Joni Mitchell → Elvis Presley

Joni Mitchell wrote Big Yellow Taxi and was the first to record it. Which of these acts later recorded their own version of it?Counting Crowsknew

Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970 · via Joni Mitchell

Joni put Big Yellow Taxi on record back in 1970, and Counting Crows picked it up decades later in 2002. Play hers first, then theirs, and listen to how much of the song was hers all along.

Joni Mitchell recorded the Leiber and Stoller rocker "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" in 1982. Which singer had it on record well before her?Elvis Presleyknew

Elvis Presley

(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care · 1957 · via Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell tearing into a Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller rocker is not the Blue you walked in with. Put the Elvis cut on, then hers, and let him take you somewhere new.