As a young un I enjoyed this beautiful song without really putting too much thought into it. Older now and helping the love of my life battle her second stage 3 cancer fight. Puts things into perspective, and makes a grown man cry
Some songs require life's experience before they can be appreciated; this is surely one of those. Tears of understanding can cast shadows in the shape of a smile, perhaps; so the years are teaching me, like it or not. May I wish you good fortune.
😢😢😢 you just hang on to her brother and be glad of the times you had together, until there is no time left, and tell her she'll be as close as your heart, until you meet again!🥀
RIP Sandy Denny! I was fortunate to see her with Fairport Convention at Sanders Theater, Cambridge in the early seventies. At the time she was ill and had to leave the stage during the performance. She had such an expressive voice and her song Who Knows Where The Time Goes is a classic.
Ah, the wonderful genius of guitar maestro Jerry Donahue, tragically suffering a terrible stroke some years ago. Just watch him playing with Fairport Convention and then Fotheringay. What a talent
Thanks to UA-cam,I managed to time travel from India, thousands of miles away. I often listen to Sandy Denny and yes, I read about Jerry too. He was classic. Sad.. Sandy left the world before her time.
I know her from afar in time. I was a young adult when she passed away but never forgot her, how could I. Whenever I hear hear sing I am in between utmost joy and sadness. Tears in my eyes.
It’s such a cruel twist of fate that we lose the very best so young. Sandy Denny, Eva Cassidy, Janis Joplin, Kate Wolf. What a beautiful melancholy rendition of Dylan’s classic
How tastes differ! I wouldn't dream of putting Sandy Denny and Janis Joplin in the same sentence, except as a study in extremes! One had a voice in a million, and the other's best use of a microphone was as a prop on which she could lean to croak convincingly enough to have the woeful result mistaken for passion - which it so often was!
Eva Cassidy is someone I heard of only because of the internet. Add Judee Sill to that list of died too young who I only know because of the internet. For male singers add Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and countless others to the list.
She was innocent of her true brilliance, and craved the applause of a nearby heart. This prophetic performance is arguably her masterpiece, and she introduced voice tones not heard from her anywhere else.
First Love. My intuition makes me think she never knew how adored her talent was. Bitter sweet it came after she shed this mortal coil. A true super star unrecognized in life.
Sandy' voice is magical and if you close your eyes and really listen.....her spirit is here and all around us. She was too good for this world. God has a front row seat for her performances. I'm jealous and wish she was still here with us. I'm sure she's looking down and smiling. We miss you Sandy......there is no one better than you. God Bless!
'...thankfully an atheist' ???????????????????????????? 'She was too good for this world.' That's a profound statement which I've spent a while thinking about. I will keep my thoughts private as metaphysics are perhaps not easy discussion matter within a forum. 'I wish that she was still here with us.' She is, can be, will be if you open your heart, pour out love, and truly listen. Trust in what you hear.
I will be brave and say: After the nightclub acoustics, recording and production of same. The wax, vinyl, tape, magnetic fluff, and however else brought into the future. Now it gets digitized, analogized, and CD, DVD, chipped & dipped, and sent to live in the clouds, I still hear the unmistakable, beautiful, amazing voice of Sandy Denny. Her sound is permanent!
Glad so many of you ,and so recently ,, are still getting high on this . One of the highlights of my career were the concerts we did at the Sydney Opera House
it is hard to explain to people how one voice has impacted me for decades.. and one of my greatest contributions was converting a handful of college classmates to grasping the greatness of Sandy .. I played her about 30 percent of my college radio show! I got to see her perform twice in the US and her words and music remain as part of my core essence .. the fact that you were involved in her music and production and staging has me in awe ..
What a beautiful lady! What a wonderful singer! What a gifted musician! This is the kind of talent we dearly miss when the artist is no longer with us.
I'm a Dylan fanatic and even the great man himself holds this version by Sandy in the highest esteem . My favourite non Dylan version of this famous song by some way .
Hi ThefightingCelt! You answered the question I was musing as I listened to Sandy's great rendition, thanks! I know Bob also liked the Byrds a lot too.
@@AntonioEscohotadoEspinosa She was a master at taking Dylan's songs and creating very unique and powerful interpretations, matched only by Nina Simone in her skill in my opinion. Edit: Actually, Bettye Lavette and Mavis Staples also posses that ability.
I haven't heard Sandy's version of this for decades...who knows where the time goes? Just love it, sorry Bob, this is THE rendition of your famous song.
Of all the countless covers, this live one is one of a kind. She infuses it with raw emotional energy and the premonition of death. She completely gets the power of this song even though it was new. When she sings "bury my guns down in the ground" she does something to it that Dylan would do later, but she did it before him. That's influence.
Saw her at the Fishmongers Arms in Wood Green. She asked me for change for the phone box. I couldn't speak ............ I loved this woman. A great vocalist.
I have listened to Fairport Convention and their later incarnation Steeleye span for 30+ YEARS many people dont know that Sandy Denney was the female vocals of the Led Zeppelin song Battle of evermore only learned this myself about 2 years ago
I play in a band in the NE of England (Hexham) and we have always used this song to warm up. Always been our first song. We have evolved over the years, different intros, harmonies, me changing to organ instead of guitar, harmonica solos and guitar solos from our other guitarist and we sound pretty good but one thing could never, ever be as good at is Sandy's vocals. What an amazing voice. Love you Sandy Denny.
I met her in the hallway of a gymnasium at Livingston College in NJ in 1973 during FCs US tour. On break she asked me where the lue was with a giggle. Cute as a button. Fell for her right then and there but she had to go. Never saw her perform again but have lots of her music. I’ll always remember that moment in time.
I agree, having seen Sandy solo in Cambridge around this time (and of course Bob Dylan did amaze by reading the labels of canned beans in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)!
This is simple perfection. Captures a real mood and feeling. In my opinion the best cover made of this song and not matched by any artist or singer in over 40 years.
Imagine if Sandy had of sung it along with Bob!! This is a singer singing for the sake of the song, great vocal, great feel, amazing phrasing. Cheers for the upload.
Ace-Maker e me too. Done with the vague emptiness of emotion that I loved her for. She was given a mind-blowing gift of interpretation that few stylists have.
I loved Sandy Denny so much. It’s not true that she wasn’t known in the USA, I knew who she was when I was 14-15, and always loved her, my bff Nancy had Fairport Convention albums in 1970 on & we listened to her all the time. She never got the fame she so richly deserved. ❤️❤️❤️
Really nice to set us straight. Good to know. I suspect that Sandy would have loved fame, but not for the obvious suspected reasons. I can say that, at the time, she was hurt that more income was made by her off one of her songs, by an artist doing a cover version, than she earned off it herself! I don't need to supply detail.
Don't know how I missed this cover... I like the Dylan version, and most of the other covers. But Sandy blows them all away. Best female vocalist of the 70s, certainly, probably ever.
And my thanks to Sandy, and to you Ronald.. So many people listen to Sandy's music and her beautiful voice and just don't acknowledge the sites that allow us to do that. Sandy will live on forever.
Sandy Denny, like Melanie Safka, is one of those gifted singer-songwriters who have the ability to interpret other people's songs as well or better than the original artist. I liked this song casually when Dylan put it out, but coming from Sandy Denny it suddenly becomes a song I like very much. Dylan's song, via her interpretation, is given a significance I never heard before
Oh....Melanie! What a magical bolt from the past. I remember seeing Melanie at Carnegie Hall in the early '70s; a performance on one of her birthdays. Lots of lights waving in the audience :)
@ Michael N, check out her discography, because at least one of her Carnegie Hall concerts, and on her birthday too, has been released commercially. Melanie has a truly unique vocal style, which has its own inner beauty. @Rennie, you're no doubt aware of Melanie's spellbinding rendition of Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race.
Rennie - I treasure your reference to Sandy Denny's 'interpretation' of a Bob Dylan song. I am confident that singer-songwriters like to both have their great songs covered, and also covered in a 'new' (aka different) way. The songs lyrics and basic format will always be there, any way sliced.
High Rennie King, I'm so very glad NOT to come across Melanie Safka stuff while growing up 🦨. to billie holiday, sandy denny, arundhati roy 🍄🌄🐞🦄🦚🇺🇲🏴🇮🇳🌬👏🌻🦋💗🕉🙏✌🏾..............🤓
How could I not have heard this before? Magical, full of premonition, eerie. I think she knew her life would be too short. But her genius and voice lives on forever. Thank you for sharing this.
Sandy deserves more acclaim + respect than she receives, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is total B.S. They just put Tupac in and besides being trash, his music is not rock + roll. The Rock + Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.
Oh wow what a treat this early morning, I can see I'm going to have to follow this girl up and get some of her stuff. The most beautiful and unusual voice I've heard in quite a while.
What a wonderful rendition of the Dylan classic ..............There will never be another Sandy Denny! .........So sad to think that in just over 4 years after she sang that great performance she literally was "Knocking On Heaven's Door'"
vonwurzel I met her around 1968 or something. Plain, complicated and straight forward but she had something. I looked at her, she looked at me and we said good night. She was just another singer to me at the time.
She was very shy , and found being on stage very difficult in her early career. I saq Fairport Convention in the late 60s , and when they were doing a song on which she didn't sing , she sat at the back of the stage crocheting. .
It isn't often that a cover is better than the original, but this is an example. She sounds like she means every word with a tired, sad, pathos built into it. Truly brilliant rendition of a brilliant song
Well, well...this American baby boomer was listening to 'The Battle of Evermore' by LZ and there's this flipping awesome female vocal behind Robert Plant, just lifting the vocals UP! on this great song. A little research, and it's this cute Scottish redhead named Sandy Denny. Who Knew? Britain's hybrid of Judy Collins & Joni Mitchell all wrapped up in one....so I'm cruising youtube trying to listen to as many songs by her as I can. I could listen to her version of this song - especially around 3:40 to the end when she puts her belly into it - over and over. OMG.What a talent! She closes that song so strongly, her voice is so strong, so arioso, so vibrant - my crappy computer speakers can't take it and they start crackling. Time to buy an LP and play her on my good speakers.
Sandy was a beautiful woman inside and out. I was always jealous of Trevor. She lent a quality to anything she ever sang, whoever wrote it; The "ooh oohs" are spine tingling. I can feel her little hand in mine when I listen to this.
I love this beautifully accomplished artist for what she really was: not a sex toy, not mere fantasy fodder, but a young woman who felt inside herself, early on that pull of the people, that near-torment of compassion that for some reason makes one want to cast one's soul into that Joycean river of music. And she found, or was drawn to just the right people -- drawn themselves to sing the old songs, the ancient songs and even the music of that that strange phenomenon from Duluth, Minnesota, who is wired to two or three points in that river of music and has just kept swimming from muse to bemused muse. We all have to die. That's nothing. The big sleep. I don't mourn the loss of Sandy Denny. I exalt the place she eternally holds in the great river. Bob will be there too, someday. And so will you and I. And I'll be so effing happy to see the end of this utter trash of a word program that maliciously mispels all correctly spelled word out of pure Zuckerbergian malice. "Stopped" (their version of "spelled.") words, and don't catch any of your real mistakes. It can go straight to hell along with all the androids who built it. Zuckerberg, beauty, sincerity, integrity, have all escaped you.. You'll spend eternity in hell with all your minions, Listening to Wayne Newton singing Danka Shoen and not one of them, cast into the fires of Hell's lowest circle, will remember how to spelled the name of the diabolical tune any better the I do.
Wow Andrew!! "to cast one's soul into that Joycean river of music", "that strange phenomenon from Duluth, Minnesota, who is wired to two or three points in that river of music and has just kept swimming from muse to bemused muse."!! You are a powerful writer!! I read the Iliad to prepare me for Ulysses and it didn't ha!! I read "Portrait of an Artist", and "The Dubliners", but now he was way over my head. I have the 1946 copy of Ulysses that has a warning it wasn't allowed in the USA! I read that Hemingway used to smuggle copies of it into the USA!
Very nice. I've heard many versions of this song and this one it right up there with the best if not the best. Sandy I can listen to her all day. I have a few of her and Fairports albums but I need to get more.
Sandy was remembered last night by some great musicians at #allwightnow a great celebration of the first brilliant Isle of Wight Festivals. Superb voice ✌️
sorry but not getting high but just enjoying the brilliant singing of a great natural composers song,simple ,easy and relaxed,and natural,thank you Sandy,and Bob
Thank you Sandy. Still remembered with love and greatly appreciated for your talent. England, January, 2024.
I concur
@@rodjones9138 Thank you Sir. Appreciated.
21 April 2023, 45 years since she died. RIP beautiful singer.
As a young un I enjoyed this beautiful song without really putting too much thought into it. Older now and helping the love of my life battle her second stage 3 cancer fight. Puts things into perspective, and makes a grown man cry
Some songs require life's experience before they can be appreciated; this is surely one of those. Tears of understanding can cast shadows in the shape of a smile, perhaps; so the years are teaching me, like it or not. May I wish you good fortune.
❤️❤️❤️
💖💕🤗
God bless you man
😢😢😢 you just hang on to her brother and be glad of the times you had together, until there is no time left, and tell her she'll be as close as your heart, until you meet again!🥀
Dear sandy, you dont have to knock the door. You already living in heaven. May you Rest In Peace
Amen!!
She had a salvation testimony?
I'm not a believer, so I'll just say hey ho I'll drink to that.
taken from this world of ours tooo soon…was starting to sprout her “wings” to the world! Rest In Peace..”beautiful one”……♥️♥️♥️😥😊
And Heaven must be happier with Sandy. Greetings Gillan. ✌️
RIP Sandy Denny! I was fortunate to see her with Fairport Convention at Sanders Theater, Cambridge in the early seventies. At the time she was ill and had to leave the stage during the performance. She had such an expressive voice and her song Who Knows Where The Time Goes is a classic.
The greatest of female vocalists accompanied by one of the most underrated guitarists, Jerry Donahue.
Ah, the wonderful genius of guitar maestro Jerry Donahue, tragically suffering a terrible stroke some years ago.
Just watch him playing with Fairport Convention and then Fotheringay. What a talent
Jerry Donahue was not only Sandy's guitarist, but also Joan Armatrading's. I am saddened to read about his stroke.
I concur, the late Sandy Denny and Joni Mitchell my all time favourite female singer song writers
Thanks to UA-cam,I managed to time travel from India, thousands of miles away. I often listen to Sandy Denny and yes, I read about Jerry too. He was classic. Sad.. Sandy left the world before her time.
Totally agree. The voice of Sandy transforms this great song in another beautiful thing. And I loved Jerry Donahue, in Fotheringay.
I know her from afar in time. I was a young adult when she passed away but never forgot her, how could I. Whenever I hear hear sing I am in between utmost joy and sadness. Tears in my eyes.
It’s such a cruel twist of fate that we lose the very best so young. Sandy Denny, Eva Cassidy, Janis Joplin, Kate Wolf. What a beautiful melancholy rendition of Dylan’s classic
You have named all my favourite female artists yep it sure is a cruel blow
How tastes differ! I wouldn't dream of putting Sandy Denny and Janis Joplin in the same sentence, except as a study in extremes! One had a voice in a million, and the other's best use of a microphone was as a prop on which she could lean to croak convincingly enough to have the woeful result mistaken for passion - which it so often was!
@@WeeWyllie so you don't like Sandy
My God. The others you name have done very well to be mentioned the same breath as Sandy.
Eva Cassidy is someone I heard of only because of the internet. Add Judee Sill to that list of died too young who I only know because of the internet. For male singers add Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and countless others to the list.
Who could possibly give this a thumbs down ?? Her voice goes straight to the marrow of my bones & they want to harmonize.
I agree...
She is beautiful because we are aware of the ugly. Apreciate the stark contrast.
People with zero appreciation of music.
The best version of this song. What a talent. Gone too soon. I love listening to
her music. Bless you Sandy. You are missed.
@Robert Lopez
The story of Sandy Denny is a sad one.
I am a big fan of Fairport Convention.
She was innocent of her true brilliance, and craved the applause of a nearby heart. This prophetic performance is arguably her masterpiece, and she introduced voice tones not heard from her anywhere else.
First Love. My intuition makes me think she never knew how adored her talent was. Bitter sweet it came after she shed this mortal coil. A true super star unrecognized in life.
The Lady had one of the best voices in living memory. Composer. Piano,, 12 string and more. RIP Sandy Denny✨🌹
Sandy' voice is magical and if you close your eyes and really listen.....her spirit is here and all around us. She was too good for this world. God has a front row seat for her performances. I'm jealous and wish she was still here with us. I'm sure she's looking down and smiling. We miss you Sandy......there is no one better than you. God Bless!
Blair Malmer yes, this is a great recording.
Amen.
Definitely the best female singer ..ever!,,
I love Sandy too. She was thankfully an atheist.
'...thankfully an atheist' ????????????????????????????
'She was too good for this world.' That's a profound statement which I've spent a while thinking about. I will keep my thoughts private as metaphysics are perhaps not easy discussion matter within a forum.
'I wish that she was still here with us.' She is, can be, will be if you open your heart, pour out love, and truly listen. Trust in what you hear.
I will be brave and say: After the nightclub acoustics, recording and production of same. The wax, vinyl, tape, magnetic fluff, and however else brought into the future. Now it gets digitized, analogized, and CD, DVD, chipped & dipped, and sent to live in the clouds, I still hear the unmistakable, beautiful, amazing voice of Sandy Denny. Her sound is permanent!
My father in law just passed. Turned on YT and this showed up first.
Glad so many of you ,and so recently ,, are still getting high on this . One of the highlights of my career were the concerts we did at the Sydney Opera House
@Roger Proctor Thank you for the music! 💓
it is hard to explain to people how one voice has impacted me for decades.. and one of my greatest contributions was converting a handful of college classmates to grasping the greatness of Sandy .. I played her about 30 percent of my college radio show! I got to see her perform twice in the US and her words and music remain as part of my core essence .. the fact that you were involved in her music and production and staging has me in awe ..
Roger Proctor thanks 😊
*STILL GREAT* 2020
It must have been a great responsibility for you to monitor these concerts and be on the alert for any performing irregularities.
The pic of Sandy playing a 12 string made my day. I hope Heaven let you in. R.I.P. Sandy Denny.
What a beautiful lady! What a wonderful singer! What a gifted musician! This is the kind of talent we dearly miss when the artist is no longer with us.
I'm a Dylan fanatic and even the great man himself holds this version by Sandy in the highest esteem . My favourite non Dylan version of this famous song by some way .
Could you give a link to where Dylan said this?
Hi ThefightingCelt! You answered the question I was musing as I listened to Sandy's great rendition, thanks! I know Bob also liked the Byrds a lot too.
Sadly she knocked too early on that door herself. What an amazing voice.....beautiful.
I didn't know her until tonight. She's got an amazing voice. This is the best version I've heard.
This is without a word of doubt, the best version of this tremendously beautiful song
You are totally right. Denny is supremely inspired. The world sounds through her.
Thanks to UA-cam and the upload. Otherwise I would not know of Sandy's rendition. So good.
@@AntonioEscohotadoEspinosa She was a master at taking Dylan's songs and creating very unique and powerful interpretations, matched only by Nina Simone in her skill in my
opinion.
Edit: Actually, Bettye Lavette and Mavis Staples also posses that ability.
Listen to Antony and the Johnsons version.
@@georgemcdonald4738 Antony's version is beautiful but for me nothing tops Denny.
Yes the best female singer of her generation.
without a doubt!!!!!!!!!
Of all time !
And the primary influence on maybe the best from the next generation = Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)
She was unbelievable.
@@keithbate9405 love Nat evn Aileen Wuornos likd her
Heavenly voice...brings me to tears...
Can't believe I'm hearing this for the first time... Thank God this was recorded. Best version of a Dylan song ever...
First time I'm hearing Sandy sing this and I agree with you. :)
Always remember her playing and singing this to me in the car….she was brilliant…yet I just never realised it at the time
I haven't heard Sandy's version of this for decades...who knows where the time goes? Just love it, sorry Bob, this is THE rendition of your famous song.
Michael Steele también tiene una vos hermosa deben escucharla ella formaba parte de las Bangles
Of all the countless covers, this live one is one of a kind. She infuses it with raw emotional energy and the premonition of death. She completely gets the power of this song even though it was new. When she sings "bury my guns down in the ground" she does something to it that Dylan would do later, but she did it before him. That's influence.
Saw her at the Fishmongers Arms in Wood Green. She asked me for change for the phone box. I couldn't speak ............ I loved this woman. A great vocalist.
Saw Pink floyd there may have seen fairport, those few years ago
Saw fairport a lot at the Country Club Belsize Park and Free
Lucky bugger!
"change for the phone box." gosh remember them days....
"the past is a foreign country they do things differently there"
I have listened to Fairport Convention and their later incarnation Steeleye span for 30+ YEARS many people dont know that Sandy Denney was the female vocals of the Led Zeppelin song Battle of evermore only learned this myself about 2 years ago
The best Knockin' on Heaven's Door cover you ever heard.
And she did other great Dylan covers, but this is stunning
Superb, many thanks for posting. Surely Sandy was the Janis Joplin of the folk world; one of the most soulful singers to grace this world.
Whoa!! Thanks to whoever unearthed this! Sandy remains one of the greatest singers ever recorded.
I play in a band in the NE of England (Hexham) and we have always used this song to warm up. Always been our first song. We have evolved over the years, different intros, harmonies, me changing to organ instead of guitar, harmonica solos and guitar solos from our other guitarist and we sound pretty good but one thing could never, ever be as good at is Sandy's vocals. What an amazing voice. Love you Sandy Denny.
I met her in the hallway of a gymnasium at Livingston College in NJ in 1973 during FCs US tour. On break she asked me where the lue was with a giggle. Cute as a button. Fell for her right then and there but she had to go. Never saw her perform again but have lots of her music. I’ll always remember that moment in time.
“Who knows where the time goes” is a favorite of mine that Sandy wrote while only a teenager. She gives me goosebumps still.
rest in peace sandy. i'm crying right now listening to this.
And the picture at 2:46 just brings the tears all the harder. This is absolutely stunning.
Sandy Denny could sing the ingredients off a baked bean tin and it would sound amazing.......such feeling and emotion in her voice........amazing.
I agree, having seen Sandy solo in Cambridge around this time (and of course Bob Dylan did amaze by reading the labels of canned beans in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)!
Doesn’t sound very promising for this song...
This is simple perfection. Captures a real mood and feeling. In my opinion the best cover made of this song and not matched by any artist or singer in over 40 years.
ageless & timeless 💗 how blessed we are that she graced us with her presence 🙏 so blessed!!
Play this at my funeral. She is beyond words.
Imagine if Sandy had of sung it along with Bob!! This is a singer singing for the sake of the song, great vocal, great feel, amazing phrasing. Cheers for the upload.
I think this is the best version of this song that I have heard.
Ace-Maker e me too. Done with the vague emptiness of emotion that I loved her for. She was given a mind-blowing gift of interpretation that few stylists have.
you arent mistaken
I loved Sandy Denny so much. It’s not true that she wasn’t known in the USA, I knew who she was when I was 14-15, and always loved her, my bff Nancy had Fairport Convention albums in 1970 on & we listened to her all the time. She never got the fame she so richly deserved. ❤️❤️❤️
Really nice to set us straight. Good to know. I suspect that Sandy would have loved fame, but not for the obvious suspected reasons. I can say that, at the time, she was hurt that more income was made by her off one of her songs, by an artist doing a cover version, than she earned off it herself! I don't need to supply detail.
I know, Judy Collins made WHO Knows Where The Time Goes, famous, but I will always prefer Sandy Denny’s version so much more.
Don't know how I missed this cover... I like the Dylan version, and most of the other covers. But Sandy blows them all away. Best female vocalist of the 70s, certainly, probably ever.
I was in L.A. at that era AND went to the Troubador a few times. Missed this as I just was unaware. Mattacks shines on these recordings.
Mattocks is one of the best.
The magical voice of the great Sandy Denny covering a song by the enigma that is Bob Dylan. It does not get much better.
probably the best female vocalist of all time. too bad she's gone in my lifetime.
And my thanks to Sandy, and to you Ronald.. So many people listen to Sandy's music and her beautiful voice and just don't acknowledge the sites that allow us to do that. Sandy will live on forever.
This is a breathtaking voice and a lovely song.
Ashamed to admit I had no idea this track existed until tonight. What a revelation!
Wonderful, wonderful stuff. For so many reasons.
Thank you.
This is the best version. It sets the standard for all others
So beautiful, no other words
Sandy Denny, like Melanie Safka, is one of those gifted singer-songwriters who have the ability to interpret other people's songs as well or better than the original artist. I liked this song casually when Dylan put it out, but coming from Sandy Denny it suddenly becomes a song I like very much. Dylan's song, via her interpretation, is given a significance I never heard before
Oh....Melanie! What a magical bolt from the past. I remember seeing Melanie at Carnegie Hall in the early '70s; a performance on one of her birthdays. Lots of lights waving in the audience :)
both are inspirational
@ Michael N, check out her discography, because at least one of her Carnegie Hall concerts, and on her birthday too, has been released commercially. Melanie has a truly unique vocal style, which has its own inner beauty.
@Rennie, you're no doubt aware of Melanie's spellbinding rendition of Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race.
Rennie - I treasure your reference to Sandy Denny's 'interpretation' of a Bob Dylan song. I am confident that singer-songwriters like to both have their great songs covered, and also covered in a 'new' (aka different) way. The songs lyrics and basic format will always be there, any way sliced.
High Rennie King, I'm so very glad NOT to come across Melanie Safka stuff while growing up 🦨.
to billie holiday, sandy denny, arundhati roy 🍄🌄🐞🦄🦚🇺🇲🏴🇮🇳🌬👏🌻🦋💗🕉🙏✌🏾..............🤓
How could I not have heard this before? Magical, full of premonition, eerie. I think she knew her life would be too short. But her genius and voice lives on forever. Thank you for sharing this.
"Induct Fairport Convention into, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" is on Facebook and that would include Sandy Denny too.
Sandy deserves more acclaim + respect than she receives, but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is total B.S. They just put Tupac in and besides being trash, his music is not rock + roll. The Rock + Roll Hall of Fame is a joke.
Am I the only one with chill bumps listening to this?
No; this gets me every-time.
Guns and Roses should lay twelve dozens on her grave.
Every time
No.
floods of tears..
My favourite version of this song - wonderful! Sandy was amazing!
What a brilliant version of a great song, not heard this before.
I'm glad to have been on this Earth with Sandy.
Simply one of the best versions of this Dylan classic.
Oh wow what a treat this early morning, I can see I'm going to have to follow this girl up and get some of her stuff. The most beautiful and unusual voice I've heard in quite a while.
What a wonderful rendition of the Dylan classic ..............There will never be another Sandy Denny! .........So sad to think that in just over 4 years after she sang that great performance she literally was "Knocking On Heaven's Door'"
Did they let her in?
@@huskyfaninmass1042 Well of course! Who wouldnt!
WOW! I just ordered several of her recordings, can't wait til they arrive. Such a tragic loss to the world that she passed so young.
loved it.sandy voice of an angel
What can you say? There's one big soul being expressed through that voice.
Sandy performed covers as well as her own music. She was a unique talent who felt every word she sang. Now she's not knocking; she's there.
Thank GOD for UA-cam!!! Well, thank someone, anyway!! : ))
At age 72 how could I have not been given the pleasure of hearing Sandy Denny
Where the heck had you been?
@@namcat53 listening to hard rock and roll, like led zeppelin
Some jouno said she was plain and troubled. Troubled she surely was, but not plain by a long measure, and talented beyond measure.
vonwurzel I met her around 1968 or something. Plain, complicated and straight forward but she had something. I looked at her, she looked at me and we said good night. She was just another singer to me at the time.
She was very shy , and found being on stage very difficult in her early career. I saq Fairport Convention in the late 60s , and when they were doing a song on which she didn't sing , she sat at the back of the stage crocheting. .
Lucky to have seen her with Fairport.
Lucky you!:)
I'm green with envy. I've seen Fairport a few times since Sandy's passing but I'd cut my left bollock off to have seen her with them.
Lucky you!
@Stacey Michaels That might have been a very slight exaggeration Lol.
She was an angel!!, she is missed so much
Best version ! First time i ve heard it ! Creeping into my heart !
Bob Dylan did a real good job with this song too. Sandy had such a good vibe and aura about her. So sad she passed so young!
It isn't often that a cover is better than the original, but this is an example. She sounds like she means every word with a tired, sad, pathos built into it. Truly brilliant rendition of a brilliant song
Wonderful cover - great touching voice!! - Love her since the 70s one of my fav lady-singer
Well, well...this American baby boomer was listening to 'The Battle of Evermore' by LZ and there's this flipping awesome female vocal behind Robert Plant, just lifting the vocals UP! on this great song.
A little research, and it's this cute Scottish redhead named Sandy Denny. Who Knew? Britain's hybrid of Judy Collins & Joni Mitchell all wrapped up in one....so I'm cruising youtube trying to listen to as many songs by her as I can. I could listen to her version of this song - especially around 3:40 to the end when she puts her belly into it - over and over. OMG.What a talent! She closes that song so strongly, her voice is so strong, so arioso, so vibrant - my crappy computer speakers can't take it and they start crackling. Time to buy an LP and play her on my good speakers.
While Scotland has produced some great musicians, we can't take credit for Sandy Denny. She was born in London.
us fans of good music knew all about her with Led Zep🐂💨
she was born in london knob head
A Wimbledon lass, not a Scottish one...
Good choice :)
Superb interpretation, the best.
Sandy was a beautiful woman inside and out. I was always jealous of Trevor. She lent a quality to anything she ever sang, whoever wrote it; The "ooh oohs" are spine tingling. I can feel her little hand in mine when I listen to this.
Your last sentence made me cry. Are you insured?
How can someone with such a staggering level of talent not be a household name? Too good for this world...
How haven't I heard this before? Goosebumps.
I love this beautifully accomplished artist for what she really was: not a sex toy, not mere fantasy fodder, but a young woman who felt inside herself, early on that pull of the people, that near-torment of compassion that for some reason makes one want to cast one's soul into that Joycean river of music. And she found, or was drawn to just the right people -- drawn themselves to sing the old songs, the ancient songs and even the music of that that strange phenomenon from Duluth, Minnesota, who is wired to two or three points in that river of music and has just kept swimming from muse to bemused muse. We all have to die. That's nothing. The big sleep. I don't mourn the loss of Sandy Denny. I exalt the place she eternally holds in the great river. Bob will be there too, someday. And so will you and I. And I'll be so effing happy to see the end of this utter trash of a word program that maliciously mispels all correctly spelled word out of pure Zuckerbergian malice. "Stopped" (their version of "spelled.") words, and don't catch any of your real mistakes. It can go straight to hell along with all the androids who built it. Zuckerberg, beauty, sincerity, integrity, have all escaped you.. You'll spend eternity in hell with all your minions, Listening to Wayne Newton singing Danka Shoen and not one of them, cast into the fires of Hell's lowest circle, will remember how to spelled the name of the diabolical tune any better the I do.
That was swell "Zukerbergian malice" indeed! 😂
Wow Andrew!! "to cast one's soul into that Joycean river of music", "that strange phenomenon from Duluth, Minnesota, who is wired to two or three points in that river of music and has just kept swimming from muse to bemused muse."!! You are a powerful writer!! I read the Iliad to prepare me for Ulysses and it didn't ha!! I read "Portrait of an Artist", and "The Dubliners", but now he was way over my head. I have the 1946 copy of Ulysses that has a warning it wasn't allowed in the USA! I read that Hemingway used to smuggle copies of it into the USA!
haunting voice...thank you xyearafter &you tube for the introduction
Very nice. I've heard many versions of this song and this one it right up there with the best if not the best. Sandy I can listen to her all day. I have a few of her and Fairports albums but I need to get more.
Try and get Sandy Denny with the Strawbs
What a fantastic guitar accompaniment brilliant
THE VERY BEST LADY SINGER EVER WE MISS HER SO MUCH BLESS YOU SANDY DENNY AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING LOVE YOU FOREVER MORE.
Voice of an angel. Always loved her.
A beautiful version of a great song! So much emotion!
excellent version brings you out in goosebumps when listening to it.
Sandy is really missed what a voice.
Big fan for years, never knew she sang this! Love to Sandy
Me too.. so amazing voice🔥
All I can add this in 2021 🌹❤️🇦🇺🐨
WOW! Blown away by Sandy's rendition. Very POWERFUL.
A brilliant cover of this song, Sandy Denny RIP a classic in my opinion.
A reason why i love music
Sandy was remembered last night by some great musicians at #allwightnow a great celebration of the first brilliant Isle of Wight Festivals. Superb voice ✌️
RIP, amazing Sandy Denny. Your music lives on & many of us still get emotional & are moved by your music💕
For me this is THE ultimate version of this song, perhaps made even more poignant by Sandy’s all too young demise just a few years later.
sorry but not getting high but just enjoying the brilliant singing of a great natural composers song,simple ,easy and relaxed,and natural,thank you Sandy,and Bob
Sensational version by Sandy !
wonderful and moving. I love it.
How very moving. What a sad loss to have lost her. RIP. Gone but forever remembered.
I found this one hard to listen to, knowing Sandy's fate.... RIP Sweet Lady....