Fairport Convention (Sandy Denny) - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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- As known, Sandy was very fond of Bob Dylan's songs. This cover was made in February 1974, LA Troubadour, Los Angeles, only about 7 months after the release of Dylan's records. Only 3 covers of 1973 by another musicians is in the list of covers of this song, and we can guess this is one of the first recorded cover versions of that great song, and thereafter a lot of ones were done.
Thank you Sandy. Still remembered with love and greatly appreciated for your talent. England, January, 2024.
I concur
@@rodjones9138 Thank you Sir. Appreciated.
As a young un I enjoyed this beautiful song without really putting too much thought into it. Older now and helping the love of my life battle her second stage 3 cancer fight. Puts things into perspective, and makes a grown man cry
Some songs require life's experience before they can be appreciated; this is surely one of those. Tears of understanding can cast shadows in the shape of a smile, perhaps; so the years are teaching me, like it or not. May I wish you good fortune.
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God bless you man
😢😢😢 you just hang on to her brother and be glad of the times you had together, until there is no time left, and tell her she'll be as close as your heart, until you meet again!🥀
21 April 2023, 45 years since she died. RIP beautiful singer.
The best version of this song. What a talent. Gone too soon. I love listening to
her music. Bless you Sandy. You are missed.
@Robert Lopez
The story of Sandy Denny is a sad one.
I am a big fan of Fairport Convention.
The Lady had one of the best voices in living memory. Composer. Piano,, 12 string and more. RIP Sandy Denny✨🌹
Dear sandy, you dont have to knock the door. You already living in heaven. May you Rest In Peace
Amen!!
She had a salvation testimony?
I'm not a believer, so I'll just say hey ho I'll drink to that.
taken from this world of ours tooo soon…was starting to sprout her “wings” to the world! Rest In Peace..”beautiful one”……♥️♥️♥️😥😊
And Heaven must be happier with Sandy. Greetings Gillan. ✌️
Sandy' voice is magical and if you close your eyes and really listen.....her spirit is here and all around us. She was too good for this world. God has a front row seat for her performances. I'm jealous and wish she was still here with us. I'm sure she's looking down and smiling. We miss you Sandy......there is no one better than you. God Bless!
Blair Malmer yes, this is a great recording.
Amen.
Definitely the best female singer ..ever!,,
I love Sandy too. She was thankfully an atheist.
'...thankfully an atheist' ????????????????????????????
'She was too good for this world.' That's a profound statement which I've spent a while thinking about. I will keep my thoughts private as metaphysics are perhaps not easy discussion matter within a forum.
'I wish that she was still here with us.' She is, can be, will be if you open your heart, pour out love, and truly listen. Trust in what you hear.
It’s such a cruel twist of fate that we lose the very best so young. Sandy Denny, Eva Cassidy, Janis Joplin, Kate Wolf. What a beautiful melancholy rendition of Dylan’s classic
You have named all my favourite female artists yep it sure is a cruel blow
How tastes differ! I wouldn't dream of putting Sandy Denny and Janis Joplin in the same sentence, except as a study in extremes! One had a voice in a million, and the other's best use of a microphone was as a prop on which she could lean to croak convincingly enough to have the woeful result mistaken for passion - which it so often was!
@@WeeWyllie so you don't like Sandy
My God. The others you name have done very well to be mentioned the same breath as Sandy.
Eva Cassidy is someone I heard of only because of the internet. Add Judee Sill to that list of died too young who I only know because of the internet. For male singers add Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and countless others to the list.
The greatest of female vocalists accompanied by one of the most underrated guitarists, Jerry Donahue.
Ah, the wonderful genius of guitar maestro Jerry Donahue, tragically suffering a terrible stroke some years ago.
Just watch him playing with Fairport Convention and then Fotheringay. What a talent
Jerry Donahue was not only Sandy's guitarist, but also Joan Armatrading's. I am saddened to read about his stroke.
I concur, the late Sandy Denny and Joni Mitchell my all time favourite female singer song writers
Thanks to TH-cam,I managed to time travel from India, thousands of miles away. I often listen to Sandy Denny and yes, I read about Jerry too. He was classic. Sad.. Sandy left the world before her time.
Totally agree. The voice of Sandy transforms this great song in another beautiful thing. And I loved Jerry Donahue, in Fotheringay.
RIP Sandy Denny! I was fortunate to see her with Fairport Convention at Sanders Theater, Cambridge in the early seventies. At the time she was ill and had to leave the stage during the performance. She had such an expressive voice and her song Who Knows Where The Time Goes is a classic.
Who could possibly give this a thumbs down ?? Her voice goes straight to the marrow of my bones & they want to harmonize.
I agree...
She is beautiful because we are aware of the ugly. Apreciate the stark contrast.
People with zero appreciation of music.
Sadly she knocked too early on that door herself. What an amazing voice.....beautiful.
She was innocent of her true brilliance, and craved the applause of a nearby heart. This prophetic performance is arguably her masterpiece, and she introduced voice tones not heard from her anywhere else.
First Love. My intuition makes me think she never knew how adored her talent was. Bitter sweet it came after she shed this mortal coil. A true super star unrecognized in life.
Glad so many of you ,and so recently ,, are still getting high on this . One of the highlights of my career were the concerts we did at the Sydney Opera House
@Roger Proctor Thank you for the music! 💓
it is hard to explain to people how one voice has impacted me for decades.. and one of my greatest contributions was converting a handful of college classmates to grasping the greatness of Sandy .. I played her about 30 percent of my college radio show! I got to see her perform twice in the US and her words and music remain as part of my core essence .. the fact that you were involved in her music and production and staging has me in awe ..
Roger Proctor thanks 😊
*STILL GREAT* 2020
It must have been a great responsibility for you to monitor these concerts and be on the alert for any performing irregularities.
This is without a word of doubt, the best version of this tremendously beautiful song
You are totally right. Denny is supremely inspired. The world sounds through her.
Thanks to TH-cam and the upload. Otherwise I would not know of Sandy's rendition. So good.
@@AntonioEscohotadoEspinosa She was a master at taking Dylan's songs and creating very unique and powerful interpretations, matched only by Nina Simone in her skill in my
opinion.
Edit: Actually, Bettye Lavette and Mavis Staples also posses that ability.
Listen to Antony and the Johnsons version.
@@georgemcdonald4738 Antony's version is beautiful but for me nothing tops Denny.
I didn't know her until tonight. She's got an amazing voice. This is the best version I've heard.
Superb, many thanks for posting. Surely Sandy was the Janis Joplin of the folk world; one of the most soulful singers to grace this world.
I will be brave and say: After the nightclub acoustics, recording and production of same. The wax, vinyl, tape, magnetic fluff, and however else brought into the future. Now it gets digitized, analogized, and CD, DVD, chipped & dipped, and sent to live in the clouds, I still hear the unmistakable, beautiful, amazing voice of Sandy Denny. Her sound is permanent!
Of all the countless covers, this live one is one of a kind. She infuses it with raw emotional energy and the premonition of death. She completely gets the power of this song even though it was new. When she sings "bury my guns down in the ground" she does something to it that Dylan would do later, but she did it before him. That's influence.
Heavenly voice...brings me to tears...
"Induct Fairport Convention into, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" is on Facebook and that would include Sandy Denny too.
Sandy deserves more acclaim + respect than she receives, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is total B.S. They just put Tupac in and besides being trash, his music is not rock + roll. The Rock + Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.
I know her from afar in time. I was a young adult when she passed away but never forgot her, how could I. Whenever I hear hear sing I am in between utmost joy and sadness. Tears in my eyes.
I'm a Dylan fanatic and even the great man himself holds this version by Sandy in the highest esteem . My favourite non Dylan version of this famous song by some way .
Could you give a link to where Dylan said this?
Hi ThefightingCelt! You answered the question I was musing as I listened to Sandy's great rendition, thanks! I know Bob also liked the Byrds a lot too.
My father in law just passed. Turned on YT and this showed up first.
Imagine if Sandy had of sung it along with Bob!! This is a singer singing for the sake of the song, great vocal, great feel, amazing phrasing. Cheers for the upload.
Saw her at the Fishmongers Arms in Wood Green. She asked me for change for the phone box. I couldn't speak ............ I loved this woman. A great vocalist.
Saw Pink floyd there may have seen fairport, those few years ago
Saw fairport a lot at the Country Club Belsize Park and Free
Lucky bugger!
"change for the phone box." gosh remember them days....
"the past is a foreign country they do things differently there"
This is simple perfection. Captures a real mood and feeling. In my opinion the best cover made of this song and not matched by any artist or singer in over 40 years.
I haven't heard Sandy's version of this for decades...who knows where the time goes? Just love it, sorry Bob, this is THE rendition of your famous song.
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What a beautiful lady! What a wonderful singer! What a gifted musician! This is the kind of talent we dearly miss when the artist is no longer with us.
Yes the best female singer of her generation.
without a doubt!!!!!!!!!
Of all time !
And the primary influence on maybe the best from the next generation = Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)
She was unbelievable.
@@keithbate9405 love Nat evn Aileen Wuornos likd her
I think this is the best version of this song that I have heard.
Ace-Maker e me too. Done with the vague emptiness of emotion that I loved her for. She was given a mind-blowing gift of interpretation that few stylists have.
you arent mistaken
I met her in the hallway of a gymnasium at Livingston College in NJ in 1973 during FCs US tour. On break she asked me where the lue was with a giggle. Cute as a button. Fell for her right then and there but she had to go. Never saw her perform again but have lots of her music. I’ll always remember that moment in time.
Sandy Denny could sing the ingredients off a baked bean tin and it would sound amazing.......such feeling and emotion in her voice........amazing.
I agree, having seen Sandy solo in Cambridge around this time (and of course Bob Dylan did amaze by reading the labels of canned beans in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)!
Doesn’t sound very promising for this song...
The pic of Sandy playing a 12 string made my day. I hope Heaven let you in. R.I.P. Sandy Denny.
Can't believe I'm hearing this for the first time... Thank God this was recorded. Best version of a Dylan song ever...
First time I'm hearing Sandy sing this and I agree with you. :)
Always remember her playing and singing this to me in the car….she was brilliant…yet I just never realised it at the time
Some jouno said she was plain and troubled. Troubled she surely was, but not plain by a long measure, and talented beyond measure.
vonwurzel I met her around 1968 or something. Plain, complicated and straight forward but she had something. I looked at her, she looked at me and we said good night. She was just another singer to me at the time.
She was very shy , and found being on stage very difficult in her early career. I saq Fairport Convention in the late 60s , and when they were doing a song on which she didn't sing , she sat at the back of the stage crocheting. .
Sandy Denny, like Melanie Safka, is one of those gifted singer-songwriters who have the ability to interpret other people's songs as well or better than the original artist. I liked this song casually when Dylan put it out, but coming from Sandy Denny it suddenly becomes a song I like very much. Dylan's song, via her interpretation, is given a significance I never heard before
Oh....Melanie! What a magical bolt from the past. I remember seeing Melanie at Carnegie Hall in the early '70s; a performance on one of her birthdays. Lots of lights waving in the audience :)
both are inspirational
@ Michael N, check out her discography, because at least one of her Carnegie Hall concerts, and on her birthday too, has been released commercially. Melanie has a truly unique vocal style, which has its own inner beauty.
@Rennie, you're no doubt aware of Melanie's spellbinding rendition of Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race.
Rennie - I treasure your reference to Sandy Denny's 'interpretation' of a Bob Dylan song. I am confident that singer-songwriters like to both have their great songs covered, and also covered in a 'new' (aka different) way. The songs lyrics and basic format will always be there, any way sliced.
High Rennie King, I'm so very glad NOT to come across Melanie Safka stuff while growing up 🦨.
to billie holiday, sandy denny, arundhati roy 🍄🌄🐞🦄🦚🇺🇲🏴🇮🇳🌬👏🌻🦋💗🕉🙏✌🏾..............🤓
Lead into gold! Sandy is a musical alchemist.
Sorry, Bob. I'm a great fan and admirer of your music but this was always overated - until this!
For me this is THE ultimate version of this song, perhaps made even more poignant by Sandy’s all too young demise just a few years later.
I found this one hard to listen to, knowing Sandy's fate.... RIP Sweet Lady....
The best Knockin' on Heaven's Door cover you ever heard.
And she did other great Dylan covers, but this is stunning
loved it.sandy voice of an angel
Don't know how I missed this cover... I like the Dylan version, and most of the other covers. But Sandy blows them all away. Best female vocalist of the 70s, certainly, probably ever.
probably the best female vocalist of all time. too bad she's gone in my lifetime.
Saw her in plymouth early 70s
She was half Scottish as her names clearly show. Sandy is the Scottish diminutive for Alexandra (or Alexander too), MacLean and Denny are Scottish surnames.
Saw her way back when I was in the music industry, obviously a troubled child, where are all these Friends when needed??
I play in a band in the NE of England (Hexham) and we have always used this song to warm up. Always been our first song. We have evolved over the years, different intros, harmonies, me changing to organ instead of guitar, harmonica solos and guitar solos from our other guitarist and we sound pretty good but one thing could never, ever be as good at is Sandy's vocals. What an amazing voice. Love you Sandy Denny.
I loved Sandy Denny so much. It’s not true that she wasn’t known in the USA, I knew who she was when I was 14-15, and always loved her, my bff Nancy had Fairport Convention albums in 1970 on & we listened to her all the time. She never got the fame she so richly deserved. ❤️❤️❤️
Really nice to set us straight. Good to know. I suspect that Sandy would have loved fame, but not for the obvious suspected reasons. I can say that, at the time, she was hurt that more income was made by her off one of her songs, by an artist doing a cover version, than she earned off it herself! I don't need to supply detail.
I know, Judy Collins made WHO Knows Where The Time Goes, famous, but I will always prefer Sandy Denny’s version so much more.
The magical voice of the great Sandy Denny covering a song by the enigma that is Bob Dylan. It does not get much better.
Thank GOD for TH-cam!!! Well, thank someone, anyway!! : ))
What can you say? There's one big soul being expressed through that voice.
rest in peace sandy. i'm crying right now listening to this.
And the picture at 2:46 just brings the tears all the harder. This is absolutely stunning.
All I can add this in 2021 🌹❤️🇦🇺🐨
Sandy was a beautiful woman inside and out. I was always jealous of Trevor. She lent a quality to anything she ever sang, whoever wrote it; The "ooh oohs" are spine tingling. I can feel her little hand in mine when I listen to this.
Your last sentence made me cry. Are you insured?
Sandy performed covers as well as her own music. She was a unique talent who felt every word she sang. Now she's not knocking; she's there.
I have listened to Fairport Convention and their later incarnation Steeleye span for 30+ YEARS many people dont know that Sandy Denney was the female vocals of the Led Zeppelin song Battle of evermore only learned this myself about 2 years ago
Well, well...this American baby boomer was listening to 'The Battle of Evermore' by LZ and there's this flipping awesome female vocal behind Robert Plant, just lifting the vocals UP! on this great song.
A little research, and it's this cute Scottish redhead named Sandy Denny. Who Knew? Britain's hybrid of Judy Collins & Joni Mitchell all wrapped up in one....so I'm cruising youtube trying to listen to as many songs by her as I can. I could listen to her version of this song - especially around 3:40 to the end when she puts her belly into it - over and over. OMG.What a talent! She closes that song so strongly, her voice is so strong, so arioso, so vibrant - my crappy computer speakers can't take it and they start crackling. Time to buy an LP and play her on my good speakers.
While Scotland has produced some great musicians, we can't take credit for Sandy Denny. She was born in London.
us fans of good music knew all about her with Led Zep🐂💨
she was born in london knob head
A Wimbledon lass, not a Scottish one...
Good choice :)
Play this at my funeral. She is beyond words.
Don't like the song at all ....... but when Sandy sings it the duck transforms to a swan . If Sandy had sung the shipping forecast it would have been magical. Greatest vocalist I've ever heard.
I echo your thoughts 100% mickigoe .Truly sublime
Cheers Steven :)
Completely agree. Not my favourite Dylan song but I can listen to this all day long.
LOL, sung the shipping forecast...love it.
Stop it..... stop it..... words like that just make me, once again, immensely sad for the loss.
I was in L.A. at that era AND went to the Troubador a few times. Missed this as I just was unaware. Mattacks shines on these recordings.
Mattocks is one of the best.
Ashamed to admit I had no idea this track existed until tonight. What a revelation!
Wonderful, wonderful stuff. For so many reasons.
Thank you.
Am I the only one with chill bumps listening to this?
No; this gets me every-time.
Guns and Roses should lay twelve dozens on her grave.
Every time
No.
floods of tears..
Sensational version by Sandy !
Still miss you
Not as much as I do….she was the best …also my lover and friend for last few years of her life …yea so missed!
My favourite version of this song - wonderful! Sandy was amazing!
Mama take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Mama put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin' down
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
This is the best version. It sets the standard for all others
She was an angel!!, she is missed so much
What a brilliant version of a great song, not heard this before.
Lucky to have seen her with Fairport.
Lucky you!:)
I'm green with envy. I've seen Fairport a few times since Sandy's passing but I'd cut my left bollock off to have seen her with them.
Lucky you!
@Stacey Michaels That might have been a very slight exaggeration Lol.
nah, too slow. much prefer the original. maybe she could do a song called "Tripping on Heaven's Stairs"
WOW! I just ordered several of her recordings, can't wait til they arrive. Such a tragic loss to the world that she passed so young.
Alongside Kate Wolf: two amazing singer/songwriters taken from us far too early. V.
How haven't I heard this before? Goosebumps.
Simply one of the best versions of this Dylan classic.
THE VERY BEST LADY SINGER EVER WE MISS HER SO MUCH BLESS YOU SANDY DENNY AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING LOVE YOU FOREVER MORE.
excellent version brings you out in goosebumps when listening to it.
Sandy is really missed what a voice.
They let her into heaven far too early...😞
Oh wow what a treat this early morning, I can see I'm going to have to follow this girl up and get some of her stuff. The most beautiful and unusual voice I've heard in quite a while.
Never been a fan of this song, it's not one of Dylan's best. And as for that terrible rendition by Guns and Roses, make it stop! But in the hands of Sandy Denny it's a whole new ballgame! RIP Sandy..
This is a breathtaking voice and a lovely song.
Como esta no hay mejor versión,-lastima que sandy murió muy joven -descansa en paz
Sandy was remembered last night by some great musicians at #allwightnow a great celebration of the first brilliant Isle of Wight Festivals. Superb voice ✌️
Whoa!! Thanks to whoever unearthed this! Sandy remains one of the greatest singers ever recorded.
“Who knows where the time goes” is a favorite of mine that Sandy wrote while only a teenager. She gives me goosebumps still.
the greatest singer ever-every genre,any generation.nuff said......
Soo Sad ....... nothing more too say ....... soooo ....
Best version ! First time i ve heard it ! Creeping into my heart !
Heaven opened ty he door to her too soon
wonderful and moving. I love it.
dylan liked a number of her covers. she is one of my all time favorites, plus carla fuchs who has songs of sandy denny
A reason why i love music
What a fantastic guitar accompaniment brilliant
Too soon, too damn soon...
It is useless trying to describe her voice in words. Just listen and something divine is going on.
Sandy left us way too soon....Such talent..voice..and attractive...The ONLY person to record on ANY Led Zeppelin album...THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE...She rocks and always will............!!!!!!!!!
Love you Sandy
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와~정말 원곡 못지 않게 뿅간다..
Wonderful arrangement. Why have I never heard of Sandy Denny? from Fairport Convention.