The Dangling Conversation March 1967
Home recorded

https://youtu.be/jwpiPK7ra-0

I LOVE LOVE LOVE his guitar strum after "Yes, we speak of things that matter"

This is the second in a YouTube series of Simon & Garfunkel/Paul Simon songs.
If I can find the cassette with him singing Koachrome in a Sioux Falls dressing room in 1975, I'll upload it, too.

Feelin' Groovy March 1967
Home recorded

https://youtu.be/6V7F8KZjdB4

The tracks were out of line so I adjusted them the best I could. I also lowered the volume on the second (harmony) track just a tiny bit. You can listen/download both versions at https://www.mjblue.com/songs/

This is the first in a YouTube series of Simon & Garfunkel/Paul Simon songs.
If I can find the cassette with him singing Koachrome in a Sioux Falls dressing room in 1975, I'll upload it, too.

I hadn't intended to post these for public view but I figured out how to do it and thought some of you might find them interesting.

These are song and event exports from my MJ database. Note: I have a lot of work to do yet on it. Let me know if any of you find this interesting and I'll put up updates as I make changes. Also let me know if you have any questions. For the events, I have over 150 with unknown dates. Those are at the end. Anything with a date of 1/1/YYYY means I know (or guessed) the year but don't know the exact date. Thanks.

Songs:

https://mjblue.com/fmpsongsexport.htm

Events:

https://mjblue.com/fmpeventexport.htm

I guess I missed the whole Michael Johnson Trio thing. This video popped up in my YouTube suggestions. It’s apparently a TV program from Austin Texas. It looks like the video is in the bass player’s own YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/VHEnBKrM9jk

Paul Ashley has supplied us with chords to I Will Whisper Your Name.

As allows: https://mjblue.com/mjlyrics.html

Thanks, Paul!

https://youtu.be/o_nl0YvyoT4

Bunky’s, Madison WI concert 
3/14/1985
Contributed by Gil
I don't know why Life's a Bitch is on here twice.

Songs:
It's My Job
My Old Yellow Car
White House Pet
No One Can Hurt You Like a Friend
Troubled For You
Life's a Bitch
I've Been Around
See You Soon
Mr. Arthur's Place
The Wonderful World of Sex
Sailing Without a Sail
May You Never
Drops of Water
Old Fashioned Love
Empty Hearts
Gimmie That Wine
Oranges and Roses
Oh Rosalee
Catch Another Butterfly
There is a Breeze
The Last One Singing the Blues
Got You Covered
Secret of Life
Circle of Fifths
Dialogue
Don't Look for Love
Walk Me Round Your Garden
Twenty-Five Words or Less
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Life's a Bitch

I was recently given these two lovely photos from the estate of Joy Malmgren, a long time MJ friend. She was associated with the Extempore Coffeehouse in Minneapolis in the 1970's. Her note is the photographer was Rob Larson. The thinking was these were taken at the Extemp but a comment "As I look closer at the picture I believe the mics do not look like ones from the Extemp at that time".

I'm dating these to around 1972 because I have many other photos where he's wearing that plaid shirt though I haven't been able to completely identify any of them with the exact date. They could be 1973 or 1974 instead. The photos are on the Concert Photos 1970-1999 page.

Michael Johnson - In Concert
Charlotte's Web,  Rockford IL 9/14/1972

Thanks to Gil for recording it and sharing it with me.

https://youtu.be/_N2r5BRqi20

Song list:
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
My Opening Farewell (Jackson Browne)
Ugly Woman (Jerry Reed)
The Number and the Name (Steve Gillette)
Garbage Can (Ted Anderson)
See You Soon (Paul Johnson)
Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon (Greg Brown)
Study in E Minor (H. Villa Lobos)
Gimmie That Wine (Jon Hendricks)
In the Name of Love (Estelle Levitt, Kenny Rankin)
In Your Eyes (Crow Johnson)
Got You Covered (Biff Rose & Michael Johnson
For Free (Joni Mitchell)
Waitin Around to Die (Townes Van Zandt)
Little Paper Ball (Jon Hendricks)
Take Five (Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck)
Song of Old Lovers (Jacques Brel)
Bouree in E Minor (J.S Bach)
Gravy Waltz (Ray Brown, Steve Allen)
Wilson Girl (Michael Johnson, Ted Sherman, Mark Henley)

MJ's first single in 1965. Photo of the single and of the royalty check is in the video. Thanks to Chris for remastering it!

https://youtu.be/kyhKd6FOWZQ

In college, he entered a nationwide talent contest sponsored by Columbia Records and WGN radio in Chicago. One of the judges was Judy Collins, who has since become a great influence and good friend. 

He moved through local, regional and national competition and won the whole thing. The prizes were a week's booking in the It's Here coffeehouse in Chicago and a record on Columbia subsidiary Epic Records. 

"I was in my sophomore year and walked out of college during finals, never to return," he said. "Then I learned that it was a privilege to play at the It's Here so they didn't pay me. And the record, called 'Hills' after my one and only original composition till then, sold 23 copies. I got a royalty check for 11 cents, which I still have. Columbia wrote me weekly for three years asking me to cash it so they could bring their records up to date, but I'll cash it when I need it." 

The painful-to-remember lyrics of that first song went along the lines of "Rolling hills with purple hue/silver clouds caressed with blue." He's at pains to point out that his writing style, like his fingering technique, has matured.

Michael Johnson - Little Bird, November 1969
Songwriter: Jerry Jeff Walker
Song 6 of 6 (recorded at family's house with kitchen sounds)

https://youtu.be/uv56CwsaahY

This was the second song Jerry Jeff Walker wrote. Michael's version was learned off JJW's first recording of it, on his Mr. Bojangles album.