Continuing with my review of the Golden Decade of Music 1965-1974, where I am selecting the artists alphabetically and playing selections of their songs I liked or found influential from that Golden Decade. I am now moving into the D’s and will play one from the next artist, Bob Dylan; an American singer-songwriter that has been influential in music and culture for more than 5 decades. Most of his celebrated work took place in the 1960s, when he was both a chronicler and reluctant figurehead of social unrest, with his early songs becoming anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. The next song of Dylan’s I am selecting is Positively 4th Street, a song first recorded by Dylan in New York City on July 29, 1965. It was released as a single by Columbia Records on September 7, 1965, reaching #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song as #206 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. The song was released between the albums Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, as the follow-up to Dylans hit single Like a Rolling Stone, but wasnt included on either LP. The songs title does not appear anywhere in the lyrics and there has been much debate over the years as to the significance or what individual the song concerns. The studio band on Positively 4th Street featured Robert Gregg (drums), Harvey Brooks (bass), Frank Owens and Paul Griffin (piano), Al Kooper (organ) and Mike Bloomfield (guitar), with the song initially being logged on the studios official recording session documentation under the working title of Black Dalli Rue. https://youtube/watch?v=Yp0hfHwdTk4
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:35:51 +0000
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