Joni Mitchell - Urge for Going

[@Imissthepostoffice]

This is one of the finest songs ever written. Thank you Joni.

[@wendymontana9522]

The other musicians look spellbound and mystified by Joni's unique guitar style as she holds the sacred space.

[@MilesDaffin]

Yep. Men with their jaws dropped. Bob Dylan said something like "anyone who came within 50 feet of Joni Mitchell fell in love with her...". In my case, within 50 years :)

[@fosbury68]

@@MilesDaffin Not just men, but musicians in their own right. Beholding a sublimely talented fellow artist. Surely a combination of delight, envy and astonishment.

[@billmcdonald3561]

And without a clue as to how success bound she'd be! I used to sing this song. Tears now! Thanks, Joni!

[@rustyshimstock8653]

They are all thinking: ...how did I wind up on stage with this one? How can I possibly follow this with my camp-fire ditty??

[@chriscoughlin9289]

@rustyshimstock8653 Camp fire ditty? This is the era of the historic debuts of Gordon Lightfoot and Leonard Cohen’s debut on the Canadian Folk and Roots music scene. And The Band had set the audience at the Newport Folk Festival back in its heels the year before when Dylan went electric. The Buffalo Springfield was already a sensation on the Sunset Strip. But your laughable condescension is duly noted

[@betsylawson2805]

Seriously it took my breath away. I have adored Joni Mitchell from the very first day I heard her... it transformed who I was. This song, I don't think I have words how she sounded, how she looked.

[@robertbruce5213]

This song (and this particular performance) always makes me cry...in the best way. Joni before the world rushed in...bittersweet, magic, totally full of light and powerful, powerful innocence.

[@trackie1957]

Yeah, but that’s just the young Joni. We got to see so many other versions of her through the years, some versions we were not quite ready for and so we didn’t appreciate the genius in real time, but now we can look back and appreciate her in all her colors.

[@fotogbill]

One of the most magnificent examples of American folk music by one of the most talented musicians of the 20th Century. Can you think of anyone else who so perfectly expressed the stunning melancholy of the change of seasons and life? This was an early appearance by Joni and became a seminal turning point in her career and folk music in general. Absolutely a historic treasure of musical broadcast!

[@stephenhawkingsfootballboo7885]

Joni's Canadian but I get your point.

[@danthefan5378]

@@stephenhawkingsfootballboo7885 🇨🇦

[@kristendunn3294]

Joni's Canadian.

[@BIGSCOTSCHEF]

What a voice i'm 23 wish i was 63 would love to have saw her live back then nothing compares to her in todays music.

[@timoflea8417]

I love how the other musicians onstage appear transfixed on Joni. her beautiful soul was flowering right in front of them and I believe she transcended their experience.

[@alessiodellanna5162]

+Tim O' Flea Me too! Those faces are like astonished!

[@777theodora]

they are fascinated !

[@timoflea8417]

me too... rapt, lost in her enchantment

[@relars52]

Certainly, she was new to their experience. Speechless.

[@rayflores1096]

What a beautiful description you wrote

[@Chuckcb]

Jimmy driftwood is looking at joni in absolute amazement as if he can't believe what he is hearing,

[@EnosEverything]

BLOODY PHENOMENAL !!!... She is without doubt the most important female recording artist of the past fifty years - and I adore Kate Bush and Dusty Springfield too.

[@carrietide]

I concur

[@Imissthepostoffice]

+EnosEverything I love Kate and Dusty too. I just do not know if they are songwriters as well.

[@EnosEverything]

+geez louise .. Kate Bush is certainly a songwriter- a completely different style than Joni but nevertheless absolutely brilliant... Dusty was not a songwriter but simply an awesome interpreter of songs with a magnificent voice... There are of course many other wonderful female singer-songwriters who have followed in Joni's footsteps ... Tori Amos, Laura Veirs, Jane Siberry, Laura Marling, Laura Nyro, Cat Power, Beth Orton and many more.. But despite how much I admire all those I've named and more besides, I always put Joni at the top of the tree for the sheer range of styles and quality she offered over a brilliant recording career - it saddens me that she doesn't record any longer but we have a vast pool of richness to dip into that she left us all..

[@timoflea8417]

Laura Nyro captured my soul a long, long time ago...then there was Judy Collins, and of course our first, brilliant folk artist, Joan Baez ...

[@danthefan5378]

Patti Smith very important too.

[@moseyalong1]

I have been watching all of the JOni Anderson videos on you tube, also. And I am totally captivated, just like the audience and other stage musicians. We are all in awe of this girl in her late teens or early 20's. She is a brilliant composer/ singer even in her earliest years. The others are strumming away and she is picking out these subtleties of music and voice as she engages the audience with smiles and gestures. No one else even resembles her and , probably, never wioll.

[@tome57a]

Here is just one simple example of why Joni Mitchell is perhaps the greatest lyrical poet of all time. Not only does the song evoke deep feelings of longing and sadness at the passing of summer and the love it gave and took away, as well as the restlessness of the poet's soul, but Joni's performance is also pure and moving. At such a young age she was already miles beyond her contemporaries, lyrically and musically. And then she got even better.

[@BegoneJonah]

Her use of words were always on another plane. She's an astonishingly good lyricist. The best of come out of the 1960s, IMHO.

[@RoySmiles100]

Greatest song ever writtn by the most gorgoeus woman ever....there are no words for genius like this. I am speechless....

[@relars52]

And to think that, in an interview, this woman called herself a 'Misdirected Painter'. Everything about her - everything that came from her, is a work of Art. Must have been hard for her, as her musical styles evolved to include Jazz etc. (her loyal, long-time fans wanted her to stay as she had been), and it was not as readily accepted by some. So many of Joni's fans wanted her to always be the "Pretty Girl, Singing About Pretty Things"......I had to actively fight that temptation, myself. But, no matter where her musical voyage took her, I have always had the highest possible respect for Joni Mitchell. God Bless her always.

[@TheLisergicQueen]

She is an amazing woman and artist, u said right! :)

[@johntatum1951]

She was so beautiful...the guys on stage are aware ...it seems....:)

[@Imissthepostoffice]

They are in love.

[@truthjustice6454]

Yes, good analysis. Would that today's JM instructed art//music/lyricism sessions .. instead of being appropriated in PR vocal shows by a govt and 'ruling class ' that has no love for her Whatsoever

[@PhightinPhan]

This is a hypnotic performance of a wonderful song. I'm 55, but listening to this makes me feel 15 again. Than you, Joni.

[@swanfemme]

The voice of an angel.

[@cdonline1]

A voice clear and sharp, the mind and soul of a true poet - I'm glad God sent her while I was here to enjoy her music. We will not see her kind again soon, I fear... God bless you for all you've given us, Joni

[@jamesrobbie1981]

I did not think a person could sound so good. I am in awe.

[@LucilleeBee]

Been listening to Joni Mitchell for over 40 years and still listening, all my children love her music, they have been brought up on it. I will be going out of this world on circle game, not for a while yet though. The best music ever! Pauline L'Boro

[@cherrybombgirlfriend]

she was fully clothed, elegant, and beautifully poetic, a true artist. money and connections didnt get her there, raw talent did. smh at the music on the radio these days. im 27, and ive GOT THE URGE GOT GOING to a time where music made your heart explode with feeling like this. thankfully music lets us time travel to places that no longer exist.

[@cherrybombgirlfriend]

for*

[@robertbruce5213]

Paola, music like this is timeless. Joni is timeless. This is how it is with truly great art and artists. I was a very young man when this came out; I loved it but did not fully appreciate its depth (words and feelings). Now, much older, I think I do. That's the brilliance of Joni Mitchell: 1.) her music always returns you to yourself. 2.) it only improves with time. p.s. I've begun to notice a return to folk & acoustic music. Folks in this fragmented, wired age not only drawn to its very human simplicity, but they also crave authenticity and real emotions.

[@aimelilithe]

I was a teenager in the 80's and I HATED most of the music (have an old person's retro fondness for it now...). Instead I was listening to Joni Mitchell on repeat (along with Van Morrison and Cat Stevens). I am glad she still inspires generations after.

[@terrance7220]

What are you talking about Cardi B s debut album is as good as any Joni albums if not more advanced in music form. And I’m a hard core opera lover.

[@tomdickandharry7024]

T Xu, I DO NOT want whatever you're smokin'!

[@erinmerle]

Canadian. A beauty AND a brilliant artist.

[@metazoan10]

Its not just the flawless music but the poetry too. This defines what it means to be human.

[@JimmyBoxOTT]

I had a most incredible encounter with Joni in 1974. I was an usher at the Dorothy Chandler, where the Dear Lady had performed her Court and Spark album. The encounter resulted in what Joni assured me would be the only autograph she would ever give! She IS an angel, Gary. As of the early 80s, I saw her on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. She was a passenger in a car at the light and I called to her; "you signed my Court and Spark album in '74. Am I still the only one?" she called back; "you'

[@BearWa11ace]

I love this old clips of Jonie singing on "lets sing out"... I find them truly moving... incomparable... Mellifluous and lovely!

[@pobpitts]

OH MY !!dose it get any better. talent and wisdom far beond her age. cant stop watching!

[@danthefan5378]

i Love using "dose" and not does tho both fit Koinkadink Or not. Best dtf

[@pobpitts]

@@danthefan5378 ok you win. Champion 👍

[@jordanjumpshot154]

everyone is mesmerized they know how transcendent the moment they're in is.

[@EduardoM-vp5fo]

She Is telling a story from the deep deep inside❤

[@wiseking6023]

Amazingly one finds the great folk Songwriter Jimmy Driftwood present on two of the most extraordinary live performances; Joni here and Bob Dylan at Newport on his first live performance of Mr Tambourine Man

[@Solarshoji]

The highlight of my life..... I took a friend with me to pick up a car in LA in 1979. My friend, never having been to Los Angeles before, needed the quick tour. As we were stopped at a red light on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, I glanced to my right and who is in the grey Mercedes right next to me? Joni Mitchell! No pretension, nothing but sweetness radiating from this exquisite woman. I said "hey" and she said "hi". I've cherished the night all my life.

[@cawiseguy]

What I like about that video is that she already has anyone who is listening in the palm of her hands. What a voice! What a Presence! What a Joy!!!

[@Bhuranyu]

I hate cliches but Joni Mitchell's music is timeless and spellbinding.

[@WVislandia]

A genius at an early age who proved the vision for many years after. I always consider this song to be a masterpiece of the change of seasons. Can you tell I'm a Joni fan?

[@hayduke1969]

One of the greatest musical talents of the last 50 years. Joni is such a glaring contrast to the musicians of today. Sublime musicality, intelligence, grace and beauty. She's a poet, social critic, and an absurdly talented musician. Sort of the Britney Spears of her day.

[@stacyd511]

There will never be another Joni Mitchell ... no one even comes close

[@jtropic26]

My favorite song of hers. The lyrics represent exactly how I feel that time of year. She's simply amazing.

[@John_Fugazzi]

I'm so thankful this show existed when it did in Canada. Usually you wouldn't have had such an early recorded performance by a singer who would go on to become so famous and deservedly so. Had she been been American, TV would have come much later. This was the first Joni song I ever heard, in early 1967 by George Hamilton IV. I immediately loved it but didn't know who the songwriter was yet.

[@claymonson9392]

She taught me that folk music is magical

[@nancyjordan1577]

What a wonder this beautiful spirit is. The other musicians gaze at Joni in awe and amazement…I am in awe of her simplistic nature.

[@spoiledbigtime]

Look at the faces behind her. They are amazed by the voice. She is is a gift.

[@sccoast1700]

What a great song. Its beautiful portry put to music . Her voice then was incredible.

[@annesantony]

Mesmerizing. Talent that comes once in a blue moon.

[@carrietide]

I totally agree.

[@birddog2017]

This song takes me back to an October afternoon in my younger days as my love and I gathered apples in the fading sunlight. The crisp air was alive but already with a hint of the winter cold to come. As we picked, I watched her quiet hands gently placing red apples in our basket, not knowing that by Spring, they would be still forever.

[@danthefan5378]

Sorry for Your Loss in Your younger days. This part of Your comment could Stand Alone as a GR8 Poem Or Song!~"takes me back to an October afternoon in my younger days as my love and I gathered apples in the fading sunlight. The crisp air was alive but already with a hint of the winter cold to come. As we picked, I watched her quiet hands gently placing red apples in our basket, not knowing that by Spring, they would be still forever." Bests, dtf

[@Homeslicebread]

Stunningly beautiful...completely hypnotic.. watching the muse of quintessential Joni here in her earliest incantations. The poet, the artist, the songwriter, master of multiple instruments. Mesmerizing the old kanook in black glasses. Commanding the attention of her audience as if she were provincial royalty by her very presence and grace. As profound as the angels of Elizabeth Cotten and Nina Simone or the misunderstood ways of Lady Holiday. If Gods exist, Joni indeed must be of them.

[@danthefan5378]

& Goddess's! Bests, dtf

[@RockbertoRocks]

It gives me chills. What a song, what an artist!

[@OhTerrful1]

Dude beside her is mesmerized.

[@coy0te9]

If you mean the older guy with glasses, it was Jimmy Driftwood from Arkansas, who wrote "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud".

[@ernestmoney7252]

We're all mesmerized.

[@TheLisergicQueen]

..because probably he never heard something like her before!! ♡ ;)

[@ellen5603]

Terry MaC Judging from his glasses, I think he's wondering "Who is this blurry woman with the angelic voice?"

[@carrietide]

😊

[@scanthat]

Truly the embodiment of grace. I don't know what else to call it.

[@aeolusryder7896]

Hands down the best singer/songwriter male or female the last 50years....

[@manitou1954]

It is a moment of sheer greatness, from the guitar playing to her angelic voice to the incredible poetic imagery of the song. How lucky are we to have Joni Mitchell grace us in our lifetimes.

[@TheRjjrjjr]

I agree with your eloquence, Binstence! But you forgot to mention that Joni is a weaver of magic as well. She never fails to charm me and carry me away to where ever she goes. What a fantastic gift she is. I need her more than ever these days. . .

[@uritubeful]

This must be one of the most beautiful songs I'd ever heard. thank you Newsnight, fate and Shazam. it's like this song was taken out of a Tolkien book. Oh the nostalgia, the nostalgia, Camden, Camden. Thank you Joni.

[@suoziming88]

her voice takes me back to the merry old days of being told goodnight-stories... it's so much magic to listen to her singing this :)

[@RondelayAOK]

I agree wholeheartedly. It's everything: an amazing performance, fabulous poise, phenomenal delivery; she outclasses them all.

[@seapossum3842]

My fav Joni song. Just genius.

[@FIBONICITY]

Those musicians in the background are memorized because her beauty in every way is otherworldly

[@carrietide]

True

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

+FIBONICITY Really? How do you memorize those musicians?

[@EnosEverything]

+FIBONICITY .... I think the word you wanted was MESMERISED.... memorized is when you've stored something into your memory.

[@FIBONICITY]

Yes thinking one thing typing another

[@Endzeitstille]

EnosEverything but they will memorize that mesmerizing moment for sure

[@Whatsthedealman]

This was one of my favorite Joni songs - she's beautiful and so are her haunting, unique melodies. I love that guitar riff!

[@mooebon]

I love the version of this she put on her Prairie Girl LP. Joni's early songs are the BEST!! I love the Cloud album, Ladies of the Canyon, and best of all Blue.

[@danthefan5378]

Those Albums & for me the best of all For The Roses. Bests, dtf

[@Imissthepostoffice]

This is the best and most beautiful video of her. Playing in a man's world. Women at the time, had a really hard time of it. Unusual, she was. But it it so obvious that she was way more talented than all the men around. Notice the jealousy and smirks from that guy to the left .. couldn't wait for her to get done. Perhaps he is famous now. Who is this clown ?

[@MikeBrown-dk7or]

She's so effin good. Sublime. Gives me chills.

[@marKism69]

As for singer/song writer, there is noone better than Joni. Noone.

[@BearWa11ace]

Joni has that intangible something that reaches in and squeezes the heart.. does mine... touching.. is the word I think.. very touching!

[@VM-ve6mi]

Beautiful and timeless

[@cheneyrobert]

What an amazing song smith 👏👏👏👏👏musician and composer of immense depth 👏👏👏🥂

[@luciushatherly1972]

Joni Mitchell is about 22 years old when this was televised - the beauty of her lyrics is amazing for someone so young.

[@HarryVerey]

She is almost not of this Earth- stunning

[@suerisk]

Timeless beauty- her vocals have always been so sweet!

[@heatherferreira4225]

What a voice, girl

[@carrietide]

Magnificent.

[@robertbruce5213]

Joni is timeless and forever incandescent. This is how it is with truly great art and artists. I was a very young man when this came out; I loved it but did not fully appreciate its depth (words and feelings). Now, much older, I think I do. That's the brilliance of Joni Mitchell: 1.) her music always returns you to yourself. 2.) it only improves with time. p.s. I've begun to notice a return to folk & acoustic music. My take is folks in this fragmented, wired age are not only drawn to its very human simplicity, but they also crave authenticity and real emotions.

[@TheKarmicRepairCo]

This song was finally recorded by Joni in a studio in 1971 for the "Blue" album, but left off at the last minute. It was subsequently released as a b-side to the You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio) single, and finally issued on CD on the "Hits" collection.

[@equifilibricum]

Perhaps the most beautiful overbite in the world.

[@gaynomadic]

So beautiful. To listen to, to look at. Stunning. I'm a long long long time fan, but things like this just remind me of how uniquely beautiful Joni was and how haunting her lyrics and voice will always be to me.

[@charleshenry1100]

The Best i ever have heard. Could see and hear it every Day. Thank`s to henhenstoll and I love Joni Mitchell.

[@Imissthepostoffice]

Yes, the beauty of her genius and the people around who are in tune to it !

[@kgs42]

Shows off her distinctly delicately plangeant vocal style beautifully .... entrancing .... thanks

[@johntatum1951]

My ear for jazz was first influenced by listening to Joni...she took me from folk to pop rock, to fusion, to jazz...Court and Spark and Blue...etc. Her lyrics are so poetic...

[@TheLisergicQueen]

Wow, i've never thought of joni name first when i think about jazz music...so now im pretty sure i missed something of her musical productions, i guess., :P

[@jimstevenson3379]

Lisergic Queen Have a good listen to her double live album, Shadows and Light. You'll get Michael Brecker, Pat Metheney, Jaco Pastorius and Don Alias in the band....... Amazing stuff

[@hannjenn]

+Lisergic Queen Joni Mitchell's Mingus album, on which she collaborated with jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, is her most overt venture into jazz.

[@broadband0118]

Staggeringly brilliant. God given talent we can only be in awe of.

[@LuisGarzonGuitarist]

It is great to see these old videos preserved. Joni was every guys idea of a woman. She remains an even better artist.

[@TheNigelr]

Extraordinary composition..............pure genius

[@celtenator]

Joni IS one of the greatest songwriters of all times, female or male!

[@PyritePete]

This song, I first heard on WBZ am radio during Dicky Summer's Saturday Folk Music show. Tom Rush was the artist covering the song and he did it very well. It's so good to hear the writer of the song sing it.

[@lindadoane2249]

I well remember that gray show!

[@KrazyMissKitty]

On a cold November day in Saskatchewan I'll listen to this song and be all at once be comforted.

[@louisemayb]

Wow.. Simply WOW.. I dont think ive ever heard anything so beautiful!

[@kevprange]

In credibly beautiful lyrics. Thanks for posting.

[@jirdimaster]

Holy ass i've been looking for this song for hours, my sister had taught me how to play it a million years ago and i could not remember the name of it.

[@reaveymr]

Pure genius

[@OliverCraneUK]

Beautiful - something of the genius about Joni.

[@SFJonesy]

Thanks! What an exquisite performance - the sound quality is so good! And, well, it's Joni's "Urge For Going" - what a song! What an artist! What a woman!

[@richardlanehart9796]

Thanks for posting hello from Oxfordshire England 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺

[@johnwwhite2]

Wonderful to see this original video. Joni - love you and your work.

[@Mooser42001]

I have watched all of these Joni "Anderson" videos. When she sings, there's not another performer in the room. They all knew, and you can see it easily in Oscar Brand's face, that she was going places.

[@adviceandcounsel]

What a joy to watch this genius, as a young woman, begin to assert her confidence in her beautiful, poetic songwriting and instrumental artistry. She is the definition of the heart-probing troubador. She writes like no one else. She compels your attention and hypnotizes you. You willingly fall under her spell, amazed by her power to interpret and define your emotions.

[@dlanodrelda]

A truly masterful song. Tom Rush does a fine version of this song and still plays it when he performs.

[@seaturtle7777]

Magnificent. A great moment in world music history.

[@davidlenander]

Since it hadn't been on any of her albums, but was the flip side of her single, "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)," which I couldn't find in the stores, we used to go to a pizza place and play this song on the juke box, along with Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain," similarly only on a single. Eventually I managed to find the singles, and later on they released the songs on compilation albums, but I still love this above or at least as much as any of her other songs.

[@gwennypent]

How could you not be head over heels in love with this girl!

[@jerometgillain]

Joni is a natural musician entertainer. Everything she does is very good.

[@messiahsez]

She is a genius and I miss her deeply.

[@danthefan5378]

henhenstoll, ThankYou for this and all Your posts!

[@pinkysgrl]

This was one of the first songs she wrote. An amazing talent.

[@claybadlands8432]

Soul capture

[@empop89]

beautiful