Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell

Subject: Longshot
From: springer
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 04:23 PM

This is going back a lot of years, but back in the 60's Joni Mitchell was married to a folk artist named Chuck Mitchell. Used to perform at a Port Huron coffeehouse named the Cellar. Self-produced an Lp, the title of which I don't recall. Any links or information would be appreciated.

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 04:37 PM

I would suggest that you go here, Joni Mitchell, and look around. It says she left Chuck Mitchell in 1967, so it would be before that. There is a discography and also a list of "rare" stuff. Might be there somewhere.

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 04:55 PM

He became a film actor, and is now dead - here's a site with details of his films. It doesn't mention the recordings.

On a Joni Mitchell site there's a bit about a concert they shared, and the writer says he remembers he was every bit as good as her, and he liked them both.

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot
From: rangeroger
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 04:56 PM

A Google search turned up several hits on him, mainly talking about his marriage to Joni. One did come up that showed he did a gig at the Ark on May 12 of this year,so he is still out there playing music.

rr

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: rangeroger
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 04:59 PM

Just looked at your link Kevin, and it must have been a different Chuck Mitchell at the Ark.

rr

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 05:05 PM

Unless he's just died recently.

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: rangeroger
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 05:09 PM

The info on the link you gave said he died in June of 1992. Maybe he came back and did a posthumous performance.

rr

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 05:14 PM

Can't keep a good folkie down...

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 08:20 PM

Kevin, that's a DIFFERENT Chuck Mitchell! It's on the net in several places that the guy who played Porky in the "Porky's" movies was the same Chuck Mitchell who was married to Joni Mitchell.....NOT TRUE.

I saw a listing for him within the past month but I forget where he was playing......the musician, not the dead actor.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: rangeroger
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 09:05 PM

Here is the May '02 concerts for the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan.As Chuck Mitchell is from Detroit this venue makes sense. Scroll down to Sunday May 12 for the info on his concert.

rr

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 09:29 PM

THAT'S IT!!!! I couldn't remember what I was looking at when I rn across his name....The Ark. Thanks Double R

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Longshot - Chuck Mitchell
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Jul 02 - 09:37 PM

Strangely enough, I may have the album you are talking about. I was given this album in the mid-70s and can't recall listening to it even once. It's called Dreams and Stories, is on the Strider label, and was recorded in 1969. The cuts are 1)Raggedy Andy 2)Broken hearted, Mama 3)The Rise and Fall of Robert E Lee 4)Mr Bojangles 5)The Bilbao Song 6)Look Out, Girl 7)I'm Worried about You 8)Acapulco 9)Dreams and Stories.

On the cover is this quote, which is the reason I never listened to this album...

"On the evening of a Carolina grey day, summer seacoast grey day, he did his show in a coffee house. In the audience some strangers watched. In the dressing room later, they talked and smiled. And they all said "I like you." The next day they went to the beach and swam and laughed and talked, around a driftwood fire. The next day was another day and he flew off to another town to sing of jet-set ladies and riverboat gamblers. of dance halls and rag halls, of things gone wrong and things gone right; and friends."

yeesh