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Joni Mitchell

For The Roses

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For the Roses is the fifth studio album by Joni Mitchell, released in November 1972, between her two biggest commercial and critical successes – Blue and Court and Spark. Despite this, in 2007 it was one of 25 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. It is Mitchell’s first, and so far only, album to accomplish this feat. It is perhaps best known for the hit single “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio”, which Mitchell wrote sarcastically out of a record company request for a radio-friendly song. The single was indeed a hit, reaching #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, becoming Mitchell’s first top 40 hit released under her own name (as a songwriter, several other performers had had hits with songs that she had written).... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ I heard it in the wind last night, it sounded like applause

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More songs by Joni Mitchell (See Charts): Court And Spark, Night In The City, Willy, That Song About The Midway, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Songs To Aging Children Come, Love Or Money, Coyote, Don'T Interrupt The Sorrow, and My Old Man.

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