She is, without doubt, the greatest singer-songwriter of all time. The only poets that can live with her are, in my opinion, Cohen and Dylan. She is an incomparably better singer, instrumentalist and songwriter than either of them.
I would add Laura Nyro and Carol King as well. Carol King was writing songs with then husband Gerry Goffin (1939-2014 ) king was 19 years old when they wrote ' Will you still love me tomorrow '. the amount of music that these 3 women have produced, have had covered or in Kings case wrote for an singer or group is an amazing feat and is unlikely to happen again anytime soon....Aloha
Some people are truly gifts to humanity and Joni is one such person . She is the most under appreciated artist of our age . A true unrivalled talent . Ageless and peerless to this day.
One of the most haunting melodies ever recorded. "And summer goes, falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper..." How did she come up with that poetry set to that music at only twenty-five or younger? And, this is from side one of her first album out of, what, twenty or more? Breathtaking. Incomparable. Genius.
This tune is so good. It has everything in it. Great lyrics, unparalleled vocals, excellent delivery, cool guitar work..... A true masterpiece. Genius.
I learned this song 1968 in high school. I focused my view of girls with a really new understanding and for awhile guys just seemed stupid in the ways that they treated their girl friends. This song helped me to be a better boy friend husband and father.. Joni influenced a lot of guys in a positive way...... ..
I was born in 1961. This song was released in 1968. She set the pace of my musical tastes forever! Today when I listen to Marci, I wish to be a child again.
One of my best friends is a woman named Marcie. We met during our junior year of HS and have been close ever since. My Marcie is the 5th of 6 children. When her sister Ann, 12 years her senior, was attending the University of Minnesota Duluth Branch back in the very late 1960s or very early 1970s, she was involved with a campus group that got an at the time relatively unknown singer, a fella named John Denver, to perform on campus, and Ann, in a nice big-sisterly way, invited Marcie to attend the concert with her. Not only did Marce get to meet John Denver, he sang this song for her.
She is The Best of The Best. Never tp be surpassed I adore her and Lemard Cohen since so many years ago...I will be 74years old in November. I think that Joni pipped Lenard to the post with her lyrics, but they are both Magnificent!!
Marcie and I Had A King… both so eternal, I love this album. Every song takes me too a much different time In my life. Poignant times. A great talent. Her painting is beautiful .
I Had a King...yes I loved that too! (I love all her songs.) Sisotobell Lane takes me back to my childhood 60+ years ago in Lydgate, Saddleworth. Bless you Joni
This song and Nathan La Franeer were my favorites from this album for a while. But then I decided The Dawntreader was my favorite. But of course there’s I Had a King, Night in the City, Sisotowbell Lane, etc. . . . You really can’t go wrong. And then it’s on to the next album . . . and the next . . . and the next . . .
Always challenging herself and previous work, raising the bar with each successive creation or collaboration, instrument, medium (drawing, painting, dance) etc. God Bless Joni Mitchell !
It was Joni herself who sang you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Sadly that's the case with the lady herself. May you live forever my angel....
@RMAchello Me, too! Her vibrato when she sings, "Wait for me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e," -the modulation in her voice alternating two notes in that one sustain, as though she is playing her voice like a flute. Maybe that's not the best way to describe it, but I bet you know what I mean. I love this song so much. In fact, I love that whole album. 100% Joni Mitchell's voice and playing.
you could write a novel about the subject of this song....tells us so much about a person and a place and her feelings and travels.........astounding beauty
Her debut album might be the most underrated one of all-time (although nice to see she just picked up a Grammy for her recent archive release that covered much of it). Blue gets understandable love, but my goodness... her very first one is an absolute revelation. This is just one of some many gorgeous tracks on there. You know Jimi Hendrix and Zeppelin adored her during this early era, and that's quite a vote in my book. Hendrix found inspiration in her song The Dawntreader for his own tune 1983 (a merman I should turn to be). And Zep subtly mentions her song I Had a King in Going to California. Ahead of her time, ahead of everyone.
Even now, just to have the rare glimpse of her when she's able to be out and about, my heart flutters and I am in awe. God Bless You Joni, you are often in my thoughts and prayers - Peace All !
This song brings tears to my eyes. 24 years after hearing it. Joni is a Genius and yes, she has been the Northern star that has guided me through my life... XXX
The extraordinary drawn out ending of the "To the sea" and later "Wait for me" lines always gets me. What a remarkable, astonishing voice - and a set of lungs that must have gone down to her ankles. Another thing - this was recorded in the old analog days, when there was little or no digital tricks like autotune - what you hear is REALLY her singing.
Such a unique gift for melody; Joni's lyrics and voice are always stunning, but I sometimes forget how incredibly unique her melodies are. They're never predictable and are so "Joni" if you know what I mean. LIke, who else sounds like her? No one. They may've imitated her but no one touches her.
I first heard the album "Blue" many years ago, and then HAD to go out and get everything Joni ever did. I started with her first album, and realized (particularly after hearing "Marcie") that Joni was not only a genius, but would be my favorite singer/songwriter who ever lived. And 20 years later I'm still listening to her in awww!
Visions of Rockport MASS, by the harbour, watching the fishing boats, beautiful long haired university girls home for the summer, walking into a cafe, stirs a longing in my heart
Unbelievably perfect voice. Just as important is her rigorous intelligence, poetic bent, and deep insight into human nature. Very influential in my life.
Haunting, Beautiful. If my iPod only had a capacity of 3 songs it'd be Marcie, This flight tonight & Hejira. But if the capacity was only 3 songs i'd probably return it to Apple & just dust off the vinyls.
This is the first song I ever heard her sing. It is still my favorite, among the many.... 'Marcie' paints such a vivid picture in my mind....and strums my heartstrings. I love Joni Mitchell!
As much as i really like Joni's "Blue" album and it's considered by most people, one of her best, the song "Marcie" from Joni's first album is my very favorite album by far. Love, love, love this very folky album.
I remember seeing Joni sing this at the Royal Festival Hall in London in January 1970 and she told us that Marcie was in the audience that night. Such a brilliant song and this video is very cleverly put together as it’s the album version. Great job. Over fifty years since I first heard the album and I find her talent still unsurpassed. My admiration for her is boundless.
MARCIE Marcie in a coat of flowers Steps inside a candy store Reds are sweet and greens are sour Still no letter at her door So she'll wash her flower curtains Hang them in the wind to dry Dust her tables with his shirt and Wave another day goodbye Marcie's faucet needs a plumber Marcie's sorrow needs a man Red is autumn green is summer Greens are turning and the sand All along the ocean beaches Stares up empty at the sky Marcie buys a bag of peaches Stops a postman passing by And summer goes Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper Winter blows Up from the river there's no one to take her To the sea Marcie dresses warm its snowing Takes a yellow cab uptown Red is stop and green's for going Sees a show and rides back down Down along the Hudson River Past the shipyards in the cold Still no letter's been delivered Still the winter days unfold Like magazines Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars Make a dream Dream back to summer and hear how he tells her Wait for me Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us Where or why she moved away Red is angry green is jealous That was all she had to say Someone thought they saw her Sunday Window shopping in the rain Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket And went west again
'i listened to her first album obsessively as a teenager, and this was the song I replayed over and over and over. It's stunning and should be far better known than it is now
I have loved Joni Mitchell since I was a young 16 year old living in Washington DC and onwards to Clarks Summit where I missed my sweet boyfriend of the time and her songs sang to me with heartfelt love and empathy and helped me get through the loss.
How did I miss this gem of a video? This, her first LP, is still my favourite and she's made a lot of good ones. A live performance of Marcie, damn! In a small club yet, double damn!
my lecturer in college before was concerned with me due to an assignment I did on self harming..we had a talk and I remember her telling me to listen to joni mitchell, I can see why....this song truly moved me
As good as ANY of the great 60's songwriters. She is right up there with The Beatles. Her playing/singing/writing is unrivaled for it's uniqueness and introspective beauty. There was and is nobody to match her. She set the bar...for eternity. Thank God we have all her recordings. Thank you Joni!!!
As much as I love the Beatles and I do I do no doubt, I would say she had far more beautiful poetic and thoughtful songs than the Beatles and remember there is only one of her. She just cut to the quick and the emotion is there raw, sweet, sad mysterious you name it.
No comparison between Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, completely different styles and imagery. Mitchell's descriptive images are brilliantly poetic while Cohen's had penetrating insights that were deep and provocatively thoughtful. Both poets/songwriters in their own places of history, and today's writers are sadly, hardly even one-dimensional, simply narcissistic. Bob Dylan, Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Laura Nero, many others have their own place in musical history because that time was incredibly creative; it was shut off by profit motives of music industry.
even for the times, which was just full of wonderful expression, this one had stood out to me, as I'd read the poem lyrics of it on the album cover, the sadness of it just poured out to me. Her voice added an other worldly quality to it. And I can picture Marcie out there still waiting.
I remember listening to this in my room after coming home from 10th grade high school.....'Song To A Seagull' was the first of many Joni Mitchell albums I bought. Probably one of the saddest songs ever.....even after all these years, the imagery can still take your breath away.
Of the many indescribably beautiful, magical and brilliant songs that Joni has written and performed, this, being the first one I ever heard back around 1969, is still my favorite. I hope that when I leave this place, I will still have the option to listen to it. I can't imagine an existence without it!
Wow. The chick absolutely killed lo! this half-a-century ago with powerful tunes like this. I get a kick out of Crosby's telling (in his autobiography) of how he'd produce Joni (then a relative unknown, and his live-in girlfriend) out of nowhere like some ethereal faerie sprite at his house up in Laurel and have her perform this (and other tunes that would comprise her first album) for his stoned/tripping cronies -- after she'd finish and bop off, they'd be so mind-blown by this unexpected vision of high-cheek-boned blond loveliness with improbably stunning musical tour de force complete that they'd seriously wonder whether they'd hallucinated the whole thing! Pretty funny. BTW-- even though I had this album, I never noticed until the close-up at 01:45 here that the inset photo shows La Mitchell brandishing her original axe-- of all things a baritone ukulele! This is what she originally learned how to play on when she was a young teenager, and then later performed with when she was starting out on the folk-club-and-coffeehouse circuit in Canada. She didn't get the Martin D-28 six-string she's playing here until '66 (a gift from an Army officer who'd nearly had it blown up when his tent was shelled in 'Nam-- Mitchell thought the concussion-shock had somehow affected the wood so as to improve the tone), not sure how long she'd been playing guitar before then. Meanwhile, I have the feeling that she could knock 'em dead with a bloody kazoo if necessary. Cheers. media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/20/a9/c2/20a9c2d4bb30cd5901914135f1c40fa2.jpg
Nuthine your comment blew me away. Joni still supposedly owns that house to this day. And the first guitar story wow. She always was beyond compare to anyone for me. Thanks and Stay Well !
One of the best from the earlier years.. So full of imagery..I also can relate to and see something in others I know as well, that is what is great about Joni and her music.Always happy to share in the wonders of her with others..
For me, this is the song that heralds autumn. It always will be. “And summer goes/Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper/Winter blows/Up from the river/There’s no one to take her to the sea.
First heard this when I was about 15 in 1970 and I'm still loving it 50+ years later. She's incomparable. Lovely video, thanks for sharing. If I have a soul, this music soothes it.
This is the album track isn't it. Whoever put together the footage has done a great job in synchronising when we focus in on Joni's lips singing it. Would have been nice to have heard the live performance but I'm not complaining.
She is, without doubt, the greatest singer-songwriter of all time. The only poets that can live with her are, in my opinion, Cohen and Dylan. She is an incomparably better singer, instrumentalist and songwriter than either of them.
I would add Laura Nyro and Carol King as well. Carol King was writing songs with then husband Gerry Goffin (1939-2014 ) king was 19 years old when they wrote ' Will you still love me tomorrow '. the amount of music that these 3 women have produced, have had covered or in Kings case wrote for an singer or group is an amazing feat and is unlikely to happen again anytime soon....Aloha
Joni’s facility with words is no less than astounding
Joni should have gotten the Nobel. Not Dylan.
"Dust her tables with his shirt and wave another day goodbye" Nobody can write lyrics like Joni.
Some people are truly gifts to humanity and Joni is one such person . She is the most under appreciated artist of our age . A true unrivalled talent . Ageless and peerless to this day.
To some of us, Joni was the spiritual poet/musician of our early lives...
Without exaggerating it - she probed into my soul and helped define who I am.
That's a beautiful thing you said. and I feel the same. She seems like an angel to me.
The best comment I’ve ever read about Joni.
Heavy nostalgia...that hurts...
One of the most haunting melodies ever recorded. "And summer goes, falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper..." How did she come up with that poetry set to that music at only twenty-five or younger? And, this is from side one of her first album out of, what, twenty or more? Breathtaking. Incomparable. Genius.
Incomparable, Impressive, Impeccable etc.
Thanks you for your comment, what is the title of her first album ? And song ? Joe
@@josephhakim5215 I think the album was Song to a Seagull
@@richardhornbostel3958 I think her first album was Clouds, and it had her portrait on it that she painted herself.
I googled her albums and Clouds was her second album released in 1969. Songs to a Seagull was released in 1968
Without a shadow of a doubt,the best singer song writer of all time
One can never say that never have there been angels in this world.
Nobody could touch Joni Mitchell in the singer/songwriter field. A poet, an artist and activist. Got many teenager girls through high school.
This tune is so good. It has everything in it. Great lyrics, unparalleled vocals, excellent delivery, cool guitar work..... A true masterpiece. Genius.
I learned this song 1968 in high school. I focused my view of girls with a really new understanding and for awhile guys just seemed stupid in the ways that they treated their girl friends. This song helped me to be a better boy friend husband and father.. Joni influenced a lot of guys in a positive way......
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John Brothers very true!
John what you articulated resonates throughout my whole being and put words to what I couldn't begin to express for myself. Stay well !
true story...
Your comment is the best thing that came my way in a long while. Bless you, John.
Joni makes women sing and men listen
I was born in 1961. This song was released in 1968. She set the pace of my musical tastes forever! Today when I listen to Marci, I wish to be a child again.
I would like to write something but it is just about impossible to write anything that does justice to her sublime gift.
Around this time I dated a melancholy beauty named Marcie. This will forever be her theme song. Where are you Marcie?
One of my best friends is a woman named Marcie. We met during our junior year of HS and have been close ever since. My Marcie is the 5th of 6 children. When her sister Ann, 12 years her senior, was attending the University of Minnesota Duluth Branch back in the very late 1960s or very early 1970s, she was involved with a campus group that got an at the time relatively unknown singer, a fella named John Denver, to perform on campus, and Ann, in a nice big-sisterly way, invited Marcie to attend the concert with her. Not only did Marce get to meet John Denver, he sang this song for her.
I'm 76 years old, and I've never heard poetry sung so beautifully. For me, her first album is as close to perfect as I've ever heard.
Still and forever one of my favourite haunting songs by beautiful, timeless Joni! Toronto, Canada fan since '66.
She is The Best of The Best. Never tp be surpassed
I adore her and Lemard Cohen since so many years ago...I will be 74years old in November. I think that Joni pipped Lenard to the post with her lyrics, but they are both Magnificent!!
Thankyou.
We all felt like Marcie once in our lives...such a haunting song...always makes me cry
Nobody can sing like Joni Mitchell!
Nobody can do anything like Joni Mitchell.
Yeah... you right! :)
One of the most idiosyncratic guitarist EVER.
Marcie and I Had A King… both so eternal, I love this album. Every song takes me too a much different time In my life. Poignant times. A great talent. Her painting is beautiful .
I Had a King...yes I loved that too! (I love all her songs.) Sisotobell Lane takes me back to my childhood 60+ years ago in Lydgate, Saddleworth. Bless you Joni
One of the saddest and most beautiful songs I ever heard. Timeless.
This song and Nathan La Franeer were my favorites from this album for a while. But then I decided The Dawntreader was my favorite. But of course there’s I Had a King, Night in the City, Sisotowbell Lane, etc. . . . You really can’t go wrong. And then it’s on to the next album . . . and the next . . . and the next . . .
Always challenging herself and previous work, raising the bar with each successive creation or collaboration, instrument, medium (drawing, painting, dance) etc. God Bless Joni Mitchell !
Exactly! they were my 2 faves as well. might still be.
A soundtrack to my life.....
It was Joni herself who sang you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Sadly that's the case with the lady herself. May you live forever my angel....
When I was 18 in 1972 there was no sexier woman in the world than Joni.
Yep saw her on telly around then next day down record shop brought her album one by one
@RMAchello Me, too! Her vibrato when she sings, "Wait for me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e," -the modulation in her voice alternating two notes in that one sustain, as though she is playing her voice like a flute. Maybe that's not the best way to describe it, but I bet you know what I mean. I love this song so much. In fact, I love that whole album. 100% Joni Mitchell's voice and playing.
you could write a novel about the subject of this song....tells us so much about a person and a place and her feelings and travels.........astounding beauty
Her debut album might be the most underrated one of all-time (although nice to see she just picked up a Grammy for her recent archive release that covered much of it). Blue gets understandable love, but my goodness... her very first one is an absolute revelation. This is just one of some many gorgeous tracks on there. You know Jimi Hendrix and Zeppelin adored her during this early era, and that's quite a vote in my book. Hendrix found inspiration in her song The Dawntreader for his own tune 1983 (a merman I should turn to be). And Zep subtly mentions her song I Had a King in Going to California. Ahead of her time, ahead of everyone.
She’s so beautiful ♥️
Marcie is like dreaming a beautiful haunting song
Beautiful without even listening to the words
This song will always be in my Top Ten of All Time Favorite Songs. I get goosebumps listening to it.
The 9th outher should be something good
Joni sounds extraterestial, other worldly, heavenly.... like she came here from another plane of consciousness.
Has there ever been a more beautiful person with such vast talent? No, I think not....
Now there‘s Lana del Ray…
Beautiful song. I hadn't heard this one before!
45 years and I love your voice, your music and you like it's the first time I've heard you.
Even now, just to have the rare glimpse of her when she's able to be out and about, my heart flutters and I am in awe.
God Bless You Joni, you are often in my thoughts and prayers - Peace All !
This song brings tears to my eyes. 24 years after hearing it. Joni is a Genius and yes, she has been the Northern star that has guided me through my life... XXX
I usually wince when she sings, "...there's no one to take her to the sea..." Heart wrenching, elegant.
The extraordinary drawn out ending of the "To the sea" and later "Wait for me" lines always gets me. What a remarkable, astonishing voice - and a set of lungs that must have gone down to her ankles. Another thing - this was recorded in the old analog days, when there was little or no digital tricks like autotune - what you hear is REALLY her singing.
i was randomly looking for songs with my name on the title and found this gem
Such a unique gift for melody; Joni's lyrics and voice are always stunning, but I sometimes forget how incredibly unique her melodies are. They're never predictable and are so "Joni" if you know what I mean. LIke, who else sounds like her? No one. They may've imitated her but no one touches her.
I first heard the album "Blue" many years ago, and then HAD to go out and get everything Joni ever did. I started with her first album, and realized (particularly after hearing "Marcie") that Joni was not only a genius, but would be my favorite singer/songwriter who ever lived. And 20 years later I'm still listening to her in awww!
Visions of Rockport MASS, by the harbour, watching the fishing boats, beautiful long haired university girls home for the summer, walking into a cafe, stirs a longing in my heart
She sings like an Angel...
Unbelievably perfect voice. Just as important is her rigorous intelligence, poetic bent, and deep insight into human nature. Very influential in my life.
It's just insane --the level of genius is staggering. Timeless.
Haunting, Beautiful. If my iPod only had a capacity of 3 songs it'd be Marcie, This flight tonight & Hejira. But if the capacity was only 3 songs i'd probably return it to Apple & just dust off the vinyls.
How is anyone this good at anything. Wow, what an amazing song.
Zak Kapla
Practice, lots of it and talent
This album transfixed and just took me away to a beautiful place indescribable
S Kirk me too. Song to a seagull is incredible!!
Saddest. Most beautiful
This is the first song I ever heard her sing. It is still my favorite, among the many....
'Marcie' paints such a vivid picture in my mind....and strums my heartstrings.
I love Joni Mitchell!
As much as i really like Joni's "Blue" album and it's considered by most people, one of her best, the song "Marcie" from Joni's first album is my very favorite album by far. Love, love, love this very folky album.
I remember seeing Joni sing this at the Royal Festival Hall in London in January 1970 and she told us that Marcie was in the audience that night. Such a brilliant song and this video is very cleverly put together as it’s the album version. Great job. Over fifty years since I first heard the album and I find her talent still unsurpassed. My admiration for her is boundless.
MARCIE
Marcie in a coat of flowers
Steps inside a candy store
Reds are sweet and greens are sour
Still no letter at her door
So she'll wash her flower curtains
Hang them in the wind to dry
Dust her tables with his shirt and
Wave another day goodbye
Marcie's faucet needs a plumber
Marcie's sorrow needs a man
Red is autumn green is summer
Greens are turning and the sand
All along the ocean beaches
Stares up empty at the sky
Marcie buys a bag of peaches
Stops a postman passing by
And summer goes
Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper
Winter blows
Up from the river there's no one to take her
To the sea
Marcie dresses warm its snowing
Takes a yellow cab uptown
Red is stop and green's for going
Sees a show and rides back down
Down along the Hudson River
Past the shipyards in the cold
Still no letter's been delivered
Still the winter days unfold
Like magazines
Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars
Make a dream
Dream back to summer and hear how
he tells her
Wait for me
Marcie leaves and doesn't tell us
Where or why she moved away
Red is angry green is jealous
That was all she had to say
Someone thought they saw her Sunday
Window shopping in the rain
Someone heard she bought a one-way ticket
And went west again
I've just named my daughter Marcie after this song =)
'i listened to her first album obsessively as a teenager, and this was the song I replayed over and over and over. It's stunning and should be far better known than it is now
I have loved Joni Mitchell since I was a young 16 year old living in Washington DC and onwards to Clarks Summit where I missed my sweet boyfriend of the time and her songs sang to me with heartfelt love and empathy and helped me get through the loss.
How did I miss this gem of a video? This, her first LP, is still my favourite and she's made a lot of good ones. A live performance of Marcie, damn! In a small club yet, double damn!
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! So subtle and melancholy..
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THIS LOVELY LADY. LOVE
Ridiculously talented. She channels the universe.
What a fabulous poet you are Joni
OMG Marcie is one of my favorite Joni songs....thanks for posting!
my lecturer in college before was concerned with me due to an assignment I did on self harming..we had a talk and I remember her telling me to listen to joni mitchell, I can see why....this song truly moved me
As good as ANY of the great 60's songwriters. She is right up there with The Beatles. Her playing/singing/writing is unrivaled for it's uniqueness and introspective beauty. There was and is nobody to match her. She set the bar...for eternity. Thank God we have all her recordings. Thank you Joni!!!
As much as I love the Beatles and I do I do no doubt, I would say she had far more beautiful poetic and thoughtful songs than the Beatles and remember there is only one of her. She just cut to the quick and the emotion is there raw, sweet, sad mysterious you name it.
She blows the Beatles out of the water. Never been a fan of the Beatles, Led Zepplin yes. Led Zepplin and Joni Mitchell that would be fantastic match.
What Beatles? Joni in my humble opinion is way ahead of Dylan and Cohen. I am fan of all 3 of them. I rate Joni at the top any time of the day.
As fine as music can be
She may think she's Cohen influenced, but her songs have about 10,000% more musical content than Leonard's. (And I love him.)
My two absolute favorites out of about a snobbishly selective approximate eight or ten whose majority/body of work is my ideal of perfection.
@@petemavus2948 plz share those names
No comparison between Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, completely different styles and imagery. Mitchell's descriptive images are brilliantly poetic while Cohen's had penetrating insights that were deep and provocatively thoughtful. Both poets/songwriters in their own places of history, and today's writers are sadly, hardly even one-dimensional, simply narcissistic. Bob Dylan, Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Laura Nero, many others have their own place in musical history because that time was incredibly creative; it was shut off by profit motives of music industry.
even for the times, which was just full of wonderful expression, this one had stood out to me, as I'd read the poem lyrics of it on the album cover, the sadness of it just poured out to me. Her voice added an other worldly quality to it. And I can picture Marcie out there still waiting.
What an extreme talent.
@bonhoff I love your words "songs to a seagull was a north star for my journey through adolescence." Beautiful!
Her voice is truly beautiful and her poetry is magnificent...
I remember listening to this in my room after coming home from 10th grade high school.....'Song To A Seagull' was the first of many Joni Mitchell albums I bought. Probably one of the saddest songs ever.....even after all these years, the imagery can still take your breath away.
There’s no one better. A lifelong gift which I’ll likely always be trying to figure out in verse and music.
A Heaven Blessed Lady . Pointless. I cant think of anything else to add. Love you Joni is all .
Beautiful melody, interesting, original lyrics, perfect singing, a classy act all around.
Is there anyone better than Joni? If this is your genre I think not. ♡
Of the many indescribably beautiful, magical and brilliant songs that Joni has written and performed, this, being the first one I ever heard back around 1969, is still my favorite. I hope that when I leave this place, I will still have the option to listen to it. I can't imagine an existence without it!
This song gives me the goosebumps everytime I hear it...
Sweet.
i feel like i should buy a coat of flowers and go eat candy now... is it weird that im proud theres a song with the same name as me?
Wow. The chick absolutely killed lo! this half-a-century ago with powerful tunes like this. I get a kick out of Crosby's telling (in his autobiography) of how he'd produce Joni (then a relative unknown, and his live-in girlfriend) out of nowhere like some ethereal faerie sprite at his house up in Laurel and have her perform this (and other tunes that would comprise her first album) for his stoned/tripping cronies -- after she'd finish and bop off, they'd be so mind-blown by this unexpected vision of high-cheek-boned blond loveliness with improbably stunning musical tour de force complete that they'd seriously wonder whether they'd hallucinated the whole thing! Pretty funny. BTW-- even though I had this album, I never noticed until the close-up at 01:45 here that the inset photo shows La Mitchell brandishing her original axe-- of all things a baritone ukulele! This is what she originally learned how to play on when she was a young teenager, and then later performed with when she was starting out on the folk-club-and-coffeehouse circuit in Canada. She didn't get the Martin D-28 six-string she's playing here until '66 (a gift from an Army officer who'd nearly had it blown up when his tent was shelled in 'Nam-- Mitchell thought the concussion-shock had somehow affected the wood so as to improve the tone), not sure how long she'd been playing guitar before then. Meanwhile, I have the feeling that she could knock 'em dead with a bloody kazoo if necessary. Cheers. media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/20/a9/c2/20a9c2d4bb30cd5901914135f1c40fa2.jpg
lovely thank you👌
The greatest singer songwriter of our generation
Nuthine your comment blew me away. Joni still supposedly owns that house to this day. And the first guitar story wow. She always was beyond compare to anyone for me. Thanks and Stay Well !
One of the best from the earlier years.. So full of imagery..I also can relate to and see something in others I know as well, that is what is great about Joni and her music.Always happy to share in the wonders of her with others..
For me, this is the song that heralds autumn. It always will be. “And summer goes/Falls to the sidewalk like string and brown paper/Winter blows/Up from the river/There’s no one to take her to the sea.
Pure poetry... Words and sounds... Pure poetry...
oh, forgotten; then, just now, stirs the heart with the fluttering ripples of mind-images.
First heard this when I was about 15 in 1970 and I'm still loving it 50+ years later. She's incomparable. Lovely video, thanks for sharing. If I have a soul, this music soothes it.
This was the first Joni mithchell video/song I ever heard of her I thought she sounded so beautiful.
Tremendous Song .
This is the album track isn't it. Whoever put together the footage has done a great job in synchronising when we focus in on Joni's lips singing it. Would have been nice to have heard the live performance but I'm not complaining.
Yes, I agree, the album track. And as haunting as ever with the visuals
Nor am I complaining.
Agreed!
Obviously a labour of love.
When someone wants to know about Joni I tell them to read the lyrics (poetry) first . The music’s just a bonus , but what a bonus
My name is Marcie. Glad I found this.
absolutely epic
One of my favorites of hers. Almost eerily beautiful, the way nature is.
She really is other worldly
I try to keep my listening to Joni to a minimum to keep the tears at bay. Too astounding.
Yes, me too.
Let your tears flow, Ken. It'll wash over your soul and in some cases bring healing.
One of the all-time great lyrics.
This is my favorite song of all-time! Thank you, Joni.
Beautiful song!
Wonderful to find this.Thanks
These overtones are incredible
I adore her music and lyrics.
Genius.