Both Sides, Now is a song written and sung by Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins version became a top ten hit. Jonis recording first appeared on the album Clouds, released in 1969. She re-recorded the song in a lusher, more orchestrated version for the album Both Sides Now, released in 2000. It is one of Mitchells best-known songs (along with Big Yellow Taxi, Woodstock, and A Case of You). It was written in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. I was reading Saul Bellows Henderson the Rain King on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane. Hes on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds. I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did. Judy Collins made the first commercially released recording of the song, shortly after Mitchell wrote it, first including it on her 1967 Wildflowers album. In October 1968 she released it as a single. In December it reached #8 on the U.S. pop singles charts, and in early 1969 won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance.The record peaked at #3 on Billboards Easy Listening survey and has become one of Collins signature songs.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:00:11 +0000
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