Bob cashes out

[Dave W]

Tangled Up in Green: Bob Dylan Sells Entire Song Catalog for Estimated $300 Million

[BTL]

Good for him.

[uwe]

Given the breadth of his work and the many songs that have become standards, I would have expected more. That said,  US-$ 300,000,000 is a relaxing pension.

Will he now have to pay royalties when playing his songs on his "Neverending Tour" or is he exempt? 

[BTL]

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...

[Rob]

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...

[uwe]

Yes, the Hollies song. Somehow, the chap on the left, whoever he was, looked uncomfortable playing it ... 



Waitaminnit, it was a Bee Gees number!



Oder vielleicht sie?

[uwe]

My favorite Dylan number is still this one - strange choice I know, but I can't help it, both the haunting melody and the lyrics gripped me when I first heard it in 1976. And they never let go. That wistful violin alone ...



A Jewish descent folk artist rhyming the n-word with trigger? That would meet a shitstormhurricane today! 

[Dave W]

The first recording -- before Dylan recorded it himself.

I bought the single when I was in high school, the song impressed me. The songwriter was listed as Dylan, I had no idea who he was until a few months later.

Gil Turner was the MC at Gerde's Folk City and was a booster of Dylan. The other members were Happy Traum (of Homespun Tapes), Bob Cohen, who later became a cantor, and on some recordings, Delores Dixon. She sang on their cover of Blowin' In The Wind.

Long forgotten by most today, if they ever even knew of the group.

[ajkula66]

Long forgotten by most today, if they ever even knew of the group.

I, for one, never heard that version.

However, in my much younger years I was given an EP with The Seekers performing the said song, which was my first introduction to it...

[Dave W]

Interesting side story.

Wait, Bob Dylan Owned 'The Weight'? An Explainer