Joni Mitchell - Unchained Melody - Chinese Cafe

[@felinorampante8]

My name is Marcelo'm the world's southernmost country, where, after the Andes is only a long narrow strip of land. No matter how powerful creation of this wonderful artist overcame all obstacles and made this up here. In Chile for 24 years now, the incredible music of Joni Mitchell, makes me fly to distant landscapes of Canada, or walk down the streets of his adopted California. Joni, represents for me a priceless gift that life has given me.

[@EmmanuelHemmings]

Morning coffee, in bed, window open and the sun is shining outside. Listening to this song on vinyl. Bliss.

[@briandonnelly638]

Once in a while a person is born with a genius that no one else could acheive, Joni is one such person! Beautifully played and written.

[@geoffteece265]

100% correct.

[@almichael74]

This woman is beautiful on the inside and the outside. Thanks Canada, we love Joni Mitchell!! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 👌.

[@ThomasJohn-dd2oj]

Hi gorgeous how are you??

[@Keva8794]

"I bore her but I could not raise her, nothin lasts for long, nothin lasts for long, nothin lasts for long". Your words and my memories are running down my face. Love you Joni xo

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤❤

[@richardharris1164]

We look like our mothers did now when we were those kids age - what a fantastic line

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤

[@p8rtfan]

So beautiful...this song evokes so many memories. This song's lyrics hit home for this old man as I grow older, and watch my children start families of their own. Thank you Joni for a lifetime of treasured music.

[@robertevers9732]

Being a fan still means a lot to me since around 1972.

[@gaiag100]

Got to see her in 1980... at The Santa Barbara County Bowl....Such a Gift ..Joni is to Our Troubled World...Thank You for All Your Beautiful Lyrics..We Love You Forever!!

[@berniarmstrong]

Has there ever been a more perfect evocation of the passage of time and lost youth? Has me in tears every time.

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤

[@johnmcgrath985]

Joni takes my breath away still. After 40 years...

[@potiloup]

Geez, after all those years, of really liking Joni, I discover videos on the tube, and it’s just wow, I am in awe. Love Joni.😻

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤❤

[@sfilkins2009]

Beautiful. It is easy to love her voice, her looks, her philosophy. I was in my 20s when I listened to all her music and still do.

[@KimberleyFay]

She is my absolute lifelong favorite artist of all time! I have never seen her perform in person but would so love to before my time is up. True artist as ever there was and I love that she continues and was never about the fame and money.

[@taragreenetarotastrologyre4945]

I got the pleasure to see Joni sing at the Toronto Folk Festival years ago with James Taylor and at another concert too. She is amazing. Listened to her records right through my teen years. The very best of her generation, a feminist a brilliant original genius singer musician and composer. Proud of her being a Canadian too. wishing her the best recovery from her stroke.. She has been smoking since she was 8 years old. We owe her so much. WHo compares to her these days?

[@annward9727]

Aww right ..deserves credit..much credit..Happy Birthday JONI !!!

[@Bebewhite88]

She is the best of ANY generation...ANY generation. No one male or female is in her universe . A female DaVinci that we are so lucky to have among us. A consumate musician, painter, vocalist and songwriter extraordinaire. What a gorgeous body of work she has created.@@taragreenetarotastrologyre4945

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

J Decker All that and physically beautiful too. Extraordinary woman.

[@candacewilliams9073]

I feel the same as the 2 comments above me, except that I DID see her live in Houston once.

[@geoffteece265]

Just genius. A monumental artist. Such a beautiful song. Only Joni

[@geoffteece265]

Absolutely.

[@robertjohnson1602]

The intro to the 1982 album. An intelligent intuitive mix of 2 songs into one she makes her own. Her genius and originality make her like no other artist. God keep you well Joni.

[@bergonibros]

such a song cannot be sung by anyone else

[@jimhogg9145]

Actually blends 3 songs together . . . I didn't notice the third one (will you still love me tomorrow - "you give your love so sweetly") at first either . . .

[@misskoool]

this isn't just a song, it's a poem

[@YewtBoot]

All of her music is a poem.

[@panatton]

Joni Mitchell is Perfection Personified!

[@Dackycat]

There are no words to truly describe what Joni's music does...you either feel it or you don't.

[@hansieeee]

Caught in the middle Carol, we're middle class We're middle aged We were wild in the old days Birth of rock 'n roll days Now your kids are coming up straight And my child's a stranger I bore her But, I could not raise her Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe We'd be dreaming on our dimes We'd be playing "Oh my love, my darling" One more time Uranium money Is booming in the old home town now It's putting up sleek concrete Tearing the old landmarks down now Paving over brave little parks Ripping off Indian land again How long, how long Short sighted business men Ah, nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe We'd be dreaming on our dimes We'd be playing "You give your love, so sweetly" One more time Christmas is sparkling Out on Carol's lawn This girl of my childhood games With kids nearly grown and gone Grown so fast Like the turn of a page We look like our mothers did now When we were those kids' age Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe We'd be dreaming on our dimes We'd be playing "Oh my love, my darling I've hungered for your touch A long lonely time And time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me." (Time goes, where does the time go I wonder where the time goes)

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤❤

[@jamesc6564]

This was a great look for her, she looks just beautiful....love her hair this way.

[@EphemeralProductions]

One of the styles in the early 80s. (which makes sense I guess since this was 82. LOL)

[@Featherfunflower]

James C agreed love her hair here so stunning..

[@davidshepherdgrossman]

Love this song. Used to listen to it all time in 84? Anyway it is as good an relevant as ever....Thanks Joni!

[@LinusRedding]

SHE WILL NEVER BE DUPLICATED..THE BLUEPRINT IT'S ROCKIN AN ROLLING ON THE BEAUTIFUL WILD WINDS OF THE SASKATOON PLAIN....

[@saleconomos473]

Absolute. Not a word I use often. But this song is simply that.

[@michaelreidperry3256]

She just totally nails that song above everything else exactly how it’s supposed to be nailed. Perfect!

[@truthpig]

'Nothing lasts for long'...... while that is true of people and their lives, some things do last, like beautiful works of art, and that's what Joni has given us and the world, her music will live on, long after we're all in the past. And I can't thank her enough for that.

[@maryrosekent8223]

truthpig. Yes, yes, yes. She's so amazing. So talented. So beautiful, inside do out.

[@niptodstan]

I fell in love with this song when I heard it decades ago. The great Michael Landau on guitar.

[@popeye1250]

What a beautiful song! The music, phrasing, lyrics, and Joni's beautiful voice! Mark, I've seen that interview many times and it makes Joni more down to earth and human to reveal so much about herself! What an absolutely *marvelous* human being she is!

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

She’s awesome.

[@sidessherri]

Always incredible! Loved how she brought the birth of her child❣️

[@taragreenetarotastrologyre4945]

Unchained melody one of my favourite songs with Joni's own genius. Awesome. Blessings to you Joni.

[@jhatter67]

Possibly Joni's finest song - I know that will be hotly debated because it's from neither her finest hour or finest album. But hearing this track, late night on a UK radio station, some 20 years ago got me hooked on Ms Mitchell. I went to the local record library the next day and got out Hejira, Court & Spark, Dog Eat Dog and Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm. I stuck them all onto tape and played them non-stop on my Walkman.

[@poobalanpather7454]

Remember I bought this album in 1982

[@simplyDiann]

Joni Mitchell speaks from my heart,

[@stevenpage7736]

My muse for almost fifty years. She is the greatest singer of my lifetime.

[@glenrobinson916]

I just love Joni. She’s a treasure. My Mom met her once in the 60’s at expo in Japan. Joni was performing I guess and Mom was chaperone for a girls bell ringing group. Mom said that she was very nice.

[@mayemcdonald4392]

This song covers me in goosebumps each and every time I hear her sing it. It speaks to us all. I was so lucky to see her sing it live in Sydney 1983. Peace to all. ....."birth of rock n roll days"....I was there.

[@mayemcdonald4392]

What a gift this woman has been to the music and songwriting world. Listening to her is my kind of heaven. Peace to all.

[@kurtleinenkugel7725]

Lucky you. I was going to see her that year but she caught a cold and had to cancel her concert in Tempe, AZ at Compton's Terrace. Found out at the gate as the Marque had CANCELED on the sign. Never been more bummed in my life. She never re-scheduled the show.😢☹😢

[@mayemcdonald9111]

Kurt Leinenkugel Kurt, that must have been devastating for you. I am so sorry that happened., Enjoy these videos. 😊

[@misterbracks]

nobody can touch this artist.......nobody... her lyrics and phrasing are that good that even a blind person listening to her would see colourful landscapes appear in his head....nuff said.

[@kbkushalutube]

that's the first live rendition of this song I've seen. I love it! I kinda like what's happened to her voice, it's different, more limited so what! She conquered the higher registers, now it's time for something different. Without the husk in her voice, I would have never discovered Joni. It was the Love actually version of both sides now which introduced me to her awesomeness! And how can I forget hejira, my favourite Joni number, even that's far from her earlier angelic voice, but I love it.

[@skbnvacaville]

Let's see.....guitar, piano, dulcimer, that voice....the woman is a genius.

[@hbib0]

could'nt have put it any better myself holymakinaw . one of the most important artist of any generation that will be mentioned with the greats from way back and into the future .

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Joni Mitchell. One of my favourite singers out there. I love this song.

[@ricadia]

Christmas is sparkling out on Carol's lawn This girl of my childhood games Has kids nearly grown and gone Grown up so fast Like the turn of a page We look like our mothers did, now, when we were those kid's age Nothing lasts for long ....... I can't think of any other lyric from any other songwriter that encapsulates so perfectly the melancholy of aging and the bittersweet memories it brings Pure genius

[@Polyglotwriter]

how long! how long! Short sighted businessman! Legendary!

[@michael.hodgetts5841]

every song......a story........magical.

[@SaritaTaylor]

so agree with you, and Night Ride Home is one ofr my fav albums of all time.... I listen to her every day :)

[@respallturner]

This song means more to me now than ever, love it.

[@ellengeary325]

again if you are listening joni.. my ecletic path has come full circle.. loved you at 19. and am revisiting you one thank yoy

[@mayemcdonald4392]

I pray Joni can heal from the accident that has caused her to lose her voice. This song is sublime. What I would do to see her live again. Thank you Joni for music that inspires and moves us.

[@marthajf73]

+Maye McDonald I wish she would not smoke

[@EphemeralProductions]

I wish she wouldn't either. But people have confronted her with the idea that her voice has lowered in quality over the years due to her smoking, and she poo-poos it and tells them they don't know what they're talkin about. :\

[@irisgomez9132]

+marthajf73 😔sadly she still smoke

[@manatiluna]

love here with this song. her voice has changed a lot since she was a young girl. and amzing that she sang with even 70 years of age. and that with a very firm and clear voice. respect

[@jimmienahas4156]

Genius, soulful. Eyes that see the world through a travelers eyes. THANK YOU for putting this out so we could see this exceptional songwriter.

[@kuba-art-collector]

Thank you Joni for making this and a lot more ! Sincerely

[@misskoool]

wow, i've never heard this song, and it's simply fantastic

[@elizabethmcleod246]

Happy Birthday to my favorite songwriter and guitar/piano player. ❤

[@anthonyfoster7368]

She is so heart stopping I can't stop watching her ❤️

[@solobolo1]

Saw Joni with Larry in Edinburgh on this tour around 82/3.Sat 10 feet in front of her and was MESMERISED

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

Beautiful music and a great atmosphere to the video also.

[@chenchneerr]

my old times teen life wont ever forget you Joni Mitchell

[@marybarry2230]

Can a singer sing their song even better than the original? Based on this video absolutely! And look stunning along with it!

[@gilde6887]

Wish I had met you in my younger days....... Think I shall LOVE YOU FOREVER........🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@sidessherri]

Joni you are my inspiration! When there were no women song writers out there as a a child I found you. You mean women can do that to? Thank you❣️

[@mapior]

Such superb all round musicianship.......

[@5four]

a simply magical performance.

[@almondgrrl]

@hoof2001 Joni blazed a trail for so many artists; she writes more than songs, her lyrics are magical and poetic. Her songs are a beacon for anyone who has felt the odd one out (man or woman). At such a young age she was able to nail big issues like love, loss, artifice, innocence. Celine didn't even write her big, fat, but at the end of the day, ordinary, commercial hit. I would never put these two in the same league.

[@cindyballard9471]

I love her music in a way that almost scares me in its' intensity. She is otherworldly.

[@ThomasJohn-dd2oj]

Hi gorgeous how are you doing??

[@carmenrizzo6408]

Love You Joan

[@ThomasJohn-dd2oj]

Hi gorgeous how are you??

[@JoeFLash41]

Such a wonderful Ballad

[@suzuko817]

She is amazing singer ..love all her songs..

[@mauricedavis2160]

She's a gift for all of us, thank you and bless you Joni!!!🙏👌💃❣️

[@phillsmith8580]

It's more than 40 years now. I saw you once in Brisbane. Thanks for your gift and your generosity and the gift of sharing, for your wisdom and guidance and the beauty of your music. Phillip

[@Mas122862]

I think this album came out around 1984. Exceptional song, beautifully written. Another example of how much commercial music has deteriorated over the past few decades...

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

‘82 I think

[@marcsalonsky9257]

love,love, love this song. Everthing about it!

[@youkyouk7471]

Magnifique ! Merci de tout mon coeur ! Joni Mitchell est Unique.

[@YewtBoot]

D'accord.

[@jorgejnoguera3510]

You know you've grown old when the singers and musicians you grew up with are now called oldies and the obituaries start. Too bad they can't be immortal like their music is.

[@איילהקרואני-פ3פ]

so much love to her music and liric

[@stephencarpenteri2223]

There's an angel among us . . .

[@michaelreidperry3256]

Yes! Yes! Yes! We are fortunate enough to live exactly in the Age of Joni. I am honored.

[@MarkSeibold]

It is funny to see some of the comments from those that believe that others would even care to read their comments about what they think they know or dislike about a period of Joni Mitchell's music or life. Their opinions have little if no value here but to waste system space in a computer server. Joni Mitchell is so far above that and always has been in everything she does. If you doubt this, see the recent interview with Jian Ghomeshi on CNC Radio Q www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2013/06/11/joni-mitchell-portrait-of-an-artist/

[@billytool1]

this is indeed genious mark

[@popeye1250]

HERE! HERE!

[@skyline7820]

@@popeye1250 actually I rather enjoy seeing how some other humans respond to very human stuff

[@oscatable]

love it. beautiful voice singing beautiful words

[@SunCMF]

jeff berlin + joni mitchell is one of the best tings this world had seen.

[@malcolmgreen75]

Uber cool Joni love you

[@sweetjane5033]

brilliant artist. beautifully executed!!!❤

[@moirasolowitz3103]

Such a treasure..... love her through and through. Thank you for sharing

[@MrSteven2945]

just love this girl .... gee what happen to artist like this

[@nunya1738]

The Man and his plan. Strictly manufactured 'stars'. Reality tv and tv show manufactured dreck. Distract you with computerized 'smart' toys. Detachment from nature, community, and beauty, such as soulful this. No more albums, all singles now, Itunes or whatever, and they opened the door wide for stealing. We were all blessed. PEACE

[@MrSteven2945]

AMEN TO THAT WHAT YOU JUST SAID

[@LolasTubular]

Oh my beautiful sister...I will miss you ever moment of every day. Dee Dee Latta 4/8/53-8/24/12... :(

[@davidsurn1]

Perfect.

[@EphemeralProductions]

My favorite video and rendition of this song. :):):)

[@DollyzDaggerz]

I agree...and she smokes too and makes no bones about it. I've seen her live three times and one time she was sick but still played her ass off and sang as well as could be expected. She's phenomonal.

[@jrw344]

A righteous song which the brothers would approve....

[@EphemeralProductions]

I'm sure they do. They're both alive still, as far as I'm aware. :)

[@marthajf73]

tall32guy -hate to tell you but Bobby Hatfield is gone.

[@drstevie]

Beautiful.

[@alandufau7473]

Joni te amo!

[@butterflygang3966]

Beautiful and touching!

[@robertthurston2995]

Can't sleep what better than listening to Joni

[@WuteverCanada]

A mix of "Unchained Melody" a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret, but it was a 1965 version by The Righteous Brothers that became a jukebox standard. Joni mixed her Chinese Cafe with Unchained Melody. I love this version.

[@WuteverCanada]

Her reference to a daughter that she could not raise in her personal life. Kilauren Gibb knew her five-year search for her birth mother was at an end when she looked, really looked, at the face on her computer.

[@jimhogg9145]

There's also a line in it from "Will you still love me tomorrow?", ie "You give you're love so sweetly"

[@themar22]

joni, joni...i love you...

[@mauricesalce21sttheaaandan48]

This song is beautiful it totally touches my heart. She is such an inspiration to me.

[@priscillasswanberg2183]

One of the most incredible artist of all time.

[@ThomasJohn-dd2oj]

How are you doing??

[@jellyjukebox]

Wonderful Joni, love her.

[@47barolo]

Sheer brilliance.

[@manuelponce9838]

it s the way it goes - can t help loving her - just love her voice - she makes me feel human - oh bloody hell joni

[@AuntieN2]

Really enjoyed this!

[@davideveson3041]

Beautiful looking woman, been a fan since 71