From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #155 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org 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 Tuesday, May 30 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 155 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Such a friendly welcome! [MoVFTYite@aol.com] Two Days (Doris Day and Anita O'Day) [Joseph Palis ] re: Top 40 Hits of 1967 ["mia _" ] re: Top 40 Hits of 1967 [Bob Muller ] Demons in my computer!!!!!!!!!!!1 [Peep Richman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 03:18:19 EDT From: MoVFTYite@aol.com Subject: Such a friendly welcome! Hi Anita, Laura, Patti, and others on the list, Hope you're all enjoying the holiday weekend! Thanks so much for all of the warm welcomes! I am so glad to have found this list! You do seem like a very friendly and supportive group of people. I definitely need to brush up on more of Joni's music so I can understand more of the lyrical references made. I'm very inspired by you all. I think I need to sign up for dulcimer lessons again - did that for a short time last year but it was a group lesson with people who had mostly never touched stringed instruments before, and since I play guitar and read tabs already, the class was too basic for me. Perhaps I'll sign up for private lessons sometime this summer so I can start learning some of those Joni dulcimer tunes I've been wanting to play! I'm also excited to be receiving the "Hits" songbook with tablature in it - that will be fun to tackle, and I'll be checking out the online database too! Still looking for guitarists in the Denver area... Thanks so much! Angela :-) In a message dated 5/28/2006 2:06:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org writes: I'd also like to say hi to Angela and say that not only will you get more information and knowledge about Joni Mitchell that probably Joni doesn't even know/remember, you'll also get great emotional support when you need it. I know because I have from time to time. The joni list  couldn't do without it. Love Anita xx In a message dated 5/28/2006 2:06:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org writes: I see the joyful gathering of people on this list and the incredible love for and sharing with each other as a testimony to the good seed Joni has planted by so generously and humbly sharing her talents with us. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:58:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Joseph Palis Subject: Two Days (Doris Day and Anita O'Day) Hi Jonilistas~ So I went to my favorite indie record store (don't we all have one we like to frequent?) yesterday and listened to interesting albums. Two of the recent albums are from Doris Day and Anita O'Day. Doris Day's "Love Album" has an interesting cover of Joni's BSN. Not sure if this is the same track as the one in Bob's Covers Project but I am guessing it is the same. But I am quite impressed by former Calamity Jane's version of BSN. It was clearly sung her way, her key, her style. Although I ended up buying something else, I made a mental note to revisit Doris Day and buy this album. I don't know if the "Love Album" is the last record Doris Day cut but her voice never became a shadow of her former self. I was studying her timbre and phrasing and wished she also covered another Joni song of that era. Maybe "The Dawntreader". Sadly I cannot say the same thing for one of my favorite jazz/swing singers -- Anita O'Day. Whoever engineered the idea of recording the 86-year old O'Day is cruel. The voice is no longer there. And what could be more hurtful for a fan to listen is how she can no longer "keep time" the way she used to with effortless grace. While O'Day has never been known to possess a perfect pitch, this latest album of hers called "Indestructible" made me cringe and wince while listening via headphones. Anyone else heard this album. Her "Rules of the Game" album in 1993 showed that she can no longer control her voice, but the swing and the sass is still there. But this latest one is painful to listen. Made me appreciate Ella Fitz's last record "All That Jazz". Joseph in Chapel Hill np: Aqualung - Another Little Hole" - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail riinvente le mail ! Dicouvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface rivolutionnaire. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 18:23:05 -0500 From: "mia _" Subject: re: Top 40 Hits of 1967 From Patti's list of Top 40 Hits of 1967: Come To the Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre (#37) Hey, didn't Joni write a song with the same title? Does anyone know if the two songs are either the same or similar? Just curious... Mia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: re: Top 40 Hits of 1967 > Hey, didn't Joni write a song with the same > title? Does anyone know if the > two songs are either the same or similar? Hi Mia - Believe me, my eyes bugged out when I first saw that...especially given that HB did do a cover of BSN. However, their version was written by Van Dyke Parks. There is a cover of Joni's "Come To The Sunshine" coming right around the bend, however. Stay tuned for the news. Bob NP: Bruce Springsteen, "Back In Your Arms" Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:15:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Peep Richman Subject: Demons in my computer!!!!!!!!!!!1 Hello to everyone, Short line or two about a big problem. I wrote a Posting two days ago that included many personal feelings I have about Joni. When I clicked on "Send" it took so long and then.....BIG DRUM ROLL...a screen pops up "This Page Cannot Be Displayed". GGGRRREEEEERRRR. Frustrating? You can safely make a huge bet on that, my friends! Here's some of what I remember: I realized that it seems to me there are approximately 75% of the people who are in this gorgeous family who are either professional musicians or play piano...guitar...and I was thinking that this is fabulous..... but many times I really don't understand the meaning of some of the content of postings. I remembered, sadly, that I studied piano for a few years...very few...and actually I liked my teacher who told me I could sing as well as "really" play the piano. Sometimes, more often than not for me, kids get a nasty virus that results in an often untreatable "jerk flu". Had it often! My mother studied at Julliard but never pursued the possibility of having a career. However, my home was always filled with the sounds of her magical fingers on the keys of our piano. Joni has been and remains a person who has the most amazing force in my life...my love for Joni began in 1968 with "Song To A Seagull" followed by "Clouds" and every 'album'since. The anticipation I felt/feel when I discover that Joni will release a new CD is so incredible that I ride high for days that tumble into weeks. And then the big day arrives and I'm first customer waiting for the door to open...at Borders...where you can usually find me....used to be Sam Goodies. I remember one of the most incredulous evenings in the '70's decade. A local station was playing the entire album (without interruption) of the day to follow release of "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns". I listen with a flawless capacity to "hear"....really hear....and within a week of my following day's purchase, I had memorized the entire album. I rambling here.....don't want to waste anyone's time. It's Memorial Day....I've had several hours today of quiet contemplation. Sadness overwhelms me and the tears flowed. Love to all from Bo Patti, how do you join AMP? One more very important sharing...in an e-mail (not sure if it was a posting)...that Laura sent me there were many sentences that Laura wrote with glorious style. Here are two that I adore: ...."conveying and entering into a realization of the union of the physical and spiritual" and "walking in the footsteps of her fingers". Thank you, Laura...thank you. Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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