--UNOFFICIAL-- BotB: Singers & Songwriters: Round 3 Mitchell vs Croce vs Simon

[a21schizoidman]

Yes, a 3 way battle

top 2 will advance to finals

JONI MITCHELL

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.[1]

Mitchell's singing began in small nightclubs and busking on the streets of Toronto and in her native Western Canada. She subsequently became associated with the burgeoning folk music scene of the mid-1960s in New York City. Mitchell achieved fame in the late 1960s and was considered a key part of the Southern California folk rock scene. Throughout the 1970s, she explored and combined the pop and jazz genres. Mitchell has amassed a body of work that is highly respected by both critics and fellow musicians[2], with the influential All Music Guide going as far as stating that, "When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century".[3]

Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or painting, created the artwork for each of her albums and, in 2000, in an interview with the Toronto Globe and Mail, described herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance". A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell had stopped recording over the last several years, focusing mainly on her visual art, but in 2007 released Shine, her first album of new songs in nine years.

Big Yellow Taxi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSe0DOeopOA

Both Sides Now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg

The Circle Game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XOV34vsjfg

Chelsea Morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHPFT...eature=related


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JIM CROCE

James Joseph Croce, pronounced (CROW-chee) (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973), popularly known as Jim Croce, was an American singer-songwriter.

Croce scored a handful of hit songs in the early '70s, but died in an airplane crash just as he was beginning to capitalize on his success. He is probably best remembered for the songs "Time in a Bottle" and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," both #1 hits in 1973. Raised in devout Catholic family, he converted to Judaism when he married Ingrid Jacobson.[1]

Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8XctJKo

Time In A Bottle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILf-5...eature=related

I Got A Name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycqau...eature=related

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5exYqe5_M


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GORDON LIGHTFOOT

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., C.C., O.Ont., (born 17 November 1938) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and broke through on the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974) and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976). His songs have been recorded by some of the world's most successful recording artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan. Robbie Robertson of The Band declared that Lightfoot was one of his "favourite Canadian songwriters and is absolutely a national treasure."[1]

Sundown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOOs-MqDOI0

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99rOzMVtcx4

If You Could Read My Mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3...eature=related

Canadian Railroad Trilogy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zjoO170XFI


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PAUL SIMON

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is a songwriter, musician, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2006, Time magazine called him one of the 100 "people who shape our world."[1] As of 2007, he resides in New Canaan, Connecticut.[2]

He's Paul freakin' Simon, need wiki to say more?

You Can Call Me Al:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOiVaE-pKqM

Kodachrome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhdf9_IO4w

Mother and Child Reunion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcNL7W0vsF4

Me and Julio Down By the School Yard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqtX4qZBdRs