Bob Dylan’s fourth album, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, was released 50 years ago, on August 8, 1964.
The album was recorded during one session, on July 9, 1964, in Columbia Studio A in New York with Tom Wilson producing.
Four songs that were recorded during the session were not included on the album. All were eventually released with the exception of “Denise.”
Here are the outtakes.
Enjoy.
“Denise” and “New Orleans Rag”:
“California”:
“Mama, You Been On On My Mind”:
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is on the track):
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Of just buy the damn thing:
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On June 9, 1964 Bob Dylan spent an intense recording session laying down the entire Another Side of Bob Dylan album plus some songs that he didn’t use.
The session was documented in the New Yorker by Nat Hentoff. You can read that story here.
I’d not heard “Denise” before today and it’s a winner for sure.
“Denise” and “New Orleans Rag”:
“Mama, You Been On My Mind”:
“Mr. Tambourine Man” with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott:
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Forty-Four years ago, on January 6, 1971, according to Tim Dunn’s “The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962-2007,” Bob Dylan’s song “I Shall Be Free #10” was copyrighted.
What’s odd about that is that the song was written and recorded nearly six and a half years earlier. It appeared on Dylan’s fourth album, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, which was released August 8, 1964.
I guess it slipped through the cracks.
Some (Clinton Heylin for one) think this song is a throwaway. I disagree. It provides a good counterpoint to the heavier material on the album, and it contains plenty of great lines.
While it’s a humorous song, it’s also an example of Dylan beginning to move away from traditional, straightforward songwriting.
The more surreal writing of later albums (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding) is alive and well in this song.
And it contains at least one classic Dylan line:
“I’m a poet, I know it, hope I don’t blow it.”
According to Clinton Heylin, there were some verses that Dylan chose not to record. Here’s one of them:
now malcolm x is on my trail
robert welch wants to throw me in jail
bishop sheen says i got no belief
rabbi greenbaum says I’m a thief
Below are two outtakes plus the version that’s on Another Side Of Bob Dylan.
“I Shall Be Free” (official version as it appears on Another Side of Bob Dylan), recorded June 9, 1964:
“I Shall Be Free #10” (outtake #2), recorded June 9, 1964:
“I Shall Be Free #10” (outtake), recorded June 9, 1964:
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