Joan Baez - The Green Green Grass Of Home Videos

candleburning Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Not sure this is rewriting/rearranging. Every artist has the write to rearrange/rewrite a song (usually with permission of the original copyright holder). Normally the rewrittenversion shows up as a different lyric on theweb.I'm getting into the lyrics and this is theonly reason I notice. Like you said mostpeople don't give a crap what the song means.

candleburning Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Meant to write right.

BungaloBilI Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - The night they drove old dixie down was originally recoreded without written lyrics so it was sung as she misheard it. In subsequent preformances it has been sung correctly

viperstud40 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - That's because artists sing songs using their own variation, nimrod.

bucksfarmboy Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - I've heard her sing "cold gray walls" as well; I've heard countless variations she's made in concert and studio recordings over the years. Even in songs she herself wrote. It's "artistic license"She's the real deal. Still Sublime in her 50th year of performing.

bucksfarmboy Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Oh go ahead and ask her NOW. She ain't hung up on age ;DRead her memoir, "And a Voice to Sing with"

tizzwizz2002 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - beautiful............thankyou

maryel3 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Beautiful

dominatrixbabydoll Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - When she sings "Where have all the flowers gone" I cannot stop crying.... She puts her soul into what she sings, and you can see it...

ovensuk Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - I thought Tom Jones sung it well.Then I heard Elvis.This is better!

colorak Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - she's good but it's a male song !

Aaron44130 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Please listen to my version of this song ...

xanjohn Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - She is such a hottie, then and now!

raymondcrooke Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - One of the great things about Joan Baez is that she is always willing to sing from someone else's viewpoint, whether male or female. Folk music is for everyone. Why should any song be out of bounds to half the population?

kolordak Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - O K Raymondcrooke I apologize, I surrender.

slrman Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Her voice is a national treasure even though this is not really a good sing for her. Basically, Tom Jones owns this song. Just like the Righteous Brothers own "Unchained Melody". Others can cover it, but you will always think of the originals where you hear these songs.

wrestlindad Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - miraculous things with that voice!

pornguy2 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Tom Jones version is 2 years after Porter Wagoner, Bobby Bare, etc and if you think he owns this song, listen to Elvis, Johnny Cash.Unchained Melody is the most recorded song in American pop music. Roy Hamilton, Al Hibbler and Les Baxter all hit in the top 3 in 1955-56, so the Righteous Brothers is really a cover of many hundred other versions, therefore no one owns either one of these songs. Joan Baez has been cross gendering songs forever and is often far better than the male versions.

stevieRay3211 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - She's got a nice voice but she doesn't have altogether pleasant facial gestures when she sings. Also at times she improvises the original lyrics so at times it just sounds weird. At the end she says, "...beneath the oak, we'll meet beneath the green grass of home", which of course is a huge departure from the original meaning of the song, "lay me 'neath the green grass of home. Kind of spoils the original meaning of the ending of the song.

thaliasghost Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - but she doesn't have altogether pleasant facial gestures when she sings. ???? Of course, that is the MOST important thing when it comes to music. I want to see you hitting those notes and having a photo shoot for Vanity Fair at the same time. Mh..vanity. That word seems to fit you like a glove.

stevieRay3211 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - This isn't music on a page or coming from just speakers, it's a live performance, and of course it's important how the artist looks. Even more so on a television broadcast since there's close ups. I suppose for a music purist the look doesn't matter, but for a casual viewer, how the singers looks, is important.

taddyd1 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - STARDUST AND YESTERDAY ARE USUALLY CITED AS THE 2 MOST RECORDED SONGS. I HAVE ALSO SEEN SUMMERTIME LISTED. MANY BABYBOOMERS QUOTE MUSIC STATS AS "ALL TIME", WHICH REALLY MEANS: BILLBOARD'S JOEL WHITBURN'S ROCK ERA. FOR EXAMPLE, BING HAD MORE #1s THAN MARIAH,ELVIS AND THE BEATLES PUT TOGETHER X 2!PATTI SMITH SAID SHE GOT THE BALLS TO CROSS GENDER LYRICS FROM LISTENING TO BAEZ.

taddyd1 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - TRUE, When Marlene Dietrich was the world's highest paid live performer (more than Babs, Frank or Elvis), the second half of her show consisted entirely of songs sung with male point of view lyrics (I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face etc) because she felt the songs lost nuance and depth if they were switched to female. House of the Rising Sun (Dylan sings the female point of view)is one song that really loses its pathos when switched to a male first person.

thaliasghost Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Well, you just said it yourself, you're a shallow and superficial person. Actually, I find her to be very expressive and conveying a profound deepness. But I guess that is a concept you're not able to grasp. You probably would think you have to gloss up Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly today, to sell them to corporate America.

johnmcd7 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - I see in her early live performances a combination of earnestness, empathy and compassion for the sujects in her songs--that, blended with an intense stage fright that she has written about. It all creates a package that accentuates the gravity of some songs, and the wistfulness of others, but ultimately the humanity of the artist (something so obviously missing from most of the current 'corporatized' performers). So perhaps a singer's looks is less important than how we interpret what we see.