Both Sides Now was on WABC New York's top 100 of the year at #83. That was a special year of music for me but so were a few others. Judy's version of Someday Soon is also very nice. It just occurred to me; Both Sides Now was written by Joni Mitchel and Someday soon was written by Ian Tyson, both Canadian artists.
John Newton ended up becoming an Abolitionist and fought to end slavery. He publicly admitted that he was ashamed that he was instrumental in the horrific slave trade. Also, John Newton helped found the Anti-Slavery Society, and died only a few months after slavery was abolished in England in 1807.
Judy Collins is well worth listening to whatever she sings: Both Sides Now, Send in the Clowns, Leonard Cohen's Suzanne (a beautiful rendition), many others.
She recorded this with the Harlem Boys Choir in 1993. I play it every Sunday to begin my day. her recorded version is very haunting because of the acoustics.
Not only regret is heard in the lyrics, but a joyous victory is realized by the revelation of truth to the composer. An ethereal awakening and salvation. Yep, I'm crying, my usual reaction to this song, especially when performed so perfectly.
He was fired from being a slave ship captain because too much of his cargo died. He had a lot to regret - and thus one of the most powerful experience ever written
You are the first that I know of to listen to Judy Blue Eyes. You need to listen to Farewell to Tarwathie Song by Judy Collins. Just her and the whales singing. And yes she is that Judy blue eyes from CSN.
Judy Collins is a beautiful singer, she had a massive hit with this song in the early 70s, and it was my definitive version until recently. If you want to hear a sweeter more moving performance, try listening to Amira Willighagen singing it in 2017 down in a south African concert called Classics is Groot. She donates half of her performance fees to the poor children of south Africa, so her heart is definitely in the right place too. If you love the song you should really give her rendition a whirl.
I have loved her rendition of Amazing Grace since her excellent 1968 album Whales and Nightingales. To my surprise, this updated version is even better. If you love her pristine, bell-like voice, I urge you to check out Whales as well as 1968's Who Knows Where the Time Goes as well as 1971's Living. Incidentally, she was Stephen Stills' inspiration for the Crosby Stills and Nash classic Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
This song is close to my heart. It was song at my Mom and Dad's funerals. This rendition is absolutely beautiful. The chair's backgrounds vocals are blended to perfection and compliment Judy's outstanding angelic voice. Could a Sunday be anymore beautiful? Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and JKClark. Omg. Heavenly. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
I always cry to this song. Especially this sweet sweet one. It reminds me of my learning process about people in my youth. Never a slave trader but got to learn of my ignorance thanks to some special strangers. I would like to also know how far the writer went to shed his shame. A local tenor named Michael sang this at my dads memorial. Along with the choir which my dad sang in for 30 years. "Music is our magic 🪄 "
Thank you, Harri, for such a heartfelt reaction. I was secretly hoping you'd react to this on a Sunday, and you didn't disappoint. John Newton became a priest in the Church of England after quitting the slave trade. I don't know what became of his financial gains. I do know he wrote extensively about his life, as the background opening introduction might testify. Newton wrote this, I've heard, as part of his mid-week study group in the Church. It is said, though, that the melody was created in America by black slaves. Jessye Norman, the recently passed singer, once said, "Wouldn't it be truly amazing, if this great lyric, which was written about the African slave trade, got its actual melody from actual African slaves."
Hi, Harri: This song was at #14 for the March 02 week of 1971 at WABC New York. Songs like this could move up the charts with all the other pop music back then. I went to look at my 45 rpm record to get some details but it looks like it is one that I sold to a collector. It was on the Elektra label and I believe it was originally done in some cathedral with a huge choir. When they get to the part where the choir comes in, it was very deep and rich sound, all done acapella.
@@HarriBestReactions I do really regret selling some of my 45s. A collector was interested in what I had and he bought over 50 of my best back in the late 80s. He Ain't Heavy by The Hollies and others of that calibre. He must have also taken Amazing Grace. Not to worry though because it is on my Colours of the Day album by Judy which is her best. There is something very special though about having the single. I still have a lot of them for which I am grateful. Nice reactions, Harri. All the best to you from Canada. I have a cousin in England.
Amazing Grace is my favorite Song ever. The people in the South, really put their twist on it. With their southern twang. Rod Stewart sang it on Maggie LP. Pretty damn Amazing. 🥰
The shape note version is absolutely chill-inducing. Here's one clip of it from 2011, with a very young leader just learning how to do it. ua-cam.com/video/uPOo4dOuPbQ/v-deo.html
That's Judy at about 55. You should hear her in her prime. She recorded many anti-racism songs. "In the Heat of the Summer", "Tear Down the Walls", "Medgar Evers Lullaby" to name a few.
My favorite version of this song is by the gospel singer Whitney Phillips. I highly recommend it - he will make you feel the lyrics of this song in a way that must be experienced for oneself.
The writer was John Newton as you said a slave trader from England. At the age of 18 he was kidnapped a d forced to work on a ship. He tried to escape and was stripped to the waist and flogged 8 Dozen times. He contemplated murdering the captain and committing suicide by going overboard. He transferred to a slave ship and didn't get along with the crew. They left him in 1745 inWest Africa with a chief who gave Newton to his wife Princess Peye and he was treated as a slave. Then in 1748 a sea captain rescued him and he had a spiritual awakening on that boat ride back to England. Took a few years for him to get off the slave ships and he had a stroke 1754 and started reading bible and was ordained in the Anglican church in 1764. His tombstone which he wrote the epitaph. "JOHN NEWTON. Clerk. Once an infidel and libertine a servant of slaves in Africa was by the rich mercy of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST preserved, restored, pardoned and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy. Near 16 years as Curate of this parish and 28 years as Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth.... " He became an Abolitionist.q
I copied it from Wikipedia.... I think he became poor he wanted to be in the clergy but as you can imagine he was loomed upon with skepticism. It didn't say directly but I don't know if he gave up the money But I think he didn't stay rich so I guess he did li e off the money But he didn't work for years between the shippi ng and clergy job. I can't imagine doing anything like that but there was still slavery in Sudan in the early 2000s. Southern Sudan is darker and predominantly Christian. Northern is Muslim and for years they would kidnap the southerners and enslave them. I k ew a missionary who li ed there. Christians raised money to buy their freedom and I believe it's still going on in Libya. Sorry to say it. It's horrible no matter how and where.
Harri you should do some Christian pop rock songs. Bands would include Casting Crowns and Third Day And Mercy Me and the News Boys. Singers would be Jeremy Camp and Chris Tomlin and Toby Mac and Big Daddy Weave and Matthew West and so many more. Please go down the Christian music rabbit hole. If you don't know Christ this music can bring you closer God. You'll be glad you did!!!!!!
@@pamalaalford1081 I guess it depends on what you think a "generation" is. I estimate 2 generations between 1807 and 1865. Then add another century for Jim Crow, until about 1965 when the slaves actually became reasonably free in America. Would that the Emancipation Proclamation had been a practical reality.
@@BobSmith-lb9nc You are right. In my mind I was thinking a generation is basically a lifetime 75 to 90 years. But that is not the dictionary definition. I am just not familiar with the word generation used to describe 58 years ... but you are right. I apologize 😔
From childhood on, I thougt, this was a traditional scottish or welsh song. At first sorry for never listening to the lyrics. Second and third... Know this songs over 40 years, but sorry, I'm an Austrian.
The Mighty Jeremiahs, featuring Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie, did a very haunting, beautiful rendition of the same song, Amazing Grace, back in the early-2000’s. Highly recommend checking it out! Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/t-AsbmAVgqU/v-deo.html
Harri, I understand what you are saying about the riches he made, would be worth researching. You can Google anything. The same can be said of the English slave traders, they were one of the top in the triangle. Along with Portugal.
My understand is that the slave trader did not write the hymn, but wrote the words to the music he likely heard the slaves singing their own words to. I believe he became a preacher and his monies went to his church.
I really loved your reaction but really didn't the song do more than about what money was given or taken . I believe the message was how he humbled himself and deep sorrow. I'm disappointed that it didn't affect all of us and realized that we all humans and we all make mistakes. That's what I get from the song .
I amalysed Judy Vollin's natal chart in Gold Derby's webdite (the eebdite talking about the Odcars race every year). She has three natural benefics Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in the 9th house of grace with Jupiter the religious fervour planet in its own sign in Pisces. 10th house denoting successs in your profession she has Sun exalted (the fame giving planet), Saturn in its fall but situated next to an exalted Sun it gets Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga ( its fall is cancelled and it becomes a king ) together with Ketu who with Saturn gives success and with Sun gives high position. And just like Billie Joel and Meryl Streep she has Pluto ruling the 5th house of creativity rising in Cancer in the 1st house meaning she imbues great emotions in the arts just like the other two.
Hey, Harri: I've watched you long enough now to be fairly certain that you would love this song by Nana Mouskouri. ua-cam.com/video/fjolus2DuIo/v-deo.html Even if you don't react to it, at least give it a wee listen.
And Judy's gracee of the 9th house is also disposited by Neptune, the other ruler of Pisces besides Jupiter in its oen sign, and Neptune is placed in the 2nd house of voice. Hrr sound echoes grace. The Harlem Boys Choir is echoed through the 11th house of groups in Judy's chart. The ruler is Venus which is EXALTED in the 9th house with Jupiter. So Venus is even more powerful than Jupiter. So I tell you these boys' choir has a quality par excellennce like even the Vienna Boys Choir.
no one can touch her version of this song
She sings a haunting version of "SUZANE", that was written by Leonard Cohen.
Not one single musical instrument. Just the majesty of the human voice.
I think you'd love her song "Farewell to Tarwarthie" too - very unusual for the times and hauntingly beautiful
Suite Judy Blue Eyes, she has a beautiful angelic voice.
I LOVE her version of “Both Sides Now” too. ♥️
Me too…although I do favour Joni 🇨🇦
Both Sides Now was on WABC New York's top 100 of the year at #83. That was a special year of music for me but so were a few others. Judy's version of Someday Soon is also very nice. It just occurred to me; Both Sides Now was written by Joni Mitchel and Someday soon was written by Ian Tyson, both Canadian artists.
@@festidious2644 and both from southern alberta
John Newton ended up becoming an Abolitionist and fought to end slavery. He publicly admitted that he was ashamed that he was instrumental in the horrific slave trade. Also, John Newton helped found the Anti-Slavery Society, and died only a few months after slavery was abolished in England in 1807.
For sheer breathtaking beauty it's hard to beat the voice of Judy Collins.
Judy could out sing that Choir. Beautiful voice.
I saw Judy Collins in person in 1967 when I was in college. Judy Blue Eyes, she was great
Muito lindo!!! Maravilhoso!!!
Presença do Espírito Santo!!!
Judy Collins is well worth listening to whatever she sings: Both Sides Now, Send in the Clowns, Leonard Cohen's Suzanne (a beautiful rendition), many others.
Judy Collins is a GIFT!!!!!!
Beautiful….”Sweet” Judy Blue Eyes. Stephen Stills great love ❤️
She recorded this with the Harlem Boys Choir in 1993. I play it every Sunday to begin my day. her recorded version is very haunting because of the acoustics.
Judy Collins is an amazing singer💕🎵
Not only regret is heard in the lyrics, but a joyous victory is realized by the revelation of truth to the composer. An ethereal awakening and salvation. Yep, I'm crying, my usual reaction to this song, especially when performed so perfectly.
He was fired from being a slave ship captain because too much of his cargo died. He had a lot to regret - and thus one of the most powerful experience ever written
My parents used to takes us to those concerts in DC when we were kids, I didn’t appreciate it at the time, now I relish those memories.
THE BEST , BEAUTIFUL , SHE GIVES THE FEELING THE SONG DESERVES.
Grace means forgiveness! Hard for humans but easy for Jesus Christ!
You are the first that I know of to listen to Judy Blue Eyes. You need to listen to Farewell to Tarwathie
Song by Judy Collins. Just her and the whales singing. And yes she is that Judy blue eyes from CSN.
You should also listen to her song Farewell to Tarwathie
Absolutely!
Judy Collins is a beautiful singer, she had a massive hit with this song in the early 70s, and it was my definitive version until recently.
If you want to hear a sweeter more moving performance, try listening to Amira Willighagen singing it in 2017 down in a south African concert called Classics is Groot. She donates half of her performance fees to the poor children of south Africa, so her heart is definitely in the right place too. If you love the song you should really give her rendition a whirl.
What a beautiful version of this JK. This is such a beautiful song anyway but that choir is amazing!
You always do the best reactions. I never knew the history of the song. You and all the comments were educational.
I have loved her rendition of Amazing Grace since her excellent 1968 album Whales and Nightingales. To my surprise, this updated version is even better. If you love her pristine, bell-like voice, I urge you to check out Whales as well as 1968's Who Knows Where the Time Goes as well as 1971's Living. Incidentally, she was Stephen Stills' inspiration for the Crosby Stills and Nash classic Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
Love your words & reaction ❤️🩹
This song is close to my heart. It was song at my Mom and Dad's funerals.
This rendition is absolutely beautiful.
The chair's backgrounds vocals are blended to perfection and compliment Judy's outstanding angelic voice. Could a Sunday be anymore beautiful? Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and JKClark.
Omg. Heavenly. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you Hari. I have chills and tears. Emotional song so beautiful sung. Judy and this background choir…absolutely perfection.
I always cry to this song. Especially this sweet sweet one.
It reminds me of my learning process about people in my youth.
Never a slave trader but got to learn of my ignorance thanks to some special strangers.
I would like to also know how far the writer went to shed his shame.
A local tenor named Michael sang this at my dads memorial.
Along with the choir which my dad sang in for 30 years.
"Music is our magic 🪄 "
❤️🩹🥰 Judy Collins has such a beautiful voice & the Choir is wonderful. This song always brings tears.
Saw Jon Anderson of YES sing this. It’s was inspirational
Try Judy Collins singing "Farewell to Tarwathie" from the "Colors of the Day" album.
Heard this song many times, but this is the most beautiful version ever...........thank you
One of my favorites
Love here voice!!!
Harri,thanks this is one of favorite version of one of my favorite spiritual songs again Thank you👊🏾🖖🏾
Thank you, Harri, for such a heartfelt reaction. I was secretly hoping you'd react to this on a Sunday, and you didn't disappoint. John Newton became a priest in the Church of England after quitting the slave trade. I don't know what became of his financial gains. I do know he wrote extensively about his life, as the background opening introduction might testify. Newton wrote this, I've heard, as part of his mid-week study group in the Church. It is said, though, that the melody was created in America by black slaves. Jessye Norman, the recently passed singer, once said, "Wouldn't it be truly amazing, if this great lyric, which was written about the African slave trade, got its actual melody from actual African slaves."
Thanks for this great song J.K. ! I always loved Judy Collins and the Choir is great !✌👏
Hi, Harri: This song was at #14 for the March 02 week of 1971 at WABC New York. Songs like this could move up the charts with all the other pop music back then. I went to look at my 45 rpm record to get some details but it looks like it is one that I sold to a collector. It was on the Elektra label and I believe it was originally done in some cathedral with a huge choir. When they get to the part where the choir comes in, it was very deep and rich sound, all done acapella.
You sold it?? Naaaaah!!! 😀😀
@@HarriBestReactions I do really regret selling some of my 45s. A collector was interested in what I had and he bought over 50 of my best back in the late 80s. He Ain't Heavy by The Hollies and others of that calibre. He must have also taken Amazing Grace. Not to worry though because it is on my Colours of the Day album by Judy which is her best. There is something very special though about having the single. I still have a lot of them for which I am grateful. Nice reactions, Harri. All the best to you from Canada. I have a cousin in England.
And this was live really live
Got this on my playlist beautiful song.
This song brings me to misty eyed every
time I hear it especially by a Gospel Choir. I may be relative of Elvis.
Wonderful request Clark! Great reaction! We have a difficult issue with our daughter and Granddaughter. This reminds me who to take my troubles too
Hope your troubles finds a beautiful solution
Thank you Harri!
She's had some struggles of her own, so some of it has that depth.
Absolutely beautiful for the wrong reasons..
Hari listen to Judy’s Send In The clowns. You will love it!
Amazing Grace is my favorite Song ever. The people in the South, really put their twist on it. With their southern twang. Rod Stewart sang it on Maggie LP. Pretty damn Amazing. 🥰
The shape note version is absolutely chill-inducing. Here's one clip of it from 2011, with a very young leader just learning how to do it. ua-cam.com/video/uPOo4dOuPbQ/v-deo.html
You made me laugh! with "I regret having an affair..."
That's Judy at about 55. You should hear her in her prime. She recorded many anti-racism songs. "In the Heat of the Summer", "Tear Down the Walls", "Medgar Evers Lullaby" to name a few.
You should try her version from 1971
My favorite version of this song is by the gospel singer Whitney Phillips. I highly recommend it - he will make you feel the lyrics of this song in a way that must be experienced for oneself.
The writer was John Newton as you said a slave trader from England. At the age of 18 he was kidnapped a d forced to work on a ship. He tried to escape and was stripped to the waist and flogged 8 Dozen times. He contemplated murdering the captain and committing suicide by going overboard. He transferred to a slave ship and didn't get along with the crew. They left him in 1745 inWest Africa with a chief who gave Newton to his wife Princess Peye and he was treated as a slave. Then in 1748 a sea captain rescued him and he had a spiritual awakening on that boat ride back to England. Took a few years for him to get off the slave ships and he had a stroke 1754 and started reading bible and was ordained in the Anglican church in 1764. His tombstone which he wrote the epitaph. "JOHN NEWTON. Clerk. Once an infidel and libertine a servant of slaves in Africa was by the rich mercy of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST preserved, restored, pardoned and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy. Near 16 years as Curate of this parish and 28 years as Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth.... " He became an Abolitionist.q
Thanx..Your post didnt say when he was a trader though and how he became one..Or if he gave up the proceeds
I copied it from Wikipedia.... I think he became poor he wanted to be in the clergy but as you can imagine he was loomed upon with skepticism. It didn't say directly but I don't know if he gave up the money But I think he didn't stay rich so I guess he did li e off the money But he didn't work for years between the shippi ng and clergy job. I can't imagine doing anything like that but there was still slavery in Sudan in the early 2000s. Southern Sudan is darker and predominantly Christian. Northern is Muslim and for years they would kidnap the southerners and enslave them. I k ew a missionary who li ed there. Christians raised money to buy their freedom and I believe it's still going on in Libya. Sorry to say it. It's horrible no matter how and where.
Harri you should do some Christian pop rock songs. Bands would include Casting Crowns and Third Day And Mercy Me and the News Boys. Singers would be Jeremy Camp and Chris Tomlin and Toby Mac and Big Daddy Weave and Matthew West and so many more. Please go down the Christian music rabbit hole. If you don't know Christ this music can bring you closer God. You'll be glad you did!!!!!!
Not everyone is a hypocrite, Harry. Newton, a Brit, was one of the reasons why Britain outlawed slavery and slave trading generations before the USA.
Bob, America did not quite take generations after England to abolish slavery ... England - 1807 ... USA - 1865. Thought you would like to know.
@@pamalaalford1081 I guess it depends on what you think a "generation" is. I estimate 2 generations between 1807 and 1865. Then add another century for Jim Crow, until about 1965 when the slaves actually became reasonably free in America. Would that the Emancipation Proclamation had been a practical reality.
@@BobSmith-lb9nc You are right. In my mind I was thinking a generation is basically a lifetime 75 to 90 years. But that is not the dictionary definition. I am just not familiar with the word generation used to describe 58 years ... but you are right. I apologize 😔
Hi Bob..did he give up his proceeds from the tradings? If he didnt i'm afraid hes a hypoctite.That would be a fact and not an opinion
@@HarriBestReactions I don't know. Maybe Thomas Sowell could tell us.
From childhood on, I thougt, this was a traditional scottish or welsh song. At first sorry for never listening to the lyrics. Second and third... Know this songs over 40 years, but sorry, I'm an Austrian.
All the signs are there, you figure it out.
Can you react to Joan Baez's "The President Sang Amazing Grace"?
The Mighty Jeremiahs, featuring Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie, did a very haunting, beautiful rendition of the same song, Amazing Grace, back in the early-2000’s. Highly recommend checking it out! Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/t-AsbmAVgqU/v-deo.html
Elvis also has a very good version of these song.
Harri, I understand what you are saying about the riches he made, would be worth researching. You can Google anything. The same can be said of the English slave traders, they were one of the top in the triangle. Along with Portugal.
My understand is that the slave trader did not write the hymn, but wrote the words to the music he likely heard the slaves singing their own words to.
I believe he became a preacher and his monies went to his church.
I really loved your reaction but really didn't the song do more than about what money was given or taken . I believe the message was how he humbled himself and deep sorrow. I'm disappointed that it didn't affect all of us and realized that we all humans and we all make mistakes. That's what I get from the song .
I amalysed Judy Vollin's natal chart in Gold Derby's webdite (the eebdite talking about the Odcars race every year).
She has three natural benefics Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in the 9th house of grace with Jupiter the religious fervour planet in its own sign in Pisces.
10th house denoting successs in your profession she has Sun exalted (the fame giving planet), Saturn in its fall but situated next to an exalted Sun it gets Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga ( its fall is cancelled and it becomes a king ) together with Ketu who with Saturn gives success and with Sun gives high position.
And just like Billie Joel and Meryl Streep she has Pluto ruling the 5th house of creativity rising in Cancer in the 1st house meaning she imbues great emotions in the arts just like the other two.
Hey, Harri: I've watched you long enough now to be fairly certain that you would love this song by Nana Mouskouri. ua-cam.com/video/fjolus2DuIo/v-deo.html Even if you don't react to it, at least give it a wee listen.
Yes, he repented.
And Judy's gracee of the 9th house is also disposited by Neptune, the other ruler of Pisces besides Jupiter in its oen sign, and Neptune is placed in the 2nd house of voice. Hrr sound echoes grace.
The Harlem Boys Choir is echoed through the 11th house of groups in Judy's chart. The ruler is Venus which is EXALTED in the 9th house with Jupiter. So Venus is even more powerful than Jupiter. So I tell you these boys' choir has a quality par excellennce like even the Vienna Boys Choir.
How cynical 🤨 Harry 🤦🏼♂️ SMH
Do you even know the meaning of Grace?
Huh??