Saturday, November 22, 2008
Carolyn Hester and Bob Dylan in 1961
Quite a while ago I told ya about the famous Midnight special sessions by Harry Belafonte and Bob Dylan. I told ya also about Bob Dylan's first ever official recording with Carolyn Hester. Last week I got a comment over there.
Time to 'complete' things.
Bob Dylan time line 1961
After performing at the Cafe Wha? on his first night in town, Bob continues to play in Village coffeehouses using the name Bob Dylan. Before long he receives his first paid gig at NYU's Student Center, then as the support act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City. He performs at Carnegie Hall to a sparse audience of 53 people, mostly friends. He plays harmonica on Harry Belafonte's album Midnight Special. While playing harmonica at a session for Carolyn Hester at Columbia Records, Dylan impresses producer John Hammond, who signs him to a five-year contract. His debut recording, entitled Bob Dylan, contains two original songs and an assortment of blues and traditional covers.
Releases Including Guest Appearances by Bob Dylan
Midnight Special (Harry Belafonte) - RCA LSP 2449 (1962) (harmonica)
--Midnight Special
Carolyn Hester - Columbia CL 1796 (1962) (harmonica)
--I'll Fly Away
--Swing And Turn Jubilee
--Come Back Baby
This Carolyn Hester recording session
New York City, New York
Columbia Recording Studio A
1961_September_28
Carolyn Hester - Guitar & Vocal
Bruce Langhorne - Guitar & Fiddle
William E Lee - Bass
Bob Dylan - Harmonica
Produced by John Hammond
01_02-Swing and Turn Jubilee (trad) / 03_07-Come Back, Baby (trad) / 08_09-Los Bibilicos (trad) / 10_11-I'll Fly Away (Albert E Brumley) / 12_16-Unidentified
03, 04, a splice of 15 and 16, and 10 or 11 released on Carolyn Hester _1962
Carolyn Hester interview 1992_may_24 about her, Bob Dylan and this recording.
Are you still with me (and clicked the links ?) or did you slipped it ?? Well, the LP.
01-I'll Fly Away
02-When Jesus Lived In Galilee
03-Los Bibilicos
04-Yarrow
05-Dink's Song
06-Swing And Turn Jubilee
07-Once I Had A Sweetheart
08-Come Back, Baby
09-Dear Companion
10-Galway Shawl
11-Probre De Mi
12-Virgin Mary
Alternate takes :
13-I'll Fly Away
14-Come Back, Baby
The price of this album ? Not really expensive. An example I found on the internet.
CAROLYN HESTER Self-titled Columbia CS8796, 1962. ex-/ex+ $45.00
Orig 6-Eyes label stereo with orig Columbia insert. With BOB DYLAN, harmonica - his second time on wax, and the session where he was discovered by John Hammond! Bruce Langhorne & Bill Lee also accompany. In beautiful condition - looks unplayed! I would have given it a m-; but just in case... A bit of edgeware and small back cover tear.
A priceless mp3 sample can be found in the comments.
Time to 'complete' things.
Bob Dylan time line 1961
After performing at the Cafe Wha? on his first night in town, Bob continues to play in Village coffeehouses using the name Bob Dylan. Before long he receives his first paid gig at NYU's Student Center, then as the support act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City. He performs at Carnegie Hall to a sparse audience of 53 people, mostly friends. He plays harmonica on Harry Belafonte's album Midnight Special. While playing harmonica at a session for Carolyn Hester at Columbia Records, Dylan impresses producer John Hammond, who signs him to a five-year contract. His debut recording, entitled Bob Dylan, contains two original songs and an assortment of blues and traditional covers.
Releases Including Guest Appearances by Bob Dylan
Midnight Special (Harry Belafonte) - RCA LSP 2449 (1962) (harmonica)
--Midnight Special
Carolyn Hester - Columbia CL 1796 (1962) (harmonica)
--I'll Fly Away
--Swing And Turn Jubilee
--Come Back Baby
This Carolyn Hester recording session
New York City, New YorkColumbia Recording Studio A
1961_September_28
Carolyn Hester - Guitar & Vocal
Bruce Langhorne - Guitar & Fiddle
William E Lee - Bass
Bob Dylan - Harmonica
Produced by John Hammond
01_02-Swing and Turn Jubilee (trad) / 03_07-Come Back, Baby (trad) / 08_09-Los Bibilicos (trad) / 10_11-I'll Fly Away (Albert E Brumley) / 12_16-Unidentified
03, 04, a splice of 15 and 16, and 10 or 11 released on Carolyn Hester _1962
Carolyn Hester interview 1992_may_24 about her, Bob Dylan and this recording.
Are you still with me (and clicked the links ?) or did you slipped it ?? Well, the LP.
Carolyn Hester - Carolyn Hester 1962
01-I'll Fly Away02-When Jesus Lived In Galilee
03-Los Bibilicos
04-Yarrow
05-Dink's Song
06-Swing And Turn Jubilee
07-Once I Had A Sweetheart
08-Come Back, Baby
09-Dear Companion
10-Galway Shawl
11-Probre De Mi
12-Virgin Mary
Alternate takes :
13-I'll Fly Away
14-Come Back, Baby
The price of this album ? Not really expensive. An example I found on the internet.
CAROLYN HESTER Self-titled Columbia CS8796, 1962. ex-/ex+ $45.00
Orig 6-Eyes label stereo with orig Columbia insert. With BOB DYLAN, harmonica - his second time on wax, and the session where he was discovered by John Hammond! Bruce Langhorne & Bill Lee also accompany. In beautiful condition - looks unplayed! I would have given it a m-; but just in case... A bit of edgeware and small back cover tear.
A priceless mp3 sample can be found in the comments.
Labels: bob dylan, carolyn hester, harry belafonte
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Bob Dylan Theme time radio #78 - Night
Yesterday the third of Bob Dylan's Theme Time radio shows from the Abernathy Building studio B in this third year was aired.
Dylan’s radio series proved a delight. He used his slot to recreate exactly the kind of 1950s radio that was so formative and so much a musical lifeline for the Bobby Zimmerman who was listening to it in Hibbing, Minnesota - a radio era he has expressed his fondness for in more recent years.
Tom Palaima, an Austin Texas professor, sums up Dylan’s intent and achievement here with what he calls Dylan’s ‘warm evocations of old-timey radio’:
‘In each hour, Dylan covers a chosen theme: mothers, fathers, baseball, coffee, weddings, divorce, showing how the common musical traditions of the United States shaped our lives in song and lyric. Dylan's succinct commentary makes the music shine. He is witty, gently humorous, erudite and always reverent about the music he is playing.
We hear the sounds of big band, country swing, rockabilly, blues, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, Nashville, Motown, Sun Records, Frank Sinatra, the Ink Spots, Bob Wills and Kitty Wells. Interspersed, he gives plainly spoken information about the artists, where they came from, where they went, who influenced them and what influence they had. He recites lyrics, painting pictures of our lives in sound.
Dylan doesn't peddle himself or anything else. No product placement here. Period commercials are spliced in to set the mood. A listener asks on Theme Time Coffee: "Why do you play so much old music? Do you have something against new music?" Dylan replies, "I like new music. But there's more old music than new music."
…Theme Time Radio is hip, but not Tarantino's jaded hip, or William Shatner's self-mocking hip. Dylan respects the music we and he loved. He respects the artists who created it, even lived it.
These shows are so humane, so out of time… Dylan is still protesting. He is protesting our fast-paced, dehumanized present by calling us to gather round the hearth of old-time radio and remember life as it used to be and could be again, if we stop and really listen to it, and to each other.’
No more talking, check the comments and just listen (like Aussi 'Imogen'..)
Dylan’s radio series proved a delight. He used his slot to recreate exactly the kind of 1950s radio that was so formative and so much a musical lifeline for the Bobby Zimmerman who was listening to it in Hibbing, Minnesota - a radio era he has expressed his fondness for in more recent years.
Tom Palaima, an Austin Texas professor, sums up Dylan’s intent and achievement here with what he calls Dylan’s ‘warm evocations of old-timey radio’:
‘In each hour, Dylan covers a chosen theme: mothers, fathers, baseball, coffee, weddings, divorce, showing how the common musical traditions of the United States shaped our lives in song and lyric. Dylan's succinct commentary makes the music shine. He is witty, gently humorous, erudite and always reverent about the music he is playing.
We hear the sounds of big band, country swing, rockabilly, blues, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, Nashville, Motown, Sun Records, Frank Sinatra, the Ink Spots, Bob Wills and Kitty Wells. Interspersed, he gives plainly spoken information about the artists, where they came from, where they went, who influenced them and what influence they had. He recites lyrics, painting pictures of our lives in sound.
Dylan doesn't peddle himself or anything else. No product placement here. Period commercials are spliced in to set the mood. A listener asks on Theme Time Coffee: "Why do you play so much old music? Do you have something against new music?" Dylan replies, "I like new music. But there's more old music than new music."
…Theme Time Radio is hip, but not Tarantino's jaded hip, or William Shatner's self-mocking hip. Dylan respects the music we and he loved. He respects the artists who created it, even lived it.
These shows are so humane, so out of time… Dylan is still protesting. He is protesting our fast-paced, dehumanized present by calling us to gather round the hearth of old-time radio and remember life as it used to be and could be again, if we stop and really listen to it, and to each other.’
Dylan, Bob - 2008_10_22 XM Radio Show #78 - Night
Broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, 22 october 2008
XM radio_Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
Joe Houston - All Night Long
Dr John - Such A Night
Drifters - Another Night With The Boys
LeRoy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down
Fred Astaire - The Way You Look Tonight
Willie Nelson - Nite Life
Chick Carbo - In The Night
Buddy Holly - Midnight Shift
Zuzu Bollin - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
Strangeloves - Night Time
Professor Longhair - In The Night
Latin Playboys - Forever Night Shade Mary
Charles Brown - Black Night
Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through The Night
Broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, 22 october 2008
XM radio_Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan
Joe Houston - All Night Long
Dr John - Such A Night
Drifters - Another Night With The Boys
LeRoy Carr - When The Sun Goes Down
Fred Astaire - The Way You Look Tonight
Willie Nelson - Nite Life
Chick Carbo - In The Night
Buddy Holly - Midnight Shift
Zuzu Bollin - Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
Strangeloves - Night Time
Professor Longhair - In The Night
Latin Playboys - Forever Night Shade Mary
Charles Brown - Black Night
Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make It Through The Night
No more talking, check the comments and just listen (like Aussi 'Imogen'..)
Labels: bob dylan
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Bob Dylan Theme time radio 3 season
Imogen wrote in the shoutbox : Hi, I am trying to get hold of a complete set of recordings of Bob Dylans Theme Time Radio Hour - I am in Australia so miss most of the due to time differences - do you know where I can get them?
For those who want the older episodes check Theme Time Radio Hour Archive.
I checked two links and and it was very good. Needless to say I have all the shows of the first two years myself and already made some people very happy.
Today Bob Dylan started the new season and the first episode was called Money part one. What a choice in these days.... and it was fun again to listen to mister Bobby Zimmerman !
For those who want the older episodes check Theme Time Radio Hour Archive.
I checked two links and and it was very good. Needless to say I have all the shows of the first two years myself and already made some people very happy.
Labels: bob dylan
Friday, September 21, 2007
Bob Dylan - 2007_09_19 XM Satallite Radio
Bob Dylan's first Theme Time Hour broadcast I posted end april 2006 got over 100 listeners.April 2007 was the last one so far.
You can read all about this very succesful first season on Wikipedia (listings included).
After a well deserved holiday mister Robert Alan Zimmerman is back on air.
Yesterday the new radio season started. The title of his first new show : Hello.
If you wanna give it a try to listen to this XM satallite broadcast (it's #51, I have 'm all : so much fun to listen driving in my car) go to the comments.
Labels: bob dylan
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Dylan's selfportrait
Listened last night to some Bob Dylan records. One of my favorites is his 1970 'country' 2-LP Selfportrait. I know most pro's consider this as one of his worst but I like his musical choice and style on this LP.
Search my BLog for more Bob Dylan (like his XM Radio shows which starts again in about 6 weeks....). Just a hint Dylans first recording session ? on 2006 dec 28.
Labels: bob dylan
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Bob Dylan's first recording ?
Harry Belafonte has always been to me the Calypso singer.I do have his very nice Carnegie Hall concerts (with the great Odetta !) as well as some others.
In 1962 he made an album called Midnight special. Recording info : Webster Hall, New York City, New York, February 2, 1962.
Interesting about it is that on the title track Bob Dylan is playing mondharmonica.
It seems Belafonte and Dylan didn't quite get along well so after this song their co-operation was over.
In the same year Carolyn Hester issued a selftitled album wich was recorded a few month's earlier (1961 sept). On this one mister Bob Zimmerman plays on several tracks harp !
I have that album but I have to say it nicely, it's not my kind of 'my music'.
So this was Dylan's first professional recording but you can hardly recognize him.
In 1962 he made an album called Midnight special. Recording info : Webster Hall, New York City, New York, February 2, 1962.
Interesting about it is that on the title track Bob Dylan is playing mondharmonica.
It seems Belafonte and Dylan didn't quite get along well so after this song their co-operation was over.
In the same year Carolyn Hester issued a selftitled album wich was recorded a few month's earlier (1961 sept). On this one mister Bob Zimmerman plays on several tracks harp !I have that album but I have to say it nicely, it's not my kind of 'my music'.
So this was Dylan's first professional recording but you can hardly recognize him.
On Midnight special however we can hear him as we all 'know' him !
I have here the almost complete session of this song (20 tracks). So Bob Dylan lovers have to get it !
Is there anyone who dare comment to it ?
I have here the almost complete session of this song (20 tracks). So Bob Dylan lovers have to get it !
Is there anyone who dare comment to it ?
Labels: bob dylan, carolyn hester, harry belafonte
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Bob Dylan - Modern times
I lost Bob Dylan out of sight in the early seventies.My last LP's I bought were 69-Nashville Skyline and 70-Self portrait. The later albums became more and more too difficult to understand for me.
After I heard two songs of his latest CD I decided to listen to it in our small local music store. Well was that a refreshing CD and so I decided to buy it.
Listened to it now several times and must say it stays refreshing.
Of course there are differences but this CD reminds me to those (country) LP's.
Played them also again. To me Bob Zimmerman is 'back'.
Take a look in the Music Bible for an extensive review.
No download possibility, just buy it : you will not be disappointed.
Labels: bob dylan
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Dylan, Bob - XM Radio shows
As I earlier wrote (see Cassius Clay) a promise is made, a promise has to be kept.
So here are the two missing shows by Bob Dylan on XM sattelite radio shows.
Scodav & Sylans owe me some .. :-}
http://rapidshare.de/files/22133891/DB-2006_05_10_XM_RS_02_Moms.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/22141656/DB-2006_05_17_XM_RS_02_drinks.rar
The last one should be #03 but in the file it's OK.
Password (if necessary) is :
http://jeansmusicblog.blogspot.com/
So here are the two missing shows by Bob Dylan on XM sattelite radio shows.
Scodav & Sylans owe me some .. :-}
http://rapidshare.de/files/22133891/DB-2006_05_10_XM_RS_02_Moms.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/22141656/DB-2006_05_17_XM_RS_02_drinks.rar
The last one should be #03 but in the file it's OK.
Password (if necessary) is :
http://jeansmusicblog.blogspot.com/
Labels: bob dylan
Friday, June 02, 2006
Dylan, Bob - 2006_05_31 XM Radio
With no further comment here's Dylan's radio show #05.
I'll provide also show #02 & 03 as asked by Scodav & Sylans.
Gimmie time.
Dylan, Bob - 2006_05_31 XM Radio Show #05 - Coffee
Java Jive - The Ink Spots
One Cup of Coffee and a Cigarette - Jerry Irby
The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra
Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding
Caffeine and Nicotine - Curtis Gordon
Cigarettes and Coffee Blues - Lefty Frizzell
Coffee Blues - Sam Lightnin' Hopkins
Keep That Coffee Hot - Scatman Crothers
Coffee Cigarettes and Tears - The Larks
Black Coffee - Bobby Darin
Raindrops In My Coffee - Sexmith and Kerr
Coffee and TV - Blur
Forty Cups of Coffee - Ella Mae Morse
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee - Glenn Miller Orchestra (no end because running out of time ...).
http://rapidshare.de/files/22003652/DB-2006_05_31_XM_RS_04_Coffee.rar
No pass.
I'll provide also show #02 & 03 as asked by Scodav & Sylans.
Gimmie time.
Dylan, Bob - 2006_05_31 XM Radio Show #05 - Coffee
Java Jive - The Ink Spots
One Cup of Coffee and a Cigarette - Jerry Irby
The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra
Black Coffee in Bed - Squeeze
Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding
Caffeine and Nicotine - Curtis Gordon
Cigarettes and Coffee Blues - Lefty Frizzell
Coffee Blues - Sam Lightnin' Hopkins
Keep That Coffee Hot - Scatman Crothers
Coffee Cigarettes and Tears - The Larks
Black Coffee - Bobby Darin
Raindrops In My Coffee - Sexmith and Kerr
Coffee and TV - Blur
Forty Cups of Coffee - Ella Mae Morse
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee - Glenn Miller Orchestra (no end because running out of time ...).
http://rapidshare.de/files/22003652/DB-2006_05_31_XM_RS_04_Coffee.rar
No pass.
Labels: bob dylan
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Dylan, Bob - 2006_05_24 XM Radio Show
Dylan's first Theme Time Hour broadcast I posted end april did take over 100 listeners 'till now.
So here's last weeks show.
Dylan, Bob - Theme Time Radio Hour # 4 - Baseball
Broadcast on XM Satellite Radio 24 May, 2006.
01-Baseball Boogie - Mabel Scott
02-Home Run - Chance Halladay
03-Baseball Baby - Johnny Darling
04-Baseball Canto - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
05-Three Strikes And You're Out - Cowboy Copas
06-Life Is A Ball Game - Winona Carr
07-Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball - Buddy Johnson
08-Joltin' Joe DiMaggio - Les Brown Orchestra
09-Joe DiMaggio's Done It Again - Billy Bragg & Wilco
10-Don Newcomb Really Throws That Ball - Teddy Brannon Orchestra
11-Newk's Fadeaway - Sonny Rollins
12-Say Hey - The Treniers
13-The Wizard Of Oz - Sam Bush
14-3rd Base, Dodger Stadium - Ry Cooder
15-You Gotta Have Heart - Soundtrack Cast
Subject was and not birthday/age as I espected (Dylan became 65). Next week it's coffee.
Hope you enjoy it.
See comment for the link.
Labels: bob dylan
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Past, present, future ...... part 2 Dylan, Bob - First XM Radio Show 2006_05_03
Second the future.Here's Bob Dylan's first radio show for XM radio. It isn't scheduled to air until May 3rd 2006. Be one of the first to hear it !
Almost only songs from the fifties by :
Muddy Waters - Jimmie Davis - Joe Jones - Dean Martin - Prisonaires - Consolers - Jimi Hendrix - Judy Garland - Irma Thomas - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Slim Harpo - Lord Beginner - Fats Domino - Spaniels - Stevie Wonder - Frank Sinatra - Staples Singers - Carter Family.
Hey Bob Zimmerman is in shape !
And this man becomes 65 years next month and still will not retire according to his tour schedule !
The playlist and link is in the comments.
Labels: bob dylan
