Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell’s recording of “Big Yellow Taxi” came out in 1970, the earliest year on file; Jade’s and The Neighborhood’s came out the same year. Joni Mitchell wrote it. Also recorded by Counting Crows (released 2002), Big Country (released 1996) and Sabrina Starke (released 2014), among 151 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album Ladies of the Canyon (1970).
Joni put Big Yellow Taxi on record back in 1970, and Counting Crows picked it up decades later in 2002. Play hers first, then theirs, and listen to how much of the song was hers all along.
That paved-paradise sing-along Counting Crows cut in 2002 belongs to Joni Mitchell, who wrote it and put it on record back in 1970. Play hers first; it's the blueprint, and she kept coming back to it with the L.A. Express.
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▶Big Yellow TaxiCredited writer: Joni Mitchell.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1970, the same year as Jade and The Neighborhood.
On the album Ladies of the Canyon (1970).
- Percy Faith1971
- Bob Dylan1973
- Monty Alexander's Ivory & Steel1988
- Big Country1996
- Counting Crows2002
- Sabrina Starke2014
- Ane Brun2017
151 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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