Artist: Dave Van Ronk & The Hudson Dusters
Author: Joni Mitchell
Label: Verve/Forecast
Year: 1967
On their only album and against the author's will under different title Clouds. Still, Joni must have catched Dave's drift, naming the album holding her own version Clouds. Joni's oldest own version (as Both Sides, Now), in '66 for a radiostation in Philly, came out on boxset Joni Mitchell Archives Vol 1 in 2020.
Covers:
Fairport Convention [with Judy Dyble; their producer Joe Boyd had been approached by Joni with some demos]
Judy Collins [top 10 US in '68; both Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell earned their reputation as a songwriter through Judy Collins' interpretations]
Harpers Bizarre [as Both Sides Now]
Frank Sinatra [idem]
Dion [as From Both Sides Now]
Anne Murray [idem on album What About Me]
Julie Felix [idem]
Davy Graham [idem; folk-jazz version, also prior to Joni's]
Claudine Longet [idem]
Leonard Nimoy [as Both Sides Now]
Marie LaforĂȘt [as Je n'ai rien appris]
Osmond Brothers [as Clouds]
Johnstons [top 10 IRE]
Joni Mitchell [idem; author on her second album Clouds]
Nana Mouskouri [as Je n'ai rien appris; along with an English version]
Bing Crosby [as Both Sides Now]
Ed Bruce [idem]
Davy Graham [idem]
Willie Nelson [title track LP]
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [Randy Scruggs solo on Will The Circle Be Unbroken]
Hole [as Clouds]
Dana Winner [as Dat Ben Jij]
Dexys [all as Both Sides Now]
Karin Bloemen [as Beide Zijden, title track LP]
Josh Groban [with Sara Bareilles]
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)
Belgium