--- 1 9 6 4 --- C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION 1. CALENDAR 2. CONCERTS 1964 2.1 Dates 2.2 Tapes 3. RECORDINGS 4. ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN 5. SONGS 1964 6. SOURCES 7. SUGGESTED READINGS INTRODUCTION After two years of extensive song writing the pace slows down. More and more of Dylan's interest in writing shifts away from song lyrics first to poems, then to prose. In a number of interviews he talks about a novel and also about several plays. None of these have however seen the light of day. One recording session in June results in his fourth and last solo album, ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN. 1. CALENDAR January 13 Release of THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' January 31 Helen McNamara interviews Dylan for The Toronto Telegram, while he is in Toronto for the filming of "Quest". Dylan mentions that is is currently working on both a novel and a play. February 1 The recording of "Quest", a half hour TV program series from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. February 2 In an interview for the Canadian magazine "Gargoyle" Dylan again mentions the novel and the play. He keeps coming back to these topics in a number of interviews this year. February 3-22 Dylan, Victor Maimudes, Pete Karman and Paul Clayton make a cross-country trip from New York to Los Angeles. February 6 Meets poet Carl Sandburg in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Like Robert Graves in England, Sandburg is polite but rather unimpressed by Dylan. February 25 Steve Allen Show in Los Angeles. March Dylan is interviewed by Chris Well from Life. Mid March Final break up with Suze Rotolo, later "documented" in his song "Ballad In Plain D". May 9 Dylan leaves for England, where he is to give a number of concerts and appear in TV shows. May 12 Maureen Cleave interview for the Evening Standard. May 12 TV program "Tonight". May 17 Max Jones from Melody Maker interviews Dylan. May 21 - Dylan arrives in Paris where he stays with the French Early June singer Hughes Aufray. He also meets Nico, to whom he later donates his song "I'll Keep It With Mine", which she includes on her first album. June 9 In the only CBS recording session between October 1963 and January 1965 (!) Dylan records his last solo album, ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN. June 16 Another interview by Nat Hentoff for The New Yorker. Summer Dylan works with a book together with Barry Fenstein. Summer The writing of eleven poems, five of which are published as liner notes on ANOTHER SIDE with the title "Some Other Kind of Songs". All eleven are later published in "Writings & Drawings" and "Lyrics 1962-1985". Summer Rumoured recording session with Joan Baez, including three duets: "Mama You Been On My Mind", "Costa Bravos" and "All I Really Wanna Do". July 24-26 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan is the major performer on July 26th and he presents a new image to an audience of over fifteen thousand. His set contains no topical songs but his new "All I Really Wanna Do", "To Ramona", "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Chimes Of Freedom". For the encore he invites Joan Baez and they sing "With God On Our Side". Reviews are mainly unfavorable. August 8 Release of ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN August 21 Dylan writes a parody of a letter from Joan Baez to her mother. It is included in her autobiography "And a song to sing with". August 28 First meeting between Dylan and the Beatles takes place at the Delmonico Hotel in New York. October 31 The "Halloween" concert in New York Philharmonic Hall. CBS is again taping for a possible live album. The concert programme contains Dylan's poem "Advice To Geraldine On Her Miscellaneous Birthday", included in Lyrics 1962-1985. Early December Bob Blackmar interviews Dylan on the University of Santa Barbara Campus and later broadcasting it on the local KCSB station. 2. CONCERTS 1964 2.1 Dates ~~~~~~~~~ Tape January ?? Zanesville, Ohio February 7 Emory University, Atlanta 12 Tongaloo, Jackson, Mississippi 15 Denver Civic Auditorium Theater, Denver, Colorado 22 Berkely Community Theater, Berkely, California 29 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, Cal. ?? Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio March early several concerts with Joan Baez in southern California late Providence, Rhode Island April early Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts late Brandeis University Folk Festival, Waltham, Mass. ?? University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts May early Monterey Folk Festival, Monterey County Fairgrounds, California 17 Royal Festival Hall, London, England July mid Ann Arbour High School Auditorium, Ann Arbour, Mich. mid Detroit Masonic Temple Auditorium, Detroit, Michigan 24 Newport Folk Festival, Newport, New York 26 * Newport Folk Festival, Newport, New York August 8 * Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York City (Joan Baez concert) September late * Philadelphia Town Hall, Pennsylvania October ?? Detroit ?? Kenyon, Minnesota 31 * Philharmonic Hall, New York City November 3 Yale UN, New Haven, Connecticut 13 Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 25 * Civic Auditorium, San Jose, California 27 * Masonic Hall Memorial Auditorium, San Francisco 29 Sacramento Auditorium, Sacramento, California December 1 College Gymnasium, San Maeto, California 4 Peterson Gymnasium, San Diego, California 5 Wilson High School, Long Beach, California ?? University of Santa Barbara Campus, California 2.2 Tapes ~~~~~~~~~ JB = Joan Baez vocal DJB = Duet with Joan Baez Aud = audience I = incomplete FS = film soundtrack Masonic Hall Memorial Auditorium, San Francisco 11/27 __________ Mono Aud,I Civic Auditorium, San Jose, 11/25 _________________________ | Mono Aud,I Philharmonic Hall, New York City, 10/31 ______________ | | Mono PA Philadelphia Town Hall, 9/late __________________ | | | Mono Aud,I Forest Hills Tennis Stadium 8/8 ____________ | | | | Mono Aud,I Newport Folk Festival 7/26 _____________ | | | | | Mono FS,I | | | | | | All I Really Want To Do X 18 19 Mama, You've Been On My Mind DJB X 15 X It Ain't Me Babe DJB X 18 With God On Our Side DJB X 17 The Times They Are A-Changin' 1 1 1 Girl From The North Country 2 Who Killed Davey Moore? 3 5 Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues 4 3 2 To Ramona 5 4 3 Ballad Of Hollis Brown 6 Chimes Of Freedom 7 I Don't Believe You 8 9 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 9 8 6 X Mr Tambourine Man 10 10 7 Talking World War III Blues 11 12 9 X A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 12 11 8 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 13 13 10 X Only A Pawn In Their Game 14 With God On Our Side 15 It Ain't Me Babe 16 The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 17 14 Spanish Harlem Incident 2 Gates Of Eden 6 4 X If You Gotta Go, Go Now 7 5 X Silver Dagger JB 16 3. RECORDINGS January Witmark demos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt) 2. Guess I'm Doing Fine Mono studio recordings. Febr 1 Quest TV ~~~~~~~~ CBC, Toronto, Canada 1. The Times They Are A-Changin' 2. Talking World War III Blues 3. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 4. Girl From The North Country 5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 6. Restless Farewell Broadcast by CBS march 10, 1964 in the Quest TV-series. The episode was called The Times They Are A-Changin'. Mono TV broadcast, approximately 27 minutes. Febr 25 Steve Allen Show ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hollywood 1. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll Mono TV broadcast, approximately 13 minutes, including a chat between Bob Dylan and Steve Allen. Early Geoff Muldaur session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Downtown Blues (Geoff Muldaur) Geoff Muldaur (vocal & guitar), Fritz Richmond (bass), John Sebastian (harmonica), Eric von Schmidt (piano), Bob Landy (piano). Released on Various Artists: "Blues Project", Elektra June, 1964. Stereo studio recording, approximately 3 minutes. May 12 Tonight TV Show ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BBC Studios, London, England 1. With God On Our Side Mono TV broadcast, approximately 3 minutes. June Witmark demos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Mr. Tambourine Man 2. Mama, You Been On My Mind 3. I'll Keep It With Mine Bob Dylan piano. Mono studio recordings. June 9 The ANOTHER SIDE sessions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Columbia Studios, New York City. 1. All I Really Want To Do 2. Black Crow Blues 3. Spanish Harlem Incident 4. Chimes Of Freedom 5. I Shall Be Free No 10 6. To Ramona 7. Motorpsycho Nitemare 8. My Back Pages 9. I Don't Believe You 10. Ballad In Plain D 11. It Ain't Me Babe 12. California 13. Denise 14. I'll Keep It With Mine 2, 12-14 Bob Dylan on piano. 1-11 released on ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN, August 8, 1964. 6 released on single, August 1967, in the Benelux countries. 11 released on BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS, March 27, 1967. 1,8 released on BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS, VOL 2, Nov. 17, 1971. 11 released on MASTERPIECES, March, 1978. 1 released on DYLAN ON DYLAN, Westwood One Radio Station Discs, November 17, 1984. 6,11 released on BIOGRAPH, October 28, 1985. 1-11,13 stereo studio recordings. 12,14 mono studio recordings. 4. ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN This album was released August 8, 1964 and on CD July 1988. Approximately 51 minutes. Tracks: Live renditions [year:#, a = acoustic] ~~~~~~~ Side A: All I Really Want To Do 63:3a, 65:3a, 78:93 Black Crow Blues - Spanish Harlem Incident 64:1a Chimes Of Freedom 64:1a, 87:13 I Shall Be Free No 10 - To Ramona 64:3a, 65:4a, 69:1a, 74:1a, 78:58, 80:9, 84:3a, 86:33a, 87:1, 88:22a, 89:21a, 90:2a Side B: Motorpsycho Nitemare - My Back Pages 88:5, 89:5, 90:2 I Don't Believe You 64:2a, 66:8, 74:9, 75:6a, 76:1, 78;101, 81:2, 88;1a, 88:2, 89:9, 90:2 Ballad In Plain D - It Ain't Me Babe 64:3a, 65:4a, 66:1, 69:1a, 74:39, 75:26, 76:3a, 76:1, 78:64a, 80:2a, 81:32a, 84:23a, 86:24a, 88:34a, 89:20, 90:11 Only circulating live renditions are counted. 1990 includes the Europe Summer Festival Tour. Official live releases: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It Ain't Me Babe - 1974 - Before The Flood All I Really Want To Do - 1978 - At Budokan It Ain't Me Babe - 1984 - Real Live Singles from this album: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If You Gotta Go, Go Now/To Ramona - August 1967 - Benelux countries only! Recording dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to Krogsgaard all the released tracks were recorded June 9, 1984. None of these songs had been recorded before June 9. Outtakes: ~~~~~~~~~ The outtakes from the June 9 session are disputed: according to Krogsgaard Dundas Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag THE TIMES sessions ANOTHER SIDE session Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag THE TIMES sessions ANOTHER SIDE session California ANOTHER SIDE session THE TIMES session Denise ANOTHER SIDE session ANOTHER SIDE session East Laredo Blues THE TIMES sessions ANOTHER SIDE session Farewell THE TIMES sessions ANOTHER SIDE session I'll Keep It With Mine ANOTHER SIDE session BRINGING IT sessions Sally Free And Easy THE TIMES sessions ANOTHER SIDE session That's All Right Mama THE TIMES sessions ANOTHER SIDE session This album was listed on the charts in the US during no less than 41 weeks though it only reached #43 at best. In the UK it spent 1 week at the Top 10 as #8. 5. SONGS 1964 January Guess I'm Doing Fine [1] February Chimes Of Freedom [2] May It Ain't Me Babe [3] Mr. Tambourine Man June All I Really Wanna Do Ballad In Plain D [4] Black Crow Blues [4,5] Denise East Laredo Blues I Don't Believe You I Shall Be Free No 10 [4] I'll Keep It With Mine [6] Mama, You Been On My Mind [7] Motorpsycho Nitemare [4] My Back Pages Spanish Harlem Incident [4] To Ramona September It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) October Gates Of Eden If You Gotta Go, Go Now [8] Notes ~~~~~ [1] Covered by Hamilton Camp on his album "Paths Of Victory", Elektra 1964. [2] First live rendition with The Grateful Dead 1987. Also with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in Europe same year. Official theme song for the 1988 Amnesty International tour, where it was played by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band, released on CBS maxi-single "Spare Parts", 1988. [3] A live version from Wembley Stadium, London, England, July 7, 1964, can be found on REAL LIVE. [4] No known live performance. [5] First officially released song with Bob Dylan on piano. [6] Also recorded in 1965 during the BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME sessions. [7] Also recorded during the SELF PORTRAIT sessions in 1969 and later with George Harrison. Covered by many different artists and groups, eg by The Original Marauders on their album "Now Your Mouth Cries Wolf: A Tribute to Bob Dylan", Pied Piper 1977. Played live by Dylan once in 1974: afternoon show in Philadelphia, January 6. A number of duets with Joan Baez during the Rolling Thunder Revue and finally a number of acoustic performances during the never-ending tour 1988->. [8] Released on single in the Benelux countries, Covered by a number of artists including Fairport Convention (in French), The Flying Burrito Brothers and Rick Nelson. 6. SOURCES Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan Stolen Moments The Ultimate Reference Book. Wanted Man 1988. Michael Krogsgaard: Master Of The Tracks. The Bob Dylan Reference Book of Recording. October 1988. Glen Dundas: Tangled Up In Tapes Revisited A Collector's Guide to the Recordings of Bob Dylan. SMA Services 1990. Tim Dunn: I Just Write 'Em As They Come. An Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan A Not-A-Ces Publishing Venture 1990. Alex Russell: Flagging Down The "Double E" - (Dylan, with allusions) Richie Roberts, New York, 1983. 7. SUGGESTED READINGS General background: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Kramer: Bob Dylan Citadel Press (hardback) or Pocket Books. Great photo book from 1964-1965. Anthony Scaduto: Bob Dylan An intimate biography. New American Library 1973 Robert Shelton: No Direction Home The Life and Music of Bob Dylan New American Library 1986 Eric von Schmidt: Baby, Let Me Follow You Down & Jim Rooney The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years Anchor Books 1979 Article compilations: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Craig McGregor (ed): Bob Dylan. A Retrospective William Morrow 1972 Elizabeth M. Thomson (ed): Conclusions On The Wall New Essays On Bob Dylan Thin Man 1980 The Dylan Companion MacMillan 1990 Articles: ~~~~~~~~~ Bob Dylan At Newport 1964 article by Bill Allison in The Telegraph #9 Bob Dylan's Publications in Broadside Magazine 1962-1965 - article by David Pichaske in The Telegraph #20 The Dylan and Baez Concerts 1964 article by Stephen Pickering in his "A Commemoration" The Witmark Demo Tapes - article by Clinton Heylin in The Telegraph #16 Uncopyrighted Songs - article by Clinton Heylin/The Telegraph #25 _________________________