Joni Mitchell
Help Me/Artists

Who wrote Help Me Joni Mitchell?

Help Me/Composers

Who played drums on Help Me by Joni Mitchell?

Russ Kunkel
Los Angeles session drummer Russ Kunkel has played on hundreds of recordings over the years, but he is best known for driving the rhythm on a series of 1970s folk-rock and FM radio classics by artists including James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills and Nash …

When did Joni Mitchell release help me?

1974
Help Me/Released

What album is help me on?

Court and Spark
Help Me/Album

“Help Me” is a love song written, produced, and performed by Joni Mitchell and released on her 1974 album Court and Spark. The song was recorded with jazz band Tom Scott’s L.A. Express as the backing band.

Why did Joni Mitchell give up her daughter?

In 1965, she gave birth to a daughter. At the time, unmarried mothers were uncommon, and when the father of Mitchell’s baby refused to marry her, she worried for her daughter’s future. With no means of supporting a baby on her own, Mitchell made the difficult decision to give her daughter up for adoption.

What does the cover of help spell?

flag semaphore
The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, “I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters ‘HELP’. But when we came to do the shot, the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn’t look good.

Why was help written?

The documentary series The Beatles Anthology revealed that Lennon wrote the lyrics of the song to express his stress after the Beatles’ quick rise to success. “I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for ‘Help'”, Lennon told Playboy.