From: les@jmdl.com (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #75 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Wednesday, March 17 2004 Volume 2004 : Number 075 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Unreleased Songs recordings? ["Marian Russell" ] Re: joni's lowest note [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Unreleased Songs recordings? [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Vinyl LPs ["jlobello" ] a case of you [Kate ] Re: a case of you [SCJoniGuy@aol.com] Re: Unreleased Songs recordings? [Gary Zack Subject: Unreleased Songs recordings? From the list of unreleased songs at www.jonimitchell.com, I found a fair number that I have never heard before. Do recordings of these songs exist? : Ballad In Blue CARA'S CASTLE DAISY SUMMER PIPER Endless Summer Free Darling GEMINI TWIN HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW I WON'T CRY JEREMY Julie's Mom Kelly Lazy Summer LOVE IS LIKE A BIG BRASS BAND MIDNIGHT COWBOY SONG, THE MIDSUMMER MORNING MOON IN THE MIRROR POOR SAD BABY Song To A Daydreamer STRAW-FLOWER ME What Will You Give Me WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND Marian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:56:53 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: joni's lowest note "I also listened for some of the highest notes and found: California - F# All I Want - F" Thanks for the continued info, Marian...you too are very sharp! ;~) Bob NP: The Tribe, "Urge For Going" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:05:33 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: Unreleased Songs recordings? "Do recordings of these songs exist?" Not that I've ever heard, but of course that doesn't mean they don't exist. In the case of "The Midnight Cowboy Song", folksinger Donal Leace recorded it and he told me that he worked from a tape of singing it...a tape that he still has! So that one definitely exists. "Song To A Daydreamer" is actually "Blue on Blue" and should not be listed with these other titles. Bob, hoping to hear all of these someday... NP: Doris Hardoon, "Conversation" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:00:43 -0500 From: "jlobello" Subject: Vinyl LPs All I finally completed my Joni vinyl collection (except for Night Ride Home)! I scored big time yesterday when the used book store I deal with came up with: STAS Clouds Blue (I already had this) Mingus Shadows and Light CMIARS The cover to STAS is like new and it was the cheapest at 3 bucks. Although, the record had no scratches it was full of pops and hisses. The Clouds album cover was a little more wore and the recording was about the same quality as the STAS. Blue was like new, with CD quality sound and the cover was excellent. Mingus was the same as Blue in both respects. Shadows and Light was also excellently preserved, but the cover was haggarded and it was a "cut out". CMIARS had a good cover but the recording had low level pops and hisses. Seems to me the later Asylum recordings ('79/'80) were on better quality vinyl. The Blue album was also of the "good" vinyl, and had to be printed in the late 80s because it had a bar-code on the back of the album cover. I'm still looking for a vinyl copy of Night Ride Home. Jono ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:30:44 -0600 From: Kate Subject: a case of you oh i wish i had permission to forward the email i just received about joni's heyday being in her youth, her best work done then, etc, and diana krall singing a case of you better than joni herself. it is to laugh! surely diana is not the only person who has covered this song!! sheesh. i have some serious armwrestling to do here. point me in the direction of that list of 'a case of you covers', someone, please. kate of the north - -- http://xoetc.antville.org Who does she think she is Anaos Nin? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:44:03 -0500 From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: a case of you Kate, go to my "Joni Undercover" section of the jmdl: In the section marked: 'Search the Covers Database ' Use the dropdown menu to select ACOY and you'll see the 45 selections there. Bob NP: Laura Nyro, "Child In A Universe" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:08:56 -0500 From: Gary Zack Subject: Re: Unreleased Songs recordings? I thought I read somewhere that "Ballad In Blue" was actually "Blue on Blue" as well. Doe anyone else remember reading this? Best, Gary SCJoniGuy@aol.com wrote: >"Do recordings of these songs exist?" > > >"Song To A Daydreamer" is actually "Blue on Blue" and should not be listed >with these other titles. > >Bob, hoping to hear all of these someday... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:39:54 -0500 From: "Maggie McNally" Subject: was mondegreen, now is the NYJonifest I know this is weeks old now, but I have to add a plug, that while you are registering to come to the Northeast Jonifest - where you will have days and hours to hear Joni music sung and played by countless talented individuals (not me!), and have people who will instantly get it when you say some line from a song, and you will be surrounded by beauty - that you also get yourself to the raffle site and tell us what wonderful and unique raffle item you might be able to contribute in support of our fundraising efforts. Chuck mentioned the Mondegreen book that was a FABULOUS raffle prize, and last year there were amazing discs from list members, books and magazines with loads of Joni content, socks, clocks and stocks (well, no stocks, but socks and clocks for sure). So please, be creative and support this wacky, wonderful community! Maggie - -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Eisenhardt [mailto:c.eisenhardt@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:13 PM To: AsharaJM@aol.com Cc: joni@smoe.org; cul@deeperwants.com Subject: Re: raving raveen raven curls Thanks for the hand-off, Ashara (hey, Barb and I are going to register any day now for the Northeast Jonifest comin' up soon at Camp Balmy Love in the beautiful Catskills, you can count on us!) Badda-bing! Mondegreens, eh? This is a term applied to 'misunderstood lyrics' - when the ear or comprehension fails, the mind fills the gaps, even when it makes no sense whatsoever. We have kicked around 'mondegreens' ever so many times in the list (but I'm always ready for another round), regarding misunderstood lyrics in general, and Joni lyrics in particular. The term 'mondegreen' comes from an essay originally published in the New Yorker in the mid 50's, by a frequent contributer in those times named Sylvia Wright. The 'mondegreen' article is collected in a volume of essays of hers (which was a MAJOR PRIZE in the Northeast Jonfest Incredible Giveaway Raffle two years ago!) entitled (something like) "Get away from me with those Christmas Presents!" Sylvia Wright coined the term after a Scotch folksong called 'The Bonny Earl of Murray' (about some war or other in the highlands vs. lowlands in a distant century past). It seems some bad guys had slain the Earl of Murray and 'layd him on the green'. Sylvia wight, hearing this song in her youth, always heard this lyric as 'slain the Earl of Murray, and Lady Mondegreen' So, to her, it was a tragedy compounded. she was shocked later in life to learn there was no Lady involved. So she wrote this essay about this 'phenomennon' and noted some other examples. There are websites now devoted to this, usually taking examples from us public in the context of the popular song (altho church hymns and litanies are also a rich vein for mondegreens.) You can Google the mondegreen archives as you wish. Here are a few favorites: - --'blessed are thou, a monk swimmin' - --'Lead On, O Kinky Turtle' (King Eternal) - --'Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear (Gladly the Cross I'd Bear) The Beatles... - --'In My Llife, I've Loved the Mall' - --the above mentioned 'Camp Balmy Love' (don't forget! register for Jonifest Today!) - --and the immortal 'the girl with collitis goes by' Joni monegreens are always worth a submission to the jmdl. (JC!) I had one where I always heard 'I found this empty seat in this crowded waiting room' as 'I found my self-deceit '....hmmm that sort of ups the ante on the whole tune....Ashara always heard ' Ink on a pen' as ' In Connepen ' (you know, that little town in northeastern New Jersey) also, I always heard Harry's House as 'and Harry's decoupe' not 'Harry's takehome pay'. Ok, oK. That's it for mondegreens for now. Please archive this message and pass it on to the new folk so I don't have to keep rewriting it every now and then. Don't forget to register for JoniFest today! Send in your favorite mondegreen right after that, Joni mondegreens getting extra credit... ChuckE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:58:43 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Joni mention in the new RS (Ben Affleck on the cover) on page 26, this bit of 'modern trivia': "Cure singer Robert Smith stains his lips with Jane Cosmetics #3 Reddest, but Joni Mitchell prefers Estee Lauder's Silent Red". Too bad Andrea's not around, she would have enjoyed seeing that. Bob NP: Sun Kil Moon, "Duk Koo Kim" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:03:12 -0500 From: ljirvin@jmdl.com Subject: Today's Library Links: March 17 On March 17 the following articles were published: 1967: "Interview with Ed Sciaky" - WMMR (Interview - Audio Transcription) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=606 1988: "Joni Mitchell Interview" - Book (Interview, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=390 1988: "Rock Poets from Canada Roll Anew" - New York Times (Review - Album) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1104 1991: "Joni Mitchell comes in from the cold" - Boston Globe (Interview) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=1091 1991: "Joni Mitchell Finds The Peace of Middle Age" - New York Times (Interview, with photographs) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=217 1998: "Morrison Rejoins Tour" - Addicted To Noise website (News Item) http://www.jmdl.com/articles/view.cfm?id=45 ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2004 #75 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? 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