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Peter, Paul And Mary release a Bob Dylan-penned single, Blowin' In the Wind, in the USA. Its success on the pop charts will bring Dylan's name to many new fans.Full article:
Bob Dylan : I didn’t usually think of myself as writing songs for others to sing, but it was starting to happen. And it couldn’t have happened with a better group. They took a song of mine that I’d recorded before that was buried on one of my early records (Blowin’ in the Wind), and they turned it into a hit song. Not the way I would have done it - they straightened it out. But since then hundreds of people have recorded it. I don’t think that would have happened if it wasn’t for them. They definitely started something for me.
(Source : speech at Musicares Person Of The Year event, Feb 2015)
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(Source : speech at Musicares Person Of The Year event, Feb 2015)