when I first heard this album, this song, I was a 15 year old homeless kid (1975) who ended up at the beach living with a bunch of construction workers (who were told to keep their hands off!)- they had a total of three albums I liked (loved!) one of which was Joni Mitchell's Blue and this song in particular was wonderfully relatable. I would sit in the surf with my knees pulled up to my chest in the hours between midnight and sunrise and... with this song running round and round my brain... it was simply magical, it just was
Carey by Joni Mitchell♡ The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey But it's really not my home My fingernails are filthy I've got beach tar on my feet And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver) Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you fine Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe And I will buy you a bottle of wine And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and Smash our empty glasses down Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine Let's have another round for the bright red devil, who Keeps me in this tourist town Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver) Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you I like you, I like you, I like you Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam Or maybe I'll go to Rome And rent me a grand piano and put some flowers 'round my room But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now The night is a starry dome And they're playin' that scratchy rock and roll Beneath the Matala Moon Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver) You're a mean old Daddy, but I like you The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, but it's Really not my home Maybe it's been too long a time since I was Scramblin' down in the street Now they got me used to that clean white linen and that Fancy French cologne Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) I'll put on my finest silver (I'll put on some silver) We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe, have fun tonight I said, oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but you're out of sight
@@murraywestenskow2896 I love this song but don't know the story behind it. She definitely led an interesting life. Was it about anyone? Who was this "mean old daddy"?
I am on my way to Matala and will drink a glass to Joni and ghosts of my youth as a happy hippie teen. I hitched from UK to Greece aged fifteen and starry eyed but fetched up in Parga. Now Im in Crete for a couple of much tamer weeks in this far tamer era, that digitally remastered one of today. At least the sea remains the same.
I danced manty a night at the Mermaid Cafe during my 6 month stay, living in a cave, in Matala. I was there the year before Joni but I immediately recognized Southern Crete when I first heard this wonderful song. And yes, we could often smell the scents of Africa on the evening winds. Wonder filled days!
What a great comment. You can take for granted the kind of life that Joni breaths into a song. You kind of enhanced that. I appreciate you taking the time to share it.
My dad was a working class lad from UK, near Birmingham. He travelled to India via, Turkey, Afghanistan. If you get a chance check out Terrence Mckenna. Amazing story of him living on dope in this kind of cave. He relates how he was dreaming of food, of all kinds of food that he liked. He says how he saw this figure slowly approaching in the far distance, in the haze. The person turned out to be a chef who had quit his job that day and brought all kinds of amazing food. Reminds me of this song somehow of JM.
@@simeonbanner6204McKenna never did ‘dope’. He’s an ethnobotanist and understands the power in plants and fungi. He was using medicine…not ‘dope’. Not everyone who uses cannabis, mushrooms, coca leaves, herbs, and other natural hallucinogenic substances including peyote is a ‘dope’ head!
YES... Joni is So INCREDIBLE and inspires So Many Singer Songwriters with SPECIAL Connections to those from Canada and smaller communities... Thank you for considering my views, too.
When my family moved across the country, we took the train and my sister had a portable record player and played this LP for 4 straight days. After some 50 years, I still remember every single word from every song on the album, lol! Joni is so gifted.
I still get chills every time I hear this song; her voice, pronunciation and lilt are captivating; distracts me from whatever i'm doing... who else says 'cologne' so perfectly . ))
Listening to this several times over here in Matala Crete, having arrived lat night, 50 years after Joni did. Looking forward to the ‘beach tar on my feet’ and hearing the ‘scratchy rock and roll beneath the Matala moon’.
Joni is one of the voices of my youth. Blue, one of the first albums I ever bought with my own money. Still have it in my collection and play it on the regular!
I'm all chocked up after seeing her tribute at the "Kennedy Center Honors"... I have been listening to "Blue" for so long and never tire of it- such a deserving and fantastic artist in every way!
Joni Mitchell always sounded sooo wonderful ever since I heard her for the first time. And after all these years she still does! God be blessed for giving us her. Love Jonni!!
I have seen Joni in concert at the ski resort not far from where I grew up half of the year. Also, Richie Havens played also right after Joni. They were both great in concert and a lot of fun to see with only under 70 people there. Nice to be so friendly in the early or mid 80s in such a small place. I liked their music and them both right away. I consider myself very lucky to have been in a small place seeing them. One would say its a one of chance in a lifetime to see them up so close in a such a small beautiful place. I really am happy to have seen them in that period of our lives.
That must've been a great combination of Havens and Joni Mitchell. Both were brilliant artists at a unique time in history. So much great music to keep us dancing!
I love the way the second verse starts before the refrain is over, as though it's completely normal to start a verse in the middle of your sentence. The whole second verse is slightly off-center, and she's singing it so fluently that it can take you a long time to figure out why it sounds unsettling. There are dozens of marvels in this song and that's just one.
A wonderful song off a brilliant album. Joni is one of Canada’s greatest artists, and if she were American she’d be one of America’s greatest. Perhaps I should say, “one of North America’s greatest artists.”
I always loved this song and this version in particular...and after listening to live versions I realized it was the background singers in this version that makes it so much better.
I recently watched the Dylan rolling thunder revue doc. on Netflix cuz I attended one of the concerts in ‘75. In the documentary Joni does this song in a jam with Dylan and the other musicians backstage, I guess they were practicing.
I lived for a month in Matala ...summer of 1975 and visited the Mermaid restaurant. This song takes me back there immediately and brings back so many happy memories of the wonderful care free days I have stayed friends with an Aussie i met on the beach at matala and was lucky enough to attend hid daughters wedding in Melbourne recently Dave from New Zealand
I first got turned on to Joni, in 1975 , first with listening to Court and Spark, and the next year Hejira, with my man Jaco on bass! Then fell in love with Blue later! I think these three albums are her quentissential best! I think she,s the best writer out of the men and women period!!😊😊
Listening this song right now beneath the Matala sun and imagine I was there back in the days even if I was not even born yet ! This place is so charming and mysterious !
My mom and I absolutly love this song so much, I play it on rainy days and when I'm dreaming of the beach. It breaks my heart her songs aren't on spotify anymore, I was really hoping they would go back on before the summer. I love this song and miss it so much.
I was fascinated by this song even though i was too young to get it or know who Joni even was. The reason is because I spent summers in beach communities and my mom would play 'BLUE' on her 8-Track and say to me 'she's right' about 'Beach Tar' you have it all over your feet everyday
I'm from Scotland but for three years during my teens I lived in Italy and I can say when the "wind is in from Africa" you definitely can not sleep it is so hot.
Let’s have a round for Stephen Stills- instantly recognizable in this era of music, both in his guitar playing, Bass playing, and guitar-knocking percussion
Truly a unique voice and ability to fit complex phrases into the music. I wonder if she had to frequently change time signatures in order to accommodate them? But I’d rather just listen and enjoy rather than do the technical analysis. It’s like watching a great magic trick. Knowing how the magician does it can take away from the experience.
Cary Raditz - The Inspiration For Joni Mitchell's 'Carey' Talks MUSIC NEWS The Inspiration For Joni Mitchell's 'Carey' Talks by NPR Staff All Things Considered “Just who is that Mean Old Daddy”? This song may take you back a ways - say, about 50 years. That's Joni Mitchell, back when her voice was high and light. It's "a helium voice," as she describes it in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition. Mitchell just released a box set - a retrospective of her decades-long career - called Love Has Many Faces. Now 77, Mitchell was in her 20s when she wrote "Carey" for her 1971 album Blue. Since then, fans have often wondered what it's about. Who is "Carey"? A friend of Mitchell's? A muse? Is he even real? He is. Cary Raditz (spelling was never Joni’s forte) is a 75-year-old investment analyst who lives in the Washington, D.C., area. Back in his 20s, he was living in Matala, a little village on the island of Crete, which is where he met and befriended the singer-songwriter - though he didn't like her at first. "I resented her, because a lot of my friends were turning into absolute fools and fawning over Joni Mitchell," Raditz says. "So she was disturbing the tranquility of this little place." The two had their first run-in at the Delphini, the "taverna" where Raditz worked. He was serving tables and she was a customer. "She picked up all her trash from the table, a handful of it, and came over to me," Raditz says. "She cleaned her table! And I just looked at it - and, you know, there are shards of broken glass and plates on the floor from [a party] last night. I just took it and threw it on the floor. ... She caught me in a weak moment, and then we became friends after that." Joni Mitchell, pictured here in 1970, wrote the song "Carey" while living in Matala, Crete. Mitchell gave Raditz the song as a present on his 24th birthday. "It was a goodbye song," he says. "There was a little bit of a sadness about that. But she was always leaving, and she'd change her mind, and we'd find something else to do or go traveling." How does Raditz hear the song now? "Like all poetry, it tends to grow within you. And it tends to take on your own personal meanings and shadings and tones, and other memories that become associated with it."
The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey But it's really not my home My fingernails are filthy I've got beach tar on my feet And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver) Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you fine Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe And I will buy you a bottle of wine And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and Smash our empty glasses down Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine Let's have another round for the bright red devil, who Keeps me in this tourist town Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver) Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you I like you, I like you, I like you Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam Or maybe I'll go to Rome And rent me a grand piano and put some flowers 'round my room But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now The night is a starry dome And they're playin' that scratchy rock and roll Beneath the Matala Moon Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver) You're a mean old Daddy, but I like you The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldn't sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, but it's Really not my home Maybe it's been too long a time since I was Scramblin' down in the street Now they got me used to that clean white linen and that Fancy French cologne Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane) I'll put on my finest silver (I'll put on some silver) We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe, have fun tonight I said, oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but you're out of sight Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Joni Mitchell
Not everything is sad or blue or profound, there are times in life when someone just like you, maybe like me get out of bed after a lovely sleep, come out of a dark room, start a coffee, feed the furry friends, enjoy a fresh one, fire up Utube and snuggle into your favourite Mitchell song and f#@k the 🌎 Love ya J. 🦞🇨🇦
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when I first heard this album, this song, I was a 15 year old homeless kid (1975) who ended up at the beach living with a bunch of construction workers (who were told to keep their hands off!)- they had a total of three albums I liked (loved!) one of which was Joni Mitchell's Blue and this song in particular was wonderfully relatable. I would sit in the surf with my knees pulled up to my chest in the hours between midnight and sunrise and... with this song running round and round my brain... it was simply magical, it just was
thats magical, jennifer.
That was beautiful
Wow. Where are u now?
@@ijustquitmyjob WHOA! I didn't imagine a response!
Lovely, it's a beautiful song.
My wife keeps it solidly on the playlist, and for good reason.
This song makes me nostalgic for things I’ve never even experienced.
So true
Imagination is a wonderful thing !
same
That is the power of Joni
I cried
This song has resonated in my heart since the first time I heard it.
RIGHT ON.
Me too.
Same!
so real
Happy 50th anniversary to one of the greatest albums of all time
Indeed.
Damn Straight
Yes...Extraordinary work.....By a stellar artist
best folk album of all time
Definitively
Carey by Joni Mitchell♡
The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldn't sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey
But it's really not my home
My fingernails are filthy
I've got beach tar on my feet
And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne
Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver)
Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you fine
Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe
And I will buy you a bottle of wine
And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and
Smash our empty glasses down
Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers
A round for these friends of mine
Let's have another round for the bright red devil, who
Keeps me in this tourist town
Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver)
Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you
I like you, I like you, I like you
Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam
Or maybe I'll go to Rome
And rent me a grand piano and put some flowers 'round my room
But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now
The night is a starry dome
And they're playin' that scratchy rock and roll
Beneath the Matala Moon
Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver)
You're a mean old Daddy, but I like you
The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldn't sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, but it's
Really not my home
Maybe it's been too long a time since I was
Scramblin' down in the street
Now they got me used to that clean white linen and that
Fancy French cologne
Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
I'll put on my finest silver (I'll put on some silver)
We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe, have fun tonight
I said, oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but you're out of sight
Hi Luci hope you’re okay?
And q
One of my favourite songs of all time
Me too
The back story to this song is worthy of a two hour movie. I wish I had the time to write the script.
@@murraywestenskow2896 I love this song but don't know the story behind it. She definitely led an interesting life. Was it about anyone? Who was this "mean old daddy"?
@@JeanetteFaith en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey_(song)
I guess I'm kinda off topic but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released movies online?
I am on my way to Matala and will drink a glass to Joni and ghosts of my youth as a happy hippie teen. I hitched from UK to Greece aged fifteen and starry eyed but fetched up in Parga. Now Im in Crete for a couple of much tamer weeks in this far tamer era, that digitally remastered one of today. At least the sea remains the same.
I'm impressed. how did you get funds on the way? I'm a bit older but I'd like to emulate you in the basics
was in Matala 4 days ago! Enjoy time!
I danced manty a night at the Mermaid Cafe during my 6 month stay, living in a cave, in Matala. I was there the year before Joni but I immediately recognized Southern Crete when I first heard this wonderful song. And yes, we could often smell the scents of Africa on the evening winds. Wonder filled days!
What a great comment. You can take for granted the kind of life that Joni breaths into a song. You kind of enhanced that. I appreciate you taking the time to share it.
@@rakitoon
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Gschichtn aus'm Paulanergarten wate hier erzählen tust ☝️
My dad was a working class lad from UK, near Birmingham. He travelled to India via, Turkey, Afghanistan. If you get a chance check out Terrence Mckenna. Amazing story of him living on dope in this kind of cave. He relates how he was dreaming of food, of all kinds of food that he liked. He says how he saw this figure slowly approaching in the far distance, in the haze. The person turned out to be a chef who had quit his job that day and brought all kinds of amazing food. Reminds me of this song somehow of JM.
@@simeonbanner6204McKenna never did ‘dope’. He’s an ethnobotanist and understands the power in plants and fungi. He was using medicine…not ‘dope’. Not everyone who uses cannabis, mushrooms, coca leaves, herbs, and other natural hallucinogenic substances including peyote is a ‘dope’ head!
Peerless singer, poet and musician, love Joni and her unique take on the world !
YES...
Joni is So INCREDIBLE and inspires So Many Singer Songwriters with SPECIAL Connections to those from Canada and smaller communities...
Thank you for considering my views, too.
love your choice of words a voice from heaven
This is one of my favorite songs, mostly for the lyric 'the wind is in from Africa'.
Me too! It's the sirocco winds blowing north from Africa into the Mediterranean :)
Beach tar on your feet?
When my family moved across the country, we took the train and my sister had a portable record player and played this LP for 4 straight days. After some 50 years, I still remember every single word from every song on the album, lol! Joni is so gifted.
That’s right!
I owned this album back in the seventies. This is the song I loved to sing along with. My fave❤😊. I'm now 69 and still do lovin this one.😊
78 and doing the same, watched her perform it in Toronto...She is always great.
My mom put me on to Joni Mitchell years ago and I am forever grateful! Thankful to have parents with good taste 😊
I still get chills every time I hear this song; her voice, pronunciation and lilt are captivating; distracts me from whatever i'm doing... who else says 'cologne' so perfectly . ))
Listening to this several times over here in Matala Crete, having arrived lat night, 50 years after Joni did. Looking forward to the ‘beach tar on my feet’ and hearing the ‘scratchy rock and roll beneath the Matala moon’.
One of my all time favorite albums
One of the greatest songwriters of the last 50 years.
Longer than 50 years ago! My how time flys she was writing and performing in '65.
Joni Mitchell and Tom Waits were truly story tellers through their music. Love Joni so much!!!
Listen to Chris Rea ....similar and equally as exciting
Joni is one of the voices of my youth. Blue, one of the first albums I ever bought with my own money. Still have it in my collection and play it on the regular!
I'm all chocked up after seeing her tribute at the "Kennedy Center Honors"... I have been listening to "Blue" for so long and never tire of it- such a deserving and fantastic artist in every way!
Listening to BLUE, the album, for the first time since I don't know when, and it sounds better than ever. 50 years is nothing anymore.
One of my favourite Joni songs 😢 so good
This song is a masterpiece. ♥️
Joni Mitchell, it's awesome to hear from you again. Still sounding like you have always been around my heart.
@@designstudio8013 Richard meant... in his heart...
Did you see her for the last time in Detroit in 1968?
What a year that was, eh?
Joni is simply superb. I love her voice.
Loved her from the beginning. Thank you Joni so much. Helped define my youth.
In 79... I was in Galina....about 8 miles by sea from Matala. It was a magic place and time.
This album has gotten me through so many life moments. Thank you Joni. I love you.
it makes my cry tears of joy!
Same thing just happened to me 5 minutes ago. Joni hits such a nerve.
Yes, this song is one of the lovliest things in the world
Joni Mitchell always sounded sooo wonderful ever since I heard her for the first time.
And after all these years she still does!
God be blessed for giving us her.
Love Jonni!!
Her voice, her words, she makes my spirit fly to the most unreachable limits. ❤
Love this song! Joni is one of a kind.
I have seen Joni in concert at the ski resort not far from where I grew up half of the year. Also, Richie Havens played also right after Joni. They were both great in concert and a lot of fun to see with only under 70 people there. Nice to be so friendly in the early or mid 80s in such a small place. I liked their music and them both right away. I consider myself very lucky to have been in a small place seeing them. One would say its a one of chance in a lifetime to see them up so close in a such a small beautiful place. I really am happy to have seen them in that period of our lives.
Very lucky Joni's a ICON!
Special memories
That must've been a great combination of Havens and Joni Mitchell. Both were brilliant artists at a unique time in history. So much great music to keep us dancing!
My goodness was raised on the Blue Album.❤
I've always loved this song. I love the girl backing singers, who are apparently Joni herself! Also the bongos . Perfect economic and pared down.
Blue was an amazing release.
One of my faves.
How brilliant this song is from a brilliant artist. Genius!
Wow-I used to listen to this decades ago-seems like an eternity
So grateful for RUclips so I can listen to this beautiful masterpiece
Me too!
I love the way the second verse starts before the refrain is over, as though it's completely normal to start a verse in the middle of your sentence. The whole second verse is slightly off-center, and she's singing it so fluently that it can take you a long time to figure out why it sounds unsettling. There are dozens of marvels in this song and that's just one.
this will forever by my favourite joni song 😍
A wonderful song off a brilliant album. Joni is one of Canada’s greatest artists, and if she were American she’d be one of America’s greatest. Perhaps I should say, “one of North America’s greatest artists.”
We danced to this in 1984 under a blanker of Greek stars in Paleohora, Crete. Memories....
That is sooo cool!! I was born in 1989. Found this song last month. Totally addicted to it.
What an amazing voice. I love Joni Mitchell and I love all her songs.
I always loved this song and this version in particular...and after listening to live versions I realized it was the background singers in this version that makes it so much better.
The "background singers" are dubs of Joni herself!
There are sun, wind, space, freedom and the whole World in this song combined....
a magical album
I recently watched the Dylan rolling thunder revue doc. on Netflix cuz I attended one of the concerts in ‘75. In the documentary Joni does this song in a jam with Dylan and the other musicians backstage, I guess they were practicing.
"Coyote"...it was incredible..
I have listened to this track many times over the last 45 years or so but now is the very first time I have really heard it ..... Thank you.
Absolutely adore this song, whose words capture some sort of Mediterranean holiday romance. I like the girl backing singers as well; they add so much.
The background singers are Joni. She overdubbed vocals
@@SuperC888 Thanks for the info.
I lived for a month in Matala ...summer of 1975 and visited the Mermaid restaurant.
This song takes me back there immediately and brings back so many happy memories of the wonderful care free days
I have stayed friends with an Aussie i met on the beach at matala and was lucky enough to attend hid daughters wedding in Melbourne recently
Dave from New Zealand
oh yes us also! peace and love! Matala et ses grottes où on pouvait dormir!
@@nicolejuillard6170 c"est vrai Nicole
Toi aussi
Ladies & Gentlemen........Magic!!!!
Maybe I'll go to Spain 😂
I first got turned on to Joni, in 1975 , first with listening to Court and Spark, and the next year Hejira, with my man Jaco on bass! Then fell in love with Blue later! I think these three albums are her quentissential best! I think she,s the best writer out of the men and women period!!😊😊
Listening this song right now beneath the Matala sun and imagine I was there back in the days even if I was not even born yet ! This place is so charming and mysterious !
My favorite song by her and don't forget the dulcimer.
Classic doesn't even begin to describe this song or album
Timeless beautiful song
My mom and I absolutly love this song so much, I play it on rainy days and when I'm dreaming of the beach. It breaks my heart her songs aren't on spotify anymore, I was really hoping they would go back on before the summer. I love this song and miss it so much.
My favorite ❤🥂
My all time favourite of Ms Mitchell.
Been to Matala several times and you can still have a drink at the Mermaid Cafe (or the contemporary version on the old site)
Beautiful Miss Mitchell ... ❤ absolutely
It makes me smile ❤❤❤❤
Me too 😀
wonderful song story of a carefree life well lived
evocative of a free spirit
Brilliant!! unmatched talent, proud Canadian.
Me too! Along with Neil Young,Leonard Cohen,Gordie Lightfoot,etc,etc etc!
Always fabulous
I was fascinated by this song even though i was too young to get it or know who Joni even was. The reason is because I spent summers in beach communities and my mom would play 'BLUE' on her 8-Track and say to me 'she's right' about 'Beach Tar' you have it all over your feet everyday
Why I love you tube can find any awesome song thank you you tube
Hi Helen hope you’re okay?
I cry for the time that's gone by since then. Went by way too fast..
Don’t cry kiddo, “just look at them and sigh!
I love this so much!!!!
I'm from Scotland but for three years during my teens I lived in Italy and I can say when the "wind is in from Africa" you definitely can not sleep it is so hot.
The night is a starry dome 😂😂❤❤❤❤❤😊
This makes me happy.
Let’s have a round for Stephen Stills- instantly recognizable in this era of music, both in his guitar playing, Bass playing, and guitar-knocking percussion
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
This really reminds me of my darling Grandmother.
Always in my heart
Truly a unique voice and ability to fit complex phrases into the music. I wonder if she had to frequently change time signatures in order to accommodate them? But I’d rather just listen and enjoy rather than do the technical analysis. It’s like watching a great magic trick. Knowing how the magician does it can take away from the experience.
Great song and amazing singer!
Unrestrained joy of the Life Force- Thank you
Great singer
Does anybody here like Joni Mitchell?
Jack Brown her older songs before Blue
Blues a masterpiece though
ValleyMusicStore
Poll
Of course.
No.
Absolutely LOVE her and her songs.
This equals 'Night in the city' for me as her finest 'swingers'. Who can make a simple tune move like Joni Mitchell?
Crazy, I was living on the beach in Greece , when I heard this song.
takes me back
so beautiful
Always joni
Cool song..love u jonni
Made immortal in Sweden by the country's National Poet Ulf Lundell. First song on first side on a Classic 2LP ...
Fabulous song she is great. X
The great Stephen Stills playing bass on this track.
Cary Raditz - The Inspiration For Joni Mitchell's 'Carey' Talks
MUSIC NEWS
The Inspiration For Joni Mitchell's 'Carey' Talks
by NPR Staff All Things Considered “Just who is that Mean Old Daddy”?
This song may take you back a ways - say, about 50 years.
That's Joni Mitchell, back when her voice was high and light. It's "a helium voice," as she describes it in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition.
Mitchell just released a box set - a retrospective of her decades-long career - called Love Has Many Faces. Now 77, Mitchell was in her 20s when she wrote "Carey" for her 1971 album Blue. Since then, fans have often wondered what it's about. Who is "Carey"? A friend of Mitchell's? A muse? Is he even real?
He is.
Cary Raditz (spelling was never Joni’s forte) is a 75-year-old investment analyst who lives in the Washington, D.C., area. Back in his 20s, he was living in Matala, a little village on the island of Crete, which is where he met and befriended the singer-songwriter - though he didn't like her at first.
"I resented her, because a lot of my friends were turning into absolute fools and fawning over Joni Mitchell," Raditz says. "So she was disturbing the tranquility of this little place."
The two had their first run-in at the Delphini, the "taverna" where Raditz worked. He was serving tables and she was a customer.
"She picked up all her trash from the table, a handful of it, and came over to me," Raditz says. "She cleaned her table! And I just looked at it - and, you know, there are shards of broken glass and plates on the floor from [a party] last night. I just took it and threw it on the floor. ... She caught me in a weak moment, and then we became friends after that."
Joni Mitchell, pictured here in 1970, wrote the song "Carey" while living in Matala, Crete.
Mitchell gave Raditz the song as a present on his 24th birthday.
"It was a goodbye song," he says. "There was a little bit of a sadness about that. But she was always leaving, and she'd change her mind, and we'd find something else to do or go traveling."
How does Raditz hear the song now?
"Like all poetry, it tends to grow within you. And it tends to take on your own personal meanings and shadings and tones, and other memories that become associated with it."
Hi Cher hope you’re okay?
My sister used to,sing this at family reunions
I JUST LOVE THAT GIRL!!!
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The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldn't sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey
But it's really not my home
My fingernails are filthy
I've got beach tar on my feet
And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne
Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver)
Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you fine
Come on down to the Mermaid Cafe
And I will buy you a bottle of wine
And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and
Smash our empty glasses down
Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers
A round for these friends of mine
Let's have another round for the bright red devil, who
Keeps me in this tourist town
Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver)
Oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you
I like you, I like you, I like you
Maybe I'll go to Amsterdam
Or maybe I'll go to Rome
And rent me a grand piano and put some flowers 'round my room
But let's not talk about fare-thee-wells now
The night is a starry dome
And they're playin' that scratchy rock and roll
Beneath the Matala Moon
Come on, Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
And I'll put on some silver (I'll put on some silver)
You're a mean old Daddy, but I like you
The wind is in from Africa
Last night I couldn't sleep
Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, but it's
Really not my home
Maybe it's been too long a time since I was
Scramblin' down in the street
Now they got me used to that clean white linen and that
Fancy French cologne
Oh Carey, get out your cane (Carey, get out your cane)
I'll put on my finest silver (I'll put on some silver)
We'll go to the Mermaid Cafe, have fun tonight
I said, oh, you're a mean old Daddy, but you're out of sight
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Joni Mitchell
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE CARY.
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STILL ASTOUNDING!
This is the best!!! Thanx...💚
Not everything is sad or blue or profound, there are times in life when someone just like you, maybe like me get out of bed after a lovely sleep, come out of a dark room, start a coffee, feed the furry friends, enjoy a fresh one, fire up Utube and snuggle into your favourite Mitchell song and f#@k the 🌎 Love ya J. 🦞🇨🇦