Court and Spark boss David Geffen, who was also present. | style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|1975 ||"Court and Spark" || Album of the Year || 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
Court and Spark the "Billboard" album charts and staying there for four weeks. The album became the pinnacle of Mitchell's commercial success. The album was kept from the top spot by three No. 1 albums—in order Bob Dylan's "Planet Waves", Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" and John Denver's "Greatest Hits". In a July 1979 interview with Cameron Crowe for "Rolling Stone", Mitchell recounted an anecdote of when she had played a copy of the then-just completed "Court & Spark" to Bob Dylan, during which Dylan fell asleep. Mitchell later suggested that Dylan was probably trying to be "cute" in front of label