LOVE this wonderful vintage performance. 2 of Joni's best songs played from the heart with only her guitar when it all was new for her. Outstanding and beautiful. How the world has changed. ♥
at the tender age of 58 I have just brought my 1st Joni Mitchell album, and have fallen in love with this woman, how I managed to get by, for so many years without ,listening to her music I'll never know?
John Scott What planet have you been living on bro? Joni Mitchell is the greatest songwriter of this past century.You fit into the the time capsule where if you listened to any music radio, media or just spoke with anyone about popular music her name should have come up!🤪
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.” - William D. Tammeu.” I love this image. It’s a snapshot of kids growing up and parents letting go. The child does something daring. In this case, it’s straddling a painted pony and enduring a cacophony of garish colors and noise. They’re no longer holding onto dad’s strong hand or mom’s secure apron strings. Suddenly, they are whooshed out of sight. They’re gone. On their own. But what happens on each revolution? As they come full circle, they look for you and loosen their grip with one hand just long enough to wave with delight. The only reason a small child has such courage is because they know you will be there, just in case they need to be rescued. Seeing you - standing firm at every revolution - provides the exact security they need. And it confirms the heart connection you need. The exuberant wave is not hello or good-bye, it’s saying, “We’re in this together.” Remember the carousel. Embrace that image when your children do anything daring. Kindergarten. Their first date. Their first job. College. The mission field. The military. Be there to send them off and welcome them back. And stand firm every minute in between.
Listening to her feels as though we were all children learning about life from her. This is the stuff that changes people's hearts and minds, and pushes society to a better place - one mind at a time. Who could ever come close? Someone who creates the most original piano, guitar, and dulcimer arrangements, puts poetry of that caliber on top the music, delivers it with that beautiful voice and her impeccable mastery of the instruments. And she produced her own albums, which at that time she was doing one album every year - all of them beyond brilliant. And she calls herself a painter first. And to top it off, she's beautiful. We are simply lucky to be able to learn from her and to count her among the living at this time.
So beautifully put. I spent hours on end in my dorm room in the early ’70s listening to Joni’s albums on the original vinyl. They still touch my heart as deeply now. ❤️
Accurate and thoughtfully expressed . Would that JM would conduct Art/music/writing sessions !!! nstead of sad vocal PR shows for a hypocrite government/hypocrite opportunists that have, in all honesty, always loathed her
I grew up with her music along with James Taylor, Carole King, Carly Simon, Bob Dylan, and Donavan and even John Denver, Rod Stewart and Kris Kristofferson. As I grew older I left them behind for bands like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Beatles, the Stones, Lynard Skynard, and of course Led Zeppelin.and all the others in between like Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls , Stevie Nicks with her band and so many others. Now that I am a Senior Citizen, I still enjoy their music but for the last 30 years of my life I have fallen in love with Christian Bands like Third Day, Michael W Smith, Casting Crowns and the list keeps growing as do I.
We have alot of Canadian treasures. I live in the hometown of Gordon Lightfoot. I met him 4 years ago and he signed my book,Lightfoot. I got a close up picture of him also. Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
What can you say about this but amazing, sizzling talent: she is an outstanding poet, singer, guitarist, pianist, and an incredibly consistently excellent performer. Few people, male or female, have such a legacy as hers. I followed her beauty and art through the 70s especially. God Bless You, Joni.
I used to sing Circle Game to my twin sons when they were babies at night…life is so much just a Circle Game, so we need to enjoy the carousel ride in the time that we all share🙏❤️
My mother loved Joni Mitchell. I would sing & dance around the home to her angelic voice.... Now I'm older, my mother has passed and I am packing to move closer to my daughters. Joni's voice is easing the stress of the move for me... I am so thankful this brave woman has shared her immense talent with my family....
This clip is Joni Mitchell capsulized. If you don't get this you'll never get Joni. Artist, troubadour, poet, lyricist, composer, musician and consummate professional. Breathlessly sublime.
Mesmerizing and hypnotic. She has the power to take you along on the journey with her. Troubadour, Shaman, Seer, Poet, Wizard, Mentor, Psychopomp, etc. Of course, true individuals like this only come along once or twice in a generation and those of us with ears will listen and actually hear and those without, won't.
I was about 19 when her first album came out, and I can tell you now that I had a massive crush on JM. I was in awe of her sensibility, her intricately crafted, content-filled songs, her guitar playing, her captivating voice, and of course her beauty. The crush is gone, but when I run across videos like this, especially those of the time just before she emerged on the scene in the US, it reminds me again how I was in absolute awe, thrall really, of this singular woman and artist, and her art.
Joni is my late Brother's daughter's name. After Joni Mitchell. Rae, her middle name, after Bonnie Raitt. We were teenagers back in the late 60's early 70's. Joni was always the top. Still is. Listening to this song, now that I'm 59, means so much more than it did back then. Reality . . .
@John Stevens I'm 59 too, and Joni was at the top for me for many years. Now when I hear her, I get a big lump in my throat. Blue, and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, have got to be my very favorites. But all of her music is a favorite. It's like knowing Home. Blessings Friend....
A person so young writing with such wisdom defies logic, but that is what we have here, possibly the finest song about the understanding of life in all it's phases, The Circle game is a beautiful song, I am a big Joni fan, and also a big Neil Diamond fan, and in these two, we have been blessed to have two of the most creative forces in music.
To All Flower Child. The 60's & 70's produced some of the best lyrics, songs & singers ever. Period. Meaningful lyrics, simple & basic instruments and soulful voices. We can never return to that time again but can only looked behind where we came. How Prophetic! They have never been that simple after all.
2 of the greatest songs by the most talented musician/composer/artist of all time, IMHO. Guitar, Piano, Dulcimer, that voice and an incredibly gifted songwriter, not to mention that she lives in a box of paints. A beautiful person. Keep going, Joni.
Great memories of my mom singing this and circle game to me. getting teary as I write this. how could she sing this to her baby and keep it together? HOW!?!?
her music is so patient and elegant.. she holds her notes, her lyrics cry sincerity and her melodies are spellbinding without screaming at you.. a true treasure
Circle Game is one of my many favorites of Joni Mitchell. The company I work for uses it in their videos when you go to their orientation. Blessings from an Canadian from Orillia Ontario. The hometown of Gordon Lightfoot. 🇨🇦
I'm sure there's music/songs/ballads like this today. It's a shame I don't get to see them. These two ballads are, simply, magically wonderful. One woman, one guitar, one voice, and POWERFUL lyrics. Thanks, Joni.
Sometimes i feel that the flower generation from which Joni, and myself, is from tasted, at least for a moment, paradise. They had the summer of love and Woodstock and as she says from her song of the same name "we've got to get back to the garden." However the taste was fleeting. AS Pink Floyd said, when i was a child i had a fleeting glimpse, outside the corner of my i eye. i turned to look but it was gone. The child has grown the dream has gone . . .now i think we are all left with a deep longing and sadness.
As someone on the downslope of his life, I can say I enjoyed Joni, and Joan, and Judy, and Gordon, and P P & M and so many others. What passes now for music is so much merde.
It's a good thing a lot of her early stuff - and later stuff, too - was on the CBC. They'll take care of it and won't exploit it. They respect her, she knows that, and that's why she grants interviews to them. I don't think people have to worry about copyright as long as the CBC logo is shown.
Love that Circle Game was a response to Sugar Mountain by Neil Young when he and Joni were young folkies in Toronto. Both beautiful songs by amazing artists!
I was a DJ in college, I've listened to and played thousands upon thousands of songs in my lifetime, but only The Circle Game brings a tear to my eyes each time I listen to it. Never has a songwriter ever captured the true essence of life in a song as Joni does on this.
Joni you were not part of my youth. your music came into me, never left and continues having me soar in the peace and solitude i have become so use to and enjoy in the pit of my soul. thanks for that part of me. i would not be me without your precious influence.
There are numerous videos of Joni performing this great song but I think that this is by far the best. Even better than the album track. This is one of those stop dead in your tracks and listen moments.
You can see the full intellectuallity of Joni by watching her guitar playing: once up from down, then down from up. She is such a beautiful person, that she even plays her guitar from every direction is useful to her. -- Hans Rosenthal (A.H.R.D.) PS: I am talking about her left hand finger(s) picking.
I wonder if years from now people will watch videos like these and be as amazed and touched as I am. For now it seems like most people lost their ability to appreciate these treasures. This is one hellOf a performance. She’s just amazing.
Really love Joni Mitchell from the beginning, recently I heard again "For free", one of the rare songs which make me cry ... Hope her health will get better
*I don't know who l am But you know life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden..* ♡ that words show clearly the great shining spirit of that Woman!! May she recover well and soon, we all love you Jony!! :)
Breathtaking songwriting and vocal talent! I was 15 yrs old during this performance yet it took till today for me to appreciate what I heard. Older, wiser.
Although both are awesome vids, I wish the Circle Game one was its own... I sat here for about 20 mins trying to think of an appropriate comment for it, and this is the best I can come up with, along with the biggest sigh I've ever sighed. I just want to show it to everyone....
Wow she is so talented. And I can totally hear what she was saying when in a recent interview said she used to sing more as an alto in the beginning of her career, then started using more of her soprano a year or two later.
It is a rare thing to experience something like this. Thank you, Victor Hageman, for posting this video. I wish that everyone who sees this video, listens to this phenomenal musician/troubadour, takes just another mote of beauty into their lives, and passes that beauty on.
When this song came out I was a child and wondered and wished I could sound like her, there just was no better female voice! At the Canadian Olympics they did this song as a tribute, it sounded incredible you could cry.
"So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through..." That stanza gets me every time...
I’m baffled by the people that gave thumbs down? What were they expecting, a Beatles concert from 1971? It did say Joni Mitchell? Or did it say, “Beatles never before seen”
In a world of inspiring, creatively original artists who can move you beyond your own imagination, this multi faceted force of music & art is easy to describe. There is Joni & everyone else! Simple!
The sheer perfection is stunning. I remember hearing "The Circle Game" before I possibly could have heard it. What happened is that the wistfulness and beauty of my own childhood and of the song got mixed up in my head. I tried to pick holes in the lyrics when I heard them just now. Tearful at the falling of a star, I thought. That's sentimental. Children don't cry at falling stars. Then I realized, oh yes they do.
Electrifying. Historic. You most certainly were right to retrieve this from the CBC archives and put it here on TH-cam. The original definitive performance of Circle Game, unmatched. Imagine having been there in that studio in 1968. Meanwhile, dragging my feet now to slow the circles down... Thanks!
LOVE this wonderful vintage performance. 2 of Joni's best songs played from the heart with only her guitar when it all was new for her. Outstanding and beautiful. How the world has changed. ♥
at the tender age of 58 I have just brought my 1st Joni Mitchell album, and have fallen in love with this woman, how I managed to get by, for so many years without ,listening to her music I'll never know?
Better late than never... right on time. Joan is my life guide and muse.
John Scott I think you needed and older brother to show you the way just like I did way back around 1969
Actually it was my weird younger bro that introduced me to all these amazing chick singer songwriters !!!!!!😼😸😻😻
John Scott What planet have you been living on bro? Joni Mitchell is the greatest songwriter of this past century.You fit into the the time capsule where if you listened to any music radio, media or just spoke with anyone about popular music her name should have come up!🤪
So you see, it really is true
YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY 🌎🚴🎶
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.”
- William D. Tammeu.”
I love this image. It’s a snapshot of kids growing up and parents letting go.
The child does something daring. In this case, it’s straddling a painted pony and enduring a cacophony of garish colors and noise. They’re no longer holding onto dad’s strong hand or mom’s secure apron strings. Suddenly, they are whooshed out of sight. They’re gone. On their own.
But what happens on each revolution? As they come full circle, they look for you and loosen their grip with one hand just long enough to wave with delight.
The only reason a small child has such courage is because they know you will be there, just in case they need to be rescued. Seeing you - standing firm at every revolution - provides the exact security they need. And it confirms the heart connection you need. The exuberant wave is not hello or good-bye, it’s saying, “We’re in this together.”
Remember the carousel. Embrace that image when your children do anything daring. Kindergarten. Their first date. Their first job. College. The mission field. The military. Be there to send them off and welcome them back. And stand firm every minute in between.
i liked this story better the first time when it was called the catcher in the rye.
Beautiful. Thank you.
most beautiful. the thought that your children are really only yours for a little while.
Jay Payleitner What the hell....you say it so well💜
Jay Payleitner
Listening to her feels as though we were all children learning about life from her. This is the stuff that changes people's hearts and minds, and pushes society to a better place - one mind at a time. Who could ever come close? Someone who creates the most original piano, guitar, and dulcimer arrangements, puts poetry of that caliber on top the music, delivers it with that beautiful voice and her impeccable mastery of the instruments. And she produced her own albums, which at that time she was doing one album every year - all of them beyond brilliant. And she calls herself a painter first. And to top it off, she's beautiful. We are simply lucky to be able to learn from her and to count her among the living at this time.
yeah, she is so so incredible
You are as Eloquent a writer as Joni Mitchell is a singersongwriter,composer, instrumentalist,poet and last,but first for her, ARTIST!
Agree entirely to the above comment, such great talent at such tender age!
So beautifully put. I spent hours on end in my dorm room in the early ’70s listening to Joni’s albums on the original vinyl. They still touch my heart as deeply now. ❤️
Accurate and thoughtfully expressed .
Would that JM would conduct
Art/music/writing sessions !!!
nstead of sad vocal PR shows for a hypocrite government/hypocrite opportunists that have, in all honesty, always loathed her
I grew up with her music along with James Taylor, Carole King, Carly Simon, Bob Dylan, and Donavan and even John Denver, Rod Stewart and Kris Kristofferson. As I grew older I left them behind for bands like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Beatles, the Stones, Lynard Skynard, and of course Led Zeppelin.and all the others in between like Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls , Stevie Nicks with her band and so many others. Now that I am a Senior Citizen, I still enjoy their music but for the last 30 years of my life I have fallen in love with Christian Bands like Third Day, Michael W Smith, Casting Crowns and the list keeps growing as do I.
Victor, Thank you so much for finding this and sharing it with the world. Joni is so precious!
This was my wife’s favorite song. A wonderful singer sang it at her funeral.
Joni is Canada's National treasure. I can't listen to her without tearing up.
Agreed!
u dont know what your talking aboot.
I’m proud of her as a human being
Big Kahuna She is The World’s treasure!
Music at 💘
What a gift to have shared some time on this planet with such beauty.
Totally agree
Yes 🙌
Totally agree. Still it's hard to love someone and never be able to tell her right and loud.
Nobody makes me prouder to be Canadian than Joni. Our greatest export ever!
Depending on the mood, Leonard Cohen a very close 2nd.
We have alot of Canadian treasures. I live in the hometown of Gordon Lightfoot. I met him 4 years ago and he signed my book,Lightfoot. I got a close up picture of him also. Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
Tim Horton's.
Happy 80th birthday Joni from New Zealand, Aotearoa 🇳🇿
What can you say about this but amazing, sizzling talent: she is an outstanding poet, singer, guitarist, pianist, and an incredibly consistently excellent performer. Few people, male or female, have such a legacy as hers. I followed her beauty and art through the 70s especially. God Bless You, Joni.
I used to sing Circle Game to my twin sons when they were babies at night…life is so much just a Circle Game, so we need to enjoy the carousel ride in the time that we all share🙏❤️
My mother loved Joni Mitchell. I would sing & dance around the home to her angelic voice....
Now I'm older, my mother has passed and I am packing to move closer to my daughters.
Joni's voice is easing the stress of the move for me... I am so thankful this brave woman has shared her immense talent with my family....
This clip is Joni Mitchell capsulized. If you don't get this you'll never get Joni. Artist, troubadour, poet, lyricist, composer, musician and consummate professional. Breathlessly sublime.
Mesmerizing and hypnotic. She has the power to take you along on the journey with her. Troubadour, Shaman, Seer, Poet, Wizard, Mentor, Psychopomp, etc. Of course, true individuals like this only come along once or twice in a generation and those of us with ears will listen and actually hear and those without, won't.
At 61 now thos song takes me back to my 20's..... love it so much.
John Cassel 1967, 1968.really opened doors for me
I was about 19 when her first album came out, and I can tell you now that I had a massive crush on JM. I was in awe of her sensibility, her intricately crafted, content-filled songs, her guitar playing, her captivating voice, and of course her beauty. The crush is gone, but when I run across videos like this, especially those of the time just before she emerged on the scene in the US, it reminds me again how I was in absolute awe, thrall really, of this singular woman and artist, and her art.
カナダの人ですが、新しい音楽を、世界中に影響与えた天才だと思います。いつ聴いても鳥肌立ちます。
Thank you, I think, says another Canadian 😊
Joni is my late Brother's daughter's name. After Joni Mitchell. Rae, her middle name, after Bonnie Raitt. We were teenagers back in the late 60's early 70's.
Joni was always the top. Still is.
Listening to this song, now that I'm 59, means so much more than it did back then.
Reality . . .
@John Stevens I'm 59 too, and Joni was at the top for me for many years. Now when I hear her, I get a big lump in my throat. Blue, and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, have got to be my very favorites. But all of her music is a favorite. It's like knowing Home. Blessings Friend....
A person so young writing with such wisdom defies logic, but that is what we have here, possibly the finest song about the understanding of life in all it's phases, The Circle game is a beautiful song, I am a big Joni fan, and also a big Neil Diamond fan, and in these two, we have been blessed to have two of the most creative forces in music.
Wow... um, yes. Just simply, yes.
She had a clear vision of life in song. Her words are just as important then as they are today.
I have never heard anything sang with such pure emotion as Circle Game, absolutley stunning.
i can't decide if she's more beautiful or talented. gosh.
lovely very raw and good thankyou sir
simply wonderful...it makes me feel like life has passed and yet it repeats and goes on. Let's all hope this planet can survive our humanity.
Joni Mitchell is just fricken awesome. What a treat listening to her beautiful words. Simply one of the very best!!!
Michael Knapp The best!
I will never miss a a day to hear Joni Mitchell Bith Sides Now . . Thank u Joni for your greatest ontributions in music world
She looks, sounds and writes like an angel. She is on a totally different level than her contemporaries.
To All Flower Child.
The 60's & 70's produced some of the best lyrics, songs & singers ever. Period.
Meaningful lyrics, simple & basic instruments and soulful voices.
We can never return to that time again but can only looked behind where we came. How Prophetic!
They have never been that simple after all.
2 of the greatest songs by the most talented musician/composer/artist of all time, IMHO. Guitar, Piano, Dulcimer, that voice and an incredibly gifted songwriter, not to mention that she lives in a box of paints. A beautiful person. Keep going, Joni.
Great memories of my mom singing this and circle game to me. getting teary as I write this. how could she sing this to her baby and keep it together? HOW!?!?
Probably becuse she was singing it to her baby. :-)
wannt this song at my funeral
Joni Mitchell was just a baby here, but so wise beyond her years...
her music is so patient and elegant.. she holds her notes, her lyrics cry sincerity and her melodies are spellbinding without screaming at you.. a true treasure
"patient" - yes, that is it. Thank you.
Circle Game is one of my many favorites of Joni Mitchell. The company I work for uses it in their videos when you go to their orientation. Blessings from an Canadian from Orillia Ontario. The hometown of Gordon Lightfoot. 🇨🇦
I'm sure there's music/songs/ballads like this today. It's a shame I don't get to see them. These two ballads are, simply, magically wonderful. One woman, one guitar, one voice, and POWERFUL lyrics. Thanks, Joni.
KidIndigo1 - There’s good stuff out there but try to find someone who uses about 60 different guitar tunings and writes as she does...
Incomparable !
From Tokyo in Japan deeply loves this song .
Sometimes i feel that the flower generation from which Joni, and myself, is from tasted, at least for a moment, paradise. They had the summer of love and Woodstock and as she says from her song of the same name "we've got to get back to the garden." However the taste was fleeting. AS Pink Floyd said, when i was a child i had a fleeting glimpse, outside the corner of my i eye. i turned to look but it was gone. The child has grown the dream has gone . . .now i think we are all left with a deep longing and sadness.
I loved her then and I love her just as...perhaps more...today. One of Canada's treasures.
As someone on the downslope of his life, I can say I enjoyed Joni, and Joan, and Judy, and Gordon, and P P & M and so many others. What passes now for music is so much merde.
I love Joni. I’ve been listening to her since 1970. I never get tired of her.
It's a good thing a lot of her early stuff - and later stuff, too - was on the CBC. They'll take care of it and won't exploit it. They respect her, she knows that, and that's why she grants interviews to them. I don't think people have to worry about copyright as long as the CBC logo is shown.
Love that Circle Game was a response to Sugar Mountain by Neil Young when he and Joni were young folkies in Toronto. Both beautiful songs by amazing artists!
How it's possible to write such lyrics at such a young age I'll never be able to comprehend...
Hearing Joni sing Circle Game always makes me cry.....beautiful just the same! ♥
Linda Berg It makes me go way back to such a great time with the best music ever produced!
Me too. 💓
I was a DJ in college, I've listened to and played thousands upon thousands of songs in my lifetime, but only The Circle Game brings a tear to my eyes each time I listen to it. Never has a songwriter ever captured the true essence of life in a song as Joni does on this.
Joni you were not part of my youth. your music came into me, never left and continues having me soar in the peace and solitude i have become so use to and enjoy in the pit of my soul. thanks for that part of me. i would not be me without your precious influence.
Wonderful is Joni at this age singing these two songs, pure bliss.
Beautiful Poet, Angelic Voice..one of the All-Time Greats.....
Timeless music . I was in form one when I heard her sing . Years later , I still listen to her . Even in her old age she did ' both sides amazingly .
A great song writer. Her song are from the heart. The Both Sides Now and Circle Game mean something different to me now in my life.
One of the best songwriters of the 20th century. Just astounding, a gift.
Such a Lovely Artist / Poet! Thank You Joni!❤💯😎💕👐
you just can't find tunes like these anymore.
Nai Palm - Homebody
There are numerous videos of Joni performing this great song but I think that this is by far the best. Even better than the album track. This is one of those stop dead in your tracks and listen moments.
History will prove Joni Mitchell to be one of, if not the greatest artists of our time.
Love her and she's in the hospital ......prayers for you, Joni
At 50 i knew this music. it had opened my eyes and unclosed my heart.
Came to this after seeing Newport 2022.
My eyes are a mess right now.
What a legend! I've never seen anyone like her
Two of the best songs ever written. Joni, you are such a beautiful soul!
Little Green and The Circle Game are 2 of my favorites from Joni. My favorite artist.
Her audience is mesmerized. I was when I heard her preform in 1972. Deb R
The Queen of folk ~ Joni Mitchell !
Together with Sandy Denny. Two great folk singers from opposite sides of the Atlantic
You can see the full intellectuallity of Joni by watching her guitar playing: once up from down, then down from up. She is such a beautiful person, that she even plays her guitar from every direction is useful to her. -- Hans Rosenthal (A.H.R.D.) PS: I am talking about her left hand finger(s) picking.
I wonder if years from now people will watch videos like these and be as amazed and touched as I am. For now it seems like most people lost their ability to appreciate these treasures. This is one hellOf a performance. She’s just amazing.
Really love Joni Mitchell from the beginning, recently I heard again "For free", one of the rare songs which make me cry ... Hope her health will get better
*I don't know who l am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden..*
♡ that words show clearly the great shining spirit of that Woman!! May she recover well and soon, we all love you Jony!! :)
Breathtaking songwriting and vocal talent! I was 15 yrs old during this performance yet it took till today for me to appreciate what I heard. Older, wiser.
Oh how PAINFULLY I can relate to these songs and the experiences they sing of.
I love that song 'The Circle Game'...I think of my boys every time I hear it...Sweet Joni, she is so lovely here in this video..Love her!
D D She captured the essence of innocence and humanity!
I think this is the best performance of this song I've seen.
Two great songs. Circle Game is one of my favorites.
The painted ponies go up and down .....
Beautiful cat!
Marsha Rupe The basic song sounds like a Little Green. Not that that's a bad thing...
Im 58 ,and hearing it right now.in my cottage el hatillo.,Tegucigalpa,Honduras "central America
These are very special songs to hear at the start of the year.
At any time of year, any year!
GOAT. Joni Mitchell Priceless ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Although both are awesome vids, I wish the Circle Game one was its own... I sat here for about 20 mins trying to think of an appropriate comment for it, and this is the best I can come up with, along with the biggest sigh I've ever sighed. I just want to show it to everyone....
2 of the greatest songs in the English language and both by the same person. Genius isn't always perfect. This is.
Wow she is so talented. And I can totally hear what she was saying when in a recent interview said she used to sing more as an alto in the beginning of her career, then started using more of her soprano a year or two later.
It is a rare thing to experience something like this. Thank you, Victor Hageman, for posting this video. I wish that everyone who sees this video, listens to this phenomenal musician/troubadour, takes just another mote of beauty into their lives, and passes that beauty on.
When this song came out I was a child and wondered and wished I could sound like her, there just was no better female voice! At the Canadian Olympics they did this song as a tribute, it sounded incredible you could cry.
I haven't heard this song in decades and remember loving it. And it's been on TH-cam all these years.
She is above and beyond anyone else with her most lovely voice...
"So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through..."
That stanza gets me every time...
Have listend to her she she started, a young man serving in the military and newly married. I am now approching that last revolvoing year....
Saw her in Atlanta in the early seventies. What a beautiful lady. Great talent. Love her music.
Thank You, Joni 💐
Best performances of these two songs I've ever heard and seen! Perfect in every way!
I’m baffled by the people that gave thumbs down? What were they expecting, a Beatles concert from
1971? It did say Joni Mitchell? Or did it say, “Beatles never before seen”
Maybe it's the poor image quality. And the occasional break in the sound.
When you say.. What else?
Her Voice fills the empty all around with Grace and Poetry..
Angel..
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This made my day.....starting out watching this...one of my very favorites by her.
Amazing, just a singer,guitar and a mike. Thank you for making this available. She was a really pretty girl,with a great voice.
+John Taylor She's also a pretty good songwriter. One of the best, in fact.
In a world of inspiring, creatively original artists who can move you beyond your own imagination, this multi faceted force of music & art is easy to describe. There is Joni & everyone else! Simple!
the world needs more Joni's
The sheer perfection is stunning. I remember hearing "The Circle Game" before I possibly could have heard it. What happened is that the wistfulness and beauty of my own childhood and of the song got mixed up in my head.
I tried to pick holes in the lyrics when I heard them just now. Tearful at the falling of a star, I thought. That's sentimental. Children don't cry at falling stars. Then I realized, oh yes they do.
as good as it gets...perfect songs..wow
A pioneer ,stunning,so many memories,Joni is one the best
Wonderful.------Scott from near Grand Rapids Michigan. July 28, 2023
Joni remains a consummate artist. She continues to evolve and her music remains as fresh as ever.
This is a very powerful song. I am so grateful that she wrote it to share with us and that she had the chance to bring it to the world.
Electrifying. Historic. You most certainly were right to retrieve this from the CBC archives and put it here on TH-cam. The original definitive performance of Circle Game, unmatched. Imagine having been there in that studio in 1968. Meanwhile, dragging my feet now to slow the circles down... Thanks!
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