From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1159 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, September 3 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1159 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1157 [janine sherman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:15:26 -0700 From: janine sherman Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2014 #1157 There is this old chestnut from John Lennon..... Amid all the accolades about the only sour note was John Lennon's admonishment, "Why do you let other people have your hits for you? Put some fiddles on it." As Mitchell noted years later, "He said this about Court and Spark, mind you." Lots of Joni, Janine On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 5:56 PM, JMDL Digest wrote: JMDL Digest Wednesday, September 3 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1157 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- RE: Joni and the Beatles ["Susan E. McNamara" ] - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 21:31:33 +0000 From: "Susan E. McNamara" Subject: RE: Joni and the Beatles She and Chuck Mitchell used to do Norwegian Wood in their club act. That's the only time I can recall her covering a Beatles song. She also had a very poignant encounter with George Harrison in an LA studio once. I believe that Impossible Dreamer is about John Lennon. I am ready to be challenged on that belief (try as you may). Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Betsy Blue Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 4:47 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Joni and the Beatles In high school, I took a break from Joni to indulge an obsession with The Beatles. Recently I saw Sir Paul in concert. (Wow!) After being on this list for a while, I am able to go back to familiar songs and listen much more critically. I am curious about the seeming lack of influence the band had on her, considering the timeframe. They were into world music, complex chords and changing time signature, and lots of different popular music subgenres in the late sixties, just as she was coming out. Only a few things come to mind: she said she dressed "Beatles-ish" in the 60s, mentioned Beatles records playing on a battery-operated turntable in Greece, has an anecdote about talking with John during his lost year, and sang a really lovely snippet of With a Little Help in concert with James Taylor. But she never covered a single song of theirs, even live. Was it personal taste, their overpopularity, competitiveness? Am I missing something? Betsy - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1157 ****************************** - ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1159 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------