Court and Spark Court and Spark Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. Released in January 1974, it infuses her folk rock style, which she developed throughout her previous five albums, with jazz inflections. It reached No. 2 in the United States and No. 1 in Canada and eventually received a Double Platinum certification by the RIAA, the highest of Mitchell's career. It also reached the Top 20 in the UK and was voted the best album of the year for 1974 in The
Blue Gardenia (song) albums by Lee Morgan ("Standards"/ 1998 release of 1967 recording), Dexter Gordon ("Landslide"/ 1982), Ran Blake ("Film Noir"/ 1980). and Charles Davis ("Blue Gardenia"/ 2003). Blue Gardenia (song) Blue Gardenia is the title of a torch song composed by Lester Lee and Bob Russell for the 1953 movie "The Blue Gardenia" in which a recording of the song serves as a crucial plot point. The song was recorded for "The Blue Gardenia" by Nat King Cole who also performs the song in the film as a lounge singer. Cole recorded "Blue Gardenia" in a 20 January 1953 session at the