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“You Can Make The Mountains Ring / Or Make The Angels Cry”

February 2, 2014 in Videos | Permalink

If someone were to speak ill about Joni Mitchell or her music, I might have to decapitate that man. You see, I am a fan. Even more than Joan Baez, Mitchell seemed the true believer, the real deal, bound to be disappointed by everyone and everything around her.

At the 50-second mark of this video footage from 1969’s Big Sur Folk Festival, she sings a breathtaking version of “Get Together” with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and John Sebastian performing backing vocals. It’s a song of peace and brotherhood, and it will sound beautiful to your disrespectful head as it rolls down Fifth Avenue.

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“And I Feel Like I’m Just Being Born”

April 15, 2012 in Urban Studies, Videos | Permalink

Even though Joni Mitchell wrote the most famous song about Woodstock, she had to skip the festival because her managers were afraid she might get stuck in traffic and not make it back to Manhattan in time for her scheduled performance the next day on the Dick Cavett Show. This is that performance.

At the 6:00 mark:

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“Will You Take Me As I Am?”

April 6, 2012 in Urban Studies, Videos | Permalink

Joni Mitchell performing “California,” 1970.

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Listeria: Top 10 NYC Events Of 1967

February 22, 2010 in Misc. | Permalink

Jerry Rubin was a charter member of the Yippies and could ably pull off the headband look.

With the aid of the very fun book, New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis by Jeffrey A. Kroessler, I present to you the ten most amazing historical moments in NYC in 1967:

Abbie Hoffman founded the Yippies in his apartment on St. Mark’s Place.
Muriel Siebert became the first woman to buy a seat on the NYSE.
The New York Athletic Club was protested for not admitting black athletes.
Joni Mitchell wrote “Chelsea Morning” while living in Chelsea.
Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes died on May 22.
The Electric Circus disco opened on St. Mark’s Place.
Dr. Benjamin Spock was arrested at an antiwar protest on Whitehall Street.
Nathan Silver published Lost New York.
The World Journal Tribune dropped Walter Winchell‘s column.
Martin Luther King led an antiwar protest from Sheep Meadow to the UN.

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Tags: Abbie Hoffman, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Jeffrey A. Kroessler, Joni Mitchell, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Muriel Siebert, Nathan Silver, Walter Winchell