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Fact #187843

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Short story:

Peter, Paul And Mary release a Bob Dylan-penned single, Blowin' In The Wind, in the USA.

Full article:

Bob Dylan : I wrote it (Blowin' In The Wind) in a café across the street from The Gaslight Cafe. Although I thought it was special, I didn't know to what degree. I wrote it for the moment, ya know?

Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul And Mary] : It was Bobby Dylan's writing that put us on another level. A big controversy started when Albert [Grossman] brought in the acetate of Bobby's new solos. Albert thought the big song was Don't Think Twice. That, he said, was the hit. We went crazy over Blowing in the Wind.

We went into the studio and released Blowing in the Wind as a single. We didn't wait for an album, we just put it out. Instinctively, we knew the song carried the moment of its own time.

Bob Dylan : I remember running into Peter, of Peter, Paul And Mary , on the street after they recorded it. 'Man,' he said, 'You're going to make five thousand dollars.' And I said, 'What?' Five thousand dollars … it seemed like a million at the time. He said, 'It's amazing, man. You really hit it big.' Of course, I'd been playing the song for a while anyway and people had always responded to it in a positive way, to say the least. Money was never a motivation to write anything. I never wrote anything with 'this is going to be a hit or this isn't' type attitude. I'm not that smart anyway.

Mary Travers (Peter, Paul And Mary] : If I had to pick one song, my softest spot, it would be Blowing in the Wind. If you could imagine the March on Washington with Martin Luther King and singing that song in front of a quarter of a million people, black and white, who believed they could make America more generous and compassionate in a nonviolent way, you begin to know how incredible that belief was.

And still is. To sing the line, 'How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free?' in front of some crummy little building that refuses to admit Jews in 1983, the song elicits the same response now as it did then. It adresses the same questions. 'How many deaths will it take till they know that too many people have died?' Sing that line in a prison yard where political prisoners from El Salvador are being kept. Or sing it with Bishop Tu Tu. Same response. Same questions.
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