Pentimento: I'll Just Leave You With This . . .

Sunday, September 20, 2009

I'll Just Leave You With This . . .

R.I.P. Mary Travers (and Cass Elliot).

12 comments:

Maclin said...: I had no idea the three of them had ever sung together. Beautiful. One of Dylan's better (and lesser-known) songs, too.; September 20, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Pentimento said...: It's funny, "I Shall Be Released" always sounds better to me when someone else (besides Dylan) is singing it; September 21, 2009 at 6:33 AM
dreshny said...: I didn't know she died. I loved listening to the album Peter, Paul, and Mommy as a kid in the 70s.; September 24, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Pentimento said...: She just died last week, Dreshny. I have fond memories of that album too.; September 24, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Brenda from Flatbush said...: What an amazing clip!!! They all look and sound exquisite, and Mary could rock that outfit tomorrow on the streets of New York and still look gorgeous. Those 3 voices I love so, I never knew there was a clip of them singing together!; September 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Pentimento said...: Mary's dress *is* timelessly fabulous. I actually got a cocktail dress like that at Weber's Closeouts on 47th Street once.; September 25, 2009 at 6:58 AM
BettyDuffy said...: I love watching Joni Mitchell's face when she sings. Zero pretention. Looks like a little girl who sings as much as she speaks.; September 25, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Pentimento said...: Then you HAVE to see this, Betty. It will knock you down. I know Dreshny's seen this one.

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE; September 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM
BettyDuffy said...: Wow. It does not get any better than that. The woman is flawless.; September 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Pentimento said...: Betty, in my opinion, she is simply one of the great geniuses in the history of western music, no exaggeration.; September 25, 2009 at 4:11 PM
BettyDuffy said...: I couldn't agree more. Music and lit. Her lyrics are poetry. I never get tired of her. Listening to her right now.

I didn't care much for the movie "Love Actually" but Emma Thompson's character says that Joni MItchell taught her all she knows of love.; September 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Pentimento said...: I didn't see the movie, but, though I adore Joni, I shudder at the thought of her being my tutor in love.; September 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM