who wrote i've looked at life from both sides now
Joni Mitchell
title: Both Sides, Now text: Both Sides, Now "Both Sides, Now" is one of the best-known songs of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. First recorded by Judy Collins, it appeared on the U.S. singles chart during the fall of 1968. The next year it was included on Mitchell's album "Clouds" (which was named after a lyric from the song). It has since been recorded by dozens of artists, including Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson and Herbie Hancock. Mitchell herself re-recorded the song, with an orchestral arrangement, on her 2000 album "Both Sides Now". This version was featured in the film Love Actually (2003). In 2004, "Rolling Stone" title: Both Sides, Now text: ranked "Both Sides, Now" at #171 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Mitchell wrote "Both Sides, Now" in March 1967, inspired by a passage in "Henderson the Rain King", a 1959 novel by Saul Bellow. "Both Sides, Now" appears in the album "Joni Mitchell: Live at the Second Fret 1966" (2014, All Access Records, AACD0120), a live performance on November 17, 1966, from The Second Fret in Philadelphia, PA, which was broadcast live by WRTI, Temple University's radio station. This suggests that Mitchell wrote the song before March 1967. "Both Sides, Now" is written in title: Real Life (Magazine album) text: earliest songs, "Shot by Both Sides" and "The Light Pours Out of Me", were co-written with Devoto's former Buzzcocks bandmate Pete Shelley. The majority of the material on the album was written by Devoto in collaboration with guitarist and founding member John McGeoch. "Motorcade" was co-written with the group's keyboardist, Bob Dickinson, who played with the group in mid-1977 before being dismissed. The music for the album's final track, "Parade", was written by Dickinson's replacement, Dave Formula, with bassist Barry Adamson. "Definitive Gaze" was recorded for a Peel Session as "Real Life" on 14 February 1978. Having toured much of title: River: The Joni Letters text: the second jazz album to win Album of the Year in the award's history. The first was "Getz/Gilberto" by Stan Getz and João Gilberto in 1965. The track "Both Sides Now" was also nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental. All songs were written by Joni Mitchell, except where noted. Bonus tracks The Amazon.com exclusive version of the album includes two bonus tracks: The iTunes Store digital version includes two bonus tracks: All four bonus tracks were released on the 10th anniversary reissue of the album in 2017. River: The Joni Letters River: The Joni Letters is a 2007 album by jazz title: Pictures from Life's Other Side text: Pictures from Life's Other Side Pictures from Life's Other Side" is a traditional song popularized by Hank Williams under the pseudonym "Luke the Drifter." It was released on MGM Records in 1951. The exact origins of "Pictures from Life's Other Side" are disputed. Some researchers date the song back to around 1880 and cite a singing-school teacher from Athens, Georgia named John B. Vaughan as its composer, while others credit Charles E. Baer. Regardless, the song was well known; early country singers Vernon Dalhart and Bradley Kincaid had already recorded it and Woody Guthrie cut a version of it in