Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Both Sides, Now" is written in F-sharp major. Mitchell used a guitar tuning of D-A-D-F#-A-D with a capo at the fourth fret. The song uses a modified I–IV–V chord progression.
Judy Collins (and about a dozen others) recorded “Both Sides, Now” before Mitchell. Collins, though, released it as a single from her 1967 Wildflowers set. It clicked with the public,...
Who wrote ‘Both Sides, Now’? Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970) It was in fact Joni Mitchell that wrote 'Both Sides, Now' at the tender age of just 23, and would be the first hit she wrote.
Curiously, ‘Both Sides Now’ was not first recorded by Mitchell, even though Joni Mitchell wrote it. Instead, the song was given to Judy Collins, who recorded it in 1967 and had a hit with the song in 1968.
Joni Mitchell wrote this song, but she wasn't the first to record it. That honor went to Judy Collins, whose 1967 version went to #8 in the US, giving Collins her first hit as a singer and Mitchell her first hit as a songwriter.
"Here's a song that has two names and they're both right: Clouds and Both Sides Now." While playing the song in Ambler, PA on August 22, 1974, Joni spoke this dialog mid-song while the band continued to play:
“I’ve looked at life from both sides now,” she sings, both mirroring the voice of her past and holding its hand from where she is now. When Mitchell sings the track now, she quite literally has looked at life from both sides, old and young, and embodying the two in every word.
This was the first hit song written by Joni Mitchell, whose version appears on her 1969 album Clouds. Mitchell recalled: "I was reading Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane.
The heavy guns soon moved in: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond nabbed “Both Sides, Now” for album fillers. Leonard Nimoy, who knew a thing or two about what happens to clouds, boldly...
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides, Now from the LP "Clouds", 1969 Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at cloud that way but...