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Blowin' In the Wind by Peter, Paul and
Mary enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No2. The song is also the first hit for its composer, Bob Dylan.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)
Jeff Hanna (singer-guitarist, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) : Bob Dylan was the first modern folk artist that I was drawn to. And Blowin' In The Wind was an amazing song. It was one of the first great, inspiring, socially conscious compositions by somebody of my generation that I heard as a kid. And the fact that he blew the doors off radio a few years later with Like A Rolling Stone sealed the deal for me.
(Source : http://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-hall-of-fame-inspirations-jeff-hanna)
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(Source : speech at Musicares Person Of The Year event, Feb 2015)
Jeff Hanna (singer-guitarist, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) : Bob Dylan was the first modern folk artist that I was drawn to. And Blowin' In The Wind was an amazing song. It was one of the first great, inspiring, socially conscious compositions by somebody of my generation that I heard as a kid. And the fact that he blew the doors off radio a few years later with Like A Rolling Stone sealed the deal for me.
(Source : http://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-hall-of-fame-inspirations-jeff-hanna)