Here’s the remastered version of George Harrison’s version of Bob Dylan’s ‘If Not For You’
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Bob Dylan is in quite good voice as he covers the George Harrison-written Beatles classic, “Something,” at Madison Square Garden on November 13, 2002.
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I think you’ll get a good laugh from this animated cartoon of what happened during that historic meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles.
Enjoy.
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On November 20, 1961, Bob Dylan recorded “House of the Rising Sun” at Columbia Studio A in New York.
The recording appeared on his debut album, Bob Dylan.
Below are two versions by Dylan, plus versions of the old blues song by Nina Simone, Frijid Pink, Texas Alexander (possibly the earliest recorded version), The Supremes, Thin Lizzy, The Animals, Dave Van Ronk and others.
Enjoy!
Bob Dylan:
The Animals:
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Joan Baez:
The Supremes:
The White Stripes:
Nina Simone:
Josh White:
Roy Acuff:
Texas Alexander:
Dave Van Ronk:
Thin Lizzy:
The Beatles:
Libby Holman:
Frijid Pink:
Sinead O’Connor
Bob Dylan:
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Mission of Burma covered two Beatles’ songs — “Paperback Writer” and “Rain’ — at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Feb. 7, 2014.
“Rain” gets cut off in the above clip so here’s a full version the group played the next night at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.
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Here’s a roundup of good stuff that mostly broke today:
New video from The Notwist for “Kong,” drected by Yu Sato.
Listen: Animal Collective’s live Bonnaroo EP – Consequence of Sound
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roger McGuinn, Neil Young perform Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages” at Bob Dylan’s 1992 30th anniversary concert. Check out the video at The Guardian.
Karen O Sings “The Moon Song” & “Maps” At Oscar Nominees Night:
Beatles’ ‘Help!’ Jackets Going Up for AUction – Rolling Stone
Nw Shocking Pinks’ track, “Not Gambling”:
Papercuts’ “Still Knocking At the Door”:
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Paul McCartney sings “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and then is joined by Ringo for “With a Little Help from My Friends” on CBS’s “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles.”
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Yesterday CBS aired “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles” and among the performers was Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters who performed “Hey Bulldog” from Yellow Submarine with a band that included Peter Frampton, Don Was and The Wallflowers’ Rami Jaffe.
Dave Grohl – Hey Bulldog – Grammy Salute (The… by IdolxMuzic
Plus here’sThe Eurythmics doing “Fool on the Hill.”
Eurythmics – Fool On The Hill – Grammy Salute… by IdolxMuzic
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Last night the Arctic Monkeys performed The Beatles “All My Loving” at Madison Square Garden in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
Not a bad rendition, but they really needed to pick up the beat a bit.
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Last night on “Late Show with David Letterman” Lauryn Hill sang the George Harrison-penned Beatles’ song “Something.”
Tomorrow, by the way, marks 50 years since The Beatles first performed in the CBS studio that has since been renamed the “Ed Sullivan Theater” — the same theater where Lauryn Hill performed last night.
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