instead of "if it's wrong or if it's real" in Willy.
Joni wrote songs like stories that she saw or lived through...Every time I'm in the New York City and I see one of those people playing "For Free" on any corner in N.Y.C. I think of this song Joni wrote..I put a few dollars in their pan, because they are singing for me and everyone else for Free.
Are you an American.? I know with the Joni videos I go on, most Americans don't like it when you mention that Joni is Canadian. She was living half the year in British Columbia, ready to build a house there, when she had her stroke. The landscape and weather of the Prairies informs a lot of her songs. And she will come back to the Prairies when she shuffles off this mortal coil.
@@apocalypseplough8089 yes I'm an American.. I was conceived in Detroit the same time she lived and married in Detroit.. She lived at the Verona Apartments on Cass Ave.
For me it all started with Clouds which I heard when I was working in the Post Office at Xmas. Not sung by her though, but by Judy Collins. I liked it a lot so when I discovered it had been written by Joni Mitchell I sought to hear how she sang it. When I did eventually hear her sing that was it, and that's how it still is.
LOST IN THE SICKNESS OF JONI MITCHELL SONGS.😮😮😮😮AN ILLUSION MOTHER FIGURE FOR THE OUTCAST OR WANTING TO BECOME AN OUTCAST BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A PLACE FOR YOU TO JOIN IN AND TO FOLLOW THE HUMAN SICKNESS OF DELUSIONAL DWELLING IN AMERICA DURING THIS DESPERATE TIME FOR OUR SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM THAT LEAD TO THE SICKNESS OF THE OUTCAST IN AMERICA THAT WERE LEAD BY MOTHER FIGURES AND MUSICAL BAND LEADERS INTO NEVER NEVER LAND.😊😊😊😊😊
"For Free": dear God, what an incredible song. An ode to an artist who does it for love, not for money. At once terribly sad and inspiring. A lot of performers and artists admit to wanting a large amount of success - I sure do - but at the same time, people say if you do it for money and not for love, it corrupts you and you lose your talent. Balance is so hard to find.
This is one of my favorites from Joni among MANY other songs. She is a true artist. Beautiful piano, and voice and on top of that she is a painter, and did the artwork on many of her albums. One of her best albums is "Blue" and the one this song (For Free) came from is "Ladies of the Canyon"
Joni could "feel" life...there is a resonant heartbeat in her lyrics and music. She could describe people, human scenes and arrays of individuals like some God given muse...yes I think she was an angel, a gift from God to humanity..
She's incredible. You can hear on a lot of the end of notes she sustains, particularly in 'For Free', She's about to run out of breath but somehow still keeps her vibrato consistent and tone unblemished, with no cracking out sound, which is normally what happens when you're about to run out of a breath. It's almost physically impossible how she sang it but she did it, and put so much energy into making it beautiful
Even though her way of singing I think is very unique and some people would say that it's natural and not technical. I still think that her breath management is incredible, she can sing in a very long head voice phrase effortlessly, sounding real loud and smooth, with a beautiful vibrato. And that definitely took a lot of training, I think she did trained her voice herself, really.
I had the privilege of hearing her sing on tour in the mid-70's, and it was the most memorable concert I attended--and I went to a lot of concerts that decade. My throat was aching from wanting to sing with her and just being physically unable, like most people, to hit those notes.
Often imitated but never duplicated. There are a few recent artists who sound a bit like Joni or were influenced by her ; like Julie Byrne, Danielle Haim, Weyes Blood, Florence Welch, Maggie Rogers, etc...
What on God's Green Earth could compel anyone to put a thumbs down on this video? We are witness to greatness here that only passes by once in a generation, if then. Thank you so much for this video.
This is the famous Woodstock show. The members of the Jefferson Airplane also performed and are all sitting there with Dick Cavett. Grace, Marty & Skip stand to give her an ovation even before she begins these two songs. She had earlier performed Chelsea Morning on her guitar. Crosby & Stills were there; Steven Stills performed 4 and 20. All these other performances are on RUclips.
@@michaelbaker3920 Many of those who made the Dick Cavett show played in the earlier days of the festival. Joni didn't arrive in NY until the eve of the last day. The worry was she would have great difficulty getting out of Woodstock amidst the great departure of attendees.
Nobody ever wrote like Joan Roberta Anderson. One of a kind, although influenced by all those she met with her open senses and heart. Her curiosity's scope and granular attention to detail, often above ego as she doesn't always come off so admirably in her confessional narratives or even in her more oblique songs where she targets someone whose life resembles her own shows her commitment to using song to get at the mysteries of life on this spinning ball of mysteries... Thanks to Flushing 'hoodie and now published poet Tone Gloeggler of the jocks at the schoolyard who was brave enough to keep pushing me to get over my yootful lack of attention to Joni's lyrics and impervious to how uncool listening to Joni Mitchell records was back in them thar staring up my own arsehole 70's could be, as lost in the provinces as we were. Also much gratitude to Dave Van Ronk, Z"L (why call him late, he ain't showin' up no mo') who I often went to hear in the Greenwich Village cafes then bars of my well-spent yoot. Before Dave would stop by my Berkeley flat after Bay Area gigs and sip pear liquor locally distilled while sharing stories and politics and songs until the sun came up and we had to pile Dave and the few remaining empty eau de vie bottles as souvenirs into the cab that would drive him back to his hotel for a few hours of sleep before he'd bus on to the next stop on his Pacific Coast tours. Big Dave had a very early admiration and tender insights into Joni's unique writerly\painterly gifts and was interpreting her songs and singing her praises for decades before anybody in serious jazz or blues or chanson or theater worlds would take Joni Mitchell's stuff and tunings seriously. Eric Andersen always did and made sure the folkies knew. Eric taught Joni some of those whack tunings... Health and balance Joni Anderson Mitchell and Eric Andersen too Keep on doing Rephuah Shelemah, Joni Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee
@@OneOfUsHere Well....I realize I am not quite correct. He doesn't right lyrics LIKE hers. But he is a great lyricist. I love Joni's best stuff. Both Sides Now is a legit candidate for Song of the Century, IMHO.
I basically stole my sister’s copy of Ladies of the Canyon when I was in grade school and fell in love with Joni right away. I cannot count the number of times I played these songs.
Why they didn't get a grand piano, or at least a baby grand, for this performance I'll never understand. Joni plays great, but the piano's tone is muddy and the individual notes are indistinct. She deserved a much better instrument.
Andy Northall Well, gotta say that Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot were pretty good too, but if you put "woman" into that claim, I'd be inclined to agree with you.
If I create one TENTH of the joy and beauty that Joni has in her art, I will consider my life a success...imagine waking in the morning, and and hearing her sing in the shower or while making breakfast, or placing flowers in the vase she bought today.
This is genius at work!! She is pure class! And so modest and unassuming - not full of herself like some artistes whom shall go unnamed. There isn't a Joniwood! Love you Joni ❤❤
One of the best things my X wife ever did for me was playin Joni Mitchell around the house all day. (43 years ago, she was a pretty good wife lookin back).This song is just beyond beautiful. And she sings it so effortlessly. She is definitely a music icon, she just doesn't seek the limelight like some. Choosing privacy instead.Talent and class, you don't see that enough. I'm making a playlist of Joni Mitchell songs right now, I think I'll send my X wife a copy. 🎶🍽👣
OF COURSE not sappy; much too cold and Canadian (in the best way) for that. Besides, sap in pop music is too often a product of overwrought production (too many backup singers hamming it up; syrupy soaring strings, honking horns, et. cetera) and the spare piano-and-vocal treatment here neatly circumvents that. Beautiful, just plain beautiful.
Come on now, sweet human sounds are perpetual in this world, woven into the fabric of life, if you'll allow me the elitist sounding claptrap of that lst bit.
I knew him. I think his name was Richie. He played on 8th St across the street from Electric Lady Studios. He played horn, and was a very dear soul. I hope he's still among us.
@@gwyllem The Chapin Brothers were Tom Chapin (schoolteacher and terrific recording artist best known for kids' songs), Harry Chapin who passed away so young in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway after he made it big beyond the folk club and taxi cab driving life (ironic!) with his FM hit song "Taxi" and a bigger AM hit song with "Cat's In the Cradle" and some wondrous albums. Harry Chapin was also a ranconteur of the first order who could take the few minutes between commercials on the Johnny Carson show or the hours between early and late sets at a Greenwich Village or North Beach cafe or bar and make every eye and ear in the neighborhood hang on his every storytelling word, accent and syllable. He also did the most for the least once he made a living in music by founding and sustaining these: www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/harry-chapin Harry Chapin was always getting celebrities and stars from every style and sphere to participate in benefit shows that put a dent in the unnecessary food insecurity in this the wealthiest nation on this wealth concentrating planet and in solidarity with other just causes around the globe. The third Chapin brother, Steve, I do not know much about. Also, Crosby, Stills and Nash with Buffalo Springfield's Richie Furay and Neil Young.... Keep on listening and doing Health and Balance Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee
@@gwyllem Dear Gwyllem, I may have screwed up by switching between this clip of Joni on Cavett Show with earlier clips of her as Joanie Anderson on Canadian TV show called Let's Sing Out. She was on the show being televised from University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, a coupla years before she married Chuck Mitchell and became Joni Mitchell. The Chapins (all 3 brothers Tom, Harry, Steve) were on this show with Dave Van Ronk's fellow Greenwich Village outspoken outcast Patrick Sky. They got Dave his first gigs in Canada doing this television show that filmed from different Canadian college campuses weekly on blessed CBC. Here is one such clip: ruclips.net/video/1lZsC0WFwVE/видео.html Sorry if I thought I saw Harry Chapin in the crowd in the live studio audience for Cavett's show. I grew up not far from where Harry died driving home on the Long Island Expressway and something about the way Harry lived his life has haunted me ever since. Another song of Harry's that got onto some hipper FM radio stations was W-O-L-D about a community radio station with those call letters: ruclips.net/video/QVh6aOwY08g/видео.html Health and balance keep on doing! Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Song Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List and Looksee
..and counting all the cars up the hill, and the stars on my windowsill..there are still more reasons why I love him.no one speaks to heart and mind in song like joni mitchell.i hope these posts on you tube of join singing before young people are always here "for free".God bless us all.
Happy 75th Joni. We who've been there since the earliest days, salute your unique and ultimately phenomenal talent. Music across generations & musical genres has grown the numbers of those who appreciate your diversity. Imagine! You really just wanted to be a painter! 😊 Words paint your pictures as effortlessly as your paintbox & canvas. ~Keep working at healing.
She did not ditch Woodstock. Her manager wouldn't allow her to go and potentially not get out in time for her performance the next day on the Dick Cavett show.
My heart is a harp whose strings are pulled softly,beutifully,by her mesmerizing voice which lays bare her soul.I dont have to wait to see what an angel is like.
WOW...."and counting all the cars up the hill and the stars on my window sill" there are still more reasons (then that) why i love him. HOLY MOLY!!!! who writes like that? who thinks like that?
this was the day after Woodstock. a Tuesday. she said she wrote Woodstock real quick while watching coverage on tv. so she'd already written it. awesome.
Joni performed here on Dick Cavett & skipped Woodstock. They didn’t think she could do both as Woodstock was so crowded they didn’t think she’d have time to get out for this national top TV program. This is awesome to see! A historic moment! Love Joni! ❤️
1:49 this guy is so deep into it. He's just sitting there and thinking: "Wow........ I.... love her?" and already imagining the wedding and the farm they'll grow their children great on. I just realized that's the presentor.
@Too Much-Online and let's continue to let men off the hook for abandoning their bastard children and not paying support. And, yes, the numbers aren't as high as they were 10 years ago, but they're still pretty high.
Just look at how the audience is reacting. She is a Priestess. For Free. She changed the words to be Politically Correct and put in a jibe against White people. It was "two Gentlemen" not "two White men."
In one of her first ever airings of her brand new song Willy, listen out for the line "he stood looking through the lace at the face of the conquered Moon", and then check the date of this performance: 19th August, 1969. Less than a month earlier - on 20th July 1969 - mankind, with "one giant leap" had incredibly planted its flag on the Moon's surface. So Joni's choice of word perfectly captured the feeling of most of us alive, that incredible time to be a human being...we had conquered not just the Moon, but our own doubts as to our capacity to do the seemingly "impossible".
The thumbs down are probably from millennials who are confused by LIVE performance where the Live performer is not lip-syncing, and cannot quite understand people listening and feeling through out the performance, being brought into the story that builds common threads of the human experience.
Joni Mitchell is an incredible human being. Sometimes I really question whether she is real. Her splendid singing, her lyrics, her amazing beauty originate from somewhere, not the world that I know.
“They knew he had never been on their TV So they passed his music by” That is so true. Too many people think being famous makes people more talented or interesting and won’t take your talent seriously if you haven’t made a big splash in the media pond. It’s changing with the internet but even then it’s the numbers that impress a lot of people more than the content. Think of how Vincent Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime and felt unvalued as an artist because he didn’t get the approval of the artist community. Are we really so shallow as to believe someone has to be liked by a lot of other people for us to like them? Or do we need to feel like we are part of a large collective fan base to think an artist of any type is actually worthy of our attention? I think everyone is affected by these things to some extent. It’s nice to feel like a passion is shared. The older I get the less I care what anyone thinks. I know what I like (to quote the band Genesis) and that’s all that matters. Joni is an absolute genius of lyrics and music. Not everyone’s cup of tea, which is fine, but she can make you feel things in her songs you didn’t even know you could feel until she sang about them.
I'm 21 and discovered her music relatively recently, like a few years ago and she basically has me in a chokehold by this point. She's so captivating in the best way possible.
Yes I remember when I discovered her in 1980s. Nothing musical was ever quite the same again.
Crosby said she is the greatest of all time especially her time & I concur
@@MirthMama I don't concur with the "especially her time" part. To me, she is the greatest. Someone has to hold the absolute top slot and nobody else deserves the place more than Joni Mitchell (a trillion times more than the likes of Dylan or Cohen, in my imperfect world).
Glad your on board...
River...nought said...
51 years ago Joni mesmerized this LUCKY audience with these beautiful songs....Would have loved being there as she is a legend and a muse to me.
how anyone could "thumb down" this recording- its just crazy to me. For free is one of my favorite songs ever. And this performance is tops---- I was named after Joni and today is my birthday. Long live the queen of song
There are a lot of satan possessed people who hate music.
Any idea why she changed the lyric from ,”2 gentlemen “ to ,”two white men”?I think for this performance only.
@@Dougdenslowe714 No idea; I can only make a few guesses. But she also sang "if it's wrong or real" instead of "if it's wrong or if it's real" in Willy.
Reduces me to tears everytime.
Simply the best ever. I love her so much.
Joni wrote songs like stories that she saw or lived through...Every time I'm in the New York City and I see one of those people playing "For Free" on any corner in N.Y.C. I think of this song Joni wrote..I put a few dollars in their pan, because they are singing for me and everyone else for Free.
Astonishing talent! I first heard her voice when I was 17 years old, fell in love with it and am still now in awe of her gifts. 💕
I think this is the gig she did instead of going to Woodstock. Ironically, wrote the song about the festival.
Yep. Contractually obligated.
It was gods providence that she missed that Dianisian Orgy of hedenism.
Free Willy brought me here.
Let that little guy go.
She touches my heart and soul thanks Joni
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This is beautiful footage of Joni Mitchell singing two of my many favorite songs
What a fine Canadian. When Canada shares musicians, they're always amazing... I know, no accounting for "Snow"...lol
Are you an American.? I know with the Joni videos I go on, most Americans don't like it when you mention that Joni is Canadian. She was living half the year in British Columbia, ready to build a house there, when she had her stroke. The landscape and weather of the Prairies informs a lot of her songs. And she will come back to the Prairies when she shuffles off this mortal coil.
@@apocalypseplough8089 yes I'm an American.. I was conceived in Detroit the same time she lived and married in Detroit.. She lived at the Verona Apartments on Cass Ave.
A voice from heaven...
For me it all started with Clouds which I heard when I was working in the Post Office at Xmas. Not sung by her though, but by Judy Collins. I liked it a lot so when I discovered it had been written by Joni Mitchell I sought to hear how she sang it. When I did eventually hear her sing that was it, and that's how it still is.
Things about Joni.....praise not uttered.
She writes with ingenuity- through lyrics and chords she paints pictures.
i’ve got my funeral music all picked out.
Arguably, along with Carole King, one of the two great American female songwriters of the Rock era.
Sammy Bolt turned me on to Joni in 1970. She's been real good for free for fifty+ years.
What I would give to see her perform in such an intimate setting.
what a sweet smile...
I'm in love with her then.
Unique…no can cover her work
LOST IN THE SICKNESS OF JONI MITCHELL SONGS.😮😮😮😮AN ILLUSION MOTHER FIGURE FOR THE OUTCAST OR WANTING TO BECOME AN OUTCAST BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A PLACE FOR YOU TO JOIN IN AND TO FOLLOW THE HUMAN SICKNESS OF DELUSIONAL DWELLING IN AMERICA DURING THIS DESPERATE TIME FOR OUR SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM THAT LEAD TO THE SICKNESS OF THE OUTCAST IN AMERICA THAT WERE LEAD BY MOTHER FIGURES AND MUSICAL BAND LEADERS INTO NEVER NEVER LAND.😊😊😊😊😊
Need I say... Free Willy?
Possibly the best songwriter of our times (for those who grew up in the 60s and 70s), and transcendent as a musician...
Your comment has one extra word; that is, possibly.
Agreed!
"For Free": dear God, what an incredible song. An ode to an artist who does it for love, not for money. At once terribly sad and inspiring. A lot of performers and artists admit to wanting a large amount of success - I sure do - but at the same time, people say if you do it for money and not for love, it corrupts you and you lose your talent. Balance is so hard to find.
This is one of my favorites from Joni among MANY other songs. She is a true artist. Beautiful piano, and voice and on top of that she is a painter, and did the artwork on many of her albums. One of her best albums is "Blue" and the one this song (For Free) came from is "Ladies of the Canyon"
David Crosby loves this song and it's on his 2021 album..
That's why she dropped out.
You are so correct here, Elizabeth! A hard balance to find...
Joni could "feel" life...there is a resonant heartbeat in her lyrics and music. She could describe people, human scenes and arrays of individuals like some God given muse...yes I think she was an angel, a gift from God to humanity..
What's this! No autotuning!! How is this possible?? Oh yeah, I remember..it's called talent.
She's incredible. You can hear on a lot of the end of notes she sustains, particularly in 'For Free', She's about to run out of breath but somehow still keeps her vibrato consistent and tone unblemished, with no cracking out sound, which is normally what happens when you're about to run out of a breath. It's almost physically impossible how she sang it but she did it, and put so much energy into making it beautiful
Even though her way of singing I think is very unique and some people would say that it's natural and not technical. I still think that her breath management is incredible, she can sing in a very long head voice phrase effortlessly, sounding real loud and smooth, with a beautiful vibrato. And that definitely took a lot of training, I think she did trained her voice herself, really.
@@leanhquoc3109 & smoked
I had the privilege of hearing her sing on tour in the mid-70's, and it was the most memorable concert I attended--and I went to a lot of concerts that decade. My throat was aching from wanting to sing with her and just being physically unable, like most people, to hit those notes.
Joni Mitchell is an absolute treasure. No one like her today.
And never will be.
Often imitated but never duplicated.
There are a few recent artists who sound a bit like Joni or were influenced by her ; like Julie Byrne, Danielle Haim, Weyes Blood, Florence Welch, Maggie Rogers, etc...
Joni Mitchell is a bit like Joni Mitchell. :) I kid: she was and is a true original: no one like her, by definition.
i would nominate John Frusciante as Joni's spiritual kin.
no one like her ever, the best of all time.
What on God's Green Earth could compel anyone to put a thumbs down on this video? We are witness to greatness here that only passes by once in a generation, if then. Thank you so much for this video.
some folks are tone deaf..ha!
Just trolls
Answer = see Americans who voted for runner up in last presidential election. Explain that!
@@stanleyklein524 We don't like senile socialists. Proud of that Biden vote are ya?
Mistakes do happen sometimes. No conspiracy is alleged. LOL
This is the famous Woodstock show. The members of the Jefferson Airplane also performed and are all sitting there with Dick Cavett. Grace, Marty & Skip stand to give her an ovation even before she begins these two songs. She had earlier performed Chelsea Morning on her guitar. Crosby & Stills were there; Steven Stills performed 4 and 20. All these other performances are on RUclips.
She'd just literally finished Chelsea Morning - seconds before. That's what the standing ovation from Grace Slick etc. was for.
yep
She missed Woodstock so she could give this performance, if I remember correctly. I'm glad.
yep, she sure did
well. jeff air is sitting next to dick and THEY played woodstock
woodstock started the 15th. she had plenty of time to drive 35 miles south!
@@michaelbaker3920 Many of those who made the Dick Cavett show played in the earlier days of the festival. Joni didn't arrive in NY until the eve of the last day. The worry was she would have great difficulty getting out of Woodstock amidst the great departure of attendees.
@@michaelbaker3920 as did Crosby & Stills who were there later.
Nobody writes lyrics like this anymore. Her voice was so pure.
Nobody ever wrote like Joan Roberta Anderson. One of a kind, although influenced by all those she met with her open senses and heart. Her curiosity's scope and granular attention to detail, often above ego as she doesn't always come off so admirably in her confessional narratives or even in her more oblique songs where she targets someone whose life resembles her own shows her commitment to using song to get at the mysteries of life on this spinning ball of mysteries...
Thanks to Flushing 'hoodie and now published poet Tone Gloeggler of the jocks at the schoolyard who was brave enough to keep pushing me to get over my yootful lack of attention to Joni's lyrics and impervious to how uncool listening to Joni Mitchell records was back in them thar staring up my own arsehole 70's could be, as lost in the provinces as we were. Also much gratitude to Dave Van Ronk, Z"L (why call him late, he ain't showin' up no mo') who I often went to hear in the Greenwich Village cafes then bars of my well-spent yoot. Before Dave would stop by my Berkeley flat after Bay Area gigs and sip pear liquor locally distilled while sharing stories and politics and songs until the sun came up and we had to pile Dave and the few remaining empty eau de vie bottles as souvenirs into the cab that would drive him back to his hotel for a few hours of sleep before he'd bus on to the next stop on his Pacific Coast tours. Big Dave had a very early admiration and tender insights into Joni's unique writerly\painterly gifts and was interpreting her songs and singing her praises for decades before anybody in serious jazz or blues or chanson or theater worlds would take Joni Mitchell's stuff and tunings seriously. Eric Andersen always did and made sure the folkies knew. Eric taught Joni some of those whack tunings...
Health and balance Joni Anderson Mitchell and Eric Andersen too
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Joey Dugan does.
@@joemarshall4226 I doubt that but I will investigate his music on your opinion.
I'll get back to you after.
@@OneOfUsHere Well....I realize I am not quite correct. He doesn't right lyrics LIKE hers. But he is a great lyricist. I love Joni's best stuff. Both Sides Now is a legit candidate for Song of the Century, IMHO.
I basically stole my sister’s copy of Ladies of the Canyon when I was in grade school and fell in love with Joni right away. I cannot count the number of times I played these songs.
She was only 25 years old.
Why they didn't get a grand piano, or at least a baby grand, for this performance I'll never understand. Joni plays great, but the piano's tone is muddy and the individual notes are indistinct. She deserved a much better instrument.
The finest singer-songwriter ever, bar none.
Andy Northall
Well, gotta say that Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot were pretty good too, but if you put "woman" into that claim, I'd be inclined to agree with you.
Joni better than Dylan . The BEST
@@georgefowler3027 Bob Dylan lived in Woodstock at that time.
Completely agree. Once in a lifetime genius.
dont forget Carole King, Every bit just as good as Joni.
Just like the Beatles, Joni laid the ground work for so many who came after her. She is truly a musical genius
And just to add another brick, a brilliant artist. Crosby called her the alien and all the legends of their time knew that she was on another level.
Two of my earliest favorites. I cannot imagine my life without Joni's music growing and changing along with me.
The only person that could give this video a thumbs down is someone who is blind, deaf and mad in his/her heart. Joni is a heaven sent angel.
If I create one TENTH of the joy and beauty that Joni has in her art, I will consider my life a success...imagine waking in the morning, and and hearing her sing in the shower or while making breakfast, or placing flowers in the vase she bought today.
Hi I wanted to marry her in 1983.
@@pomcourier6352 well, with a name that almost reads 'porncourier', you never stood a chance....
Of course you did, understandable!
This woman could play and sing, write and paint. A real artist 360 degrees.
Thank you Joni, for being a part of my life.
She looks so young here. She was certainly wise beyond her years!
She's partially descended from Sami Indigenous people of Norway; partly on her dad's side.
But the one man band,
by the quick lunch stand,
He was playing real good for free
Nobody stoped to hear him,
though he played so sweet and high
This is genius at work!! She is pure class! And so modest and unassuming - not full of herself like some artistes whom shall go unnamed. There isn't a Joniwood! Love you Joni ❤❤
Willy---written for "her man, her child, her father"---Graham Nash.
one of the finest female songwriter singers ever, along with Carole King.
She even sounds great on an out-of-tune piano.
Ogron Cholmondeley no easy feat.
Thé piano is out of tune?
@@carolmares8215 It sounds like they borrowed it from the local school.
@@carolmares8215 No it isn't out of tune.
It sounds warm
This is real great for free.
One of the best things my X wife ever did for me was playin Joni Mitchell around the house all day. (43 years ago, she was a pretty good wife lookin back).This song is just beyond beautiful. And she sings it so effortlessly. She is definitely a music icon, she just doesn't seek the limelight like some. Choosing privacy instead.Talent and class, you don't see that enough. I'm making a playlist of Joni Mitchell songs right now, I think I'll send my X wife a copy. 🎶🍽👣
I'm sorry it didn't work out with your ex-wife.
No human has ever sounded so sweet.
Sweet, yes, but in my opinion not sappy.
OF COURSE not sappy; much too cold and Canadian (in the best way) for that. Besides, sap in pop music is too often a product of overwrought production (too many backup singers hamming it up; syrupy soaring strings, honking horns, et. cetera) and the spare piano-and-vocal treatment here neatly circumvents that. Beautiful, just plain beautiful.
Elizabeth Hann I agree totally.
Well, thank you.
Come on now, sweet human sounds are perpetual in this world, woven into the fabric of life, if you'll allow me the elitist sounding claptrap of that lst bit.
The greatest singer songwriter of the past 2000 years.
The psalms remastered.
I knew him. I think his name was Richie. He played on 8th St across the street from Electric Lady Studios. He played horn, and was a very dear soul. I hope he's still among us.
+Mark Douglas Oh, i thought it was Moondog
Do you have any photos of him???
OMG, thank you so much for sharing this video! My heart is bursting with joy right now! :')
+endlesshore
You're welcome! I know the feeling.. glad you like it :)
As a big Kate Bush fan I used to wonder where her originality came from ; then I heard Joni Mitchell.
Kind of ironic that 'Willy' is about Graham Nash, who couldn't be on the Dick Cavett show that night because of work permit problems.
Grace Slik in standing ovation. Respect.
Not even lip gloss. A real beautiful lady .
The biggest talent in the room.
Yeah, who were those guys? The camera panned too fast to make them out. 1910 Fruitgum Company?
@@gwyllem The Chapin Brothers were Tom Chapin (schoolteacher and terrific recording artist best known for kids' songs), Harry Chapin who passed away so young in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway after he made it big beyond the folk club and taxi cab driving life (ironic!) with his FM hit song "Taxi" and a bigger AM hit song with "Cat's In the Cradle" and some wondrous albums.
Harry Chapin was also a ranconteur of the first order who could take the few minutes between commercials on the Johnny Carson show or the hours between early and late sets at a Greenwich Village or North Beach cafe or bar and make every eye and ear in the neighborhood hang on his every storytelling word, accent and syllable.
He also did the most for the least once he made a living in music by founding and sustaining these:
www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/harry-chapin
Harry Chapin was always getting celebrities and stars from every style and sphere to participate in benefit shows that put a dent in the unnecessary food insecurity in this the wealthiest nation on this wealth concentrating planet and in solidarity with other just causes around the globe.
The third Chapin brother, Steve, I do not know much about.
Also, Crosby, Stills and Nash with Buffalo Springfield's Richie Furay and Neil Young....
Keep on listening and doing
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Oh, that was Harry Chapin? Have to look more closely next time. Thanks Ulpana!
@@gwyllem Dear Gwyllem, I may have screwed up by switching between this clip of Joni on Cavett Show with earlier clips of her as Joanie Anderson on Canadian TV show called Let's Sing Out. She was on the show being televised from University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, a coupla years before she married Chuck Mitchell and became Joni Mitchell. The Chapins (all 3 brothers Tom, Harry, Steve) were on this show with Dave Van Ronk's fellow Greenwich Village outspoken outcast Patrick Sky. They got Dave his first gigs in Canada doing this television show that filmed from different Canadian college campuses weekly on blessed CBC. Here is one such clip:
ruclips.net/video/1lZsC0WFwVE/видео.html
Sorry if I thought I saw Harry Chapin in the crowd in the live studio audience for Cavett's show. I grew up not far from where Harry died driving home on the Long Island Expressway and something about the way Harry lived his life has haunted me ever since. Another song of Harry's that got onto some hipper FM radio stations was W-O-L-D about a community radio station with those call letters:
ruclips.net/video/QVh6aOwY08g/видео.html
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@@ulpana I saw Dave Von Ronk in Newport in 1968
Awesomely groovy! That crowd loves her to pieces! I got the warm fuzzys.
..and counting all the cars up the hill, and the stars on my windowsill..there are still more reasons why I love him.no one speaks to heart and mind in song like joni mitchell.i hope these posts on you tube of join singing before young people are always here "for free".God bless us all.
Happy 75th Joni. We who've been there since the earliest days, salute your unique and ultimately phenomenal talent. Music across generations & musical genres has grown the numbers of those who appreciate your diversity.
Imagine! You really just wanted to be a painter! 😊 Words paint your pictures as effortlessly as your paintbox & canvas.
~Keep working at healing.
I’ve just realised after 40 years that this is my favourite JM song and why she puts Kate Bush into 2nd place. And I bloody adore the Bush.
I think we all adore the Bush , but Joni has so much genius work kick in side being a close album to blue all wonderful stuff
no competition really. i wouldn't put bush anywhere near joni
Kick inside ground braking strange vocals now accepted to make strange tones
Joni ditched Woodstock for this show. A magnificent performance and an audience far beyond the three day festival. Thanks Joni.
And then wrote Woodstock...as she said ‘so I wrote this little song’ that became the anthem for a generation
@@barbarascott3350
I think she was dating David Crosby at the time which was a great source of information as she was composing "Woodstock".
She did not ditch Woodstock. Her manager wouldn't allow her to go and potentially not get out in time for her performance the next day on the Dick Cavett show.
She's a genius
yes.
My heart is a harp whose strings are pulled softly,beutifully,by her mesmerizing voice which lays bare her soul.I dont have to wait to see what an angel is like.
She was so far ahead of the rest, it's almost ridiculous.
She blows them all away. Most original and creative. Then take your choice - Dylan or Paul Simon.
Joni is a breath of fresh air. So deep. so sophisticated.
WOW...."and counting all the cars up the hill and the stars on my window sill" there are still more reasons (then that) why i love him. HOLY MOLY!!!! who writes like that? who thinks like that?
Indeed, what a song writer & composer!
People who have imagination, heart and soul are the only ones who could write such stirring music.
Exactly...a mind to match her soul--is there anyone who loves music that isn't IN love with Joni Mitchell? ??
And she considered herself a painter over a musician.
no
"and I feel like I'm just bein born, like a shining light breakin in a storm......"....oookkkayy...........soooo thats what a song sounds like........
this was the day after Woodstock. a Tuesday. she said she wrote Woodstock real quick while watching coverage on tv. so she'd already written it. awesome.
Joni performed here on Dick Cavett & skipped Woodstock. They didn’t think she could do both as Woodstock was so crowded they didn’t think she’d have time to get out for this national top TV program. This is awesome to see! A historic moment! Love Joni! ❤️
1:49 this guy is so deep into it. He's just sitting there and thinking: "Wow........ I.... love her?" and already imagining the wedding and the farm they'll grow their children great on.
I just realized that's the presentor.
Is that the Jefferson Airplane in the audience?
It is.
Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash - a meeting of one great talent...
This is music in its purest form: the song, the instrument and the voice. Especially Joni Mitchell's.
they are chuckling because she's so freaking amazing, I think. Just hard to believe what they are hearing.
Agree. I think they're joking something like " Wow, Joni put us to shame, made us sound like crap" ;-)
I really don't think so. I think she's too cheesy for them. I still love her songs.
that makes sense.
@@shreemhreemkleem that could be, we will never know for sure..But laughing like that was a bit rude.
@forgetittwb Who are those guys?
We really miss this kind of introspective artistry. And OMG that sweet voice.
good lord, it looks like Cavett is realizing he's listening to a genius
Next to the word Perfection in the dictionary is a reference to Joni Mitchell
Awesome talent. My favorite songwriter back in those days. I can't go back there anymore. You know my keys don't fit the door. Deep respect though.
Umm ok, so you can sing, write lyrics, play piano and guitar but what else can you do? ;)
Paint?
I grew up with her music. Literally. A coming of age. So grateful to have had her music in my lifetime. Thank You, Joni Mitchell.
"Willie", meaning Graham Nash (his nickname / middle name William).
It wasn’t too long before she dumped “Willie” for “Carey”......
Too Much-Online works both ways
@Too Much-Online yeah, and men can go through women like beer
@Too Much-Online have a look at the percentage of American women who are battered and abused
@Too Much-Online and let's continue to let men off the hook for abandoning their bastard children and not paying support. And, yes, the numbers aren't as high as they were 10 years ago, but they're still pretty high.
Captivatingly beautiful.
Wonderful. A true poet. I hope someone found that guy and gave him some money on that street corner
Even Cavett recognizes that he's experiencing something special.
He kept her from Woodstock.
@@gwyllem I feel like she was always bummed that she didn’t go or that was like her biggest regret
@@gwyllem No. He didn't. She wasn't a slave, she chose to do the show.
Thank you for opening my heart and my eyes Joni. Your heart and music improves the quality of my life.
Just look at how the audience is reacting. She is a Priestess. For Free.
She changed the words to be Politically Correct and put in a jibe against White people. It was "two Gentlemen" not "two White men."
No, it is just color contrast imagery: Black limousine-White men
In one of her first ever airings of her brand new song Willy, listen out for the line "he stood looking through the lace at the face of the conquered Moon", and then check the date of this performance: 19th August, 1969.
Less than a month earlier - on 20th July 1969 - mankind, with "one giant leap" had incredibly planted its flag on the Moon's surface. So Joni's choice of word perfectly captured the feeling of most of us alive, that incredible time to be a human being...we had conquered not just the Moon, but our own doubts as to our capacity to do the seemingly "impossible".
Yes! And she also dedicated this song to the moon. 0:27 The conquered moon.
I love Joni but they filmed that hoax in Roswell, New Mexico. 👽
The day after Woodstock as I recall
The thumbs down are probably from millennials who are confused by LIVE performance where the Live performer is not lip-syncing, and cannot quite understand people listening and feeling through out the performance, being brought into the story that builds common threads of the human experience.
One of the creators best representatives, imho.
Joni Mitchell is an incredible human being. Sometimes I really question whether she is real.
Her splendid singing, her lyrics, her amazing beauty originate from somewhere, not the world that I know.
04mscentrum I hope she is healing, where-ever she is. Loves to paint, and enjoy her own home. God Bless her.
There are STILL more reasons why I LOVE Joni!
Willy=Graham Nash
“They knew he had never been on their TV
So they passed his music by”
That is so true. Too many people think being famous makes people more talented or interesting and won’t take your talent seriously if you haven’t made a big splash in the media pond. It’s changing with the internet but even then it’s the numbers that impress a lot of people more than the content.
Think of how Vincent Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime and felt unvalued as an artist because he didn’t get the approval of the artist community.
Are we really so shallow as to believe someone has to be liked by a lot of other people for us to like them? Or do we need to feel like we are part of a large collective fan base to think an artist of any type is actually worthy of our attention? I think everyone is affected by these things to some extent. It’s nice to feel like a passion is shared. The older I get the less I care what anyone thinks. I know what I like (to quote the band Genesis) and that’s all that matters.
Joni is an absolute genius of lyrics and music. Not everyone’s cup of tea, which is fine, but she can make you feel things in her songs you didn’t even know you could feel until she sang about them.