Fact #102881
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Short story:
Bob Dylan has a recording session at Columbia Studios in New York City, USA, working on tracks for the album Another Side Of Bob Dylan, including Mr Tambourine Man.
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott (folk singer) : I said, 'Do you have the words, Bob?' He said, 'No, I know this one.' So I harmonized on the chorus, because I didn't know the song all the way through. It never got used on that album, but that tape was heard by Jim Dickson, who at that time took over managing a group called The Byrds. The song was a big hit. It wasn't till years later that they told me they learned it off a tape of Bob and me. I have never, to this day, been able to get a copy of that tape.
David Crosby (The Byrds] : When I started singing it the Front Room at the Troubador with McGuinn and Gene Clark , I said, 'I have a friend who knows a lot about the business. We ought to go sing for him and see what he says.' ??So Jim (Dickson) became our mentor, and then our manager. He brought us a demo of Dylan and Ramblin' Jack singing Tambourine Man, which was truly awful - two guys that were not too sharp on staying on tune - but it was a great song. Jim convinced us to do it. Once we realized that you could take Dylan and transmute it the way Roger did, we did a lot of them.
Martin Carthy (UK folk singer) : In 1964 he came over to my flat, sat down and played Mr Tambourine Man, which was just sensational. That was his way of saying hello; he picks up an instrument, sings the song and then you play something, and then you talk.
(Source : Interview in Radio Times, 13 October, 2007)
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David Crosby (The Byrds] : When I started singing it the Front Room at the Troubador with McGuinn and Gene Clark , I said, 'I have a friend who knows a lot about the business. We ought to go sing for him and see what he says.' ??So Jim (Dickson) became our mentor, and then our manager. He brought us a demo of Dylan and Ramblin' Jack singing Tambourine Man, which was truly awful - two guys that were not too sharp on staying on tune - but it was a great song. Jim convinced us to do it. Once we realized that you could take Dylan and transmute it the way Roger did, we did a lot of them.
Martin Carthy (UK folk singer) : In 1964 he came over to my flat, sat down and played Mr Tambourine Man, which was just sensational. That was his way of saying hello; he picks up an instrument, sings the song and then you play something, and then you talk.
(Source : Interview in Radio Times, 13 October, 2007)