ADD: Urge for Going (Joni Mitchell)

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 05:25 AM

Gary T, I think "Big Yellow Taxi" might be right, because I remember Ladies of the Canyon came out in 1970 or 71 (my freshman year) and that's when I remember hearing the single of "Urge for Going" on the jukebox. Sounds like I really oughta get that CD. A few weeks ago while driving to the other side of the island I surprised myself by singing almost the whole "Clouds" album from memory. Maybe that's why my memory seems to be failing so often these days -- it's full of Joni Mitchell songs!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: rangeroger
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 09:08 PM

Just picked up the "Hits" CD.It is awesome. It has given me a whole new perspective to the song.The rest of the CD is dynamite also.
rr

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: rainbow
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 11:50 PM

well folks... my first posting here... someone was mentioning a version by a woman -- perhaps from julie adams and the mountain stage band "LIVE". 1997 gadfly release. [e-mail]

... lorraine

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: rangeroger
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 10:02 PM

Tony Rice also covered "Urge for Going" on his "Native American". Don't know if it's out on CD,but on vinyl it is Rounder 0248.Awesome guitar work with acoustic piano and acoustic bass.
By the way, according to the latest Acoustic Guitar magazine Rounder Records was named after The Holy Modal Rounders,who are alive and well,and still doing music together.
rr.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Garry Gillard
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 08:50 PM

On the 1996 CD called Hits, Reprise 9362-46326-2 it is "recorded in 1967".

Garry

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 06:10 PM

Does anyone know if the version on the 1996 recording is a new version or the original she did way back when? yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: rangeroger
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 04:53 PM

It is one of my all-time favorites also.Key of B for my voice.Sometimes I try it in A but it really is too low in that key.I actually sang this song to the love of my life when she told me she was going off with a mining engineer from Utah. Followed it up with "No Regrets" rr

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: BlueJay
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 04:29 PM

One of my favorite songs. Works well for me in the key of B.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: JedMarum
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 04:15 PM

I first heard his song after Tom Rush recorded it, and loved the song. I never Joni Mitchell play it, but I also saw Tom perform the song at two different shows, in two different decades, and both times, the arrangement blew me away. He played in the 70's with a gifted guitar player named Trevor Veech (sorry for the spelling). Trevor did some magic guitar work on his telecaster (or was it a strat). I'd love to hear the other versions by other artists.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Gary T
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 01:48 PM

If I remember right, I was told it was the flip side of "Big Yellow Taxi". I've never seen it myself.

Years ago I heard it by a male singer on a station that purported to play "classic country music", by which they meant mostly obscure album cuts from fairly well-known but passe country singers. I think it was George Hamilton IV. I loved that version, but haven't heard it for a long time. Anyone know for sure who it would have been?

Just last week I caught half a verse on the radio (PBS), by a female. It was beautifully haunting, and I wondered if that might have been Joni Mitchell. Anyone else catch it and the artist's name?

It's one of those songs I loved from the first hearing.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Garry Gillard
Date: 03 Mar 00 - 05:47 AM

Urge for Going is on a CD called Hits, Reprise 9362-46326-2

Gaz

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 11:22 PM

Yes, now I remember it was Gene Shay's show I heard it on, so that makes sense. And then I did hear it on that Princeton jukebox. Nice to know my memory wasn't playing tricks this time. And I agree, Roy, Van Ronk did a superb job on that song, as usual. I confess to liking Tom Rush's version a little better, though. Maybe it has something to do with a certain living room couch in Northeast Philly in 1970...
Thanks, all. The Mudcat comes through again. Now off to check out the CD.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: BlueJay
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 09:32 PM

I'd like to hear her sing it. Good song, and Tom Rush does a great job but I've never heard the original.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: raredance
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:58 PM

It was the flip side of a single. I am not 100 % certain but think it may have been "You turn Me On I'm A Radio". The better news is that it is on her 1996 CD "Hits"

rich r

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: rangeroger
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:54 PM

Paul Sanchez of LA told that it was indeed released as a single on a 45. He also told me what the flip side was but I can't remember it.

Subject: RE: Help: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: GUEST,roy
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:43 PM

I was told by Dave Van Ronk(who does the best version of itin my opinion) that she never made a comercial recording of it. However, Gene Shay(Philly folk DJ) has his own tape of it. She played it on his show many years ago. You can contact him through the Philadelphia Folk Song Society for more info.

Subject: Joni Mitchell's Urge for Going
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 08:28 PM

I'm transferring this question from the Tom Rush thread. Does anyone besides me remember hearing a recording of Joni Mitchell singing Urge for Going? I know I heard it once on a radio station in Philly in 1970, and am fairly sure I heard it on a restaurant juke box in Princeton in 1971, which would indicate it was released as a 45. (For those GenXers out there, that's like a CD single, but larger.) Any help?

Aloha,
Mark

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