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Current Residence

Should it be mentioned that she currently lives on the Upper West Side of NYC with her husband?

Early Life

Her father was also a singer and was famous in Denver for the "Chuck Collins Calling" radio show. He was also blind from early childhood. see http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07050/763186-129.stm and Judy Collin's first autobiography. 67.170.228.62 06:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC) Les[reply]

Song for Martin

Anybody know who the subject is in this song? It seems to be a folk singer who didn't manage to break the scene in the same way that she did Martyn Smith 16:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Martin of the song is Martin Hoffman, who set the Pete Seeger poem "Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" to music. Some ten years or so later, Hoffman committed suicide.
PacificBoy 21:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just one thing -- "Deportees" is a Woody Guthrie song.

Times of Your Lives (album title)

Links to the wrong thing. I don't know how to fix it other than just to remove the link, so I left the error for someone else to take care of.Songflower (talk) 04:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Death?

I read in this Wikipedia article that Judy Collins died of multiple myeloma in the morning on May 18, 2008 in London. I have been checking Associated Press releases plus have also been using news search engines and have found nothing indicating that she has passed away. Could there possibly be an error here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gsq826 (talk • contribs) 07:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to delete this section. I called Judy's office in New York just now 13:30 19 May 2008 (EDT) and they said it is not true. I also checked Google News and Google Web pages and the ONLY page reporting this is Wikipedia.
Rlhess (talk) 17:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

substance abuse by miss collins

hello,

i'm surprised not to see (seemingly) any mention of substance abuse by subject. she has openly discussed her alcoholism on many occasions on television and in newspaper interviews. a google search of "judy collins alcoholism" will provide links to various articles.

regards. 172.133.112.21 (talk) 09:04, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Life

Should there be more information on her personal life? I seems like it would not hurt to know her husband, and when they were married, any divorce... how many kids, etc. If you go to other artists, you generally find a whole section for personal life. Mateck (talk) 13:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're certainly right -- the omission was glaring when compared to other artists (e.g. Robert Allen Zimmerman). It's also glaring that nothing was done in the 4 months since you raised the issue, particularly given how easy it was to fix. The dates of her marriages were given by IMDB, and her second marriage was prominently covered by the NYT. It took 15 minutes to add a discussion of the two marriages, mention Clark Taylor as her only son, and move the bulimia discussion from career to personal life. This is a start -- more should be done here, like her son's birthdate and career/life trajectory, the date of his suicide, etc.
JoelWest (talk) 18:13, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Namesake

Collins was interviewed today (may have been pre-recorded) on "Acoustic Cafe," and sang "Over the Rainbow," stating that the song had special signifigance to her, because she was born around the 1st run of "Oz," and her mother named her after Judy Garland. I wouldn't have a clue how to source this encyclopedically, but it's significant to Judy, so it certainly seems notable to me. Hope someone can work it in. Ragityman (talk) 21:08, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if this counts as verification, but I was fortunate to be able to attend a concert Ms. Collins gave last night at the Musical Instrument Museum Theater in Phoenix where, in her introduction to "Over the Rainbow" (which she sang as her encore), she stated that her mother had named her after Judy Garland. Tonio (talk) 15:58, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page numbers

In at least 2 places in the article, there are page numbers given in parens. This not only seems unencyclopedic, it seems to indicate copy-paste, which would be copyright-vio, or at least plagiarism. No? Ragityman (talk) 21:39, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1971 version

There was a version of "Amazing grace" by Judy with the choirs of the British Army and Navy in Cologne Cathedral in about 1971. It was on youtube.com, but seems to have been taken off now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 16:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See www.metacafe.com/watch/1465794/amazing_grace_judy_collins_and_the_choir/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 15:29, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lead Paragraph

I don't often edit, and I don't think this is "verifiable", but I hope this is a proper place for this comment. At the concert Ms. Collins presented last night at the Musical Instrument Museum Theater in Phoenix, at one point during her between-number monologues she denied ever having attended the University of Colorado even though conventional wisdom holds she did. She lived and performed in Boulder, but as she said, "I took a typing class!" Tonio (talk) 16:08, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • As one who does frequently edit, I agree with above! There is no substantive evidence Judy Collins graduated the Un. Colorado. For those who go to her current tour, part of her oral history is that she did NOT attend there, never took any classes there and the whole thing is a giant urban legend. I propose taking this out of the history unless we can definitively prove with verifiable evidence that she did graduate from there.Mwinog2777 (talk) 19:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Husband Louis Nelson a "fellow activist" ...?

No mention of that in the ref - or anywhere else that I can find. Boscaswell talk 16:27, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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