"Urge for Going" by Joni Mitchell, but I like Tom Rush's version.
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Most Beautiful Songs - 1960 - 1979
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Disco Duck, the long version.
PS: If you agree with me you should probably be the first person on my ignore list.
Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots ~ Disco Duck 1976 Disco Purrfection Version
The short version just doesn't have the same passionate vibe that touches the very soul. It's almost spiritual. The most lovely and haunting song I have every heardPS: If you agree with me you should probably be the first person on my ignore list.
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Stu Nunnery sounds a lot like Elton John.I don't believe I've seen this go by. James Taylor's life got off to a pretty rough start (he's come, and gone, a long, long way) but he's written and performed a passel of wonderful songs -- yes, many qualifying for the "B word"So... here's my favorite song by JT, and beautiful it is.
Now, I won't go as far as to say that all beautiful songs are in 3/4 time, or vice versa -- but there's a strong correlation.
Sweet Baby James
The song's titular James was his infant nephew, by the way.
Paul Simon & beautiful, eh?
I really, really like this one -- another of his America songs.
probably my favorite Simon & Garfunkel song.
Yes did a fine, fun cover in the early 1970s -- but I don't think it quite qualifies as beautiful.
ahem -- and, finally (for now at least)
Here's one from deep left field.
Stu Nunnery, Madeleine
I love this song.
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This is, like, 50 shades of wrong.Disco Duck, the long version.
Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots ~ Disco Duck 1976 Disco Purrfection Version
The short version just doesn't have the same passionate vibe that touches the very soul. It's almost spiritual. The most lovely and haunting song I have every heard
PS: If you agree with me you should probably be the first person on my ignore list.
Gisela May was mostly known as a Brecht interpreter ...
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I hadn't thought about that! I must take that under advisement.
The piano riff that opens Madelaine* always makes me think of the theme song for the old US sitcom Cheers.
ahem -- not to be that guy
but we did those early on. On topic, though... songs like Urge for Going (and Both Sides Now, for that matter... Joni's near the lead of her peer group for beautiful songs!), Who Knows Where the Time Goes, and Dimming of the Day are, I'd opine, at the apex of the pantheon of beautiful rock/pop/folk songs. A cut above... all just gorgeous.
Urge for Going and Both Sides Now bookend a lovely little collection of Joni's, ahem, hits called Hits**. Speaking of being that guy, I may have posted this version of Both Sides Now days ago
-- but if I didn't (heck, even if I did), it's worthy of a rerun. Just gorgeous.* which, to my extreme chagrin, I misspelled in my original post. :facepalm
** There was a follow up album called, yes... Misses.
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Kate and Anna McGarrigle had a big career boost when Linda Ronstadt covered "Heart Like a Wheel" on her album of the same name: The original, from their first, eponymous album, 1976:
Also beautiful and from the same album, "Talk to Me of Mendicino":
Also beautiful and from the same album, "Talk to Me of Mendicino":
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So... I just heard, on NPR, that, for better or worse, Joni Mitchell's California is having a (viral) moment.
I have kind of mixed feelings about that -- but... it is a beautiful song. One of oh-so-many from Ms Roberta Joan Anderson (Mitchell).
From her Meisterwerk.
Blue.
I have kind of mixed feelings about that -- but... it is a beautiful song. One of oh-so-many from Ms Roberta Joan Anderson (Mitchell).
From her Meisterwerk.
Blue.
Back in the late 80's I say them sing Suite Judy Blue Eyes in Denver. They got applause after every phrase. At the end Crosby pointed to his arm and said "that is one of the best times we ever sang that". He had goose bumps.
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I could drink a case of that album ...... and have. Saw her at Red Rocks in Colorado 198x and it was a night to remember. She was equally magnificent and vulnerable, talking about what she once thought about love and singing Love (Corinthians II:13)So... I just heard, on NPR, that, for better or worse, Joni Mitchell's California is having a (viral) moment.
I have kind of mixed feelings about that -- but... it is a beautiful song. One of oh-so-many from Ms Roberta Joan Anderson (Mitchell).
From her Meisterwerk.
Blue.
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Since I posted California, the embargo's come off the NPR website for the content, from today's All Things Considered.
strictly FYI & FWIW
so -- here's one from deep left field (an American baseball metaphor):
Steely Dan's Any Major Dude.
The song that made me look up what a squonk was.
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strictly FYI & FWIW
so -- here's one from deep left field (an American baseball metaphor
):Steely Dan's Any Major Dude.
The song that made me look up what a squonk was.
Squonk - Wikipedia
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