Big Yellow Taxi - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

Many other artists have covered the song.

• A single version by the singing group The Neighborhood reached the Billboard Top 40 chart (#29) in the summer of 1970.
• Joe Dassin "Le Grand Parking" (French Cover) in 1970 from the album La Fleur aux Dents.
• Bob Dylan's cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" was recorded in 1970 and released in 1973.
• Pinhead Gunpowder cover the song on their 1994 album Jump Salty.
• In 1995, Amy Grant released a cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" to pop and Adult Contemporary radio in the United States and United Kingdom. The song was the fourth pop radio single from her House of Love album (the third in the U.S.). Grant's version featured slightly altered lyrics, which she changed at Joni Mitchell's request. The single peaked at #67 on The Billboard Hot 100, #18 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and at #20 in the U.K. Grant also released a music video for the single, which was aired in the U.S. and U.K. and released to home video on Grant's Greatest Videos 1986-2004 DVD.
• In 1996 a "Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)" peaked on the U.S. dance charts at #39 and was part of the Friends: Music from the TV Series soundtrack album (see Joni Mitchell#Singles and External links).
• The song is sampled in Janet Jackson and Q-Tip's single "Got 'Til It's Gone", from Jackson's 1997 album The Velvet Rope.
• CKBE-FM David Tyler.
• Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton (on back-up vocals) cover of the song is featured on the soundtrack to the movie Two Weeks Notice and is the most successful version to date (U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40). Originally the song was a hidden track on the band's 2002 album Hard Candy and did not include Vanessa Carlton until it was to be featured in the movie. New releases of the album included it as a track with her added, as with her in the video, although Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton did not appear in the video together or record together. This song became the band's only Top 20 single in the UK, peaking at #13. This version slightly changed Mitchell's original lyrics to describe when the eponymous taxi took "my girl" away, instead of Mitchell's "my old man".
• This song is sampled by Labrinth in the song "Sundown" from his debut 2012 album Electronic Earth.