SUGAR MOUNTAIN - JONI MITCHELL (Neil Young Cover 1967)

[@missbknodel]

First time hearing Joni play Sugar Mountain, one of my all time requests for my guitar Bro, Dave, he'd roll his eyes but he knew it made little sis cry. Enjoyed this. Please everyone. Show some class and respect music and musicians, singing their very hearts and souls to us. ✌️.

[@An_Cat_Dubh]

Mitchell: "In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 19, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 18 you couldn't get in there anymore(...) But he was over the hill. So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth..."

[@jacp491]

I really like Joni Mitchell doing sugar Mountain! And she has such a beautiful voice!

[@steveellis9004]

We all left Sugar Mountain too soon,,,,,,,that's the way of it though.....peace......

[@jonathansmith3742]

Oh Joni, what a beautiful version. I was still on Sugar Mountain when this came out at 6-7 yrs of age.

[@smartalek180]

What a find! This is a great little slice of history here -- thank you so much for promoting it here.

[@williamjmccartan8879]

I know I'm late to the party, but wow Joni, I'm so glad this was recorded. Peace

[@joelmaqueira4851]

Beautiful! My prayers go out to Joni!

[@NunaYaBidnez]

Never heard her do this before! Awesome. Currently listening to her "Archives" on Spotify. Great stuff. Wasn't that thrilled with the real early stuff but after a dozen or so tracks it gets really good.

[@gerrycasey5700]

"Sugar Mountain" is a song by Canadian folk rock singer and composer Neil Young. Young composed the song on November 12, 1964-his 19th birthday-at the Victoria Hotel in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay), where he had been touring with his Winnipeg band the Squires. Its lyrics are reminiscences about his ...

[@SterlingRe]

Fun stuff. One of my favorite Neil Young songs. Great images of Joni. A beautiful woman with the high cheek bones of a runway model. I love her!!

[@dennistarpein9599]

great song I love Joni

[@Johnboy33545]

And the legs.

[@HDXBear]

excellent Joni outstanding as always

[@ricardolauzen2999]

I love you Joni. Minha maior viagem lisergica foi ouvindo vc, durante tres dias. Uauuu. Valeuuu! GRRR!

[@rjasso919]

No voice so sublime so vulnerable a woman from the northern lights; a crystal stream voice The queen of the arctic....

[@clancykobane9102]

i been to sugar mountain. it was wonderful and horrible and i miss it.

[@hawaiianMammy]

A moment in time... captured...! WOW~~ I am in awe!

[@johngruenhagen64]

Did no one read Neil's liner notes on Decade? Re: Sugar Mountain "Joni Mitchell heard this song and wrote Circle Game"

[@roctb333]

Great memory, Dude, always loved their connected music

[@sportsmediaamerica]

If true, Joni surpassed him!

[@ladykfilmartproductions273]

Yes it's true. I have a 1970 live from London recording of Joni and James Taylor. It's epic! She plays Circle Game and tells how it was her response to her friend's song Sugar Mountain. She didn't mention his name.

[@stache1059]

@@sportsmediaamerica What an arrogant opinion

[@smallywaters7063]

I love the pictures of Joni and her Martin!

[@marx007100]

Beautiful. Nothing more can be said I think.

[@maxwellfan55]

Well, I wasn't expect this, it's Neil's but so perfect for Joni. Thanks Joni x.

[@edgarjable]

Born in 59 . L8tr , riding round in car full of frenz , Loved Joni on radio . Enjoyed Joni's contribution . lot of competition , in Those Days .

[@nickweiserfolz]

Wonderful, the song and the singer, both!

[@paologuerra8795]

Sugar Mountain and Urge for Going are respectively Neil's and Joni's BEST SONGS. Both remained outside of their official discography for along tine and this has been a pity!

[@smallywaters7063]

Nice photo montage!

[@leighharris2080]

My favorite song

[@RemusKingOfRome]

She did the best rendition of Woodstock. Joni will always have a place in my heart.

[@thomasromano9321]

The best rendition and she also wrote the song!

[@jsbrules]

i prefer the CSNY version, one of the best most transformative covers ever. not always a fan of their work but they nailed that one. i like hers too. Aren’t the words weird though? - going to Woodstock to JOIN a band??

[@robertzeleznik8124]

Much Love Joni.

[@seekeroftruthful]

To Bear. I'm trying to find my way back to Sugar Mountain

[@DD-hy1nl]

I love Joni's version of this song..

[@coy0te9]

On the Peel Sessions with James Taylor Joni quotes the song as written by a friend who was upset by turning 21 when he realized he was barred from the teen club where his band mates and girl friends hung out. If she'd written it i think she would have said so.

[@bernicejacobson2857]

Enjoy his music

[@mitchdolphinsfan2]

Order of operations is neil wrote sugar mountain and the joni herd it and wrote circle game.. They both have said it plenty of times

[@smartalek180]

"Order of operations" Don't tell me -- you're a fan of xkcd... yes? However: the past tense of "herd" is "herded." "Joni herded it..." Cheers!

[@smartalek180]

On the evidence, it's extremely unlikely that you're educable -- but what is life without taking chances on absurd risks?So, just in case:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projectionWish you the very best.Cheers!

[@cyberswaggie]

And that, friends, is why we couldn't make the summer of love last...

[@neilglass7873]

fine version

[@davidlenander]

Ian & Sylvia and Buffy Sainte-Marie had both recorded "Circle Game" in '66, so Joni had already written it by at least late '66. I had thought that Ian & Sylvia had heard Joni sing it in Canada, but maybe they had just heard her sing at the Mariposa Folk Festival and not actually this song. Of course, she may have written the song as a response well before this recording of "Sugar Mountain."

[@thetruthfornow6045]

Neil plays the song slower with more feeling. This seems slightly rushed but still a good version.

[@鎌強]

Ｉ Ｌove Joni

[@UltraRuns]

Who gives Joni a thumbs-down?

[@ChristopherLawrence1969]

+UltraRuns People with two left thumbs or two left index fingers?

[@Imissthepostoffice]

+UltraRuns I really wouldn't worry about it. In our day, we called them assholes. I think today the internet calls them trolls.

[@terrilocke6225]

UltraRuns sounds like they just sped up Neil singing

[@lisad7788]

I don't like her voice at all. Sorry to hurt your feelings. lol

[@UltraRuns]

Lisa D. So why are you watching this video? Lol back.

[@cameronplatt5833]

Que viva Canada!

[@advent6996]

Sorry, but Neil owns this song...literally.

[@YI-pf6yy]

young mitchell

[@alohagrace2225]

🔥❤️🔥

[@heavyduty1ful]

Roger that.

[@jondoe8889]

Please - Neil is an emotive singer. He sings great - as Neil. Like Dylan and many others. The point was that Joni is an excellent singer, by any measure. That said - I like Neil's version much better. Not as sweet and pretty, but Joni doesn't capture the mood. Kinda like her singing 'me and my uncle'. Pretty, but the Dead capture the mood of 4 days in the saddle! I guess Joni was still a folk singer back then, and hadn't found her' voice'. These are two great, different artists!

[@jkjkjkish]

she didn't write this song neil did but upon hearing this song joni wrote a tune called the circle game which she wrote in response to this song

[@uncatila]

I knew an ex-con who used to hand out around the Newman center near CSUN. He resented the fact that non of the girls would pay him no mind. Occasionally he would lurk about at night like a peeping Tom in the dark. If he saw any romance taking place he would taunt the lovers as they stealt away after. "Having fun?" He would ask in a most frightful manner that obliterated all presumption of anonymity..

[@jkjkjkish]

go onto wikipedia and look up the song, neil wrote it

[@giovannibattaglia9161]

Does anybody know what kind of tuning is she using in this version of sugar mountain?

[@DavidNelsonOstrosser]

At the start of the video she's tuning the guitar and she says "I never tune in standard"... "This is a tune in standard". So she's tuning to standard, which is in habitual for her.

[@dragonjones7821]

I don't think this is what mikedonn71 meant. A lot of covers can't sing it right but of course Joni Mitchell can. Neil is unassailable. Maybe I'm a dreamer. Hope so!

[@roctb333]

The sound on this sucks on my computer, but this song is one of my favorites.

[@roctb333]

Got much better audio now and enjoying Joni's rendition of the Man who once loved her, forever Young.

[@richardwilson1234]

Did Neil write Sugar Mountain before or after the Circle Game.

[@PeeJayLA]

Before

[@fandangofilms]

love them both, but there is a much stronger innocence to neil's version. also joni sings it much to quickly.

[@DavidNelsonOstrosser]

Check Neil's version in 1965, on his Elektra demo recordings. Exactly the same speed and strum style as here. (Of course, I don't think those Elektra demos were readily available back when you wrote this comment!)

[@jsbrules]

@@DavidNelsonOstrosserthank you for that history! very interesting

[@MVandemore]

Check BMI Work #1425972, it lists Neil Young as the composer.

[@matthewblau2140]

open D tuning

[@jacquesbrelfan]

Barnstoneworth Utd ...best football team in Yorkshire !! Bring back Ripping Yarns

[@sauljapuntich]

pencilpauli where did you get a Spear & Jackson shovel??

[@sauljapuntich]

Makes sense. Mebbe if anuder bloke happens to have some such shovel, methinks I would be delighted ta buy said shovel for a fair coin. G'day

[@phreddalpay8013]

Censor said: " please do not send this to that Sugar Baker....... Delta Burke" ????????????

[@ChickieePatriot]

Joni wrote it !

[@roctb333]

Nope, this is Neil Young's composition.

[@Trevor7590]

Are you saying Neil Young can't sing?

[@ederickson7314]

she picked a nice 1 by Neil but not the same foot stomping mood Neil puts 1 in doing the song Neils the Kingevery show was great I ve seen

[@raymondmcmenemy303]

Keeping it Canuck.

[@laurienelson6746]

ditto

[@jamiewesson898]

she hadnt found her own voice her sounds like joan baez

[@lewisyoung4531]

Try a few years earlier, when she was Joan Anderson and appeared on "Let's Sing Out" at least a couple of times, once on the same show with "The Chapins", of which Harry Chapin was a member. She could sing and pick quite well. "Let's Sing Out" was a Canadian music show on television, and the host, whose name I cannot remember, would sometimes join the guests in song.

[@bthor76]

I didn't know she had such nice, shapely legs back in the day.

[@shauntaylor6040]

Oh this just doesn't work back to Live Rust.

[@jacquesbrelfan]

eh oop reckon tha should check rainfall lad !!.... bbc 4 repeating ripping yarns on thurs 22:00 at mo....great stuff .... eric olthwaite most boring man in Yorkshire

[@jayaybe1]

Looks like I just missed it...

[@MarkAnthony-ev7fj]

This is my face but it does.not give my trues . Look up ninanesbit ... Joni

[@hagepolina]

you are wrong my dear.....Joni wrote it

[@richardhornbostel3958]

No this is Neil’s song

[@bwanna23]

She was a hippie and didn't know it.

[@ChickieePatriot]

WRITTEN BY JONI MITCHELL !!!

[@apocalypseplough8089]

Chickiee Patriot This is Neil Young's song. Neil played it for Joni in Winnipeg, where the two of them met. Joni wrote "The Circle Game" in response to "Sugar Mountain."

[@papa-ql3xb]

Chickiee Patriot, you really don't know your rocknroll history!

[@gsjbaldwin]

I'm a HUGE Joni fan. But she really doesn't sell this song at all. Granted Neil Young wrote it but Joni's voice and guitar are just not working on this.

[@judsonh1949]

No... she didn't.

[@primtones]

Neil's version has a much better rhythm.

[@johndeanhardin2366]

Maby, ...first acoustic "cover" attempt

[@biggpiston]

are you stoned, neil wrote it,

[@timoflea8417]

How ridiculous to start this off with a picture of the ski resort, Sugar Mountain, which has nothing to do with the reference in Neil's song.

[@mikedonn71]

It's strange to hear a Neil Young song sung by a singer that can actually sing. I love NY by the way. Just saying.

[@lisad7788]

She does a lousy job. Neil is so much better.

[@biggpiston]

joni is a good singer but neil young is the greatest singer.....

[@blap1632]

most over rated singer ever

[@ThePerusse]

God this is a horrid cover.

[@lisad7788]

I concur.

[@bristleconepinus2378]

@@lisad7788 a little fast...She's nervous.