“And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain’s tower, while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers. Between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow, and nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row.”
~Bob Dylan
With summer vacation beginning for me on May 1, I’m focusing on something a little different this week.
I’m putting together medleys of the songs that made up the soundtrack of MY teenage life, and with 1964 in the rear view mirror, it’s time to see what I was listening to in 1965.
I was still more (pardon the pun) “in tune” with British artists, but if a certain singer/songwriter had escaped my attention in 1963 and 64, he certainly didn’t in 1965.
I was suddenly enthralled with the music of Bob Dylan and remain so today. 54 years after its release, the song epic masterpiece that ends this medley is one of the 10 songs I would want require if I was stranded on an island.
Play button is on the left … Volume slider is on the right
Soundtrack To My Life 1965 Medley
Donovan – Animals – Beatles – Rolling Stones
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – James Brown – Hollies
Byrds – Mindbenders – Righteous Brothers – Bob Dylan
Ray when Dylon first came out I didn’t like him!! I couldn’t see what people saw in him!! I forgot what song he did that changed my mind but I realized how good he was!! Now that I am older and maybe a little wiser I am a huge fan!! And how could you not like the British bands!! Good taste in music is a talent you have always had!! Have a great day!!
Fred, when Bob D came along, I was too wrapped up with rock and roll bands (mostly British) to think about an acoustic folk singer. Once he went electric in 1965, I started paying attention and I have never stopped. In a period of 18 months, beginning in ’65, he delivered three incredible albums … ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and the superb ‘Blonde On Blonde’.
Rock Your Day, Mr. G!
Soundtrack to our life for many of us, thanks for taking us back with these great Medleys. <3
Thank you, Nancy. SO many memories!