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Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
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That taxi was Joni Mitchell's long before it was Counting Crows', and she cut it first in 1970. Start with her version, then dig for the one Bob Dylan recorded a few years later.
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Written by Joni Mitchell.
First recorded by Joni Mitchell in 1970.
Also recorded by Bob Dylan (1973), Joni Mitchell and the L.A. Express (1974), Monty Alexander's Ivory & Steel (1988), Big Country (1996).
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Counting Crows put "Big Yellow Taxi" in front of a whole new crowd. Whose song was it before Adam Duritz ever sang a word of it?Joni Mitchell
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