--- 1 9 6 2 --- C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION 1. CALENDAR 2. RECORDINGS 3. SONGS 1962 4. SOURCES 5. SUGGESTED READINGS INTRODUCTION Dylan becomes an established folk artist and by the end of 1962 he is already headlining hootenanny shows. His song writing is now most prolific, 39 songs can be attributed to 1962, and a lot of time is spent recording the second album for CBS, THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN. 1. CALENDAR January John Hammond arranges a deal with music publishing company Leeds Music. A number of Dylan's new songs are recorded as for them. These are known as the "Leeds Music Demos". January 13 Dylan appears at the San Remo Coffee House in Schenectady, New York. February Dylan appears at Cafe Lena, Saratoga Springs, New York. February A new magazine "Broadside" is published. Dylan is to be a regular contributor. First issue contains the new song "Talkin' John Birch". March 2 Dylan, playing harmonica and singing backup vocals, records with Victoria Spivey and Big Joe Williams. Heylin attributes this session to October 21, 1961. March 19 The first self titled album is released. March 19 Dylan writes a poem for Izzy Young, called "Talking Folklore Center" It is published as a broad-sheet by the Folklore Center, later 1962. March 23 Gig at Gerde's Folk City. Spring Cynthia Gooding records 6 songs by Dylan in her apartment. April 16 or 23 At Gerde's Folk City Pete Seeger performs Blowin' In The Wind a new song Bob Dylan taught him the chords to backstage, just before the performance. April 20-22 Dylan shares the bill with Jesse Fuller at Ann Arbor Goddard College. April 24 - May 6 Gerde's Folk City. April 25 Recording for next album starts. May Dylan participates together with Gil Turner, Pete Seeger and Sis Cunningham in the Broadside Show broadcasted by WBAI-radio, New York, later in the fall. June 8 Suze Rotolo sails to Italy. Summer Edwin Miller interviews Dylan for the magazine "Seventeen". Dylan already dismisses the first album: "it's not where I'm at". Summer Gil Turner interviews Dylan for a profile in "Sing Out!". June 28 - July 1 The Potpourri in Montreal. July 2 Finjan Club in Montreal. Dylan's set is recorded. July 9 Second FREEWHEELIN' session in New York. July 13 Dylan signs with the Witmark music publishing company. August Broadside publishes a new Dylan composition called "Ain't Gonna Grieve" August 2 Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changes his name to Bob Dylan. August 11 Tony Glover again records Dylan at a private party in Minneapolis. Mid-August Rachel Price of FM-Stereo guide interviews Dylan: "Elvis Presley was a good singer ... in the beginning". September A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is first sung by Dylan at the Gaslight Cafe. Late September Another home tape is recorded at the Home of Eve and Mac MacKenzie. It includes the newly written Hard Rain. September 22 First appearance at Carnegie Hall. Dylan is part of an all star hootenanny. His set features the live debut (?) of Ballad Of Hollis Brown. October Dylan performs with John Gibbons on Cynthia Gooding's radio show for WBAI. One song is known, a number called "TB Blues" which is also mentioned by Dylan a week later, when he appears on the Billy Faier Show on WBAI-FM-Radio. October 5 Dylan headlines a "Travelin' Hootenanny" show in New York Town Hall. The show is enthusiastically reviewed by Robert Shelton. October Dylan is again taped at the Gaslight Cafe. This tape with 17 songs is usually called The Second Gaslight Tape. October 26 Recording for FREEWHEELIN' continues at Columbia Studios in New York. For the first time Dylan records with a band. November In order to transcribe songs for publication in the Broadside magazine, Dylan records 4 songs at the Broadside office. November 14 Further FREEWHEELIN' recordings. Late 1962 Four more songs are recorded at the Broadside office. November "Long Ago Far Away" demo is recorded for Witmark. December 6 In an attempt to finish the new album another recording session takes place. Mid-December Dylan leaves for England, his first trip to Europe, to appear in a TV play called "Madhouse On Castle Street". December 14 Release of first single: 'Mixed Up Confusion/Corrina Corrina' It is quickly withdrawn by CBS. December 22 Dylan performs at The Singers Club in London, and the next day at the King and Queen Pub in West End. December 29 Dylan plays at The Troubadour. December 30 Shooting of "Madhouse On Caste Street" begins. 2. RECORDINGS January Leeds Music Demos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. He Was A Friend Of Mine 2. Man On The Street 3. Hard Times In New York Town 4. Poor Boy Blues 5. Ballad For A Friend 6. Rambling, Gambling Willie 7. Man On The Street 8. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 9. Standing On The Highway Stereo studio recording, approximately 24 minutes. February Gooding Tape 1962 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthia Gooding's apartment, New York City. 1. Ballad Of Donald White 2. Wichita (Going To Louisiana) (trad) 3. Acne (Eric von Schmidt) 4. Rocks And Gravels 5. Long Time Man (trad., arr Alan Lomax) Mono recording, approximately 21 minutes. March 2 The Victoria Spivey Sessions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Sitting On Top Of The World (Big Joe Williams) 2. Wichita (Big Joe Williams) 3. Big Joe, Dylan And Victoria (Big Joe Williams) 4. It's Dangerous (Victoria Spivey) Victoria Spivey (piano & vocal), Big Joe Williams (guitar & vocal), Bob Dylan (harmonica, back-up vocal on 1). 1,2 released on Victoria Spivey's Three Kings And A Queen, Oct 1964. 3,4 released on Victoria Spivey's Three Kings And A Queen, Vol 2, July 1972. Mono studio recordings, approximately 11 minutes. April 25 First FREEWHEELIN' session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Columbia Studios, New York City. 1. Talkin' Hava Negilah 2. Baby Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams) 3. Milk Cow Calf's Blues/Good Morning Blues (Robert Johnson)/(trad) 4. Milk Cow Calf's Blues/Good Morning Blues (Robert Johnson)/(trad) 5. Wichita (Going To Louisiana) (trad.) 6. Wichita (Going To Louisiana) (trad.) 7. Worried Blues (Hally Wood) 8. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 9. Let Me Die In My Footsteps 10. Rocks And Gravels 9 released on the promotional edition of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, April 1963. One verse of 9 was cut out from the released version of 9. 1,2 and 7-10 mono studio recordings. 3-6 stereo studio recordings. Produced by John Hammond. May Broadside Show ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WBAI-FM Radio, New York City. 1. Ballad Of Donald White 2. The Death Of Emmett Till 3. Blowin' In The Wind 3 back-up vocal by Gil Turner, Pete Seeger and Sis Cunningham. Broadcast, Fall 1962. 1 and 2 released on Broadside Reunion, Folkways, 1972. Mono radio broadcast, approximately 57 minutes (songs are mixed with talk). May Gerde's Folk City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (Henry Thomas/Bob Dylan) 2. Talkin' New York 3. Corrina Corrina (trad., arr by Bob Dylan) 4. Deep Ellem Blues (Joe & Bob Attlesay) 5. Blowin' In The Wind Incomplete mono PA recording, approximately 20 minutes. June Witmark Demo Session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Blowin' In The Wind Mono studio recording. July 2 Finjan Club ~~~~~~~~~~~ Montreal, Canada. 1. The Death Of Emmett Till 2. Stealin', Stealin' (trad., arr by Memphis Jug Band) 3. Hiram Hubbard (trad.) 4. Blowin' In The Wind 5. Rocks And Gravels 6. Quit Your Low Down Ways 7. He Was A Friend Of Mine 8. Let Me Die In My Footsteps 9. Two Trains Runnin' (McKinley Morganfield) 10. Ramblin' On My Mind (Robert Johnson) 11. Blues Yodel No 8 (Muleskinner Blues) (Jimmie Rodgers/G, Vaughan) Mono recording, approximately 58 minutes. July 9 Second FREEWHEELIN' session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Columbia Studio, New York City. 1. Baby, I'm In The Mood For You 2. Baby, I'm In The Mood For You 3. Quit Your Low Down Ways 4. Corrina Corrina (trad., arr by Bob Dylan) 5. The Death Of Emmett Till 6. Rambling, Gambling Willie 7. Blowin' In The Wind 8. Down The Highway 9. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (Henry Thomas/Bob Dylan) 6-9 released on the promotional edition of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, April, 1963. 7-9 released on THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, May 27, 1963. 7 released on single 1963. 7 released on BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS, March 27, 1967. 7 released on MASTERPIECES, March, 1978. 7 released on DYLAN ON DYLAN, Westwood One Radio Station Discs, November 17,1984. 2,7 released on BIOGRAPH, October 28, 1985. 1,2,7-9 stereo studio recordings. 3-6 mono studio recordings. Produced by John Hammond. August Minnesota Home Tape ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The home of Tony Glover, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1. Tomorrow's A Long Time 2. This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) 3. Talking Hypocrite 4. Motherless Children (trad.) 5. Worried Blues (Hally Wood) 6. Long Time Gone 7. Deep Ellem Blues (Joe & Bob Attlesay) Mono recordings. NOTE!!! Except for an incomplete version of song 1, this tape is NOT in circulation. Sept 22 Carnegie Hall Hootenanny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carnegie Hall, New York City. 1. Sally Girl (Woody Guthrie) 2. Highway 51 (Curtis Jones) 3. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues 4. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Mono audience recording, approximately 26 minutes. October Billy Faier Show ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WBAI-FM-Radio, New York City. 1. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt) 2. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues 3. The Death Of Emmett Till 4. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor (trad.) Mono radio broadcast, approximately 21 minutes, including chats between Dylan and Billy Faier. Oct 26 Third FREEWHEELIN' session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Columbia Studios, New York City. 1. Corrina Corrina (trad., arr by Bob Dylan) 2. Kingsport Town 3. Watcha Gonna Do 4. Sally Girl 5. Going Down To New Orleans (trad.) 6. Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams/Jimmie Davies) 1-3 Bruce Langhorne and Howie Collins (guitars). 1,4-6 Leonard Gaskin (bass). 1 Herb Lowells (drums). 1 released on the promotional edition of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, April, 1963. and on THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, May 27, 1963. 1,6 stereo studio recordings. 2-5 mono studio recordings. Oct/Nov First Broadside Office session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Broadside Office, New York City. 1. I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day 2. Oxford Town 3. Paths Of Victory 4. Walkin' Down The Line 1 released on BROADSIDE REUNION, Folkways, 1972. Mono recordings. Nov 14 Fourth FREEWHEELIN' session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Columbia Studios, New York City. 1. Mixed-Up Confusion 2. Mixed-Up Confusion 3. Mixed-Up Confusion 4. Mixed-Up Confusion 5. Corrina Corrina (trad., arr by Bob Dylan) 6. Rocks And Gravels 7. That's All Right Mama (Arthur Cruddup) 8. That's All Right Mama (Arthur Cruddup) 9. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 10. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues 11. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 12. Mexican Rag (Jimmy Tarlton) (instrumental) 1-8 backed by George Barnes (guitar), Bruce Langhorne (guitar), Gene Ramey (bass), Dick Wellstood (piano), Herb Lowells (drums). 11 Bruce Langhorne (guitar). 6,9,10 released on the promotional edition of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, April, 1963. 9 released on THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, May 27, 1963. 1,5 released on single, December 14, 1962. 9 released on single, 1963. 2,9 released on MASTERPIECES, March, 1978. 9 released on BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS, March 27, 1967. 2 released on BIOGRAPH, October 28, 1985. 9 stereo studio recording. 1-8,10-12 mono studio recordings. Produced by John Hammond. October Second Gaslight Tape ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gaslight Cafe, New York City. 1. Barbara Allen (trad.) 2. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 4. Black Cross (Lord Buckley) 5. No More Auction Block (trad.) 6. Rocks And Gravels 7. Moonshine Blues (trad.) 8. John Brown 9. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 10. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson) 11. Cocaine (trad.) 12. The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird (trad.) 13. Ain't No More Cane (Huddie 'Leadbelly' Leadbetter) 14. Motherless Children (trad.) 15. Handsome Molly (trad.) 16. Kindhearted Woman Blues (Robert Johnson) 17. West Texas (trad.) Mono recording. November Witmark Demo Session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Long Ago Far Way Mono studio recording. Nov/Dec Second Broadside Office session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Broadside Office, New York City. 1. I Shall Be Free 2. Train A-Travelin' 3. Cuban Missile Crisis 4. Playboy And Playgirls 4 has backing by unknown musicians. 2 released on BROADSIDE REUNION, Folkways, 1972. Mono recordings. Dec 6 Fifth FREEWHEELIN' session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Columbia Studios, New York City. 1. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 2. Oxford Town 3. Bob Dylan's Blues 4. I Shall Be Free Released on the promotional edition of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, April, 1963. and on THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, May 27, 1963. 1 released on BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS, March 27, 1967. 1 released on MASTERPIECES, March, 1978. Stereo studio recordings. Produced by John Hammond. December Unknown Folk Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City (?). 1. Ramblin' Down Thru The World (Woody Guthrie) 2. Freight Train Blues (John Lair) 3. Walls Of Red Wing Mono audience recording, incomplete, approximately 3 minutes. December Witmark Demo Session ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New York City. 1. Tomorrow Is A long Time 2. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 3. The Death Of Emmett Till 4. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 5. Let Me Die In My Footsteps 6. Quit Your Low Down Ways 7. Baby, I'm In The Mood For You Mono recordings. Dec 30- Madhouse on Castle Street sessions Jan 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BBC Studios, London. 1. Blowin' In The Wind 2. Ballad Of The Gliding Swan Broadcast by BBC TV in the TV play Madhouse On Castle Street, January 12, 1963. Mono TV broadcast. Circulating tape is incomplete and approximately 3 minutes. A complete tape is rumoured to be existing and containing two more songs. 3. SONGS 1962 January Ballad For A Friend [1] Poor Boy Blues Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie [2] Standing On The Highway February Ballad Of Donald White [3] Death Of Robert Johnson [4] The Death Of Emmett Till [5] Let Me Die In My Footsteps [6] Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues [7] March Talking Folklore Center [8] April Corrina Corrina Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance Blowin' In The Wind May Rocks And Gravel [9,17] June Gates Of Hate [10] July Baby I'm In The Mood For You [11] Down The Highway Quit Your Lowdown Ways [12] August Ain't Gonna Grieve Long Time Gone [14] Talkin' Hypocrite [13] Tomorrow Is A Long Time September A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall October Ballad Of Hollis Brown Don't Think Twice, It's All Right John Brown November I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day Long Ago Far Away [14,15] Mixed Up Confusion Oxford Town Paths Of Victory [16] Playboys And Playgirls Walkin' Down The Line [14] December Ballad Of The Gliding Swan [17,18] Bob Dylan's Blues Hero Blues I Shall Be Free Kingsport Town [17] Whatcha Gonna Do Notes ~~~~~ [1] Traditional, registered as Bob Dylan. [2] Alternate titles are: "Rambling Willie" and "Gamblin' Willie's Dead Man's Hand" - titles used on the promotional edition of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN), "Rambling Gangling Willie" - the title used in the song book 'Bob Dylan Himself') [3] Copyrighted as "Donald White" [4] Mentioned by Dylan in the Izzy Young journals. [5] Composed for Dylan's appearance at the benefit concert for the Congress of Racial Equality, Febr 23, 1962. Copyrighted in 1963 as "Ballad of Emmett Till. Published in Broadside #16 (Nov 1962) as "The Ballad Of Emmett Till" [6] Mentioned in the liner notes to FREEWHEELIN by Nat Hentoff as being released as a single! Recorded by Coulson, Dean, McGuiness, Flint and released on their album "Lo and Behold", Sire 1972. The alternate title "I Will Not Go Down Under The Ground" was used on the album BROADSIDE BALLADS and in Broadside magazine #3 (April 1962). [7] First published in Broadside #1 (Febr 1962) as "Talking John Birch". [8] No known recording. One verse from this song was included in Dylan's performance of "Talkin New York" at Gerde's Folk City May 1962. [9] Krogsgaard indicates that this song is adapted from Lenny Carr's "Alabama Woman Blues" Brownie McGhee's "Solid Road". Heylin calls it an arrangement of a traditional song. [10] No known recording. A few lines from the lyrics are quoted by Gil Turner in his article "Bob Dylan - A New Voice Singing New Songs" in Sing Out! Oct-Nov 1962, reprinted in Bob Dylan - A Retrospective (see Ch 5 below). [11] Sometimes called "Sometimes I'm In The Mood". [12] Cover versions: Sebastian Cabot: Sebastian Cabot, Poet, Bob Dylan, Actor - MGM 1967 The Hollies: Word And Music By Bob Dylan - Epic 1969 Peter, Paul & Mary: In The Wind - Warner Brothers 1963 [13] No official or circulating recording. No published lyrics. [14] Cover version on Odetta: Odetta Sings Dylan - RCA 1965 [15] Cover version on The Brothers Four: Sing Of Our Times - Columbia 1963 [16] Cover versions: Hamilton Camp: Paths Of Victory - Elektra 1964 Anne Murray: What About Me - M-A Records 1982 Odetta: Sings Of Many Things - RCA 1964 Pete Seeger: Sings Little Boxes And Other Broadsides - Verve 1966 [17] Lyrics NOT included in Bob Dylan: Lyrics 1962-1985. [18] Also known as "Swan On The River". 4. 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. 5. SUGGESTED READINGS General background: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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's Publications in Broadside Magazine 1962-1965 - article by David Pichaske in The Telegraph #20 Bob Dylan article in Little Sandy Review 1962 - in Occasionally #4 Doing The London Waltz - article in Brian Lawlan's book Steppin' Out. Talkin' Hava Negilah: Bob Dylan Approximately Revisited - article in Talkin' Bob Zimmerman Blues #4 The Witmark Demo Tapes - article by Clinton Heylin in The Telegraph #16 Uncopyrighted Songs - article by Clinton Heylin in The Telegraph #25 _________________________