Dylanisms | Podcast Mixes Showcasing Bob Dylan Songs | ‘Dylanisms’ is my 10-song mix podcast project, building an extensive archive of (mostly) 1960s recordings of Bob Dylan songs as recorded by various solo performers and groups many years ago.

I will zoom in on the well known and the very obscure outfits who covered Dylan’s numbers, in particular those unknown teenage garage bands from USA. There are many but this list on Wikipedia doesn’t even acknowledge them.

My ‘Dylanisms’ project will be regular and will uncover everything worth hearing. It will last for a one-year paid subscription with my hosting platform RSS.com. By then, my mission will have been accomplished and the Gods shall anoint my feet with patchouli oil . . .

Episode 03

Tracks in order of appearance

01 The Everpresent Fullness – “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
this track survives as an acetate, recorded in 1965 and is only available on the CD ‘Fine and Dandy, The Complete Recordings’

02 Sound 70 – “One Too Many Mornings”
taken from the CD ‘Pebbles Volume 11’ | Another band from San Carlos, a Peninsula suburb about midway between S.F. and San Jose. This was the second of two singles they recorded for the local Mijji label.

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03 Judy Collins – “Daddy You’ve Been On My Mind”
taken from the LP ‘Fifth Album’ (Elektra) 1964

04 The Masterminds – “She Belongs To Me”
Not a lot is known about this bunch. They came from Liverpool and were led by singer / guitarist Joey Molland, who went on to join Badfinger in late ’68.

Their lone Immediate single was released in September ’65, “She Belongs To Me” / “Taken My Love”. The A-side was an excellent version of the Dylan number, the only Dylan song covered by a Liverpool group.

Curiously they altered some of the lyrics (presumably an accident) notably the line ‘she takes the dark out of the nightime and paints they daytime black’. This seems pretty straight-forward, at least by Dylan’s standards. The Masterminds, however, sing ‘ . . . . . . paints the big time black’.

05 The Byrds – “Spanish Harlem Incident”
taken from the LP ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ (Columbia) 1965
Although the Byrds had begun their career under the spell of the Beatles, they soon realised the importance of Bob Dylan, who had attended their initial recording sessions at World Pacific and even appeared with them on stage.

McGuinn: “After Jim Dickson picked ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ we got into Dylan. It was a mutual decision. I’d come up with the guitar part and Chris would come up with the bass part. Dylan was aware of what we were doing and liked the idea.”

Dylanisms | Podcast Mixes Celebrating Bob Dylan Songs

06 The Turtles – “It Ain’t Me Babe”
taken from the LP ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ (White Whale) 1965
A change of musical style to Electric Folk Rock as The Crosswind Singers brings the band to the attention of Los Angeles label White Whale records who offer the group a contract but suggest a name change.

They become the Turtles (after the Byrds) and in September 1965 release their debut single, a cover of the Bob Dylan song “It Ain’t Me Babe” (WW 222).

07 The Soup Greens – “Like A Rolling Stone”
taken from the 1965 single on Golden Rule.

08 The Hollies – “All I Really Want To Do”
taken from the LP ‘Hollies Sing Dylan’ (Parlophone) 1969

09 Them – “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
taken from the LP ‘Them Again’ (Decca) 1966

10 Gene Clark – “Tears Of Rage”
taken from the LP ‘White Light’ (A&M) 1971
This is a very obscure Dylan cut recorded by Gene Clark in 1971 on his ‘White Light’ LP. “Tears Of Rage” was written in 1967 but never released until ‘The Basement Tapes’ in 1975.

The Band recorded and released their version in 1968 on the LP ‘Music From Big Pink’