The album that song was on was called Wildflowers and my first three songs I wrote were on that album too,” Collins said of the 1967 release. “He put her on the phone, she sang me ‘Both Sides Now,’ and then we got together and started swapping life stories and songs. from a mutual friend in the band Blood, Sweat & Tears who was with Mitchell after a club gig. I was lucky, I started it.”Ĭollins recalled getting a call at 3 a.m.
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”People from all genres of music have taken a crack at a Joni Mitchell song. “It’s so great this is all happening now she’s written so much beauty into the world,” Judy Collins, who scored her first hit with “Both Sides Now,” told Billboard on the red carpet. Not only is she a Kennedy Center honoree but she’ll be feted as the MusiCares Person of the Year in January. The 78-year-old is having a triumphant season, after surviving a brain aneurysm in 2015 and slipping out of the public eye for several years.
Mitchell, whose songbook sits alongside the likes of Bob Dylan in terms of its influence, recently marked the 50 th anniversary of her iconic album Blue (the catalyst for the latter artist’s song “Tangled Up In Blue”). David Letterman opened the evening-which last year was imagined differently due to COVID-19 and which Donald Trump never attended during his tenure in the White House, by noting, “Tonight, it is quite nice to see the Presidential box once again being occupied.” Then, after the audience gave a prolonged standing ovation for President Joe Biden, Letterman looked up and added, “The same with the Oval Office.”
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