Fact #65868
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Mike Porco, owner of Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, takes Bob Dylan to join the Musicians' Union.Full article:
Mike Porco : We went up to the union. The man says, "Robert, Mike told me you're going to be a future star, you're gonna be great. Tell me the truth - what will you do when you become big? Mike has a lot of faith in you." So Bobby looked at him, and he was very shy - even now he's shy - and he hunched his shoulders as if to say, "I don't know." Then he filled out the application. Mike told him to come the next day with his mother because he was only twenty. Bobby said, "I ain't got no mother." The man said, "That's all right, come with your father." Bobby said, "I ain't got no father either." He man looks on the application and looked at me and whispered, "What is he, a bastard?"
So the man said, "I can't give you the contract because you have to be twenty-one - unless some legal guardian wants to sign. He said to me, "Mike, do you want to sign it as his guardian?" I said, "Bobby, do you want me to sign it?" Bobby said, "Oh, sure, Mike. I would appreciate it." So I signed his contract as his guardian.
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Bob Dylan (around this time) : I went up to Folkways. I says, "Howdy. I've written some songs." They wouldn't even look at them. I had always heard that Folkways was a good place. Irwin Silber didn't even talk to me and I never got to see Moe Asch.
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Izzy Young : I took him to Moe Asch of Folkways Records, who turned him down immediately. Then I took him to Jac Holzman at Elektra Records. When I asked Jac Holzman about that years later, he said that he doesn't remember me bringing him… then I took him to Vanguard Records. Manny Solomon later said, "Listen, Izzy, I'm glad I didn't put him out on a record, because I don't want a freak on my label."
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So the man said, "I can't give you the contract because you have to be twenty-one - unless some legal guardian wants to sign. He said to me, "Mike, do you want to sign it as his guardian?" I said, "Bobby, do you want me to sign it?" Bobby said, "Oh, sure, Mike. I would appreciate it." So I signed his contract as his guardian.
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Bob Dylan (around this time) : I went up to Folkways. I says, "Howdy. I've written some songs." They wouldn't even look at them. I had always heard that Folkways was a good place. Irwin Silber didn't even talk to me and I never got to see Moe Asch.
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Izzy Young : I took him to Moe Asch of Folkways Records, who turned him down immediately. Then I took him to Jac Holzman at Elektra Records. When I asked Jac Holzman about that years later, he said that he doesn't remember me bringing him… then I took him to Vanguard Records. Manny Solomon later said, "Listen, Izzy, I'm glad I didn't put him out on a record, because I don't want a freak on my label."
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