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Ladies of the Canyon by Joni Mitchell
Ladies of the Canyon is an album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1970. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 32 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Big Yellow Taxi”, on 16 lists with a best position of #96.
Ladies of the Canyon, Joni Mitchell's third album, came out on Reprise in 1970, and it's named for her own backyard: Laurel Canyon, the Los Angeles hideaway at the center of the '60s pop scene, where she lived while she wrote these songs. Her house on Lookout Mountain Avenue was the very one Graham Nash sang about in "Our House", which tells you how close to the action she was.
She produced it herself, and it's all her: piano and guitar, a mezzo-soprano that swoops and dives, and songs that slip between folk and pop with sly wit and open-hearted melancholy. "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" became two of the songs that defined her and her generation, and "The Circle Game", which other singers had recorded before she did, finally got her own reading. It climbed to 27 on the Billboard 200 and eventually went platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Ladies of the Canyon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Yellow Taxi | 16 | #96 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 2 | The Circle Game | 7 | #272 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 3 | Woodstock | 6 | #226 | – | 2004–2026 | |
| 4 | For Free | 1 | #1249 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Rainy Night House | 1 | #876 | – | 1991 | |
| 6 | Conversation | 1 | #1825 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.