Beloved singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has written and released plenty of hits over the years, and there are many hidden gem songs in her discography. One of these is her song “Chelsea Morning,” written very early in her career about her experiences living in the iconic Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.
“Chelsea Morning” is a dreamy love song about taking advantage of the moment and not wanting to say goodbye to a good feeling. It includes lyrics like, “Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning/ And the first thing that I heard/ Was a song outside my window/ And the traffic wrote the words,” and “Oh, won’t you stay/ We’ll put on the day/ And we’ll wear it ’till the night comes.”
Mitchell penned the song before she even had a record label and released her debut album. But she waited to release it until her second album, Clouds, because versions had already been released by other artists before her. Luckily, Mitchell still ended up sharing her personal version of the song in 1969.
A few years after the song was released, Mitchell stopped singing it live, telling a fan who requested it at a concert in 1974: “I don’t sing that song anymore… It sorta belongs to my musical childhood, to me, you know? I’m not trying to be snobbish about my own songs.”
In a retrospective interview talking about a bunch of her songs, Mitchell said of “Chelsea Morning,” “It was a very young and lovely time … before I had a record deal. I think it’s a very sweet song, but I don’t think of it as part of my best work. To me, most of those early songs seem like the work of an ingenue.”
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Despite this, the song has gained a lot of fans over the years, and Rolling Stone Australia listed it as one of her “50 Essential Songs.” Knowing that Mitchell has written over 200 songs throughout her music career, that’s high praise.
In 2021, she gifted fans with an official video of her performing “Chelsea Morning” at Carnegie Hall in 1969, the year the song came out.
Fans on YouTube praised the song, with one calling the lyrics “genius brilliance.” Another wrote, “50 years on…this music will continue to stand the test of time.” Others called it “truly special” and said, “Great music endures, Joni’s spirit will shine forever. Thank you.”
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