I remember being there (at Woodstock) in August of 1969 and there were about a half million other people there as well. Since then, I must have met 2 million people that claimed to be there. I wish we can all go back to that time when everyone liked and respected one another.
I was at Woodstock for this and remember being bummed out, cold , tired, hungry and then Joan Baez came on stage and started singing and I got my second wind.
i understood everything you said apart from being bummed out/ bored at woodstock 69.. it´s classified as a disaster area :s, filled with the greatest musicians in the the world :).. plus half million people :o!!.. what were you doing?!... not enough drugs ;)?.. just curious :).
i was there from tuesday. i saw joan at the warmup stage. i spent the whole time wandering around in the woods above the main stage and the main incoming road drifting from one joint to another. i only went down into the big crowd one time. i dont remember the rain. i didnt care about eating. i probably had a handful of granola from wavy gravys camp. i would not have been able to sit on a blanket in the big crown. i never stopped moving. i still have the original program guide. i also had a good camping spot from getting there early. what a blast
@@ameliatighe6737 My best friend Gary and I came with the just the tee shirts on our back. We assumed we could buy food and drink. We left Sunday mid day and walked ten miles to Monticello and caught a bus to NYC.Gary died of a drug overdose 3 years later. Been back there three times since.
Joan Baez has probably one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. This song is such a great example or her wonderful voice. Thanks for posting it.
As mega corporations destroy the working class of this country, I needed to hear this today. It was a time when the music really meant something. Joan Baez didn't need a dozen dancers behind her and a computerized light show to get my attention.
I am a tail end of the hippy era SF bay area woman.. Woodstock movie... all those amazing musicians..new songs..folk...rock,.it all came spilling out and bleed into our collective beating heart. This song.. the meaning behind it...her lone, clear instrument of a voice. it's haunted me to this day, but in a good way... peace
I am 62 years old and when the film came out, we saw it about 4 or 5 times. As much as we couldn't wait to see The Who, Santana, Ten Years After and Sly, when I heard this song.....I fell in love with it and the way she sang it.....I have seen the film many more since as well.
I`m soo envious ... Born 1960, i was a late Hippie, or what ever..Loving that Music, living that spirit...Time made us becoming middelclass-thank you boss saying people.. with a little fuck you boss in mind...sorry , German school english-- as time wents by... greetings from Germany, a Union Member for ever!
Joan was the woodstock mom -- not a drug taker and dead-on serious about her convictions while many others were only playing at it -- the real deal. I don't necessarily agree with her on many things, but respect the hell out of her. And what a voice, what a voice.
They sang politics to protest the establishment they are birds of song birds of Peace birds of freedom to us it made a difference We heard the message we understood the song we kept it in our hearts and sang along When home try to write about it we all wanted to be writers in them days Because of what we listened
My oldest brother took me to see the film Woodstock in 1970....I enjoyed all of the movie of course, but the one performance that really stood out in my mind was Joan Baez's performance of "Joe Hill"....I was too young to fully understand the meaning of the song, but I just remember the beautiful melody, and the achingly pure vocal of Joan Baez.....
why when i see it i dont know tearsdown perhaps i 19 years old when came in to the cinema to see the movie and when hendrix appears all the people stand up of their chairs and clap i see the movie woodstock more than 30 times and i want to see it again peace love and food for everybody
Joan Baez' performance of the Phil Ochs organising song "Joe Hill" on Saturday, 16 August 1969, day 2 of the Woodstock Music Festival. This was the fifth song (of 13) that she played that morning, while six months pregnant.
I have always thought of this song of meaning that this man Joe Hill died for a cause and his legacy is immortal and that his message will live on to influence the millions of others seeking the same justice, it really is a beautiful song, especially sung by Joan
I dreamed, I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead" "I never died" says he "I never died" says he "The copper bosses killed you, Joe" "They shot you Joe" says I "Takes more than guns to kill a man" Says Joe "I didn't die" Says Joe "I didn't die" And standing there, as big as life And smiling with his eyes Says Joe "What they can never kill Went on to organize Went on to organize" From San Diego up to Maine In every mine and mill Where working folks defend their rights It's there…
"My will is easy to decide For there is nothing to divide My kin don't need to fuss and moan "Moss does not cling to rolling stone" My body? Oh, if I could choose I would to ashes it reduce And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some flowers grow Perhaps some fading flower then Would come to life and bloom again. This is my Last and final Will. Good Luck to All of you Joe Hill" - 1915.
Like others said; not by Phil Ochs. He also sang this ("I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night") in addition to his own song "Joe Hill" Listen to both songs and retain the spirit of Joe Hill.
I have the LD Woodstock, I spent $100 to repair the LD player, but it doesn't work after two months. I couldn't watch the Woodstock because the LD player couldn't play the LD. I missed the Woodstock especially all the Joan Baez's song.
For Bernie Sanders, during the 2016 Democratic convention, the only friend my students had, and who, we've now learned, never had a chance. The spirit, though, will never die.
Joan Baez "owns" this song. I have never found a more beautiful recording of it. The emotion she builds into this song with her inimitable voice is beyond perfection. This is incorrectly credited to Phil Ochs when it was actually written by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson. Hope that correction can be published.
I agree up to a point. The mighty Paul Robeson did a free-time piano-accompanied version that is also a classic. I was planning to ask that Hayes/Robinson correction be made, but you and a half-dozen others beat me to it.
"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill" was written a half dozen years before Phil Ochs was born, by Earl Robinson. Paul Robeson recorded his iconic version when Phil was three. About 24 years after Phil died, Billy Bragg reworked Robinson's song to honor Phil: th-cam.com/video/aHpuKpb9gUU/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely The greatest female voice to ever grace our world! You don't have to like folk music to hear that!! Love you Joanie
Consider Sissel.
I remember being there (at Woodstock) in August of 1969 and there were about a half million other people there as well. Since then, I must have met 2 million people that claimed to be there. I wish we can all go back to that time when everyone liked and respected one another.
Very well said.
Why thank you, I appreciate that.
I wouldn't say everyone fried their brains. I feel that I came out of that era OK. I am a successful tax accountant.
Lucky you !!! And I totally agree...Holy words....A brotherly hug from Italy
Did you see Joan?
Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Linda Ronstadt had the most beautiful, stirring singing voices in music history! Gives me chills.
I was at Woodstock for this and remember being bummed out, cold , tired, hungry and then Joan Baez came on stage and started singing and I got my second wind.
i understood everything you said apart from being bummed out/ bored at woodstock 69.. it´s classified as a disaster area :s, filled with the greatest musicians in the the world :).. plus half million people :o!!.. what were you doing?!... not enough drugs ;)?.. just curious :).
i was there from tuesday. i saw joan at the warmup stage. i spent the whole time wandering around in the woods above the main stage and the main incoming road drifting from one joint to another. i only went down into the big crowd one time. i dont remember the rain. i didnt care about eating. i probably had a handful of granola from wavy gravys camp. i would not have been able to sit on a blanket in the big crown. i never stopped moving. i still have the original program guide. i also had a good camping spot from getting there early. what a blast
@@ameliatighe6737 My best friend Gary and I came with the just the tee shirts on our back. We assumed we could buy food and drink. We left Sunday mid day and walked ten miles to Monticello and caught a bus to NYC.Gary died of a drug overdose 3 years later. Been back there three times since.
Folk singers she is the best one! She's still alive & kicking like me! :) Happy Birthday Joan!!
Perhaps her greatest performance ever.
Agree!
It’s one of many many great performances! Try searching BBC Joan Baez concert. The whole more than a hour long concert is even better
Still overwhelmed. We will celebrate Joe's 100 yr. passing on original site Labor Day weekend.
Joan Baez has probably one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. This song is such a great example or her wonderful voice. Thanks for posting it.
My God, the voice of an angel; not one forced note.
Still one of the very best women's voices ever!!!!!
As mega corporations destroy the working class of this country, I needed to hear this today. It was a time when the music really meant something. Joan Baez didn't need a dozen dancers behind her and a computerized light show to get my attention.
this song has been stuck in my head all week
Beautiful.
I am a tail end of the hippy era SF bay area woman.. Woodstock movie... all those amazing musicians..new songs..folk...rock,.it all came spilling out and bleed into our collective beating heart. This song.. the meaning behind it...her lone, clear instrument of a voice. it's haunted me to this day, but in a good way... peace
+Valerie Osborne agreed & very good post !!!
+Valerie Osborne there is joy in work well done, and in working, not just about being e xploited, and what has come to be lazy union goons, gone bad.
listening to this in 2016 and getting goose bumps. The music these guys made is brilliant!
I dont really care too much for Joan's music...but holy shit she has the voice of an angel.
Oh, that voice. And oh, that heart! What a great performance.
Wonderful to hear Joan Baez again !
Was there for this in 69. It stopped me in my tracks that night.
I am 62 years old and when the film came out, we saw it about 4 or 5 times. As much as we couldn't wait to see The Who, Santana, Ten Years After and Sly, when I heard this song.....I fell in love with it and the way she sang it.....I have seen the film many more since as well.
That makes two of us, at least!
Great, just great. Close your eyes....Listen
Awesome song & awesome voice...
One of the best freedom fighters of the age, Love to Joanie and ALL freedom fighters
Joe Hill will not die, he will live in the hearts of every worker and every person who opposes oppression
those were the days, buffie saint marie and phony joany what a duet love them both we needed then back then
Voice of an angel.
Forgot what an amazing voice she had.Nice to hear a song penned by Phil Ochs.
But Ochs didn't write it.
Joan Baez's beautiful soprano voice, just magnificent.
Brilliant, thank you for showing this. such a clear voice and she sings it beautifully with chilling effect
Once heard, never forgotten - a consummate artist.
I love your music and your voice.
One of my Favourite Songs by an Amazing Performer.
what a true story ,with a lesson to be learned ,and shoud still be kept.... but are not!!!
I`m soo envious ... Born 1960, i was a late Hippie, or what ever..Loving that Music, living that spirit...Time made us becoming middelclass-thank you boss saying people.. with a little fuck you boss in mind...sorry , German school english-- as time wents by... greetings from Germany, a Union Member for ever!
Joan was the woodstock mom -- not a drug taker and dead-on serious about her convictions while many others were only playing at it -- the real deal. I don't necessarily agree with her on many things, but respect the hell out of her. And what a voice, what a voice.
Joan Baez´s voice get me chills, she´s unique
They sang politics to protest the establishment they are birds of song birds of Peace birds of freedom to us it made a difference We heard the message we understood the song we kept it in our hearts and sang along When home try to write about it we all wanted to be writers in them days Because of what we listened
So well performed...... words can't capture it!!!
such a beautiful voice
Joan Baez is one of our National Treasures. Politics be damned! Love you Joanie.
I have loved your voice for a long time, one fantasy in my mind, it is a great and absolutely one of the best songs ...
Amazing voice!
One of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard....thanks so much for posting. This is a real hidden gem.
Such powerful words and depth of feeling !
What a voice !
I forgot how wonderful she was at Woodstock!
Veri nice Joanb!!!!
...Where working men defend their rights, it's there you find Joe Hill......!
My oldest brother took me to see the film Woodstock in 1970....I enjoyed all of the movie of course, but the one performance that really stood out in my mind was Joan Baez's performance of "Joe Hill"....I was too young to fully understand the meaning of the song, but I just remember the beautiful melody, and the achingly pure vocal of Joan Baez.....
What a beautiful song...thanks for posting. Loved it the first time I heard it when I saw the movie when it opened.
This song is haunting. So beautiful.
Happy Birthday, Joan Baez!
why when i see it i dont know tearsdown perhaps i 19 years old when came in to the cinema to see the movie and when hendrix appears all the people stand up of their chairs and clap i see the movie woodstock more than 30 times and i want to see it again peace love and food for everybody
Thank you...
Joan is angelic at Woodstock here--
Joan Baez' performance of the Phil Ochs organising song "Joe Hill" on Saturday, 16 August 1969, day 2 of the Woodstock Music Festival. This was the fifth song (of 13) that she played that morning, while six months pregnant.
The song was not written by Phil Ochs. It was written by Earl Robinson.
Beautifull
muito lindo , como pode a humanidade perder tanto essa cultura e musicalidade....
god bless you thank you
this makes me want to slap a sign on my union hall "Joe Hill Lives"
that angelic voice!
No one but the legend, Phil Ochs could have written this piece.
Joe Hill is alive and well
God bless the working man
Feek the shiny rrrses
Saw her perform this LIVE tonight!!! XOXOXO
had the album. loved her.
i never heard this song in the vfw jukebox when i was growing up.
What an amazing talent. She sings so effortlessly.
I have always thought of this song of meaning that this man Joe Hill died for a cause and his legacy is immortal and that his message will live on to influence the millions of others seeking the same justice, it really is a beautiful song, especially sung by Joan
La mejor epoca de la musica
Joan Baez und Nana Mouskouri haben wirklich Engelsstimmnen. Man höre nur plaisir d'amour von den Beiden zusammen.
I dreamed, I saw Joe Hill last night
Alive as you and me
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" says he
"I never died" says he
"The copper bosses killed you, Joe"
"They shot you Joe" says I
"Takes more than guns to kill a man"
Says Joe "I didn't die"
Says Joe "I didn't die"
And standing there, as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Says Joe "What they can never kill
Went on to organize
Went on to organize"
From San Diego up to Maine
In every mine and mill
Where working folks defend their rights
It's there…
Congrats on entering the HOF. Should have been there decades ago
what a voice
I knw god awlful music when I hear it
"My will is easy to decide
For there is nothing to divide
My kin don't need to fuss and moan
"Moss does not cling to rolling stone"
My body? Oh, if I could choose
I would to ashes it reduce
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my Last and final Will.
Good Luck to All of you
Joe Hill" - 1915.
Love this!
Bring back those days.......
That voice ... wow ...
Like others said; not by Phil Ochs. He also sang this ("I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night") in addition to his own song "Joe Hill" Listen to both songs and retain the spirit of Joe Hill.
what a gorgeous voice.
Joe Hills name was Joel Hägglund and he was born in Gävle, Sweden, 1879.
if you get a chance watch the film woodstock , she is great on it !!!
I have the LD Woodstock, I spent $100 to repair the LD player, but it doesn't work after two months. I couldn't watch the Woodstock because the LD player couldn't play the LD. I missed the Woodstock especially all the Joan Baez's song.
Classic labor anthem, but not written by the great Phil Ochs. It was written by Alfred Hayes and put to music by Earl Robinson.
For Bernie Sanders, during the 2016 Democratic convention, the only friend my students had, and who, we've now learned, never had a chance. The spirit, though, will never die.
Joan Baez "owns" this song. I have never found a more beautiful recording of it. The emotion she builds into this song with her inimitable voice is beyond perfection. This is incorrectly credited to Phil Ochs when it was actually written by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson. Hope that correction can be published.
I agree up to a point. The mighty Paul Robeson did a free-time piano-accompanied version that is also a classic.
I was planning to ask that Hayes/Robinson correction be made, but you and a half-dozen others beat me to it.
He never dies, but the enemy will!
Angelic..
nel sessantanove avevo dodici anni mitica jpan
It was raining during Joan Baez’ set
How strong is a woman? Feel it measured in Joan Baez's voice.
Espetacular Joan Baez!!!
I think of all the construction workers I met in the MIddle East, banned from joining a trade union, when I hear this, just incredibly powerful song.
que gostoso rever
Phil Ochs didn't write this song. The lyrics were a poem by Alfred Hayes put to music by Earl Robinson, before Ochs was born.
If you remember Woodstock then you weren't there.
That's a good one. Was it that bad there? I am from that era.
Paul Robeson does a great version of Joe Hill
"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill" was written a half dozen years before Phil Ochs was born, by Earl Robinson. Paul Robeson recorded his iconic version when Phil was three.
About 24 years after Phil died, Billy Bragg reworked Robinson's song to honor Phil: th-cam.com/video/aHpuKpb9gUU/w-d-xo.html
Que voz maravilhosa,
Su voz es maravillosa.