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Artist: Tom Rush
Author: Joni Mitchell
Label: Elektra
Year: 1966
On single with Bruce Langhorne on guitar. First Joni Mitchell song on vinyl. Rush-released while a live version was plugged intensively by Boston radio DJ Jefferson Kaye (on 50.000 watt station WBZ). Also on his album The Circle Game in '68. Tom and Joni once shared a job at the Chessmate in Detroit in '65.
Covers:
George Hamilton IV [C&W hit; heard the author's live version on the radio or TV, where Joni sang it on the Oscar Brand show in '66]
Lenny Kuhr [as De Zomer Achterna, title track lp]
Joni Mitchell [B-side of You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio]
Crosby & Nash [both ex lovers of Joni]
Joni first cut it in '65 for her mother's birthday, version included on Joni Mitchell Archives Vol 1 (2020).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)