From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2002 #214 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, May 13 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 214 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- babs njc ["mack watson-bush" ] Re: What music will play at your funeral? NJC ["Dolphie Bush" ] Re: Somewhere Over The Rainbow--NJC [FredNow@aol.com] Re: What music will play at your funeral? NJC [Penny ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:39:56 -0500 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: babs njc Well, I followed Mark's advice and ordered "Wet" from a reputable music online service but darn it they just cannot seem to get it and have been waiting for 3 months now. Did get a couple of really good albums there though. Rosalie suggested ebay which I had never tried. Found the album for 99 cents, it was an LP which I was reticent to get but I won it. It arrived but the mailman shoved it into the mailbox so when I got it into the house it was shaped like one of those records that we accidentally let get too hot: warped. Remember those? I put it in the hottest room in the house under a box and lo and behold it worked. It is fabulous. "on rainy afternoons." Also found Gene Cotton "before my heart finds out" which I have wanted for 20 years. Someone else took it and now he refuses to give it up. haha mack ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:42:18 -0500 From: "Dolphie Bush" Subject: Re: What music will play at your funeral? NJC What a morbid thread. So morbid in fact that it is fascinating and I couldn't help reading each post pertaining to it, and responding. Where am I going-Gino Vanelli All I Want-Carole King To Be in love with me-Melissa Manchester mack - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deb Messling" To: Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:27 PM Subject: RE: What music will play at your funeral? NJC > >My sister wanted Cat Stevens's "Morning Has Broken" played at her > >funeral. That song was chosen to be played as people left the church > >after the service. During the service, they played a scratchy old LP from > >1960 or thereabouts with my sister and her college chorus singing "Swing > >Low Sweet Chariot." That was hard to listen to. And I don't know if it > >was my sister's choice or her kids, but they played Joni's "Blue" > >also. I'm not sure there's anything lyrically about that song that's > >appropriate to a funeral, but the mood is perfect. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Deb Messling -^..^- > messling@enter.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 5/7/02 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Denny Giovanetti Subject: Re: music that might play at my funeral if I die -- NJC Considering that it's the one great party you can't make (but will probably pay for, at least figuratively), when everybody's talking about what a great so-and-so you were. . .well, Neil Young's _Arc_ 30+ minutes of feedback, real loud. Unless, of course, there's the chance of a rehearsal dinner. Denny NP: Lee Konitz, "Alone together" "The American public wants tragedy with a happy ending." --Wm. Dean Howells ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 23:44:19 -0700 From: "Victor Johnson" Subject: RE: weddings and funerals -- NJC > "Ring of Fire" -- Johnny Cash > > > I did this song at the last wedding I played. It was a special request by the bride and groom. Had them all dancing around in a ring. Of course it then took me three months to get paid but that's a whole other story. I had to play at a memorial service a few years ago. I played "Orphan Girl" Gillian Welch because it was my friends favorite song. I also chose Grateful Dead "Ripple" which to me, captures the whole idea of death better than any song I have ever heard. "There is a road, No simple highway. Between the dawn and the dark of night. And if you go, Noone may follow. That path is for your steps alone. Ripple in still water Where there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow You who chose, To lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone. If you should stand, Then who's to guide you? If I knew the way, I would take you home. La la la la..." excerpt from "Ripple" (Garcia/Hunter) footnote: several weeks later, I went to see Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in Atlanta. She played "Orphan Girl" and made a special dedication to my friend Andy, who died from cancer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:42:05 +1200 From: "hell" Subject: Re: Bonnie Bramlett NJC And speaking of Bonnie Bramlett, I'm a bit of a fan of her (and Delaney's) daughter, Bekka Bramlett. She appeared in one of the iterations of Fleetwood Mac, when they released the album "Time". I haven't heard Bonnie, but Bekka has a very powerful voice, and she performs a couple of great songs on that album, particularly "Winds Of Change" and "Nothing Without You" (which she co-wrote with Billy Burnette). Hell - who had a very disturbing Jonifest dream last night, in which Joni appeared (in a VERY sporty black Mercedes)! ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman hell@ihug.co.nz Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 00:51:53 EDT From: FredNow@aol.com Subject: Re: Somewhere Over The Rainbow--NJC writes: >I am familiar with "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" because this was taken >from THE WIZARD OF OZ, but the one powerful version of it was by Jevetta >Steele from the CORRINA CORRINA soundtrack. Not even Jane Monheit, Sylvia >McNair or (sorry if I am being sacrilegious here) Judy Garland. Steele's >version has this undeniable soul that cuts through the heart. >Joseph Never heard Jevetta Steele's version, but I'm sure it's as great as you say. I've only heard her sing one song: "I Am Calling You" from the film Baghdad Cafe (or Out Of Rosenheim in its original German version). Steele smokes that song to a crisp. - -Fred ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 23:06:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Penny Subject: Re: What music will play at your funeral? NJC Alan wrote: Les and Mark in Seattle that I'm aware of, and you know, there could be more. Born in my grandfathers house (he was a Doctor and minister), in Vinton. Funny, went back to Vinton for my favorite aunt's funeral in 85 and the once thriving place had turned into almost a ghost town from what had happened to the farm economy. Some kinda cool things remain though, one being the state park just outside of town bears my family name. Things I think of when I think of Iowa - catching fireflies on summer nights, fabulous tenderloin sandwiches, exactly north/south or east/west gravel country roads, drinking water that smelled like minerals, three HUGE meals a day and very honest, unpretentious people. Nice to visit relatives back there, but imho the one big downfall is the scenery. I LOVE living here, just across the river from Portland OR and seeing Mt St. Helens out the back door and Mt Hood out the front, but with the Ocean a short two hour (max) drive away. I think only Seattle or Vancouver BC could be better places to live for great scenery and accessiblity to the lifestyle and events we like to take in. Anne wrote: Oh no, I've thought about my funeral since I was a teen without any qualms. Haha, the one thing that I hope they'll let me do, or more precisely, do for me if it can be open casket, is prop me up on my elbow wearing a Rams sweatshirt and grin, so the whole service they'll have the last chance of seeing me as I lived. Kinda like they had all come over to watch the last big game with a sports nut. Heck, that just gave me an idea. Instead of listing songs to be played, maybe I should insist that my funeral be held on a Sunday during a Rams game (or replay the Ram's Superbowl win from a couple of years ago if I die off-season!) Then if the Rams should happen to lose that day they could just adjust my lower lip out a little bit to form a pout and close the lid. I mean why not make it a hoot? That body was just the wrapper anyway. :-) Peace, Penny LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! 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