21 Thursday Dec 2017
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Leonard Cohen and Judy Collins singing Cohen’s “Hey That’s No Way to Say Good-Bye.” I like this version better than either of each artist’s solo take because of the beautiful harmony here by Judy Collins.
Thanks to YouTuber Beta Hi-Fi Archive
22 Thursday Jun 2017
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Even if you well remember the Judy Collins version of this Joni Mitchell penned classic, stay until the end of this live 1987 performance by Collins and be prepared to be blown away.
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18 Thursday May 2017
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I wore out the Judy Collins‘s In My Life album when I was in college, the album with “Suzanne” and “Marat/Sade” on it. All the songs on that and previous recordings were written by people other than herself, but Judy Collins, an amazing interpreter, always made those songs her own. Later on, she started to write her own songs, songs that no one else could have written. Here is one of those self-penned songs, “My Father,” so exquisitely performed that you don’t believe her when she says it isn’t autobiographical.
Thanks to YouTuber bensisko16
15 Monday May 2017
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Folk music, Judy Collins, Mimi Farina, music, Pack Up YOur SOrrows, Pauline Baez, performance, RIchard Farina
Monday morning, an offer you can’t refuse.
Written by Richard Farina, and Joan Baez’s sister, Pauline.
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20 Friday Feb 2015
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I’ve been taken to task lately for my ignorance of things Canadian, so today I celebrate our colony neighbor to the North, Canada.
Okay, so Judy is not Canadian, but she is from Seattle, which is practically the same thing. And Ian and Sylvia, well they’re practically the goddam royalty of Canada.
(And if you want more than a token musical insight into Canada, give a look at John Macnab’s Anatomy of Teaching blog, listed over there on the left).
