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Judy Collins

Last evening. Jimmy Webb opened great songwriter not a great singer. Judy at 71 or so can still amaze with the voice of a generation. Talked about being at Albert grossman's house in Woodstock for a party young bob was there and in the middle of the night she heard sounds from a room in the basement and got up to investigate and she heard him composing mr tambourine man. Chilling. Then of course she sang it. Her latest disc bohemian I think is the title is just great.
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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).
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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.
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dtc
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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.
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dtc
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Coming of the Roads was on her Fifth Album (1965) which was a major part of the change to modern 60's folk. It included 3 Dylan songs like Tambourine Man and Daddy on Your Mind and Richard Farina's Pack Up Your Sorrows. Farnina's wife, of course, was Mimi Baez, sister of Joan Baez. Great album and great times for Judy and folk in general.
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