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"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. It was a hit in her native Canada (No. 15) as well as Australia (No. 6) and on the UK Singles Chart (No. 11).
The album included a cover of Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi". Vanessa Carlton contributed backing vocals to the single edit of the track, which appeared on the soundtrack for Two Weeks Notice and was re-released on future Hard Candy albums. [34] The original version, without vocals by Carlton, appeared on the first album release as a ...
Hard Candy is the fourth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2002, and the following day in the United States.. The album features the hidden track "Big Yellow Taxi", a Joni Mitchell cover.
The band accompany her on sides one and four; Mitchell performs solo on sides two and three. A track from this live album, " Big Yellow Taxi ", was released as a single. Four years after the studio version had stalled at No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a single, this live version reached No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, becoming ...
Pop group Neighborhood in 1970 and Amy Grant in 1995 scored hits with covers of "Big Yellow Taxi", the third-most covered song in Mitchell's repertoire (with over 300 covers). [159] More recent releases of this song included versions by Counting Crows in 2002 and Nena in 2007.
The rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love” is wonderful, but covers of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” and Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” are weak.
Together, the group performed a number of songs that Mitchell hadn’t played in years, in a 27-track setlist that included “Big Yellow Taxi”, “California”, “A Case of You”, “Both ...
"Woodstock" is a song written by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. At least four versions of the song were released in 1970. Mitchell's own version was first performed live in 1969 and appeared in April 1970 on her album Ladies of the Canyon and as the B-side to her single "Big Yellow Taxi".