From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1268 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 Sunday, September 28 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1268 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Joni wedding song [Jeff Clark ] Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #325 [Paul Ivice ] Re: Paul Williams in the 1970's [Dave Blackburn ] Re: joni and laura [Jeff Clark ] Paul Williams in the 1970's [Laura Oppermann ] Re: One More Try [Jamie Zubairi Home ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 09:50:43 -0700 From: Jeff Clark Subject: Joni wedding song I was wondering if this issue died, or was out there lingering around unresolved, sus chord after sus chord after sus chord, like a Joni song. Thinking of good wedding songs by Joni ("everything comes and goes") Mitchell isn't easy. We are talking about a wedding, not a death march or a prison sentence, and it is not to be implied that a wedding is in any way similar to the other two. Since My Best to You is nixed for not being by Joni, I recommend Underneath the Streetlight (UTS), (trying to avoid "JRCTS" (Joni-related Carpel Tunnel Syndrome) to be edited somewhat and used as the actual wedding vows. Like the judge says "Do you swear to take this person to be your wife?" Your Honor, I swear to the blinking planes above I Do, I I swear on the disco spark dark I do, I swear on the bebop boys chasing the black bird, I do", etc. Then the song Shine (S) could be used for the mother son dance. It is a beautiful positve song about being happy despite all the crappy things in the world, like cell phones, lawyers, distracted drivers that don't know where they're going, doctors pills giving you brand new ills, sex selling everything, etc. And it give more attention to S, which is so underappreciated. Here in NE Ohio on a gorgeous early autumn day, I will take a long bike ride and am going to take pictures and send them to Joni and see if she feels like painting them. Jeff, still listening to Out in the Country. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:50:42 -0400 From: Paul Ivice Subject: Re: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #325 She's not thought of as a harmony singer the way that Emmylou or Linda are, but she is a great harmonysinger. Considering that Joni sang harmony on several tracks of Carole King's Tapestry, one of the best-selling albums of all-time, the above statement is blatantly false and poorly researched, at least the first part of it. Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:56:52 -0700 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Paul Williams in the 1970's Paul is now the chairman and president of ASCAP, doing what he can to get composers paid in the new reality of content becoming free. On Sep 28, 2014, at 5:38 AM, Laura Oppermann wrote: > Wow! Haven't heard the name Paul Williams for awhile. > > Does anyone remember back in the '70's or early '80's he had a contest > (maybe a yearly thing ?) for singer/songwriters to send in their cassette > tapes and/or lyrics and win studio time with him or have famous singers > sing your song? I wish now I could remember where I heard about the > contest. > > I do remember entering more than once with a cassette of my own > composition, singing and accompanying myself on piano (it probably hit > their trash bucket after about 2 seconds ....LOL) and entered a poem/song > lyrics which was more of a wailing lament about missing my deceased father > and of the hopeless circumstance I found myself in with mom & her husband > #2. I think I probably wrote it when I was about 16 but submitted it in my > early '20's. I didn't win, but did receive an honorable mention with some > good critique from Mr. Williams himself. It was quite thrilling! > > Thanks for posting the link to the song: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTpzTbk8cgI > It was very exciting to listen to this today, and hear Joni in the > background! Also, to learn of the link between the two of them. Hadn't a > clue! > > Laura ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:00:41 -0700 From: Jeff Clark Subject: Re: joni and laura Hi Michael, I didn't realize she sang on a LOT of other peoples albums, of course on some. I just, personally, really like the SOUND of her voice at this period of Out in the Country. I find the song tailored perfectly to her singing style and I get a feeling she really enjoys singing it. There seems to be great chemistry among them. I can't really hear Linda or Jackson, but at that point (1972) I think Joni was much more famous. Paul is limited as a singer of course. I've come across people who think Joni should just write songs and not sing, probably everyone has. Plenty of people think Dylan shouldn't sing, but he still does, if you want call it that. I've been reading up a bit on Paul Williams and I definitely want to see his documentary Paul Williams Still Alive. And he won a Grammy of the year award recently? Rambling a bit, but one of my favorite clips on youtube is the 1975 grammy awards for record of the year. I would imagine most people have seen it, buy maybe not. Its where Joni is nominated for Help Me and John Lennon and Paul Simon introduce. You have to type 17th Grammy Awards John Lennon and Paul Simon record of the year, I think. Its a great time capsule. good day. On Saturday, September 27, 2014 10:54 PM, Michael Paz wrote: HI Jeff I have always thought of Joni as a great harmony singer. She did all of her own voices for so many years on her studio albums and then I can think of so many songs she has sung harmony on other peoples studio albums and live recordings. I have always loved Long Ago... and I love the duet she sang with Seal, If I Could... My 2 centavos Paz On Sep 27, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Jeff Clark wrote: I did enjoy hearing Joni sing on Out in the Country. She's not thought of as a harmony singer the way that Emmylou or Linda are, but she is a great harmony singer. Prior to this, my favorite singing of hers on someone else's album was on James Taylor's Long Ago and Far Away. Joni was sometimes referred to as the "sweet singer", and at this period I could see how the term applies. She sang beautiful duets with Johnny Cash. I love Laura and used to have most of her stuff, but things are scattered, so when I've needed a Laura fix in the past year or so I go to Youtube, and despite all the great songs Laura has written and composed and is famous for, I love hearing her do Oo-o Child. I've forwarded it to people, etc. I love the video clips of her in it. Ooh Child, most people know was popularized by the Five Stairsteps and written by Stan Vincent. I haven't seen if Stan Vincent sings it and Joni sings harmony on it yet :) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:38:51 -0500 From: Laura Oppermann Subject: Paul Williams in the 1970's Wow! Haven't heard the name Paul Williams for awhile. Does anyone remember back in the '70's or early '80's he had a contest (maybe a yearly thing ?) for singer/songwriters to send in their cassette tapes and/or lyrics and win studio time with him or have famous singers sing your song? I wish now I could remember where I heard about the contest. I do remember entering more than once with a cassette of my own composition, singing and accompanying myself on piano (it probably hit their trash bucket after about 2 seconds ....LOL) and entered a poem/song lyrics which was more of a wailing lament about missing my deceased father and of the hopeless circumstance I found myself in with mom & her husband #2. I think I probably wrote it when I was about 16 but submitted it in my early '20's. I didn't win, but did receive an honorable mention with some good critique from Mr. Williams himself. It was quite thrilling! Thanks for posting the link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTpzTbk8cgI It was very exciting to listen to this today, and hear Joni in the background! Also, to learn of the link between the two of them. Hadn't a clue! Laura ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:18:10 +0100 From: Jamie Zubairi Home Subject: Re: One More Try How about Stay In Touch? Jamie Zubairi Actor, Voiceover, Painter, Photographer. Agent: Byron's Management 020 72428096 SpotLight Showreel Unbroken Line Jamie Zubairi is Associate Artist at Ovalhouse working on new works for 2014 You can see him soon in: *Three Sides To A Fence* Lost Theatre Solo Festival 7:30pm 9th October 2014 *Expectations* October 22-25 Ovalhouse Theatre *Cucumber* for Channel 4, by Russell T Davies due Jan 2015 Current exhibition *Clapham Library September 2014* Recent work: *Tino Sehgal Unilever Commission "These Associations"* Tate Modern (Turner Prize Nominated) *Unbroken Line*' OvalHouse, supported by public funding from the Arts Council of England. On 25 September 2014 13:48, Laura Stanley wrote: > Thanks Bob. B Love is an awesome song. B Listening to it now. B Hmmmmm? > Anybody else with other suggestions or thoughts? > > > > On Thursday, September 25, 2014 6:57 AM, "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" > wrote: > > > Well, I would never think SOSC for a weddingsong. "A Woman Must Have > Everything" ? "Harder and harderjust to be nice"? "Any man in the world > holding out his arm wouldsoon be made to pay"? "Lovers in anger - block of > ice"?Really? At a wedding? > > Is it a shotgun wedding? > > "Love" would be my #1 choicewith "Jericho" a close second. > > Bob > > NP: The Mountain Goats, "Lovecraftin Brooklyn" > > > > From: B B B B Laura Stanley > To: B B B B "joni@smoe.org", > Date: B B B B 09/24/2014 09:47 PM > Subject: B B B B One More Try > Sent by: B B B B owner-joni@smoe.org > > > > I have tried to send an email to the list twice, butit doesn't show up so > this > is my final attempt. > I am wondering what Joni song ya'll would recommend to me as a song > todance to > at my son's wedding Nov. 22nd? > Ideas? > I'm thinking Shades of Scarlett Conquering so far... > Thanks,Laura > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The information transmitted is intended only for the person > or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material.B > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are > hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, > distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon > this message is prohibited. 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