Episode 19
Dylanisms | Podcast Mixes Celebrating Bob Dylan Cover Versions |‘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 . . .
Honourable cover versions:
Tracks in order of appearance:
01 Christopher & the Chaps – “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding”
Fontana single, November 1965
02 L.A. Teens – “All I Really Want To Do”
Decca single, July 1965
03 Mad Hatters – “Blowin’ In The Wind”
Ascot single, November 1965
04 Bees – “She’s An Artist (She Belongs To Me)”
Mirwood Records single, November, 1965
05 Devons – “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
Decca single, July 1965
06 Eddie Hodges – “Love Minus Zero”
Aurora Records single, October, 1965
07 Human Beinz – “The Times They Are A Changing“
taken from the LP on Gateway, 1968
08 Daily Flash – “Queen Jane, Approximately”
taken from the LP compilation ‘I Flash Daily’ (Psycho Records)
09 Daily Flash – “Queen Jane, Approximately”
live recording at the Whiskey a Go Go, November 1966
10 Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills – “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”
originally released on the album ‘Super Session’, Columbia, 1968.
In May 1968 Al Kooper booked a couple of days of studio time in LA and invited some pals along to play. Both Kooper and Mike Bloomfield had backed Dylan on the sessions for ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, as had bassist Harvey Brooks, with all three backing Bob live when he famously went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
At the time of the sessions Stephen Stills was extricating himself from Buffalo Springfield and so was at a loose end and joined in the fun. The result was the album ‘Super Session’ which was released on Columbia in 1968 and featured the song included here.
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