Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (rare live performance 1969)
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2023
- Both Sides Now was Joni Mitchell's launchpad for a once-in-a-lifetime talent, first recorded by Judy Collins in 1967. By 1969 Joni Mitchell, originally from Canada, was establishing herself as one of the flagship artists of her generation. This rare and moving solo performance from 1969 has Joni singing her timeless classic, a song covered by many of the greatest artists in the world.
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I bet she didn't think she'd be singing this song 55 years later at the Grammys! And winning!! She is priceless!❤
Sweet!
She didn't even know Blue was coming in 1971 !
How would she????
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If you can call it singing.
No auto tune, no Botox, no cosmetic surgery, no dermal fillers, no hair dye … can we please go back?
Hey Nature G , Why would she have had any botox or fillers at that age anyway ? Daft comment ..
Nature G is right, I completely agree! Joni was (and is) a beauty but gave importance to her art, so was and is all the more beautiful for that.
No sexy, revealing costumes , neither
no tats don't forget that
If only, if only...
Her appearance on the Grammys last night got me a little misty-eyed. I was not expecting to have that reaction.
same here, it was beautiful ❤
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.. might be 1 of the 10 best lines of any song... EVER!!
Yeah. I guess you could say that everyday, you're one day nearer to your grave !
I doubt that any of us realized how lucky - or blessed - we’ve been to be around when Joni Mitchell was on this planet.
She still is on this planet..
She sang my life as a freshly minted college grad in 1969. And as I step -into the first days of my 79th birthday, she sings it again - unapologetic cracks and all. Thank you, Joni
Wow friend, on the same boat! I should have grad spring 69 but had to do one extra term to collect the... 183 credits? So got out Jan 1970 had just got married & 1st kid June ,1970 Whoops & off we GO!!🙃
Same here!
Amazing. Just had my 79th birthday too. In 1969 I was living in Spain, having gone to college there. Her music reached that fascist country, with Franco still in power. Music from the US and the UK was a powerful influence with young people in Spain
I was sixteen in 1969. Her songs and others made me. We still have to be the force we were, again today. Peace.
What a great song and performance I’m 71 remember this well
This is why we think music made now sucks...it was so good back then...unbelievable
We age but this song never gets old. Joni is 80 now and I'm 64. I was 9 years old when Joni first sang it. Beautifully written and Joni's voice is pitch perfect. I thought it was so appropriate she started with the 2nd verse at "tears and fears" and then recovered beautifully because that's life - we make mistakes but its how we deal with them that defines us.
Well said!
Interesting darlinks
@2:48, well caught❣️
If u like this give Kate Wolf a listen.
She is a beautiful human, no doubt ♥️
She has no equal. Her impact and gift to the world is forever.
Maybe Joan Armatrading is her equal
Eat your heart out Taylor Swift. This is a real songwriter.
But I think Judy Collins is much prettier.
And sings this song better@@reynaldoflores4522
I love that she got the verse wrong and corrected herself with a little smile😊😊😊❤😂
That's a live performance , not lip synch.
Besides, she wrote that song. She had every right to make improvisations.
Sometimes you watch or see something in the world and it makes you realize that we aren’t just products of random mutations.
She turned 26 that year, and now (2023) she's almost 80. How time flies. Nice upload.
Did that young woman of 26 know what she was singing about? "Old friends say I am acting strange" ---- what does she mean by "old friend" ?---- it is as if the young 26 year old was trying too hard to be older.
And yet, somehow, as incredible as it seems, I believe that even then, she knew that you can look at both sides, from "up and down" and still, only see life's illusions..........
There are videos of her singing this at 80 ish at Newport folk festival.
she changed a lot of the melody at the grammys but boy did she moved us with that performance.
Pure. Clear. Clean. As she did for so many of us, Joni wrote the songs for my life. Thank you, my dear.
Wow- just wow. I also was born in 1960, so had the blessing to grow up with some of the best music in our history, starting with the Beatles. I did not realize until my teens what a great story teller Joni was in her songs, my loss. Her songs never get old, and it was a blessing that she could make it to the Grammys.
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Revisiting after Grammys 2024. What an icon. Could she ever had imagine the impact that this song would have on us all still decades later. Sobbed during 2024 Newport Folk festival performance.
Just Joni and her guitar. Her voice and her unique way of playing just mesmerizing 😊😎🥂😉
So loud and powerful from a voice and guitar, truly amazing
annoying song
Just came over here after watching her peform it at the Grammys in her now-contralto whisky voice and jazz-tinged phrasing. I fell in love with her music -- starting with this very song -- in 1969 as a sixth-grader, and she was my musical idol and role model for many years. This woman is timeless! Love you, Joni!
My eighth grade teacher played songs from her albums to our class to encourage creative writing. Blue, Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns. I was already in love with words, she made me fall in love with music too. Imagine being 12 and listening to Don't Interrupt the Sorrow. "I've got a head full of quandary and a mighty, mighty thirst." Brilliant.
I was a teen in 1969. Those years of the 60's early 70's were amazing the closeness we all felt to each other of our generation..the peace and love we really truly felt. And the main thing we worried about was how awful it was going to be to turn 30 ...lol... like we would turn into a copy of our parents.. well friends we that made it through those years , what a time we were blessed to live in . Love you Joni.
Right! Even our commercials were loving and kind. "I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company..." Miss those years too. So glad to see Joni alive and well, she is truly a treasure.
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You are so right. I am so thankful I was young in that magical decade.
Sadly you all got to have a fabulous time in your twenties and then had it made economically all the way through and voted more and more selfishly. Now young people have the same dreams, ideals and aspirations you had but they cannot persue them because they are hamstrung by an economy and government policies that only benefit your boomer generation. Instead of helping them, you just demand higher yields on your real estate investments and portfolio and tell the young to stop eating avocado toast. The hippie generation, the boomers, that I used to believe in, has turned rotten in old age.
She's a true legend. Then and now
One of the greatest artists of my life- so grateful to be blessed with her artistry. Her voice is perfect, her lyrics even more so ❤️
A poet of the highest quality.
I love the way she recovered from the false start to verse 3. A true professional. Amazing talent!!
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
Thank you!👍
Thanks for sharing❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She has a beautiful voice. I love Joni Mitchell.
I sang it for a high school talent contest. She did it better but I at least had the nerve to get up and try. I still love it.
is hard song to sing darlinks
Absolutely one of the best songs ever written!
Yes, one of her best songs -- but you know, I've been tired of hearing it for a half-century now. This song was like an anthem, but anthems don't make great music. I much preferred her more emotional work.
Everyone is free to prefer what they wish. @@calebmurdock2028
A true artist. So beautiful.
I was in Vietnam in 1969 and remember so clearly this song
God bless you, man.
This song lives in your soul. Happily.
Lately I've been thinking how much I miss
This is just beautiful ❤
Her Voice . Is - Surely Worth Remembering . . .
It's funny how a song can unbox a plethora of childhood memories. A beautiful song from a different time in my life. 1969. I was 7
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Youve looked at life from both sides now
How beautiful.She was amazing.Brings back so many memories.❤
Remember seeing her at the Greek. I was probably 16 or 17. It was nightfall and she opened with her first song. Just then a Russian space vehicle re-entered the atmosphere. It fragmented and those fragments refragmented. They left very thick arcing persistent con-trails over half the Los Angeles sky. I have never seen anything like that again. Joni made an appropriate comment implying it was somehow a celebration of her evening of performance. It was an unusual happening on a warm summer night. Joni was magnificent.
She is a pure "gem of genius"!!!
This is a joy to see. Brings me back to those days, a very happy time in my life. Indeed, nothing lasts for long.
Of her recorded performances of this song, I think this one is the best. She sings it in a more natural way than she did even on the studio album. I love the way she begins to repeat the "moons and Junes" stanza and the audience cues her to her mistake, and she immediately switches to the correct stanza.
When she sang this song in the 1990's, she sang it in a stylized and jazzy manner without the nuanced emotions.
This period of time, when Joni was still very young, still very beautiful, and -- most importantly -- still singing with emotional nuance, is when she was the most perfect. At this point -- 1969 -- she still had her full upper register intact. She also had her best work ahead of her -- Blue (1971), For the Roses (1972), Court & Spark (1974), and Hejira (1976).
I miss the early Joni. Such a beautiful voice.
This song brings back childhood memories, I was 5 when it was released and I imagine that my mom_who passed away in 2019_ used to listen to the song, since it brings me to tears every time I hear it,,,,,thank you Joni...beautiful
I saw her sing this and other songs in that same long green dress back in 1968 in my school gym. Third-row front seats for a $1.50. My tongue fell out of my mouth she was so awesome and bewitching. I melted right there. She was playing as the second act for Tim Hardin who was so stoned that Joni had to come out and help him get on with it. The school audience was mean to him and Joni disliked us for that treatment. I saw her really care for him again in Central Park. Followed her all over NY to every concert. Glad I found her then. What an awesome performer and poet.
Some lyrics and some songs are ageless..they endure as with this incredible woman.A great Canadian.A masterful poet such a sweet voice and an incredible command of putting it down.I watched the audience at the Grammys and they were mesmerized❤
joni...a very special woman, thanks joni
I bought all her cd's... In my honest opinion "Blue" is and always will be the best...
Talent personified...
I put Court and Spark as a close tie to Blue.
I'm from Saskatoon and I remember we would sing this song during Friday assembly. Love it! Takes me back to the easy sunny days of 4th grade. What an amazing performer, and now I get to listen to my son Colton and his band The Dead South. Another fantastic Saskatchewan artist.
The great iconic Joni Mitchell ❤
Gifted. Extraordinary. She hasn't been matched over the last 50 years.
Definitely one of the best musicians of this generation!
Her music over the years has inspired and amazed. Her use of alternative tuning and insightful lyrics have brought tears and joy. Joni has been a light. In the life of those from the 60’s on and those who are younger but have found her music can only count themselves as blessed.
She was the Muse to so many artists who went on to become the greats of the 60s!
A joy to behold.
She sang this to me when I was 5
This song is timeless in its breath and scope. I cried through her entire performance at the Grammys.
Just think she is from canada.just beautiful.🇨🇦🇨🇦
A great childhood radio record that has lasted the test of time.
I am 67, and I don't know love at all, my time is nearly up,,,
There are some awesome hooks in that song,and they still work.
Joni was so ahead of her time with Both Sides Now, and really everything she did. Women weren't writing their vulnerabilities then or yet. Try and find one before her. You won't. The execs didn't like it, but the world welcomed it in their hearts where it remains today.
Many great artists today, even though it's few bc music isn't all that great these days, like Brandi Carlile, you can so hear Joni's influence in everything they do.
This is true, but it's a superficial take on her impact. She stands out not only because she "wrote her vulnerabilities", but because her music was immensely original and emotionally evocative. A woman could have "written her vulnerabilities" as much as you like, but without Joni's first handedness and musical/emotional expressiveness it wouldn't have amounted to anything.
I was there. Yes we did love it. Try and make yourself look nobel someplace far away..@@AndSendMe
One of my favourite songs, I'm very glad I heard it when it was first released in 1969.
My gosh that was so beautiful.
Joni is true, rare talent, something we have little of today, which is why no matter how old you are (or she is), you have to respect this woman. She is a poet who can write music.
She was one of the most significant musicians to emerge in that wonderfully creative decade of the 60's. Her lyrics are pure poetry and she went on to create arguably two of the greatest albums ever in the 1970s...Court and Spark and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. There was so much depth and intelligence to all her work though.
The Best ever for her, years of enjoyment of her songs, amazing person.
Her voice was like expensive white wine, clear, flowing and a bit sweet. I was lucky enough to hear her live in 1970 at the concert in Vancouver that helped get Greenpeace going- and this is probably the best Canadian song, both music and lyrics, ever - definitely my favourite.
She has "staying power" as I would put it. Thank you Joni Mitchell for your contribution to my life.
1967, Joni playing in a small coffee house in Ann Arbor, before she was a "name," her dress brushed my hand as she walked up to the stage.
You said it ALL !❤
@@Elenihellas963 You understand. Everything.
God has blessed us all with her and her music. ❤
Clouds, Blue, Ladies of the Canyon - if you're what the French call "Of a certain age" you had them in your record collection when you were skinny and had all your (long) hair and thought life was forever. Now a song like this comes on Sirius and you pull the car over as there's something in your eyes thinking of friends and loves long ago.
Film camera and audio deserves credit or we wouldn’t have this…..at all. …Now it’s surely in the cloud
Mitchell, Dylan and Cohen... three of the best singer-songwriters of that era!
My God! It's all so true. Love this song. Might choose to be played at my funeral/ celebration of life
.too many great 60s 70s I love
Since I'm a jacqie Ozark mtn daredevils " Jackie blue" for sure! At 64 you consider these things
.have lost all five of my siblings now. It weighs on a person..life is too short! Rejoice in the day God has given. 😊
Cast my mind back then, Lord.
Special performance at Grammys
I've never seen this one before! Bravo!
One of the greatest singer/songwriters to have ever graced us with her presence. Royalty!
Arguably her BEST song, ever. The utterly clear and lovely lyrics, and Joni's signature sound... wow.
Thanks so much for sharing
Pristine, light of lights, loves of love! Thank you Joni for every gift.
It amazes me how she can pour everything she's got into every song. Also amazes me how indifferent and rude the audience was. I've never seen her walk off the stage mid-song before. Good video.
remember , they paved paradise and put up a parking lot............ another good one
Assisti ao Grammy 2024, e ela hipinotizou a plateia com essa música. Ela é maravilhosa não importa a idade ou o tempo.❤
Such a beautiful song and performance ❤️
I was 3 years old then. I literally grew up with this song. It’s still so beautiful.
What a beautiful life she's had. She had it all and gave it back to everyone.
Spectacular & I was only 2 🥹😉😘
very rare ability,, never replicated darlinks
Love this song 🎵
Angelic!
She was and still is so so wonderful ❤❤❤
Tunesmiths share their soul with everyone. Not for recognition but to share.
Oh my.. what a gift to us all. Thank you Joni.❤❤❤
I loved the fact that she was always humble, the girl next door. Love her music.
How does this not have more looks? 🤷
I am going to bed now so happy I received the gift of that live version from so many years ago. I now remember why we all fell in love with Joni. I can’t wait to grab my daughter (18) in the morning and play it for her. My real true gift to her to share the song, the performance and of course Joni
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Classic timeless live masterpiece a special moment in time for many of us. I think she repeated the first line of the second chorus mistakenly but just went right into the third chorus seamlessly live, I don't think most of the crowd even knew it.
High guality video! Thank you for this! Beautiful music!
very moving listening to it once again
This song is exhausting.
thanks
Fantastica!! Grazie, Joni!
great talent !!!!!
This is magic ...