Dylan is a great singer with exceptional sense of timing and it is almost always in-tune. His voice may be not for everyone's taste but it can't be neglected his great singing talent
It's his tone that most people who aren't fans have a problem with, but his sense of melody was first class. Just look at all the melodies he's created. Saying he's "amelodic" makes no sense.
Bob Dylan is one of my favourite artists and undoubtably he can sing well but I wouldn't call him a great singer his good at his style but if you hear him in the charity song they did especially in the behind The scenes footage you can see bob is out of his league, also this is speculation but you can see him in the choir part not even singing when everyone else was and I think that's because he was either embarrassed or worried he would sing out of tune with everyone.
I cried so much..i don't Know how to say that but when I listen to bob i just go away in an other world ...a better world you Know what i mean and listenning this song, this Genius is like listenning to freedom. And I cried cause today this is hard to find freedom so I listen to Bob to Forget this breaking sad world
He was only 22 years old (and a year later had written "Only a Pawn in Their Game") - rare maturity and insight in one so young. Fully deserves the success he has achieved.
This is not that Roll On John. There are two songs with the same title. The one he wrote for John Lennon is the one in the album "Tempest" (2012). This one is actually not written by Bob Dylan, it's an old folk song and this was recorded in 1962 (Lennon was still alive and they didn't even met until 2 years later).
Yes well this isnt the 2012 version is it? The song was made before the beatles were huge. Also listen to the lyrics, what in the hell to do with lennon does it have? This is 1962, they didnt spend time together until after 65. Oh one more thing he does say at the end where the song came about. Its not a damn tribute.
From what I read, the 2012 Tempest version isn't a tribute either... well, I don't know, I don't really understand the lyrics. It sure is about Lennon but not sure what the verses mean, probably bunch of references to John's life?
You don't have to have a major in English to understand the lyrics of Roll on John on the 2012 album Tempest. "From the Liverpool docks to the red-light Hamburg streets. Down in the quarry with the Quarrymen playing to the big crowds, playing to the cheap seats". He was from Liverpool, playing in a band called the Quarrymen before the Beatles. "For those of you in the cheap seats, I'd like you to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry", John said to the audience during a Beatles' concert at the Royal Albert Hall. "Another day in the life on your way to your journey's end." A Day in the Life is a song on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. They are all references to John Lennon.
Bob Dylan was to my parents generations what Tracey Chapman and Suzanne Vega were to me in my era of music growing up and that in the folk music department.
Esta no es la dedicada a Lennon. Dylan tiene dos canciones tituladas Roll On, John. La que compuso él y dedicó a John Lennon es la de su disco "Tempest". Esta es una grabación de 1962 (Lennon seguía vivo) y está reversionando una vieja canción folk que, como muchas otras, no es muy claro quién fue el autor original.
This song was not written by Dylan. It was "collected" from some obscure rural musician by Alan Lomax or John Cohen. Dylan was still in 'authentic' folk music stage then. A GREAT recording of this same song is also on the Greenbriar Boys' RAGGED BUT RIGHT album, which is also available here on RUclips. Check it out..
I think he rewrote much of the lyrics--I think all the songs on this album were songs he rewrote. Yes, this is from the tune Roll On Buddy. If you listen, he tells the interviewer that one or two verses are his.
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@Rossonero. The whole radio broadcast, conversations an all was released last year. Worth byin' just to here Bob Lying through his teeth about his life.
Roll, roll, roll on John, Don’t you roll so slow. How can I roll when the wheels won’t roll? I asked that girl, won’t you be my wife? She fell on her knees, she began to cry. The more she cried, the worse I felt, ‘Til I thought my heart would melt. I looked at the sun, was a-sinking low. I looked at my baby, she was a-walkin’ down the road. I looked at the sun, was a-turning red. I looked at my baby, but she bowed her head. Don’t the sun look lonesome, oh lord lord lord, on the graveyard fence? Don’t my baby look lonesome, when her head is bent? Roll on John, don’t you roll so slow. How can I roll when the wheels won’t roll?
Thank you Bob Dylan absolutely no one loves John Lennon more than I do! The greatest inspiration of my life that's for sure! Roll on John in my heart you will never die!
This is not that Roll On John. There are two songs with the same title. The one he wrote for John Lennon is the one in the album "Tempest" (2012). This one is actually not written by Bob Dylan, it's an old folk song and this was recorded in 1962 (Lennon was still alive and they didn't even met until 2 years later).
Exactly what I'm wondering. The sound here definitely suggests this song was recorded long before Lennon's assassination. Guess I'll have to keep looking for the relevant recording. Still, some good Dylan.
It's from Folksingers Choice with Cynthia Gooding. I imagine it'll be the same song in basis, but with Dylan's updated style and lyric changes because it will be a John Lennon Tribute on Tempest.
By the start of 1962 they were very famous in Germany as well as in Liverpool; they had to wear disguises to go out during the day and this before their first hit in September 1963.
My mom saw the Beatles live in Hamburg 1961 in a club called Top Ten at the Reeperbahn later '62 at the Star Club GroßeFreiheit. I'm born in Hamburg in 1966. I love the Beatles, Stones. But my first concert was AC/DC in 1979 with Bon Scott. With special guest Judas Priest in Hamburg. I never forget this evening.
Roll, roll, roll on John, Don't you roll so slow. How can I roll when the wheels won't roll? I asked that girl, won't you be my wife? She fell on her knees, she began to cry. The more she cried, the worse I felt, 'Til I thought my heart would melt. I looked at the sun, was a-sinking low. I looked at my baby, she was a-walkin' down the road. I looked at the sun, was a-turning red. I looked at my baby, but she bowed her head. Don't the sun look lonesome, oh lord lord lord, on the graveyard fence? Don't my baby look lonesome, when her head is bent? Roll on John, don't you roll so slow. How can I roll when the wheels won't roll? Roll on John, don't you roll so slow. How can I roll when the wheels won't roll?
The song is about John Lennon who was murdered Dec. 8 1980. The album Tempest (which this song is on) released September 10, 2012. Live Radio Session 1962. How is that possible?
This is fascinating. I have never heard him speak like this. This is the real Bob Dylan, before he developed his outlandish public persona, equal parts secretive, obnoxious, arcane, funny, and ludicrous. What you hear here is how he speaks with his friends and family. A goldmine. His persona grows tiresome.
Rick Danko Not really. At this period during interviews he was saying he was a cowboy in New Mexico or had travelled with the Circus for years, all kinds of BS. He had a persona or whatever. Middle class suburban kid from Minnesota wasn't it. He frickin' loved guitar and folk music, that's good enough for me. Making it in New York City is not for the faint of heart. He just hitchiked out there and made it. Amazing
people can say his singing is bad for all i care.... most people who say that probably listen to the likes of lady twat or niki maninge :p he is a very talented lyrasist an guitarist id like to see the likes of pop artists make song as memorable as his the man is a living legend and has stood the test of time i bet nobody who is in the charts now will be remebered in 40 years time like he is today. he is a poet not an opera singer
Man, I wish I could find this song to buy. Anyone know if there is a album with it? I can't find it with my extensive collection - even a bootleg of the Gaslamp days.
It doesn't have an official release, unless it's on one of those copyright extension deals. There are some bootleg collections of it though called 'Folksingers Choice' or the date of the radio show March 11 1962 with Cynthia Gooding.
@Rossonero. The whole radio broadcast, conversations an all was released last year. Worth byin' just to here Bob Lying through his teeth about his life.
I do not know if the people claiming that Bob Dylan can't sing realize how difficult is to sing this song, and how beautifully Dylan sings it.
Dylan does kind of have an amelodic voice. But that isn't at all to say that he can't sing.
Dylan is a great singer with exceptional sense of timing and it is almost always in-tune. His voice may be not for everyone's taste but it can't be neglected his great singing talent
Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.
It's his tone that most people who aren't fans have a problem with, but his sense of melody was first class. Just look at all the melodies he's created. Saying he's "amelodic" makes no sense.
Bob Dylan is one of my favourite artists and undoubtably he can sing well but I wouldn't call him a great singer his good at his style but if you hear him in the charity song they did especially in the behind The scenes footage you can see bob is out of his league, also this is speculation but you can see him in the choir part not even singing when everyone else was and I think that's because he was either embarrassed or worried he would sing out of tune with everyone.
This is so beautiful - sad and lonely, yet calm and peaceful at the same time.
I cried so much..i don't Know how to say that but when I listen to bob i just go away in an other world ...a better world you Know what i mean and listenning this song, this Genius is like listenning to freedom. And I cried cause today this is hard to find freedom so I listen to Bob to Forget this breaking sad world
Audrey Manfredi ha totally! Totally.
I think it's what the song stands for as to why you get that feeling of peace ❤️ imagine all the people living for today.
your words move me like bob's lyrics do, audrey.
@@mrtambourineman6107 🙏❤
@@henrystaten3971 ❤
He was only 22 years old (and a year later had written "Only a Pawn in Their Game") - rare maturity and insight in one so young. Fully deserves the success he has achieved.
Only 20, at this point. Barely out his teens.
Amazing track- not an original tho
thanks - beautiful - I love the voice of early Bob Dylan
Got the news my dad died while listening to this song. Roll on John
what I like is the honesty of this guy, in that he is himself with no pretense and cares about people, the world. Brilliant man.
My all time favorite Dylan song (yes I know it was written long before 1962).
Very good song. Also good tribute.
I coulnt be objective. I love this guy.
Wow these are awesoem!! Thank you so much for uploading all of these !!! I've never heard them before so "New " Bob songs to me!!!:)
This is fucking beautiful man is it no
must be so high....
bingo
This song is a version of Palmer Crisp's "Roll on John" recorded by Margot Mayo and Stuart Jamieson in Allen, Kentucky, 1946.
And available on the Rufus Crisp Folkways LP.
Parabéns Bod Dylan, Nobel da Literatura 2016
Roll On,John Is A Beautiful Great Rock Tribute Song To The Famous Great Late Beatle John Lennon By Bob Dylan.
This is not that Roll On John. There are two songs with the same title. The one he wrote for John Lennon is the one in the album "Tempest" (2012). This one is actually not written by Bob Dylan, it's an old folk song and this was recorded in 1962 (Lennon was still alive and they didn't even met until 2 years later).
I miss John...
you do realize it is not a tribute to Lennon right?
But the 2012 is. He just took the title from this early classic?
Yes well this isnt the 2012 version is it? The song was made before the beatles were huge.
Also listen to the lyrics, what in the hell to do with lennon does it have? This is 1962, they didnt spend time together until after 65. Oh one more thing he does say at the end where the song came about. Its not a damn tribute.
From what I read, the 2012 Tempest version isn't a tribute either... well, I don't know, I don't really understand the lyrics. It sure is about Lennon but not sure what the verses mean, probably bunch of references to John's life?
You don't have to have a major in English to understand the lyrics of Roll on John on the 2012 album Tempest. "From the Liverpool docks to the red-light Hamburg streets. Down in the quarry with the Quarrymen playing to the big crowds, playing to the cheap seats". He was from Liverpool, playing in a band called the Quarrymen before the Beatles. "For those of you in the cheap seats, I'd like you to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry", John said to the audience during a Beatles' concert at the Royal Albert Hall. "Another day in the life on your way to your journey's end." A Day in the Life is a song on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. They are all references to John Lennon.
Bob Dylan was to my parents generations what Tracey Chapman and Suzanne Vega were to me in my era of music growing up and that in the folk music department.
beautiful
Un grande rinde tributo a otro gigante ! Gracias Dylan, Gracias Lennon ! ! !
Esta no es la dedicada a Lennon. Dylan tiene dos canciones tituladas Roll On, John. La que compuso él y dedicó a John Lennon es la de su disco "Tempest". Esta es una grabación de 1962 (Lennon seguía vivo) y está reversionando una vieja canción folk que, como muchas otras, no es muy claro quién fue el autor original.
G, man, this is rare, thanks for sharing it, really. For the noob comments about Dylan's voice and skill: no comments.
Beautiful❤️🌹👌
This song was not written by Dylan. It was "collected" from some obscure rural musician by Alan Lomax or John Cohen. Dylan was still in 'authentic' folk music stage then. A GREAT recording of this same song is also on the Greenbriar Boys' RAGGED BUT RIGHT album, which is also available here on RUclips. Check it out..
I think he rewrote much of the lyrics--I think all the songs on this album were songs he rewrote. Yes, this is from the tune Roll On Buddy. If you listen, he tells the interviewer that one or two verses are his.
Dylan sang it better
@@johnoneil3737 He also tells the interviewer he was rolling with a traveling circus. Dylan was embellishing his life. These lyrics aren't really his.
you sir know youre stuff!
This song is a version of Palmer Crisp's "Roll on John" recorded by Margot Mayo and Stuart Jamieson in Allen, Kentucky, 1946.
Thanks for your post.
I knew him well - but not this well. All sorts of best tributes.
Love this song, Alf
I can't put my finger on it but Zimmerman is on par with Mozart, Monk, and Miles- he is a true original who has stood the test of time.
he says.. 'i wrote 2 verses', the rest is not mine"
Genio total!
Talent beyond compare. ..
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That laugh. Pure magic.
Love to know what 82 yr old bob thinks when he hears himself much younger as in this song. I think it could make you quite depressed if you let it....
His idol was Woody Guthrie ...... damn , "" the rest of it just fell together ""
You rock!
These need to be released on the Bootleg Serious. And the interview, too.
Girls girls girls - I love em ❤️❤️❤️
@Rossonero. The whole radio broadcast, conversations an all was released last year. Worth byin' just to here Bob Lying through his teeth about his life.
awesomeness
Roll, roll, roll on John,
Don’t you roll so slow.
How can I roll when the wheels won’t roll?
I asked that girl, won’t you be my wife?
She fell on her knees, she began to cry.
The more she cried, the worse I felt,
‘Til I thought my heart would melt.
I looked at the sun, was a-sinking low.
I looked at my baby, she was a-walkin’ down the road.
I looked at the sun, was a-turning red.
I looked at my baby, but she bowed her head.
Don’t the sun look lonesome, oh lord lord lord, on the graveyard fence?
Don’t my baby look lonesome, when her head is bent?
Roll on John, don’t you roll so slow.
How can I roll when the wheels won’t roll?
Cynthia has a lovely voice too.
Thank you Bob Dylan absolutely no one loves John Lennon more than I do! The greatest inspiration of my life that's for sure! Roll on John in my heart you will never die!
This is not that Roll On John. There are two songs with the same title. The one he wrote for John Lennon is the one in the album "Tempest" (2012). This one is actually not written by Bob Dylan, it's an old folk song and this was recorded in 1962 (Lennon was still alive and they didn't even met until 2 years later).
awesome !
i never heard this one before. was this the inspiration for the song of the same title about Lennon?
It must be! Just found this one too, wow :)
A day in the life
Exactly what I'm wondering. The sound here definitely suggests this song was recorded long before Lennon's assassination. Guess I'll have to keep looking for the relevant recording. Still, some good Dylan.
Oh yeah there's a more dignified name for a necklace, it's a harmonica holder.
You kinda have to be the master of musical notes to sing that song this way. His way.
2021 ??
It's from Folksingers Choice with Cynthia Gooding. I imagine it'll be the same song in basis, but with Dylan's updated style and lyric changes because it will be a John Lennon Tribute on Tempest.
John Lennon was an unknown punk except in Liverpool in March 1962.
By the start of 1962 they were very famous in Germany as well as in Liverpool; they had to wear disguises to go out during the day and this before their first hit in September 1963.
My mom saw the Beatles live in Hamburg 1961 in a club called Top Ten at the Reeperbahn later '62 at the Star Club GroßeFreiheit. I'm born in Hamburg in 1966. I love the Beatles, Stones. But my first concert was AC/DC in 1979 with Bon Scott. With special guest Judas Priest in Hamburg.
I never forget this evening.
The best there ever fn was
Haha I love when people say he can't sing because then I ask them to do an impression of him and it sucks. Not many people can sing like him.
Roll, roll, roll on John,
Don't you roll so slow.
How can I roll when the wheels won't roll?
I asked that girl, won't you be my wife?
She fell on her knees, she began to cry.
The more she cried, the worse I felt,
'Til I thought my heart would melt.
I looked at the sun, was a-sinking low.
I looked at my baby, she was a-walkin' down the road.
I looked at the sun, was a-turning red.
I looked at my baby, but she bowed her head.
Don't the sun look lonesome, oh lord lord lord, on the graveyard fence?
Don't my baby look lonesome, when her head is bent?
Roll on John, don't you roll so slow.
How can I roll when the wheels won't roll?
Roll on John, don't you roll so slow.
How can I roll when the wheels won't roll?
This sounds a lot like Nine Pound Hammer/Roll on Buddy
The song is about John Lennon who was murdered Dec. 8 1980. The album Tempest (which this song is on) released September 10, 2012.
Live Radio Session 1962. How is that possible?
Thomas Penderel because it's incorrect
They're not the same song.
This is not his voice from 1980..very early sixties is more like it..
Roll on, Lennon.
This is fascinating. I have never heard him speak like this. This is the real Bob Dylan, before he developed his outlandish public persona, equal parts secretive, obnoxious, arcane, funny, and ludicrous. What you hear here is how he speaks with his friends and family. A goldmine. His persona grows tiresome.
Spot on observation. We are hearing the genuine person, before fame changed him.
Rick Danko Not really. At this period during interviews he was saying he was a cowboy in New Mexico or had travelled with the Circus for years, all kinds of BS. He had a persona or whatever. Middle class suburban kid from Minnesota wasn't it. He frickin' loved guitar and folk music, that's good enough for me. Making it in New York City is not for the faint of heart. He just hitchiked out there and made it. Amazing
people can say his singing is bad for all i care.... most people who say that probably listen to the likes of lady twat or niki maninge :p he is a very talented lyrasist an guitarist id like to see the likes of pop artists make song as memorable as his the man is a living legend and has stood the test of time i bet nobody who is in the charts now will be remebered in 40 years time like he is today. he is a poet not an opera singer
damien aspin please spare me bob dylan is great and so is nicki minaj but in different ways
@DSJMFM Yep,,,me too.
1:11 and on.. great lungs! (then again, 1:36)
Please someone has the tab/chords? Thank you!
Ya, I always thought that was funny to, thats when I realized people hear things differently. I've heard people say the same thing about Janis.
Yep buddy
who said one man received a nobel prize?
Man, I wish I could find this song to buy. Anyone know if there is a album with it? I can't find it with my extensive collection - even a bootleg of the Gaslamp days.
I've got a couple versions I could send you if you're interested.
princeoftidds I would love to hear more versions!
princeoftidds I would love hear more versions also.
you could probably find it on amazon
What are the chords to this song?
I, IV, V
+William Dickman In what key?
sounds like its played in Open E tuning and up half step or so from 440... capo the 2nd fret and figure out the rest
+Ducky Barley
Open D, capo on 5, but his guitar is tuned down quite a bit from A440
Who is the artist he credits with inspiring this song - Ralph L?
+James Roditi Ralph Rinzler
Thank you
Is it The song from tempest?
Does anyone have the lyrics for this version?
Lyrics? Why is not the song on google?
what album is this on? the tempest has a totally different song on for roll on, john....
It doesn't have an official release, unless it's on one of those copyright extension deals. There are some bootleg collections of it though called 'Folksingers Choice' or the date of the radio show March 11 1962 with Cynthia Gooding.
can't sing? - yeah, right.
well... that is true that she can't sing. ;- she's no dylan.
@Rossonero. The whole radio broadcast, conversations an all was released last year. Worth byin' just to here Bob Lying through his teeth about his life.