UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO - BUFFY SAINTE MARIE (BBC Live 1971)

UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO - BUFFY SAINTE MARIE
Perhaps best known from its hit cover version by Elvis Presley, here's the original by Canadian singer songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. Recorded for BBC TV back in 1971 for the show 'One in Ten'.

[@nbenefiel]

My older sister was a folkie from the early 60’s. She brought this home and I fell in love. I still have dreams about playing her records on the silvertone stereo I got for my 13th birthday.

[@lucyweir5923]

Donovan didn’t write Universal Soldier. A true artist did. Thanks Buffy. You’re beautiful and brilliant.

[@bradhuskers]

Buffy wrote a nice song. BUT. elvis presley's studio recording of this song in 1971, is the GOLD STANDARD. TRUST ME. Elvis's voice is like a fine Bordeaux wine. Rich resonate warm lush complex tones.

[@strawberryseason]

Those short shorts were really in style in 1971!

[@Booby2251]

This is 50 years old and still love Buffy. Love it

[@DougKelly-py6eh]

When you first hear this song, it remains in your head forever.

[@roberth.5185]

Not mine. Forgotten in 5 seconds.

[@Apachita]

I agree. The sound of Buffy singing stayed in my head from the first time I heard it. It's kind of like how you never forget what fingernails scratching a chalkboard sound like. It stayed in my head forever because I couldn't wrap my brain around how she had the guts to sing like that in public and how people were encouraging her. As her son Cody said in (on FB Oct.2020) ..." it only worked for my mom because of the indian identity"....And he said that no one knew she was actually Italian/English. That she died her hair black and wore dark make-up, etc "It was kind of a gimmick that became a fad and then a formula....."

[@bessk8847]

I never realized her teeth the confidence i need wow its amazing 😮

[@tigristhelynx7224]

I really love the lyrics "I was an oak, but now a willow and I can bend." Gorgeous imagery. My favorite cover is by a young Michael Nesmith in 1965, pre-Monkees. He kept Buffy's lyrics, singing it intimately and full of sorrow.

[@MSYNGWIE12]

Hi from Canada, I awoke with this song- I went to Mr. Diamond's version, my mother's fav- I lost her last Christmas but then I had to hear the original, the writer's own heartache - pain of a love that couldn't be - many of us have been there- yes? I have to hear Mr. Nesmith's and yes I know what band he was in- wish I wasn't so old! Namaste

[@dafbdirks]

she wrote this classic and her albums are so heart felt make all of todays singers redundant

[@ziraprod6090]

haha ....no.

[@RunplaysinHD]

@@ziraprod6090 haha... yes

[@bradhuskers]

Her recording sucks. Elvis's interpretation is light years better. Trust me. No contest

[@fabdave425]

Beautiful song

[@JacquelineTHarty-kf1vj]

Was just reminded of her and this song while commenting in a WSJ article. So I had to come and listen, again; it has been many decades. I still love this song and her exquisitely different voice.

[@Arewal851]

"exquisitely different voice" 😆 that is one way to put it! Why do you think she had to fake being Indian? She truly sucked as a musician. She sings so off key and has the goat vibrato is actually a sign of someone that can't do vibrato (and can't be bothered. Narcissists want the glory without the work).

[@jazzladz5950]

I had not listened to this raw and beautiful and gentle love song in many decades, but somehow it came to mind this morning. It remains a classic. This song is one of a kind.

[@MrDLOC11]

What a beautiful job the BBC did capturing this exquisite song sung by the original artist, a rare and classic song like no other......

[@alnicospeaker]

In any job it is a joy to see real professionals at work. That of course includes Buffy ;)

[@robertrodriguez7131]

Timeless. Unforgettable mesmerising melody

[@sapphirecrystalhealer88]

Fabulous singer and song

[@WildAlchemicalSpirit]

Buffy is an angel...a heart pouring forth with love. 💗💕

[@abbynormal7036]

She is a lying fake white Angel then... One that would stoop to threatening her own brother with molesting her if he dared to tell anyone about her being born to Irish/Italian parents in America...

[@billsomody6928]

One great singer songwriter and musician I would have loved to see perform in person! Did see Mary Travers perform in Akron, Ohio in December 1986. She smiled and said Hi to me! Sure made my evening! I was so elated! Saw Joan Baez perform on the Commons at Kent State University in August 1977! Marvelous voice and such a gifted songwriter and musician! Buffy is right up there! Very brave and very true to herself and her beliefs! Love her!

[@Arewal851]

"True to herself and her beliefs"? Have you ever listened to her speak? Its all gloat and brag (and insulting native people as being too stupid, racist, uncivilized etc.) It's atrocious the things she has said. And as far as the voice..... I have to wonder if you are tone deaf (like buffy). Her own son said (Oct.5 fb 2020) the only reason it worked fro her was the black hair dye, dark make-up and faking being an Indian.

[@willdwyer6782]

Elvis did her a solid favor by covering this song and getting it played on the radio in the US when Nixon and J. Edgar had her blacklisted. I'm sure it boosted the royalties she made off of it.

[@alfredkowsky7374]

This is a gut wrenching farewell song 😭, & at the same time poetic in it's honesty 🤨.

[@stephanomarr6829]

Canada's largest star in my HUMBLE OPINION, Buffy St.Marie, a VOICE that's awesome,, her songs are TIMELESS......

[@ziraprod6090]

Definitely an opinion.

[@brucemorrison2132]

Exactly my opinion as well ! I love that unique warble in her voice !

[@premsign]

Its hard to judge the best over genres' Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, and many others.

[@namerican8510]

​@@brucemorrison2132she's not Canadian or indigenous

[@patricias5122]

Except that she's been lying all this time. She's not Canadian. She's not Cree. She's an American born to American parents.

[@deborahmazza8123]

Have loved Buffy since 1972. A true treasure.

[@ggbythesea9231]

I *LOVE* HER.. Always & Forever .. Thank YOU, Beloved 🕊🤲🏼

[@BBQ1953]

Once in a while, the raw, unrefined version of a song, sung by the original artist, is more enjoyable than a "produced" rendition. This one by Ms. Saints-Marie easily fits into that category. Rumor has it she wrote it at a time in her life when the lyrics actually spoke to her longing. I've enjoyed this song since I first heard it in 1967. I learned how to play it in 1978 but I've always enjoyed it more in 4/4 time. It feels smoother and a touch more melancholy which is how I would feel if this was my song.

[@bradhuskers]

Brett. In the case of the iconic artist elvis presley. You'd be dead wrong. In 1971, elvis presley recorded this song in the studio. The result is pure magic. Elvis's interpretation of buffy's lyrics, IS THE GOLD STANDARD. TRUST ME Elvis's voice is like a fine Bordeaux wine. Rich resonate warm tones. Complex and expressive. It's light years above any other version

[@bradhuskers]

In this case, you'd be dead wrong. In 1971, elvis presley interpreted these same words, and made them LIGHT YEARS BETTER. Elvis's recording is otherworldly. Buffy, sadly, butchered her own words. She's a great writer, but lacks in the soul depth and diversity departments

[@BBQ1953]

@@bradhuskers - how nice of you to be so open to the opinion of others and most certainly, in your kind words about Buffy Saints-Marie, the artist who had the courage to capture the rawness and savagery of impending loneliness - HER impending loneliness - and gift it to the world.

[@bradhuskers]

@@BBQ1953 Learn to listen. Comprehend. Understand. Buffy's lyrics are amazing. She's a gifted poet. But many songwriters lack the soul and depth needed to take their lyrics to another dimension. Certain iconic artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis presley, etc...etc...had that rare ability to interpret the words of another, taking those words to places the actual songwriter could never ever reach. I know this is above your limited IQ. Don't worry. I've studied music longer than you've been alive. Anyone who gives a thoughtful listen to elvis's 1971 recording of Buffy's lyrics, comes away stunned. Don't be afraid. Learn to think outside the box. Expand your limited horizons. Let the magic envelop your soul.

[@cjbani159]

@@BBQ1953 let Brad express himself all he wants. Elvis was doing a lot of drugs and hanging with Richard Nixon around the time he made Brad's "saintly" cover version. Buffy wrote it and it's hers and he can mansplain 'til the world collapses. You were right the first time, except for the 4/4 ;)

[@MarioBruneau]

Elle me tire des larmes cette Buffy Sainte Marie! Merci Buffy de nous avoir donné une si belle chanson. Je vais essayer de la produire à l'accordéon...

[@colinbarnsdale8017]

What a beautiful woman you are with such a sincere voice.God bless you.

[@kimatkinson3204]

There is so much raw talent in this song and singer! Buffy still has it!

[@ronduff4325]

Beautiful lady back then and even more now . She got a ruff start in life as did a lot of Indigenous People . But she is Warrior Woman , she overcame .

[@suburbantrapqueen3244]

She’s a fraud. She was born in Massachusetts. To Italian parents 😂

[@mrhoffame]

That picking was effortless!

[@stevekonefal7990]

Great composer and just as.beautiful now as then

[@melrosemiss]

I love the warble in her voice. A rare and beautiful talent.

[@terinorton3955]

Why am I just now discovering this?

[@pierre1050]

Such an amazing woman

[@alnicospeaker]

Buffy makes that the best lovesong written that leaves you strangely uncomfortably, yet amazed.

[@markthompson7727]

Beautiful vibrato.

[@gigijnbaptiste6974]

This song is my life!

[@mickeymousey1239]

Love her my first guitar book of songs was of course Buffy's greatest hits; she was such an inspiration. stay strong

[@matthewgoetzka8855]

This is the first time I ever heard her sing & it's crazy how her voice vibrates like that

[@joeljack1]

Agreed. She wrote an amazing song, but I'm not a fan of that vocal instrument.

[@abbynormal7036]

Ever heard of white man yodeling in the 20s and 30s? Well that was a white American woman doing it while pretending to be Indian.

[@suburbantrapqueen3244]

It’s awful

[@leahbowman3666]

Buffy was actually the one who got Joni Mitchell recognized, and then eventually signed

[@kreyvegas1]

Is this true?

[@leahbowman3666]

@@kreyvegas1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn2XY6iCd9Fsq6M Around 4:30 there is where it starts! :)

[@nbenefiel]

I grew up on folk music. I still love it.

[@jannep17]

What a singer. What a songwriter. No words.

[@johnlehmann1083]

Just heard her sing this at Summerfolk, Owen Sound on Thursday night - and her voice is better than it was 47 years ago. She is amazing. Think how timely the words of this song are - and then listen to Universal Soldier again and see how it still contains the truth about war. Love Buffy!

[@allanhernandez2508]

So lucky! I want to meet her and just chat. She hasn't come to Chicago. I have all of her material on CD, LPs and mp3. Some albums I bought in vinyl even though I had them in CD form.

[@ziraprod6090]

Universal Soldier contains half truths about war... ...written by someone in a free country and someone who has not seen it.

[@musik102]

I saw Buffy at a folk rock festival in Lincoln, UK in 1971. She was great

[@BlytheWorld1972]

u can tell she is touched so amazing

[@alanoneill3065]

Brilliant , beautiful..awesome

[@iVenge]

Mille grazie, cara. 😊

[@crying_hippy]

Much Love and God Bless This Woman

[@Holymakinaw]

A Canadian treasure.

[@ellabruce230]

I never knew she wrote this song. WOW! My first time hearing her version of the song she wrote.

[@52barney]

still rockin at 76 , check out the new LP Medicine Songs

[@annalisajames6558]

Wow! What a beautiful song. It truly resonated with me.

[@doUcare4music]

A song of love, and parting. ✨

[@ConradSpoke]

Great songwriter, voice like a broken refrigerator.

[@rebekahpuma9667]

First time hearing this, it's absolutely beautiful

[@verakies6522]

love your voice and spirit !!

[@georgianwindow]

I am english from Bishop Auckland and I went and bought records of all those mentioned here by you at Brothertons record shop in this small town in North East England including Steppenwolf Neil Y Gordon L Joni M Buffy S M Leonard C

[@delcrowe9712]

Buffy's relatives at Piapot First Nation in Qu'Appelle Valley Saskatchewan are very proud of her.

[@JM-hl2gy]

That's funny She Is not Native. She is a race shifter a pretendindian. Born in Massachusetts to a white mother and Italian father.

[@gamegreed9105]

How do you think the Natives feel about her now that she has pretended to be native for all these years she really is Italian😂 🍕

[@user-vb7pz8yi8m]

She sings from her heart.

[@capricornia5266]

Ive never realised this woman wrote this song that Elvis sang!! I'm hooked on her voice!! brilliant!! so natural, what a voice!!! wish she could train me to sing like that :)

[@thatbird2]

At one point, Elvis asked her to sell him this song on the basis that he had a larger following and had had a hit with it! She gracefully turned him down...

[@64JBran]

What a crazy statement. Elvis recorded this many years AFTER others had already recorded it, including Buffy, Cher, Nancy Sinatra and Neil Diamond. Why would he want to buy it?

[@thatbird2]

@@64JBran He wanted to buy the actual copyright! Sorry if that wasn't clear enough for you. Crazy? Well you know what they say about truth being stranger than fiction...

[@wyeme50]

As others have said in so many ways it's almost impossible for any cover to beat the song writer singing their own song. A beautiful young woman pleading to her lover "Hey no strings attached just love me" As young lovers will almost certainly find out just as anyone of any real age did, demands can stifle and even kill any love that exists, long term love and relationships take a degree of understanding beyond us when we were young, that may be the grand design of things

[@bradhuskers]

I hate to prove you wrong. But elvis presley's 1971 studio recording of this song, DESTROYS buffy in every way. Elvis's voice is like a fine Bordeaux wine on this. Rich warm resonate lush tones. Expressive and complex like the fine Bordeaux. Trust me. Buffy wrote nice words. But elvis presley takes those words to a much higher level. Buffy had no idea whatsoever.

[@gamegreed9105]

​@@bradhuskersthis makes my point even though you wrote this 3 years ago she needed her gimmick of pretending to be a native to come to fame, if she didn't pretend to be a Native she would have never received the notoriety and many awards she won posing to be red face.

[@bradhuskers]

@@gamegreed9105 My point was that her writing is amazing. Unfortunately, like Bob Dylan, her vocals are garbage

[@gamegreed9105]

@@bradhuskers I don't know much about vocals her voice I agree is not a naturally talented voice I think want carried her to fame was her native gimmick she is not native blood at all nor was she born in Canada she's a American born Italian.

[@SaphirSouenEstherG]

Thank you! Shared on G+ October 5, 2016

[@A-Pa-s-Plainjane]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE VERSION ORIGINALLY ON HER ALBUM, "MANY A MILE", (1967), WHICH WAS AND IS ONE OF THE MOST PERFECT ALBUMS EVER MADE, BUT OF COURSE YOU WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE THAT FOR YOURSELF. I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH HER THEN AND I STILL LOVE HER NOW, SO I AM A LITTLE SUBJECTIVE.

[@patricias5122]

And, all of this time, she's been faking it. She's not Cree at all. She didn't need to lie and say that she was a Cree indigenous woman from Canada. She had enough talent. But it certainly boosted her career.

[@nbenefiel]

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. I love the songs she wrote. I don’t care if she’s a Hotentot.

[@brenthunter16]

TY Buffy.

[@CBSEye]

Elvis did an especially nice job on Buffy's number as did so many others throughout the years. To see Buffy perform her song live in a New York club in 2012 (and beautifully too) check out our channel and thank you for this marvelous vintage clip of one of music's greatest artists.

[@multicaruana]

THE BEST!

[@7777Scion]

Unfortunately, the subtitles have now been proven wrong. She was born in the U.S. to a white mother and "Italian" father, and was never part of any native American group. This was disappointing as I have believed her fantasies for so many years. But the CBC has confirmed her birth certificate, and her sister and brother have denied any 'adoption.'

[@gillianlewis4454]

I HAVE THE ELVIS VERSION ON A COMPILATION OF HIS 70'S HIT. IS A VERY GOOD COVER VERSION

[@winskypinsky]

You do realize Buffy wrote this song?

[@billstevens9190]

Wow how the same !.

[@jacquesivan1]

miss you!

[@CharlieRogersMusic]

great nice what talent it she an American Indian thanks for sharing charlie rogers

[@YaoEspirito]

The problem with not punctuating is that no one knows what the hell you're trying to say.

[@mariastella6805]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💕💕💕

[@scubarojo]

Wow, what a voice. While famous in the folk scene didn't make it like her contemporaries like say Joan Biez and Peter, Paul and Mary. May have been her greater stand on war or some prejudice that she was Native American (not white), sad if that was the case...so she was more American than the rest of us. I only remember her song Universal Solder from that time, sorry Buffy, I was stuck on the Beatles and the brit invasion at the time.

[@jeffreyyounger5772]

It a shame, buffy didn't get the respect or recongnize , she co wrore the song love lift us up , from the. Movie 🎥 officer and gentlemen., most of her songs were cover up with big name pop artist, but She was a smart diva, she owned her songs's catalogs.I can a chance to be retroduce her folk /revalutionary 🎶 music, she groundbreaking Native American woman .She should. been r and b music.She 's a cutie.and love 💘 renagage swag or style. Don't put in a box. ms. you go sister!.I 'm a black men. I remember you on Sesame street.God bless 🙏 you bufft!!!!💽💽💿💿🎁🎁😍😍🎊🎉🎉🎊🎊🌉🔮🅱♏⛎🔯🔯💯💯💯💯🕗♣🏯🌇🕥🆎🎅🎉

[@CharlieRogersMusic]

and who is not goin to love that loveble face she has very talented and beautiful I will SUbscribe. I know she may not Subscribe to me because she is maybe to busy it's ok she has a distinct sound in her voice great job young lady Charlie Rogers.

[@davidspears4550]

Elvis did a nice cover version.

[@memorymonkey1157]

Actually, I just heard "Prelude For Guitar" by Alexander Lim (supposedly) and this song (great by BSM) and that music, are identical! The album, according to the TV music station, is called Intimate Guitar Classics. I'm confused but I can assure you they're the same, as I identified the song from the other room as "Until ... Go", bring familiar with BSM's songs since the 60's. I was surprised to find it was called something else.

[@gaba-goo3733]

Yoko Ono!!

[@SantaFeSuperChief1]

Beautiful song, I just wish it didn't sound like she was singing it while sitting on top of a running washing machine.

[@thestewlaw]

Long before Tracy Chapman......

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

Quite the glorification of someone incapable of forming a bond

[@alexandrn8705]

+100!

[@joannethibault6016]

The only Indigenous Canadian performer.

[@JM-hl2gy]

Actually she was born in Massachusetts a white mother and Italian father she is what we call a race shifter a pretender😂

[@fullplate100]

Elvis Presley COVERED THIS TUNE? R U kiddin'?

[@bradhuskers]

Yes And elvis's version is light years better. Trust me Elvis's studio recording in 1971 of buffy's lyrics, is the GOLD STANDARD. Elvis's voice is like a fine Bordeaux wine. Rich resonate warm and expressive. Trust me

[@jacquesivan1]

see you soon!

[@moretimeneeded56]

Pretendian? Still a good song well sung

[@chriswilkins8558]

it would have if it was played at the right speed. there are better versions of her singing this available on youtube.

[@carymilford193]

I've just spent a couple of hours sampling every version I could find from Buffy and covers from many others. A great frustration...and undoubtedly my memory is a high-performance clean-up machine for old recordings. I don't remember the complete lack of polish that mars every effort I can find from Buffy on this song...they all have a rawness that does not appeal after all these years. Still, there is a quality that Buffy brings to it that nobody covering it matches. I am a little ashamed that my taste screams for studio production values when it looks like what we have is an authentic, unpolished performer, a girl with a guitar on her back and great talent but nobody from a record company within miles.

[@MrACOUSTICPETE]

Great " real performance . " I wonder if she inspired Melanie and maybe Tracy Chapman later ?

[@Steph_7d7]

Ugggh

[@conquistadoramericano]

beh beh beh !

[@yoshit9819]

She's Italian

[@strawberryseason]

And half English. Her mom is descended from Mayflower folk.

[@andrecusson5069]

Buffy is from the Qu’appelle Valley in Saskatchewan Canada... I have never heard that she ever lived in Maine... can anyone corroborate this? Thanks André

[@tracygreen364]

There is an authorized biography out now. Born in Saskatchewan and adopted to the U.S. as an infant. Audiobook version of the biography has excerpts in Buffy's voice, lovely!

[@valross4886]

@@tracygreen364 Born near Boston to Italian and English parents. Never adopted. No indigenous blood. Not Canadian. Hoodwinked us for 60 years.

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Barnstoneworth?

[@finnmcginn9931]

Ia she tiny or is that a big guitar?

[@gtuxgtux]

That’s the oddest vibrato I’ve ever heard

[@GoCo77]

Her real name is Beverly Santamaria and she is not a Cree Indian. She had US Italian parents.

[@mothball5425]

🍝

[@TheJennflip]

nice stems

[@2dasimmons]

Wow! What a downer after hearing The New Birth version of Until It's Time For You To Go with Susaye Green singing lead.

[@calinfus80s]

2dasimmons Well, she is the writer, it's her song, this is the way it was conceived, the rest are covers, studio version is even better, i love this woman and her raw visceral voice, pure passion.

[@2dasimmons]

Certainly to each his/her own. I'm aware that Until It's Time For You To Go is Buffy's song. it's just that when I heard The New Bith's version/cover I was BLOWN AWAY. Just so beautiful and moving. WOW!

[@carymilford193]

While I was not quite satisfied by this raw version from Buffy, I despise the New Birth version that you mention. We used to have a word for what those people did to it but we don't use that word any more.

[@2dasimmons]

It just goes to prove the old-school adage: DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS is true. It also explains why black music is so popular throughout the USA and around the globe. New Birth's version is simply superb. If you despise it, that's okay. Different strokes for different folks. Be well. Good-bye.

[@hangblague]

Grey Owlette

[@PHAEDRIDER]

i adore her, but i have to be honest if i may be. the vibrato in her voice on this makes it unlistenable to me. doesnt matter. she's one of my heroes

[@CiaraCarruthers]

I agree. To me it sounds like her nerves got the better of her, I wouldn't even call it a vibrato, it's more of a tremolo

[@taddyd1]

Bette Davis did a great job on this song. lol