<< A friend sent me a tape with some great stuff on it, including some very early Joni stuff -- a really giggly "Coke Commercial" thingy that apparently (with different words) became Ballerina Valerie, or did BV precede the Coke Commercial version?>>
The way I hear it, she already had the song in her repitoire (sp) and adapted it with the Coke stuff just for a laugh and a fun show piece. << Another thing on the tape was "Winter Lady", which she wrote from the point of view of a man -- which makes me wonder, did she write it for Chuck (Mitchell, her brief husband), or for Gordon Lightfoot, who I believe was their roommate for a while in Tornto or Detroit, I forget. I would swear in this version from '67, she sings sort of like Gordy, same vibrato and phrasing. Just wondering if anyone knows -- did he ever sign a version of this song, say in performance? For that matter, did he or any man ever record the song?>> The only other recording I've heard is our own Gary Zack's. I've always found it interesting that Leonard Cohen also had a song titled "Winter Lady". I don't think she wrote it specifically for any one male voice, I think she hoped that many would record it and get her the "royalty pennies" she talks of on the tape. << Anyway, pity Joni didn't put the demo version on TtT. It's just better. IMHO. >> In everyone's opinion, I think...I like the TTT version all right but the GOMH version is a stunner. Bob NP: Something Extra, "A Case Of You"
