on the Billboard album chart and staying there for four weeks. The album topped the US Cashbox and Record World charts for one week each. In a July 1979 interview with Cameron Crowe for Rolling Stone, Mitchell recounted playing the newly completed Court and Spark to Bob Dylan, during which he fell asleep. She later suggested that Dylan was probably trying to be "cute" in front of label boss David Geffen, who was also present. Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks recalled taking LSD to the album: "I was with my producer, at his house, with a set of speakers that were taller than that fireplace, and I was in a safe place. And I sat there on the floor and listened to that record… That was a pretty dynamic experience." In 2000 it was voted number 116 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. Honors RIAA certifications: gold February 27, 1974; platinum and double platinum December 12, 1997. In 1974, Court and Spark was voted the 'Best Album of the Year' in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. It was voted number 116 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000). In 2003, the album was ranked number 111 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 114 in a 2012 revised list, and 110 in a 2020 revised list. In 2006, Court and Spark was included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Grammy Awards |- | style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|1975 ||Court and Spark || Album of the Year || |- | rowspan="2"|"Help Me" || Record of the Year|| |- | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|| |- | "Down to You" (arranger: Joni Mitchell and Tom Scott) || Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)|| |- Track listing All tracks are written by Joni Mitchell, except where noted. Side one "Court and Spark" – 2:46 "Help Me" – 3:22 "Free Man in Paris" – 3:02 "People's Parties" – 2:15 "The Same Situation" – 2:57 Side two "Car on a Hill" – 3:02 "Down to You" – 5:38 "Just Like This Train" – 4:24 "Raised on Robbery" – 3:06 "Trouble Child" – 4:00 "Twisted" (Annie Ross, Wardell Gray) – 2:21 Personnel Joni Mitchell – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano; clavinet Tom Scott – woodwinds, reeds Joe Sample – electric piano; clavinet Larry Carlton – electric guitar Max Bennett – bass guitar John