Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 in Seattle, Washington) is an American folk and standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, showtunes, pop, and rock and roll); and for her social activism. is the 121st day of the year (122nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... This article deals with the U.S. state. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... The term pop standards refers to an American songwriting, arranging, and singing style that is widely considered as the high point of Western vocal popular music. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... This article is about the singing voice part. ... Showtunes are songs written for musical theater productions, such as: The Phantom of the Opera Jesus Christ Superstar Oklahoma! Guys and Dolls Cabaret See also Musical theater Categories: Stub ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Social activists are people who act as the conscience and voice of many individuals within a society. ...

Biography

Judy Collins - 2003 (with an interpreter for the deaf onstage)

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However, it was the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and the traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s, that piqued Collins' interest and awoke in her a love of lyrics. Three years after her debut as a piano prodigy, she was playing guitar. She eventually made her way to Greenwich Village, New York City, where she busked and played in clubs until she signed with Elektra Records, a record label with which she was associated for 35 years. In 1961, Collins released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, at the age of 22. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912–October 3, 1967) was a prolific American songwriter and folk musician. ... Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. ... Traditional Music is a quasi-synonym for folk music. ... A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Lyrics are the words in songs. ... A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ... Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, and today operates under Atlantic Records Group. ...

At first, she sang traditional folk songs, or songs written by others, in particular the social poets of the time, such as Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. She recorded her own versions of seminal songs of the period, such as Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn". Collins was also instrumental in bringing little known musicians to a wider public (in much the same way Joan Baez brought Bob Dylan into the public eye). For example, Collins recorded songs by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, who would become a close friend over the years. She would also go on to record songs by singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, and Richard Farina, long before they gained the national acclaim they would later achieve. This article is about the art form. ... Thomas R. Paxton was born October 31, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest child of Burton and Esther Paxton. ... Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940–April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer), songwriter, musician and recording artist who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Mr. ... Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. ... Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Richard Farina was an influential and important figure in both the Counter culture scene of the early to mid sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same time. ...

While Collins' first few albums comprised straightforward guitar-based folk songs, with 1966's In My Life, she began branching out and including work from such diverse sources as The Beatles, Cohen, Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill. Mark Abramson produced and Joshua Rifkin arranged the album, adding lush orchestration to many of the numbers. The album was regarded as a major departure for a folk artist, and set the course for Collins' subsequent work over the next decade. // January 3 - Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out. January 8 - Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who January 14 - Young singer David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to avoid... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French IPA: ) (April 8, 1929 – October 9, 1978) was a Belgian French-speaking singer-songwriter. ... Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a German and in his later years, a German-American composer active from the 1920s until his death. ... Mark Abramson is a noteworthy record producer at Elektra Records. ... Joshua Rifkin (born April 22, 1944 in New York) is an American conductor and musicologist. ... Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble) or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium. ...

With her 1967 album Wildflowers, also produced by Mark Abramson and arranged by Rifkin, Collins began to record her own compositions, the first of which was entitled "Since You've Asked". The album also provided Collins with a major hit, and a Grammy award, in Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The year 1967 was an important year for psychedelic music, with releases from Small Faces Itchycoo Park,The Doors (The Doors, Strange Days), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters), the Beatles Sgt. ... Wildflowers was a 1967 album by Judy Collins that included her hit version of Joni Mitchells Both Sides Now. The album also included compositions by Leonard Cohen. ... Mark Abramson is a noteworthy record producer at Elektra Records. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Both Sides Now is a song by Joni Mitchell. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ...

Collins' 1968 album, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, was produced by David Anderle and featured back-up guitar by Steven Stills (of Crosby, Stills & Nash), with whom she was romantically involved at the time. (She was the inspiration for two notable songs by Stills: the Buffalo Springfield's haunting "Bluebird", and the CSN classic, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"). Time Goes had a mellow country sound, and included Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" and the title track, a Sandy Denny song which has since been covered by several artists. The album also featured Collins' composition, "My Father," and one of the first covers of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire." // January 4 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding. ... Who Knows Where the Time Goes is a song written by the English folk-rock singer and songwriter Sandy Denny. ... Back cover Featuring a letter from Suzy Creamcheese Freak Out!, released June 27, 1966 on Verve/MGM Records, is the debut album of The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa. ... Stephen Stills album cover Stephen Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with the Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (at first it was Crosby, Stills and Nash; Young joined the group after their first album). ... Crosby, Stills & Nash, also Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when including occasional fourth member Neil Young, are a folk rock/rock supergroup. ... Buffalo Springfield was a magnifcent short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina and is most famous for the song For What Its Worth. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Famous Alberta cowboy music singer. ... Someday Soon may refer to: Someday Soon, a song by Ian Tyson The song was later covered by Judy Collins and by country singer Suzy Bogguss. ... A title track is the name for a song which shares its name with the album its from. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

By the 1970s, Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger, and had begun to stand out for her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional Christian hymn "Amazing Grace", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), a recording of Joan Baez' "A Song For David," and her own compositions, such as "Born to the Breed". The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one singer and often with piano accompaniment. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure. ... For other uses, see Amazing Grace (disambiguation). ... Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. ... Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad The Twa Corbies A ballad is a story, usually a narrative or poem, in a song. ... Send in the Clowns is a song by Stephen Sondheim, from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. ... Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ...

'Hard Times for Lovers' - Album cover

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Collins later admitted suffering from the eating disorder bulimia after she quit smoking in the 1970s. "I went straight from the cigarettes into an eating disorder," she told People Magazine in 1992. "I started throwing up. I didn't know anything about bulimia, certainly not that it is an addiction or that it would get worse. My feelings about myself, even though I had been able to give up smoking and lose 20 lbs., were of increasing despair." Bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as bulimia, is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or more of the following in order to compensate for the intake of the food and prevent weight gain: vomiting inappropriate use of laxatives, enemas... People, a weekly magazine of celebrity and popular culture news, debuted on February 27, 1974. ...

In more recent years Collins has taken to writing, producing a memoir, "Trust Your Heart" in 1987, as well as a novel, "Shameless". A more recent memoir, "Sanity and Grace" tells the story of her son, Clark, and his death from suicide in January 1992. Though her record sales are not what they once were, she still records and tours in the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She performed at US President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993, singing "Amazing Grace" and "Chelsea Morning". (The Clintons have stated that their daughter Chelsea was named after Collins' recording of the song.) Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  US Government Portal      For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... For other uses, see Amazing Grace (disambiguation). ... Chelsea Morning is a 1969 Joni Mitchell single, which also appears on her album Clouds, from the same year. ...

Activism

Like many other folk singers of her generation, Collins was drawn to social activism. She is a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of landmines. Following the 1992 death of her son, Clark Taylor, at age 33, after a long bout with depression and substance abuse, she has also become a strong advocate of suicide prevention. Her 2003 book, Sanity & Grace, chronicles her recovery from her son's suicide and attempts to provide some comfort and guidance to other families dealing with the loss of a loved one to suicide. She describes the "Seven T's" as a means for going through this process of recovery: Truth, Therapy, Trust, Try, Treat, Treasure, and Thrive. The Truth is that there should be no guilt in suicide; Therapy helps people express their emotions and seek grief counseling; Trust is the effort to believe that one can make it through the loss and keep a belief in life and in the future; Try means to stay away from drugs and alcohol or any excess--including overeating--as a means to deal with the loss and pain; Treat means to take care of the mind, body, and spirit with exercise and meditation; Treasure means to keep the memory of the moments to be treasured, and for this Collins recommends writing and keeping a journal; and Thrive means to be positive, hopeful, open to love and others, and continuing to know that you can rebuild your life on a basis of hope. UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ... “Minefield” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...

Awards and recognition

• Grammy Award, Best Folk Performance or Folk Recording, "Both Sides Now", 1968
• Stephen Sondheim won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, "Send in the Clowns", in 1975, it was believed, largely on the strength of Collins' performance of the song on her album 'Judith'
• Nominated with Jill Godmillow for an Academy Award for the documentary "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman" (1975), about her classical piano instructor, conductor Antonia Brico.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

• Maid of Constant Sorrow (1961)
• The Golden Apples of the Sun (1962)
• Judy Collins #3 (1964)
• The Judy Collins Concert (1964)
• Judy Collins' Fifth Album (1965)
• In My Life (1966)
• Wildflowers (1967)
• Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
• Whales and Nightingales (1970)
• Living (1971) (Live)
• True Stories and Other Dreams (1973)
• Judith (1975)
• Bread and Roses (1976)
• Hard Times for Lovers (1979)
• Running for My Life (1980)
• Times of Our Lives (1982)
• Home Again (1984)
• Trust Your Heart (1987)
• The Stars Of Christmas (Selected Especially For Avon) (1988)
• Sanity and Grace (1989)
• Fires of Eden (1990)
• Baby's Bedtime (1990)
• Baby's Morningtime (1990)
• Judy Sings Dylan... Just Like a Woman (1993)
• Come Rejoice! A Judy Collins Christmas (1994)
• Shameless (1994)
• Voices (1995)
• Live At Newport (1959-1966) (1996)
• Christmas at the Biltmore Estate (1997)
• All on a Wintry Night (2000)
• Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap (2000)
• Judy Collins sings Leonard Cohen (2004)
• Portrait of an American Girl (2006)
• Judy Collins Sings Lennon and McCartney (2007)

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Compilations

• Recollections (1969)
• Both Sides Now (1971)
• Colors of the Day (1972) (Greatest Hits)
• So Early in the Spring (1977) (15th anniversary collection)
• Forever: An Anthology (1997)
• Both Sides Now (1998)
• Classic Broadway (1999)
• Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (2004)
• The Essential Judy Collins (2004)

Colors of the Day is a 1972 compilation album by the American folk singer Judy Collins. ...

Videography

• Baby's Bedtime (1992)
• Baby's Morningtime (1992)
• Junior playing the operator of a home for unwed mothers opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Christmas at the Biltmore Estate (1998)
• A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998), telefilm based on a Rod Serling science-fiction story
• The Best of Judy Collins (1999)
• Intimate Portrait: Judy Collins (2000)
• Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap (2003)
• Wildflower Festival (2003) (DVD with guest artists Eric Andersen, Arlo Guthrie, and Tom Rush)

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Bibliography

• Trust Your Heart (1987)
• Amazing Grace (1991)
• Shameless (1995)
• Singing Lessons (1998)
• Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival and Strength (2003)

Contemporaries

• Joan Baez
• Leonard Cohen
• Bob Dylan
• Phil Ochs
• Joni Mitchell

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External links

• Judy Collins web site
• Swingin' Chicks
• Intimate and deeply personal audio interview with Judy Collins
• Judy Collins at the Internet Movie Database