Joan Baez - There But For Fortune

[@TheAnn2shoes]

How on earth does she do it? That amazing voice appears to flow effortlessly from her lips. I still love Joan's singing after all these years.

[@jeanneobrien7381]

SHE IS SIMPLY THE BEST, BAR NONE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@c.fi.2851]

Me too.

[@andrewlowe9969]

Imagine she is singing that live. Such a talent she is still today, her playing "The Boxer" with Paul Simon at 80 years old live is a must see as well. One of the most talented and beautiful singing voices of all time, her playing is a lady version of Gordon Lightfoot. Simply no words how amazing she is. No one can come close today to that performance.

[@bobaldo2339]

Joan's version of this Phil Ochs song, at the age she is in this video, is the best version of the song I have ever heard. Yes, I like to hear Phil sing it too, but Joan was simply the best singer to come out of those folkie years.

[@frankgamble576]

I agree. Her voice is perfect. I heard her sing this live in Edinburgh 3 years ago as the opening song in her concert.

[@carolreid4821]

So true.

[@JimHoffman-rr3ym]

yep, agree. like her version better than the Phil tune

[@igorpoco2420]

For me Françoise Hardy's version is the best.

[@davidchamberlain5425]

​@@igorpoco2420I think both Francoise and Joan are equal in Quality of voice and melody 🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🙏🙏🙏

[@johnsainz3056]

. She's 83 years old now. Wow.. November 2024 and I still get great joy listening as I did as a small boy

[@annemariegettys1]

i am 61 years of age now...and i thought this song... when i was i 8th grade...was SOOO far away from me... with my "Private School Education" and my "Private home"...and now i am praying for the "fortune" this song sings about....thank you Joan...and Bob...and Jerry...and Paul...John...anne marie

[@sternumagnum]

Well said, same age here, same heart.

[@marioski54]

sternumagnum and Annemarie: the same for me from Italy: same age, same mood, but I loved this song soon and it made (and still makes) me weep

[@tomlaury7503]

Don't forget Phil Ochs who wrote this song. And later killed himself

[@gordondills2773]

Don't forget Phil Ochs who wrote the song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ2pgXx_mdqXb9E

[@c.fi.2851]

and Phil Ochs. Don't forget Phil Ochs!

[@andrewprokopis9430]

this is more than a song, it is part of a legacy that was given to all of us that we need to carry on

[@alfredwentlent-rc6mb]

Ageless I'm 76 years and still loving it

[@pabloeusebio1]

And remember Phil Ochs, the songs author, who never got the respect he deserved for all his many incredible songs.

[@avance1979]

The heroes of my youth. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. We were idealists with lots of hope. It saddens me to see what has happened to our world.

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Keep the faith and vote blue.

[@avance1979]

@RobHollanderMusic I would, but am in the wrong country for that.

[@BazookaTooth707]

Don't forget Phil Ochs. That's who wrote this masterpiece.

[@jpdonohue8784]

We became too conservative….

[@c.fi.2851]

Remember Phil Ochs.

[@CathrynMercrediWood-dn2uz]

Her music has become timeless and is so relevant today as it was yesterday.

[@snurge001]

just wonderful memories! Phil Ochs wrote this and Joan Baez performed brilliantly

[@TheMates2024]

I think it's the other way round. I mean Joan wrote it. Her performance is of course brilliant.

[@tnthorses]

Look into it. Carharine is right. Phil wrote it. They both perform it well though.

[@nicolen.9642]

Catharine Allen Yes, Phil Ochs wrote it (great but underrated folk singer) and those days where really special. The golden era of folk...✌

[@FlyingOfficerFokias]

Its just a brilliant rendition, - I saw her live in 1965 in London and Bradford- its the best of her all her songs in my opinion. I saw her in Ostend in 2015 and she sang it just as well.

[@hollyd0024]

I've loved her voice and Judy Collins since I was a young teen. Hauntingly beautiful!

[@carolreid4821]

Yes Hauntingly

[@PRISMN54]

Yes!! I knew them both when I was about 14 or 15 (I'm 68 now). Also loved Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen at that time. I still have my vinyl records... But Phil Ochs, I only knew the singer last year. I do love his so true version of his song. The composer says his message as nobody else.

[@hazyjaneclover5673]

Joan Baez has made this into my ultimate favorite song... remember, everyone, that there's always help that we can give :)

[@accountisdisabled]

She has a beautiful voice. I think this is originally a Phil Ochs songs.

[@filipchetwynd7746]

@@accountisdisabled It is.

[@DrJohn-rl9zg]

It is the responsibility of those more fortunate to look after those less so. Joan understands this, and it permeants everything she sings.

[@Etxe_Alai_86]

I had the fortune to be present last wednesday at one of the last live concerts performed by miss Baez in my city San Sebastián North Spain. Next week Joan will perform another concert at Madrid Spain and she’ll initiate her retirement. It was really exciting and thrilling to see and hear singing such a great legend at a close distance one week before her retirement.

[@mikelaja9662]

I had the same fortune too. It was an evening I will never forget. It was summer, Donostia; beach, sand, waves, sunset and the Lily of the West singing in front of me one last time... It somehow closed a cycle within.

[@ruthpaul7572]

I have seen Joan Bàez live Her voice is amazingly sweet and powerful.

[@robertovens9372]

The depth of the emotion in her vocal delivery is outstandingly superb! todays girl singers should listen carefully to this wonderful lady and the way she feels every note of her music, Brilliant!

[@valoriebritton2047]

Exactly!

[@andrewlowe9969]

Today's trash artists couldn't come close with an 80 foot pole. They just sing about drugs, booze, alcohol, their body parts and use the awful "B" word for empowerment? PLEASE! They should try to writing, playing and singing like this which is true artistry that is both heavenly and at another level compared to the garbage noise they are making.

[@BPBEN]

I can't say more about her wonderful voice than the others have who watched this song. I will always remember, with incredible fondness, sitting at her feet while she gave a short performance at the Unitarian Church in Berkeley, on its small stage, for those of us who had marched at the Free Speech Movement rally of that day.

[@IamwhoIam333]

Not only a beautiful voice but a beautiful woman inside and out 💗

[@mightyquinnproductions8672]

Joan as something sad and pure in her voice sends chills down the spine love that voice.

[@andrewlowe9969]

Her voice is next to heavenly. So smooth and pure in its tone. One of a kind and if you haven't experienced her sing "The Boxer" with Paul Simon at 80 years old live no less you are in for a treat.

[@geo3573]

A part of our past worthy of the present.

[@MsScruffy4]

ALL THESE YEARS- ONE OF A KIND. who else can sing these songs with such depth of feeling and talent?

[@andrewlowe9969]

Spot on! Joan's voice and playing are a gift to the world. She is an amazing singer, guitarist and song writer 100000% compared to today's 0% cookie cutter trash excuses for artists for the most part.

[@johnyeates2156]

Joan has been dignified and caring throughout her long career. Always treat everyone with respect, because "there but for fortune......" This is personally true for me. Every day I am thankful to the people who had faith in me and saved me from where I was heading. Joan is an inspiration to us all xxx.

[@fraser3099]

When I was at Uni our lives, in our time out, revolved around Dylan, Baez, Buffy St Marie and all the other US folk singers. Joan Baez is still one of the greatest!

[@melvinharris2404]

Didn't Buffy St Marie sing Soldier Blue in the titled film? from the UK

[@jeanneobrien7381]

@@melvinharris2404 I think it was " The Universal Soldier". I remember her sing it back in the 60's

[@kostasbr51]

Poor Buffy. All her life lying, pretending she was a native indian from Canada.

[@miguelkath]

"Où va la chance?" Françoise Hardy.....both of them delightful.. Greetings from Argentina.

[@alanwyatt6220]

I loved the Bread and Roses concerts Joan performed at many years ago in Berkley. So many years of performing, we all have to retire some time. Your songs will always be in my head, along with many others of the 60's and 70's. Those were the days my friends.

[@julievanberkel3058]

A haunting voice that demands being listened to.

[@elamite66]

my first Joan Baez record a Vanguard 45 back when I was 14 and thought how true this beautiful song was and Joan's beautiful and clear voice and her dark beauty and straight long dark hair I believe written by Phil Ochs who I did not even know back then

[@elamite66]

yes Phil Ochs for sure

[@elamite66]

Back then I saw Joan on the streets of the village when I was 14 and would take off and explore NY outside my Bronx hood Highbridge, little to my parents knowledge but by that time I knew the NY subway system inside and out and the commuter rail lines too north, west, and east

[@No1KCfan6]

her voice is stunningly beautiful.

[@grabnoid]

The purity of Joan's voice is so perfect for this song. Glorious

[@jimmychadwick8126]

Still brings tears, Joan.

[@frankgamble576]

So utterly beautiful. Phil Ochs was a genius

[@gregmacdonald2708]

The Best of Phil Ochs...and Joan is amazing!

[@ruskiny280]

Given Cauastion this is an exact philosophical description of the human situation. God bless Phil Ochs and Joan.

[@ccolemanification]

I wonder if the music helps form the ideas of the time or vice versa? So much kindness, understanding and care in those days. Perhaps we'll get there again.

[@jonorourke2247]

amazingly powerful voice ... and an equally powerful message

[@robertovens9372]

Joan, so brilliantly humble in her haunting presentation! mesmerising! the silence in an audience tells a story when she sings.absolutely divine!

[@mark4asp]

Maybe my favourite song ever. Sung be one of my favourite singes. Perfect.

[@avance1979]

@@mark4asp She is that.... but I still think "The Partisan " is her best.

[@sabineuddin6142]

Wunderschoen . Ich liebe diese alten Aufnahmen ! Hoere sie seit meinem 13 Lebensjahr in ost berlin . Bin jetzt 61 j. Habe sie einmal live gesehen .

[@zymelin21]

und Sie hatte eine Akte in Normannenstrasse, wegen ihre beziehung mit Wolf Biermann. Die Akte sind wahrscheinlich noch da!

[@manjulajayakody4741]

I absolutely love this song, so much hope and optimism, but the warning we should never be complacent or arrogant, we make our own luck but fate guides our path....my heart fills with joy and intrepidation of the responsibility I always carry throughout my life.....x

[@davidcardone2141]

Joan I have always loved you! Philippines you understand I hope this never gets erased

[@marktaylor35]

Beautiful voice, Great singer

[@ronfazekas1294]

When is was 14, every morning that spring, I would be awakened by my clock radio to this song--It and Joan are haunting.

[@glendawilson1480]

I traveled from midwest in 69 to hear Joan Baez at Woodstock as she didn't play around my area. I was so close to the stage could see her skin tone - she still has good range

[@cathyortiz1280]

As a huge Phil Oach's fan, I prefer his version. I didn't even know Joan covered it - but she had a huge following so glad she did as it's a brilliant song. For those that don't know about Phil Oach's, check him out! My fav folk singer & his song "When I'm Gone" say's it all.

[@nicolen.9642]

Cathy Ortiz Yes he was great. I think he was underrated which is a shame...

[@c.fi.2851]

Phil Ochs. His name is Phil Ochs.

[@newsman1234]

Hauntingly beautiful.

[@blueshound9036]

Just beautiful.

[@davidmetcalfe846]

I remember this at school it was so meaning I have now come across this again and can't stop playing it full of soul at 57 now and I have fallen in love with this song again

[@amirkwlful]

What a great singer.... incredible ❤

[@brendacorey1520]

Greatest never dies. Thank you Joan.

[@OlymPigs2010]

...Love You Joan!!!

[@gstark234]

She was so young then - she was amazing. Later I got to work with her & her Intstitute For The Study of Nonviolence. Lucky Me

[@jeanneobrien7381]

Indeed

[@0otee]

Lovely great! 👏👏👏💫🌷❤️STILL now!!! Listen! Thank you Joan❤️🌹👌

[@rodericstanley2258]

Saw her in Galveston, after buying her early records in England in the 60s and taking them back to Tanzania with me. Finally, she came to Texas and I was fortunate enough go to her performnce.

[@nunclefiji]

Dr. Livingstone, I presume.

[@rodericstanley2258]

@@nunclefiji As it turned out, when I went to Tanzania, and begin to teach at Mkwawa High School, one of my colleagues was George Livingstone. Thus there was a Stanley and a Livingstone in Tanzania in 1964.

[@tomkent4656]

Wonderful rendition of the Phil Ochs classic.

[@musicfanBRA]

Sung beautifully and from the heart until the very last note.

[@carolreid4821]

Set the bar so high The first time I heard her sing this I truly thought it could be an angel I heard.

[@sijosedire]

Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@sherrygaylethornton2103]

I adore this song for So Many Reason's Why!!

[@gregorialopez3232]

Donde estaba que no había visto ni escuchado esta gran artista?😢

[@trfesok]

The studio version was the first that I ever heard of this song. Also covered by Cher. So, I put that, this and a live version by Ochs in my Cher playlist. Thanks for the upload.

[@keithburgess9822]

when you are young the soul shines through doesn't it?

[@jeanneobrien7381]

The best rendition of the song by Phil Ochs. Brilliant.

[@davidchamberlain5425]

Francoise Hardy🎶🎶🎵 is a close second 👍

[@jurgenthegerman1279]

Voice of an angel.

[@madwhitehare3635]

The horrors don't go away, do they? Still there are people in the same terrible straits. So much for karma and evolution

[@crosstimbers2]

+Claire Craske Wisdom and good decisions come from experience, experience comes from bad decisions. If you cannot own the responsibility for your mistakes you can never learn not to make mistakes.

[@37terraplane]

God, what a voice, I love her so!

[@tanialehmannn9053]

La Trovadora más emblemática de entonces .. y de siempre. Sublime .

[@huahindan]

Sublime

[@ericsalles3393]

so beautiful

[@Nately22]

God, I love her.

[@epipick]

She's incredible.

[@GrrrArrrr]

Timeless

[@georgeanderson4594]

If my life depended on it, I cannot decide who has a more beautiful voice - Joan Baez or Judy Collins.

[@raymondfinney7284]

a great song from the 60s written by phil ochs wonderful joan baez ray finney

[@SweetJennyFan]

This performance is 55 years old. Damn......

[@wanderingi1316]

Wow. What a voice!

[@bruceprigge5212]

Thank you! :)

[@hss8263]

Wonderful

[@JaPlJustSayin]

There's another KZbin link or her doing this same song 40 years later - same beautiful voice.

[@gmoney2103]

I like her style.

[@maribethshuman6334]

This is so poignant. Simple chords, but a superbly powerful message.

[@ReneDodge]

Yeah Amber your right this is the best 💋💋 🤗 Rene 🇾🇪

[@iverti6666]

Love you Joan.

[@alrathje]

oohhh, there goes my sixties!!! What a time!!! Then there what some hope, but today, I am not so sure!?!

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

Have not heard this song for many years--the recording quality of both audio and video is great!--How old was Joan when this performance was made??--Was she ever (were WE ever) that young?

[@peterdeis1487]

We're all forever young. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2W4oH1qbLitoKM Couchgrouch

[@abdullahergul4423]

Gençken dinlemeye başladım ölünceye kadar dinlebilirim yoldaş ❤😢🎉

[@leonardocodirenzi2284]

Ecco la bellissima versione di joan baez

[@DrJohn-rl9zg]

Just a thought: the hobo who sleeps out in the rain couldn't have much less of a carbon footprint.

[@jo-annebellamy5983]

⁶ Don't turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you. PROV. 4

[@ruthbyers301]

Bravo.

[@geo3573]

Phil was a man to be missed.

[@marialowe5370]

Even if you don't agree with the tenor of the lyrics the sheer beauty of her singing carries you along and almost brings you to tears. What a voice she had here.

[@peternemeth1777]

Yeah there were the music of the seventies of the flower power and what there is today is really signs of the apocaylypse. Know it. Face it. Wake up if you're spiritually asleep and rise your consciousness. The apocalypse has two parts. The bright shining light of the universe and darkness which is the absence of love. These are the times when we have to make the choice for which part we make our decision. Those that make the wrong decision are doomed. We can only pray for those that inherit this planet from us to wake up and make the right decision. That is what Joan Baez between the lines was constantly singing about for those that listened. And today's musicians are prey for the industry almost inevitable not to get eaten alive by it. What we can do: praying.

[@starfed64]

Thanks for that breath of fresh air what a great share I think I saw her last on some award show her her niece or didn’t know who she was or her grandchild and it was pretty cool to watch her as she found out... I bet. I think if I was to get famous in America I raise my kids in England or Australia where they don’t know anything about me I wonder about famous kids or famous people anyway what an awesome talent what a divine inspiration in shoes and I think ration was passed around so that all way encourage others to do good in ways they... which they just don’t really want to think about Bam that’s music Pow that’s Batman and robin checking for lumps early in Life! I’ll bet she was called an Uber liberal way before they knew what an Uber was and I hope she’s a gun owning Republican voting for Joe Biden.

[@cohen1940]

Krachtig en nog steeds actueel!!

[@baraskparas9559]

The truly great Joan Baez with a voice as clear as a bell sang this one with a troubled look and clenched teeth. Bad day?

[@Dan-bh4yq]

Immortale

[@sudipbosu8787]

I have heard this song over and over. And I have come to the conclusion that I prefer Och's singing to Baez's.

[@johnhall999]

Amen.

[@Cylvirca]

No one listens to this woman? She sang protest songs during the 60’s. I love her isic

[@Libbyerality]

💜

[@lesbsocal9107]

I remember Longshoreman's Hall, SF, 1968. was that really real So long ago

[@valentinacardile4771]

Giustissimo

[@zymelin21]

lovely song, in fact the best rendition outside the man himself!. the horrible thing is that nothing has changed for the better here in 2017

[@CHARELLESNO]

💜🙏💜