Judy Collins

FTC do you mean roger Payne? She sang campo as well. Would love to hear farewell live but did hear Mariieka a few years back in NYC.

Jimmy Webb wrote Campo de Encino many years ago and it has been done by a lot of people. Judy did it on Bohemian. It is about his time living in Encino CA, outside LA. I am pretty sure she never went there, but Joni Mitchell probably did. I think she was closer to Webb at that time. Not sure about Roger Payne??

Marieke is a Jacques Brel song. I also have him singing it. Great song.

Dtk, I was asking if it was Roger Payne who recored the humpback whale sounds/songs. I though it was he who did that, I have to LPs of his recordings (Songs of The Humpback Whales and a follow-up).

Dtk, do you know her version of The Coming of The Roads? I put that LP on and somehow cannot get past that track, one of the best, looking forward, someday, to hearing it live. Lets hope. Just got a ticket for her again in April.

Sorry, I missed the reference. Yes, Roger Payne was the source of the whale songs for Farewell to Tarwathie. He approached her and introduced her to the sounds. Farewell to Tarwathie was the first time whale song were used in a large production commercial recording. Payne introduced her to the whale songs when she was doing Peer Gynt in NYC with Stacey Keach, amongst others.

Incidentally, her Amazing Grace was staged at St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia in NYC with a lot of her friends singing, including Stacey Keach.

She was involved with Keach after splitting with Stephen Stills, who started the Judy Blues Eyes theme, when he and Crosby and Nash sang Suite : Judy Blue Eyes at Woodstock

Again, I highly recommend her book for a lot of the detail of these times.