Funny how Dylan was the less pretentious (of the ones I've have seen) and actually tried to find things he liked in each songs. He really shows that he listened lots a differents types of music.
I have a cousin like that: name any band you've heard of, and he can think of something nice to say about them. I hear what I don't like in music, but he hears what he likes. I imagine Bob Dylan maybe listened in that way and remembered the little bits he liked of each song... except for the harmonica parts.
@@davidlamb7524 I love theme, Time radio thinking the same thing plus his description here and in radio could be a song in themselves he kind of breathes poetry. He’s got great songs here compared to the others in this series
@@casparwijn I doubt that. He was often acidic with the press and there are all sorts of anecdotes where he was not the nicest of people, but I think music is the space where he has always been a believer. It is one of the things that matters most to him.
Dylan was totally ego-free when reviewing these records. I like the way he thought Sandie Shaw was Welsh-singer Mia Lewis then Dusty Springfield before finally giving up. I was pleasantly surprised to see Dylan liking the majority of the songs or singers this time 'round. No moss on this rolling stone.
The Sandie Shaw he said might be Millie or Dusty Springfield. Not surprising he appeared never to have heard of Sandy Shore, as she was virtually unheard of in the States, this one giving her her last of just three U.S. Top 100 entries, peaking there at number 97, yet still early in her career. But I was no fan of hers, and he did not seem to think the song was any good. The cherry in the cake here was the Four Tops one, beautifully and elaborately arranged. Not surprising he didn't like The Bachelors one, as they just sounded like a group of drowning rats trying to vocalize. The Wombles could sing a lot better than that.
@@paulgoldstein2569 And MIlllie was not even British, she was Jamaican. Sandie Shaw was a fantastic singer, one of the top British singers along with Dusty and Mary Hopkin.
You're being facetious, right? He's barely disguising his indifference to the farce in which he's been forced to participate. When he's in control of the playlist, he's always honest and forthright, reverent and glowing with the songs he admires, brutally cutting with ones he doesn't.
Wow!! Bob Dylan had four albums in the top sixteen in Britain that week. Impressive. I've always particularly liked Catch the Wind from Donovan. If I were giving myself a funeral, I'd play that song, I think.
Interesting to see that top 30 singles list. That was truly a golden age of popular music. Will today's top 30 be remembered 50 years from now? I doubt it. Nice to hear Bob being so positive about music that was quite different from his own.
As a lifelong Dylan fan, I found this particularly interesting. Given his own impressive chart presence, Bob was both aware and appreciative of his contemporaries, regardless of genre, which likely explains his own diverse catalogue. Excellent as always YP and loved your CTW outro, thank you.
2:44 Yesterday's Papers dutifully accommodates Dylan's trademark surrealism with a graphic of Mia Lewis getting a thermometer poked in her ear underwater.
That Bobby Dylan, such a way with words. I can see why Miss Hester fell for him! Something in that week's top 30 for everyone, what a time to be alive!
I used to write down Radio London’s top 40 chart between 1965/6 on their regular weekly show on a Sunday, looking back what a fantastic period of time it was with pop music, every week new exciting records were coming out, some are still being listened to and admired to this day. The pirate stations were much more geared to a younger audience than the BBC before 1967!
Odd that he called it "The Hudson Tunnel". I'm a New Yorker and nobody calls it that. We have two tunnels that run under the Hudson River from Manhattan to New Jersey, The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels. Bob had been living in NYC for four years by this point. Man, he's weird, but I always loved his wacky sense of humor. I bet he's a lot of fun to hang out with. Oh, and I love Larry Williams. He's overlooked but one of the great rock and roll pioneers. He's up there with Chuck, Gene, Buddy, and the rest. He was a long-time criminal and was killed in a botched drug deal.
I doubt Dylan had a car or drove. So not being from there and only hearing it from others he must have just called it what ever the person taking him through there called it. Never know what they called things back then.
I had no idea Dylan's early Lps sold so well in UK. " Times they Are A Changin' top twenty single! And this is before he became a ' pop star' in 1965- 66 with three Top Ten singles!
I’m a bit surprised Mr Zimmerman didn’t ID Carolyn Hester’s vocals. She was well known in the Greenwich Village folk scene during the folk revival of the early 1960s. I became familiar with her during that time.. As a kid in elementary school, there was an emphasis in teaching us folk music during music appreciation class. I have a distinct memory of her recordings being played. Her first husband was folk singer Richard Farina. They split and he went on to marry Mimi Farina (Joan Baez’s sister). With his association with Baez, you would think he would be familiar with Carolyn Hester. Selective memory, I guess.
He was totally familiar with her. His first recording was playing harmonica on her album, which is how he came to Hammond's attention. And thus a legend was born
@@wanderer299aIt was his first recording, but it was released after his second recording which was playing harmonic on Harry Belafonte's "Midnight Special" album, where he played it on the title track.
Who would’ve thought Bob Dylan is a fan of Tom Jones? There’s a famous story in the 70s he approached Barry Manilow and told him he was a huge fan of his music
Yeah, I have heard the Barry Manilow story as well. Dylan has an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the arts, he’s noted for it. As a kid he could learn songs just by hearing them once, or sometimes twice. He told Martin Scorsese this on the No Direction Home documentary. Dylan taught himself to play guitar, piano, harmonica and the autoharp. He also spent hours and hours every night trying to pick up all the different radio stations around America and even the foreign ones, so he learnt numerous musical styles in his youth. And he’s always read a lot of books so it’s no surprise that he likes a lot of different kinds of music. He even said of NWA when he hooked up with them in the 80’s, “These guys weren’t messing around, they are poets.” His broad ranging tastes surprises a lot of his fans who imagine him to be snooty and have elitists tastes like they often do, ala the folk purists in the 60’s and those who fell out with him in his gospel period in the late 70’s/ early 80’s.
When Elvis died he says he wouldn't speak to anyone for a week, he was grief stricken. For the 78 tour he wore jump suits, and had some members of Elvis band playing.
Dylan is always unpretentious and honest in his opinions regarding music, he clearly consumes a great deal of it and is always on the ball. I find his thoughts to be refreshing and open without, he must he have been in a good mood that day.
Dylan has an (undeserved) reputation for being somehow negative or acerbic, but it's never been a fair or accurate portrayal. He was a very funny guy, and really positive towards other musicians..
I’m a big fan of Dylan’s music but I think that reputation is somewhat accurate. He usually comes across as aloof and full of his own ego and not just in the interviews where they ask him stupid questions.
A lot of people don’t understand how often he is joking. He usually includes one joke song per album. In concert, if he is speaking to the audience it is usually to tell a joke.
Dylan's sarcasm is his trademark. It sounds like he's trying to be polite, but if you read between the lines, he's quite mocking. In the end, he was sincere when he praised Donovan's song. The rivalry between the two was completely artificial; an advertising strategy. Thanks, YP.
4:05 I wonder what Dylan would have thought of Donavan's version; I suspect he would have liked it. This song is actually more Dylan-esque than most Donavan songs, and seems like a good example of why the two artists were often compared. Speaking of Donovan, the closing music sounds like "Catch the Wind", but more like one of the harmony lines in the background, which seems fitting. The new magnified scrolling of the charts is a big improvement; it makes it possible to read the whole list without pausing the video. Thanks for posting!
Yeah that vocals sounds like he is copying Dylan. I thought it was a song Dylan covered thrown in as a joke but it was Donovan. Strange dont know if I heard that before. I really thought Dylan was singing that when I first heard it.
Acidic but a gent nonetheless, dear Bob! Interesting to see the top 30 list at the end. All those titles that have become legends since. What talent, what times! Thanks YPs. Really great channel and a pleasure to end every day with this ❤
I’ve watched this channel for a while now, so as a lifelong Bob Dylan fan I would like to thank you very much for this because I genuinely had no idea that he ever did this review as he was never noted for being one who talked to the press much in his early career.
Dylan had eclectic musical tastes. He was also a huge Sinatra fan. In early days, after arriving in NY, he spent hours listening to Sinatra's "Only the Lonely" album on a friend's record player. Thankfully, Dylan revolted against being boxed in as a "protest singer" by the radical folkies. It would have killed his development.
@@TundieRice If you're reading comprehesion was up to snuff, you'd see I said "early days". I'm talking about 1961, when it wasn't known he appreciated Sinatra. Now every Tom Dick and Tundie knows it. Nice gotcha fail though.
@@michaelm6948 I wasn’t even trying to be mean man, I was honestly just having some fun. Sorry if I came off as rude to you somehow, but I really thought the smiley face would make it obvious I had good intentions.
Bob had a great sense of humour, a funny guy. Pity his selection was mostly shlock and soul. Top singles and albums had some excellent music and artists. Kinks and the Pretty Things in the same chart, can't go wrong
This was very interesting. Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter in the history of modern music, followed by Leonard Cohen. I saw Bob Dylan live in 1990. Cheers! ✌️
I’m a Dylan fan.. but his concert was the worst I’ve ever seen .. he played one song with his acoustic guitar.. the rest was him screeching rock songs with young musicians.. terrible.
@@7colliemac The fact you went to a Dylan show expecting him to come out with an acoustic guitar is hilarious to me, you clearly had not been keeping up with him ever since he did this little thing called going electric😂😂
@@Sir_William_Marshal Yes I have Mr Smart Ass .. I liked his “electric” stuff.. but watching a burnt out folk singer screeching out unknown boring rock songs with a bunch of young guys.. he didn’t even play his electric stuff .. nothing.. I’ll go to to local pub & get a better show.
Wild to see that Joe Turner's "Midnight Cannonball" was reissued as a 45 as it was 10 years old by that point - what a great record, got it on 78 and it SLAMS. Another great video and much respect to Mr Zimmerman.
I liked this review because Bob seemed very positive in much of his critique. It seems he disliked only one song. I saw in the UK charts Subterranean Homesick Blues which is my all-time favorite Dylan song.
"Pretty good if you're catching a ship someplace." Can't say I'd have expected a comment like that from anyone but Dylan. Also, "I think she's from Chicago, she's got that accent. Well, either Chicago, Detroit, or Liverpool."
Ask the Lonely by the 4 Tops. My favorite of all of their songs. Bernadette is a close 2nd. MARIE is a great old standard, done well by the Bachelors. I love their virgin of I Got Rhythm even more.
Dylan had 4 albums in the top 20! Damn! And Bringing It All Back Home was either about to be released or had been released recently. Maybe it was in the charts the next time. He's got the best responses to these songs.
It's obvious Dylan is a big music fan with a wide range of styles appealing to him. Funny how he liked the Donovan song but not the voice, considering early Donovan was trying to copy Dylan. Best of all was Dylan's wonderful sense of humour. Singing under water with a thermometer in her ear. Lol! Still, it was great to see him so up on a lot of what was on offer this week.
From what I understand, Dylan didn’t hear Donovan singing, only a cover version. So it was great that he loved the song, and presumably would have loved Donovan singing it too.
@@Scotlanz He was listening to Donovan singing it during his reactions here. Maybe it was just the way Donovan approached this song that didn't appeal to Dylan? It's possible he may like the voice on other Donovan tracks. At least he found something good to appreciate, regardless
@@Sp33gan No, it wasn't Donovan singing in the record Dylan reacted to, it was a group called The Freewheelers. It notes that in the video and explains that they weren't able to find a copy of the Freewheelers doing the song, so they used Donovan's recording.
@@ptournas I had to watch it all again, which isn't a bad thing, and you're right so I stand corrected. We're hearing the Donovan version for this video rendition, but Bob was reacting to The Freewheelers. Since the record may not be available to hear we may never know what Dylan disliked about the voice. Thank you 😊
@@Sp33gan Well we just might! I got so curious that I just did some hunting around and found the single on Discogs. There was only one listed for sale in near mint condition. I'm in the U.S. and it's in Australia, so I don't know how long it will take to get here, but when it does I'll put it on my RUclips page and leave a comment here in case anyone wants to listen to it. Hopefully it doesn't get blocked. It probably won't since I don't monetize my RUclips account at all, just really use it to share some of my personal covers and original songs with friends.
I'm thinking this is the UK tour that "Don't Look Back" documents? In the film, Dylan is constantly being told Donovan is a force to be reckoned with. You can see Bob is quite competitive about this, and wants to meet Donovan. Donovan comes to a get together at Dylan's hotel and Bob blows away everyone, including Donovan, with "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"......
@@bapples I think he was being funny....When The Byrds played at Ciro's in the early days, McGuinn would always dedicate "Chimes of Freedom " to Donovan for the same reason..."Catch the Wind" did "borrow heavily" from "Chimes of Freedom "
This Review is specially interesting: Revés *how Dylan was influenced by Soul/R&B in His rhythmic aspect, for 1965* . The beat-cadence on his fundamental hit *Like A Rolling Stone" Is in the way of "Whatcha Gonna Do" by Soul singer Doris Troy* or something by Mary Wells or Four Tops.
Wow, I'd never expect to see Bob on one of these. Shame the share of the records was quite uneventful. I swear there could've been tons of great stuff in that time in 1965.
Wow! Bob Dylan reviewing pop records of the day? Is that a real thing? Obviously, these are artists and songs that were popular in the U.K., as most were never heard here in the U.S. But it is cool to see what you Brits were listening to while the Beatles were conquering America. Your "Top of the Charts" list at 5:00 is more indicative of American popular songs of 1965. Thank you for this. Very cool.
Man, popular music was in such infancy at this point. Think about only 7 years ago Chuck berry was out with Johnny B Goode and buddy holly was hot. Can anybody say what was going on in 2016? Probably crap. I can’t even think of anything memorable going back at least to the late 90’s. I know I’m old (in my 40’s) and prob not “hip”, but seriously…..I don’t think 99% of music made in the last 20 years will stand the test of time.
Im in my 40s and im not old lol but there hasnt been good new music in a loooong time, the 7 years was a good way to think about it music was so much better
Of course I idolize him, have large parts of his musical oeuvre permanently memorized and etched deeply on my psyche (and can play and sing them, badly, on my guitar) and his revolutionary effect not only music but on the culture at large. His musical tastes covered the full range and his influence on pop and rock music is immeasurable: beginning in the calendar year of this video, 1965, rock and roll would forever be split between the old teen-dating/conventional wing and the "progressive" wing encompassing broader social and even political concerns, and this is all due to the man born in Duluth, MN as Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941. Ironically, at this time, spring 1965, Dylan was moving, at least partially, away from pure folk and its social and political concerns and toward more personal themes, which earned him opprobrium from the folkie purists and their press outlets (Sing Out magazine, etc.) in the States, who considered him something of traitor. He went electric, at least partially, on the album he had just released, his fifth ("Bringing It All Back Home"), though its best and most searing song ("It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)") was as perspicacious and biting in sociopolitical commentary as any of his previous work (and still just as burningly relevant today, spring 2023, as it was 58 years ago) was just him accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. And this tour of course was well-documented, especially in D. A. Pennebaker's indispensable documentary "Don't Look Back," (released in 1967) with its famous opening sequence of Dylan shuffling through cue cards for his song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (BIABH's album opener) as immediately-recognizable poet Alan Ginsberg and Dylan's road manager Bob Neuwirth loiter in the background. All that said, it is still true and Dylan treated the journalist Horace Freeland Judson (later the author of several books, including the best single history of the discover of DNA, "The Eighth Day of Creation'), then a reporter for Time magazine, in an inexcusably abominable fashion, when all the man was trying to do was politely interview him. THAT, too, is indelibly etched on my psyche. Even those touched by divine genius can act like total SH*TS sometimes.
He has a good sense of humor and wide musical taste which is always a plus. From what I've researched Sandie Shaw had a number of #1 hits in England, including Puppet on a String which she hated. There is a cover which is better by Ken Boothe done in rock steady style in Jamaica. Thanks for this fascinating post, YP.
lol....dylan straight to the point loved how he was asked to review a donovan impersonating dylan track bit surprised that he didnt recognize joe turner
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Funny how Dylan was the less pretentious (of the ones I've have seen) and actually tried to find things he liked in each songs. He really shows that he listened lots a differents types of music.
I have a cousin like that: name any band you've heard of, and he can think of something nice to say about them. I hear what I don't like in music, but he hears what he likes. I imagine Bob Dylan maybe listened in that way and remembered the little bits he liked of each song... except for the harmonica parts.
Have you ever listened to his radio show Theme Time Radio ? Eclectic isn't the half of it. 😃
@@davidlamb7524 I love theme, Time radio thinking the same thing plus his description here and in radio could be a song in themselves he kind of breathes poetry. He’s got great songs here compared to the others in this series
or he was just being polite because it's a rock magazine ;-)
@@casparwijn I doubt that. He was often acidic with the press and there are all sorts of anecdotes where he was not the nicest of people, but I think music is the space where he has always been a believer. It is one of the things that matters most to him.
Bob seemed to have loved many, many genres of music, which is why he wound up become so amazingly eclectic, even all these years later.
The most interesting artists, it seems to me, are the ones who love and are influenced by a wide range of artists, styles and genres.
Dylan was totally ego-free when reviewing these records. I like the way he thought Sandie Shaw was Welsh-singer Mia Lewis then Dusty Springfield before finally giving up. I was pleasantly surprised to see Dylan liking the majority of the songs or singers this time 'round. No moss on this rolling stone.
The Sandie Shaw he said might be Millie or Dusty Springfield. Not surprising he appeared never to have heard of Sandy Shore, as she was virtually unheard of in the States, this one giving her her last of just three U.S. Top 100 entries, peaking there at number 97, yet still early in her career. But I was no fan of hers, and he did not seem to think the song was any good. The cherry in the cake here was the Four Tops one, beautifully and elaborately arranged. Not surprising he didn't like The Bachelors one, as they just sounded like a group of drowning rats trying to vocalize. The Wombles could sing a lot better than that.
@@paulgoldstein2569 And MIlllie was not even British, she was Jamaican. Sandie Shaw was a fantastic singer, one of the top British singers along with Dusty and Mary Hopkin.
So crazy to hear Dylan being so open and positive.
You're being facetious, right? He's barely disguising his indifference to the farce in which he's been forced to participate. When he's in control of the playlist, he's always honest and forthright, reverent and glowing with the songs he admires, brutally cutting with ones he doesn't.
Wow!! Bob Dylan had four albums in the top sixteen in Britain that week. Impressive. I've always particularly liked Catch the Wind from Donovan. If I were giving myself a funeral, I'd play that song, I think.
Nice ending with catch the wind, beautiful song
Dylan... one of the greatest musical artists of all time. Great video!
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Interesting to see that top 30 singles list. That was truly a golden age of popular music. Will today's top 30 be remembered 50 years from now? I doubt it. Nice to hear Bob being so positive about music that was quite different from his own.
All those albums and singles in the charts! This surely must’ve been the peak of Dylan’s fame in Britain.
This or the next year. He came back in '66
As a lifelong Dylan fan, I found this particularly interesting. Given his own impressive chart presence, Bob was both aware and appreciative of his contemporaries, regardless of genre, which likely explains his own diverse catalogue. Excellent as always YP and loved your CTW outro, thank you.
Cheers, Linda!
"I see songs in pictures and I like the picture of that" Love Dylan ❣
Beautiful "Catch The Wind" inspired outro, YP. Aww it's gorgeous 💗
Thanks, Sophie! Glad you liked it, it's a beautiful song.
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Yes, I also caught that “Catch.”😂
That Top LP list - I'd love to have that as an album. I was only 5 but all that music is in my bones. Wonderful.
2:44 Yesterday's Papers dutifully accommodates Dylan's trademark surrealism with a graphic of Mia Lewis getting a thermometer poked in her ear underwater.
Wow, Bob's in a good mood.
That Bobby Dylan, such a way with words. I can see why Miss Hester fell for him! Something in that week's top 30 for everyone, what a time to be alive!
Great video one of my favorites in this wonderful series. Bob’s the best. What a great sense of humor!
I see songs in pictures ... what a statement to understand this genius.
Damn what a singles chart. So many future classics. Also Cliff Richard.
Interesting how many interesting genres were on the radio at the time.
I used to write down Radio London’s top 40 chart between 1965/6 on their regular weekly show on a Sunday, looking back what a fantastic period of time it was with pop music, every week new exciting records were coming out, some are still being listened to and admired to this day. The pirate stations were much more geared to a younger audience than the BBC before 1967!
This was first video which i have seen from you and i can't wait to watch more. Amazing and very interesting channel.
Odd that he called it "The Hudson Tunnel". I'm a New Yorker and nobody calls it that. We have two tunnels that run under the Hudson River from Manhattan to New Jersey, The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels. Bob had been living in NYC for four years by this point.
Man, he's weird, but I always loved his wacky sense of humor. I bet he's a lot of fun to hang out with.
Oh, and I love Larry Williams. He's overlooked but one of the great rock and roll pioneers. He's up there with Chuck, Gene, Buddy, and the rest. He was a long-time criminal and was killed in a botched drug deal.
I love Larry Williams as well. He had the great Johnny Guitar Watson on that record.
@@YesterdaysPapers Guitar Watson really got around. Seems like he played with everybody.
I doubt Dylan had a car or drove. So not being from there and only hearing it from others he must have just called it what ever the person taking him through there called it. Never know what they called things back then.
Like it a lot, especially along with that “Catch the wind” edition in the end. Another good blast, thanks.
Cheers!
I had no idea Dylan's early Lps sold so well in UK. " Times they Are A Changin' top twenty single!
And this is before he became a ' pop star' in 1965- 66 with three Top Ten singles!
I’m a bit surprised Mr Zimmerman didn’t ID Carolyn Hester’s vocals. She was well known in the Greenwich Village folk scene during the folk revival of the early 1960s. I became familiar with her during that time.. As a kid in elementary school, there was an emphasis in teaching us folk music during music appreciation class. I have a distinct memory of her recordings being played. Her first husband was folk singer Richard Farina. They split and he went on to marry Mimi Farina (Joan Baez’s sister). With his association with Baez, you would think he would be familiar with Carolyn Hester. Selective memory, I guess.
She was also a racist so maybe he didn't want to recognize that spiteful woman.
He was totally familiar with her. His first recording was playing harmonica on her album, which is how he came to Hammond's attention. And thus a legend was born
@@wanderer299aIt was his first recording, but it was released after his second recording which was playing harmonic on Harry Belafonte's "Midnight Special" album, where he played it on the title track.
Who would’ve thought Bob Dylan is a fan of Tom Jones? There’s a famous story in the 70s he approached Barry Manilow and told him he was a huge fan of his music
Tom Jones and Elvis were really good friends also, Manilow is awesome 👌
Yeah, I have heard the Barry Manilow story as well. Dylan has an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the arts, he’s noted for it.
As a kid he could learn songs just by hearing them once, or sometimes twice. He told Martin Scorsese this on the No Direction Home documentary.
Dylan taught himself to play guitar, piano, harmonica and the autoharp. He also spent hours and hours every night trying to pick up all the different radio stations around America and even the foreign ones, so he learnt numerous musical styles in his youth.
And he’s always read a lot of books so it’s no surprise that he likes a lot of different kinds of music. He even said of NWA when he hooked up with them in the 80’s, “These guys weren’t messing around, they are poets.” His broad ranging tastes surprises a lot of his fans who imagine him to be snooty and have elitists tastes like they often do, ala the folk purists in the 60’s and those who fell out with him in his gospel period in the late 70’s/ early 80’s.
When Elvis died he says he wouldn't speak to anyone for a week, he was grief stricken. For the 78 tour he wore jump suits, and had some members of Elvis band playing.
Tom Jones is a boss soul singer. Not his best single tho
Bob was a chain puller😂
Dylan is always unpretentious and honest in his opinions regarding music, he clearly consumes a great deal of it and is always on the ball. I find his thoughts to be refreshing and open without, he must he have been in a good mood that day.
Wow Dylan was huge in England. 3 albums in the top 30!
Love your channel. Does not matter if I agree with the reviews or not as it's always interesting. Thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks!
Dylan had 4 LPs on the British top 20 charts that week !
Well thanx for clearing that up about Bob's first recording. I thought it was harmonica on Harry Belefonte song. Nice closing song......
Dylan has an (undeserved) reputation for being somehow negative or acerbic, but it's never been a fair or accurate portrayal. He was a very funny guy, and really positive towards other musicians..
D.A. Pennebaker and Donovan's hangdog look during It's All Over Now, Baby Blue went a long way to build that image.
I’m a big fan of Dylan’s music but I think that reputation is somewhat accurate. He usually comes across as aloof and full of his own ego and not just in the interviews where they ask him stupid questions.
A lot of people don’t understand how often he is joking. He usually includes one joke song per album. In concert, if he is speaking to the audience it is usually to tell a joke.
Dylan's sarcasm is his trademark. It sounds like he's trying to be polite, but if you read between the lines, he's quite mocking. In the end, he was sincere when he praised Donovan's song. The rivalry between the two was completely artificial; an advertising strategy.
Thanks, YP.
Dylan’s trademark is his sarcasm so let’s try and find it when it isn’t there
Didn’t really think there was much sarcasm. Just a trace...” if I bought records.”
That man has impressive ears! (And a very creative mind.)
4:05 I wonder what Dylan would have thought of Donavan's version; I suspect he would have liked it. This song is actually more Dylan-esque than most Donavan songs, and seems like a good example of why the two artists were often compared. Speaking of Donovan, the closing music sounds like "Catch the Wind", but more like one of the harmony lines in the background, which seems fitting. The new magnified scrolling of the charts is a big improvement; it makes it possible to read the whole list without pausing the video. Thanks for posting!
Yeah that vocals sounds like he is copying Dylan. I thought it was a song Dylan covered thrown in as a joke but it was Donovan. Strange dont know if I heard that before. I really thought Dylan was singing that when I first heard it.
I expected him to be universally gracious and he was, especially considering how little he had to work with here.
Love your channel.
Thanks!
Acidic but a gent nonetheless, dear Bob! Interesting to see the top 30 list at the end. All those titles that have become legends since. What talent, what times! Thanks YPs. Really great channel and a pleasure to end every day with this ❤
Cheers.
Great to hear Bob’s take on these songs. I knew he’d like Tom Jones. Who doesn’t?
I’ve watched this channel for a while now, so as a lifelong Bob Dylan fan I would like to thank you very much for this because I genuinely had no idea that he ever did this review as he was never noted for being one who talked to the press much in his early career.
Cheers!
That's thanks to Goldman, a wonderful manager.
In Bob's new book; he proves he has great musical tastes, so this is no surprise.
Bob has had a very interesting life. Be a sad day when he leaves us.
Thanks again for another great presentation xxx
Bob was certainly on the ball.
Man he dominated those album sales
Dylan had eclectic musical tastes. He was also a huge Sinatra fan. In early days, after arriving in NY, he spent hours listening to Sinatra's "Only the Lonely" album on a friend's record player. Thankfully, Dylan revolted against being boxed in as a "protest singer" by the radical folkies. It would have killed his development.
"Only the Lonely", great album!
@@YesterdaysPapers Dylan was floored by Sinatra's performance of "Ebb Tide" from the record. He wore out the LP replaying that track over and over...
Who would’ve thought a man who released an entire trilogy of albums singing Frank Sinatra standards would be a huge Sinatra fan?! :)
@@TundieRice If you're reading comprehesion was up to snuff, you'd see I said "early days". I'm talking about 1961, when it wasn't known he appreciated Sinatra. Now every Tom Dick and Tundie knows it. Nice gotcha fail though.
@@michaelm6948 I wasn’t even trying to be mean man, I was honestly just having some fun.
Sorry if I came off as rude to you somehow, but I really thought the smiley face would make it obvious I had good intentions.
Bob had a great sense of humour, a funny guy. Pity his selection was mostly shlock and soul. Top singles and albums had some excellent music and artists. Kinks and the Pretty Things in the same chart, can't go wrong
Nice single by Sandie Shaw ✅️ ( Future Smiths Cover Star )
Agreed, I love that song.
I am surprised to see that Keely Smith made the charts in the UK
This was very interesting. Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter in the history of modern music, followed by Leonard Cohen. I saw Bob Dylan live in 1990. Cheers! ✌️
Spot on Dwayne.
I saw him several times - first as Madison Square Garden in the 70s. The last time I saw him was at Forest Hills about 7 years ago.
I’m a Dylan fan.. but his concert was the worst I’ve ever seen .. he played one song with his acoustic guitar.. the rest was him screeching rock songs with young musicians.. terrible.
@@7colliemac The fact you went to a Dylan show expecting him to come out with an acoustic guitar is hilarious to me, you clearly had not been keeping up with him ever since he did this little thing called going electric😂😂
@@Sir_William_Marshal Yes I have Mr Smart Ass .. I liked his “electric” stuff.. but watching a burnt out folk singer screeching out unknown boring rock songs with a bunch of young guys.. he didn’t even play his electric stuff .. nothing.. I’ll go to to local pub & get a better show.
Wild to see that Joe Turner's "Midnight Cannonball" was reissued as a 45 as it was 10 years old by that point - what a great record, got it on 78 and it SLAMS. Another great video and much respect to Mr Zimmerman.
I liked this review because Bob seemed very positive in much of his critique. It seems he disliked only one song. I saw in the UK charts Subterranean Homesick Blues which is my all-time favorite Dylan song.
"Pretty good if you're catching a ship someplace." Can't say I'd have expected a comment like that from anyone but Dylan. Also, "I think she's from Chicago, she's got that accent. Well, either Chicago, Detroit, or Liverpool."
I first thought he said a different word 😊
more importantly did anyone not appreciate otis? dylan showing just how versatile his musical tastes were for the day, a real aficionado of music.
Very cool! Love this!
Ask the Lonely by the 4 Tops. My favorite of all of their songs. Bernadette is a close 2nd. MARIE is a great old standard, done well by the Bachelors. I love their virgin of I Got Rhythm even more.
Dylan had 4 albums in the top 20! Damn! And Bringing It All Back Home was either about to be released or had been released recently. Maybe it was in the charts the next time.
He's got the best responses to these songs.
Once again YP has a great outro..maybe an epi with just the intro, the tunes and the outro? Ty YP..every time I listen it is a treat to my ears!💜
Thank you very much, Acid Queen! Cheers.
@@YesterdaysPapers yw!✌💜
Donan digs Dylovan!
Arrgh, me hearties! The Sound of Music OST strikes into the charts again!
It's obvious Dylan is a big music fan with a wide range of styles appealing to him. Funny how he liked the Donovan song but not the voice, considering early Donovan was trying to copy Dylan. Best of all was Dylan's wonderful sense of humour. Singing under water with a thermometer in her ear. Lol! Still, it was great to see him so up on a lot of what was on offer this week.
From what I understand, Dylan didn’t hear Donovan singing, only a cover version. So it was great that he loved the song, and presumably would have loved Donovan singing it too.
@@Scotlanz He was listening to Donovan singing it during his reactions here. Maybe it was just the way Donovan approached this song that didn't appeal to Dylan? It's possible he may like the voice on other Donovan tracks. At least he found something good to appreciate, regardless
@@Sp33gan No, it wasn't Donovan singing in the record Dylan reacted to, it was a group called The Freewheelers. It notes that in the video and explains that they weren't able to find a copy of the Freewheelers doing the song, so they used Donovan's recording.
@@ptournas I had to watch it all again, which isn't a bad thing, and you're right so I stand corrected. We're hearing the Donovan version for this video rendition, but Bob was reacting to The Freewheelers. Since the record may not be available to hear we may never know what Dylan disliked about the voice. Thank you 😊
@@Sp33gan Well we just might! I got so curious that I just did some hunting around and found the single on Discogs. There was only one listed for sale in near mint condition. I'm in the U.S. and it's in Australia, so I don't know how long it will take to get here, but when it does I'll put it on my RUclips page and leave a comment here in case anyone wants to listen to it. Hopefully it doesn't get blocked. It probably won't since I don't monetize my RUclips account at all, just really use it to share some of my personal covers and original songs with friends.
This is somehow hilarious. His random comments are so funny.
Wow...never thought i'd hear Dylan's take on singles of the 60s! I knew Bob dug Donovan....but TOM JONES??
He was kinder than I expected. Dylan critiquing someone's harmonica playing is a wonderful joke too.
I'm thinking this is the UK tour that "Don't Look Back" documents? In the film, Dylan is constantly being told Donovan is a force to be reckoned with. You can see Bob is quite competitive about this, and wants to meet Donovan. Donovan comes to a get together at Dylan's hotel and Bob blows away everyone, including Donovan, with "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"......
Yep, it's the UK tour from the 'Don't Look Back' documentary.
Hardly blows him away, and Dylan was quite rude in fact. He just takes the guitar from Donovan. You can tell Dylan doesn't want to be upstaged.
@@obscurazone they had hung out together for a few days before this and don asked Bob to play baby blue...
Bob sure put on a right proper British accent for this program. 😂
The Zim was Mr Positive, a glass-half-full guy, in this feature. Zim!
Here Comes The Night..........#1
Bob pouring scorn on the Iketttes harmonica man is a bit rich!
Nice to hear "Chimes of Freedom" over the charts 😎👌
Think it’s Catch The Wind by Donovan which is a Chimes steal.
@@bapples i think its catch the wind also
@@bapples I think he was being funny....When The Byrds played at Ciro's in the early days, McGuinn would always dedicate "Chimes of Freedom " to Donovan for the same reason..."Catch the Wind" did "borrow heavily" from "Chimes of Freedom "
Yep, it's "Catch the Wind" although it makes sense that you thought it was "Chimes of Freedom"!
@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks for clearing that up! 👍
This Review is specially interesting: Revés *how Dylan was influenced by Soul/R&B in His rhythmic aspect, for 1965* . The beat-cadence on his fundamental hit *Like A Rolling Stone" Is in the way of "Whatcha Gonna Do" by Soul singer Doris Troy* or something by Mary Wells or Four Tops.
Wow, I'd never expect to see Bob on one of these. Shame the share of the records was quite uneventful. I swear there could've been tons of great stuff in that time in 1965.
Wow! Bob Dylan reviewing pop records of the day? Is that a real thing? Obviously, these are artists and songs that were popular in the U.K., as most were never heard here in the U.S. But it is cool to see what you Brits were listening to while the Beatles were conquering America. Your "Top of the Charts" list at 5:00 is more indicative of American popular songs of 1965. Thank you for this. Very cool.
Driving through the Hudson tunnel. LOL
Man, popular music was in such infancy at this point. Think about only 7 years ago Chuck berry was out with Johnny B Goode and buddy holly was hot. Can anybody say what was going on in 2016? Probably crap. I can’t even think of anything memorable going back at least to the late 90’s. I know I’m old (in my 40’s) and prob not “hip”, but seriously…..I don’t think 99% of music made in the last 20 years will stand the test of time.
Im in my 40s and im not old lol but there hasnt been good new music in a loooong time, the 7 years was a good way to think about it music was so much better
Nine British acts on the American Top 20. The "British Invasion" still going strong. Those were the days, to coin a phrase.
you r the best thing i found on yb
"If he bought records." There are stories of him liberating records from people he stayed with. :)
When music was still music.
Dylan, very funny. Love this one.
2:40
He ad-libs & contextualizes continually.......hilarious!
Bob Dylan was selling a lot of albums that week
No doubt. Four albums in the albums chart, incredible.
People don't realise how important he was in the UK. He was massive
The chart looks like a last gasp chart appearance for a few early bands. (Freddie, Wayne Fontana).
There was a lot of good RnB records at this time.
Glad to hear Bob dug Ornette. THAT would have been a collaboration.
"She's from Chicago, Detroit or Liverpool". I don't know why that cracked me up.
2:09 Featuring Johnny Guitar Watson. I gotta listen to that one 🎸
Bob having a go at somebody else's harmonica playing, funny ASF
Of course I idolize him, have large parts of his musical oeuvre permanently memorized and etched deeply on my psyche (and can play and sing them, badly, on my guitar) and his revolutionary effect not only music but on the culture at large. His musical tastes covered the full range and his influence on pop and rock music is immeasurable: beginning in the calendar year of this video, 1965, rock and roll would forever be split between the old teen-dating/conventional wing and the "progressive" wing encompassing broader social and even political concerns, and this is all due to the man born in Duluth, MN as Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941. Ironically, at this time, spring 1965, Dylan was moving, at least partially, away from pure folk and its social and political concerns and toward more personal themes, which earned him opprobrium from the folkie purists and their press outlets (Sing Out magazine, etc.) in the States, who considered him something of traitor. He went electric, at least partially, on the album he had just released, his fifth ("Bringing It All Back Home"), though its best and most searing song ("It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)") was as perspicacious and biting in sociopolitical commentary as any of his previous work (and still just as burningly relevant today, spring 2023, as it was 58 years ago) was just him accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. And this tour of course was well-documented, especially in D. A. Pennebaker's indispensable documentary "Don't Look Back," (released in 1967) with its famous opening sequence of Dylan shuffling through cue cards for his song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (BIABH's album opener) as immediately-recognizable poet Alan Ginsberg and Dylan's road manager Bob Neuwirth loiter in the background. All that said, it is still true and Dylan treated the journalist Horace Freeland Judson (later the author of several books, including the best single history of the discover of DNA, "The Eighth Day of Creation'), then a reporter for Time magazine, in an inexcusably abominable fashion, when all the man was trying to do was politely interview him. THAT, too, is indelibly etched on my psyche. Even those touched by divine genius can act like total SH*TS sometimes.
His first single, mixed up confusion, was electric. He realised then that he could be more successful in the folk field.
I listened to the Freewheelers single on RUclips
Bob , funny as ever.
WOW Bob Dylan did the review with out having a big ego. Even if he didn't like a song he still approved the artist for their work.
Dylan's humour in full swing here!
Chicago or Detroit or Liverpool.
He has a good sense of humor and wide musical taste which is always a plus. From what I've researched Sandie Shaw had a number of #1 hits in England, including Puppet on a String which she hated. There is a cover which is better by Ken Boothe done in rock steady style in Jamaica. Thanks for this fascinating post, YP.
I love Sandie Shaw. I've always hated "Puppet On a String" but I love many of her pop singles from the mid-60s. Cheers, Willie.
Amusing comment on Donovan's singing.
Byrds Mr Tambourine Man was released May 1965, pity it wasn’t included
Released 14 May, these reviews are from 8 May. I researched it myself.
lol....dylan straight to the point
loved how he was asked to review a donovan impersonating dylan track
bit surprised that he didnt recognize joe turner
Don didn't impersonate bob. They both impersonated Guthrie
He wasn't listening to Donovan singing, he was listening to a cover by The Freewheelers.
You never know what Dylan's going to like!
"I'd buy it...if I bought records." LOL!
Anyone have a link for that divine 'Catch the Wind' instrumental (is it a glockenspiel?) at the end?