Today’s music video is ‘Positively 4th Street’ from Johnny Rivers. This video was posted to You Tube by JFBRASIL There comes a time to draw a line under this series. The intent was to show that in those early years, while Bob already had a huge following among those who were aware of his vast […]
July 18, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Forever Young’ from Meat Loaf. (Michael Lee Aday) This video was posted to You Tube by Lordrevenge After the film soundtrack ‘Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid’, Dylan’s contract with Columbia expired, and he moved across to Asylum Records. Columbia then released a compilation album of Dylan songs titled ‘Dylan’ which […]
July 11, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Knocking On Heaven’s Door’ from Randy Crawford. This video was posted to You Tube by pepipopupapa Bob Dylan wrote this song for his Soundtrack album for the film that had the same name, ‘Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid’. This album was released in 1973, almost three years after his earlier […]
July 4, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘If Not For You’ from the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John. This video was posted to You Tube by Conniptions886 This song, and especially this version by Olivia Newton-John throws up what some may consider to be perhaps an odd thing, which I’ll get to a little later in this post. As […]
June 27, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Lay Lady Lay’ from Duran Duran. Viewer caution. Both clips today have some images that may seem a little raunchy in their nature. This video was posted to You Tube by RuivaMisteriosa Bob Dylan was never one to be shy about testing the parameters of the music genre. He had many […]
June 20, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ from Linda Ronstadt. This video was posted to You Tube by mrronniea This song is from Bob Dylan’s eighth studio album ‘John Wesley Harding’. The song is the last track on the album, and this one was done in an almost Country feel, showing that Bob […]
June 13, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘All Along The Watchtower’ from Jimi Hendrix. This video was posted to You Tube by ScooterTheHockeyCat Consider this for a short time. In 1972, Neil Young released his ‘Harvest’ album. I heard his song from that album ‘Old Man’, and fell in love with it. After buying the album, and hearing […]
June 6, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Mighty Quinn’ from Manfred Mann. This video was posted to You Tube by fritz51351 In 1966, Bob would have been quite satisfied with things. His two earlier albums ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde On Blonde’ had spent almost 6 months riding high in the charts, and he had a couple of […]
May 30, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Just Like A Woman’ from The Hollies. This video was posted to You Tube by nyrainbow4 The original of this song was on Bob’s seventh studio album, the double album ‘Blonde On Blonde’ which was released in mid 1966, a year after his momentous ‘Highway 61 Revisited’. Like nearly everything about […]
May 23, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ from Bob Dylan. This video was posted to You Tube by Columbokeijisun This is probably one of the most celebrated songs of the modern music era, so to play a ‘cover’ of this song just would not seem the right thing to do. Even though the song […]
May 16, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’, and this version is from Graham Bonnet. This video was posted to You Tube by fritz51357 With this series of posts on Bob Dylan, I am using two time lines. The first timing sequence is of when Bob actually wrote the songs. The second is […]
May 9, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, and this version is from The Byrds. This video was posted to You Tube by mcd220 This song is special for so many reasons, and the version sung here on this video is also special, and because of that, this will be a long post, because there is […]
May 2, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’, and this version is from the John and June Carter Cash. This video was posted to You Tube by HotshotsKings To the dedicated follower of Bob Dylan’s music, this series of posts is probably tantamount to sacrilege, because as always, only Dylan does Dylan the best. However, […]
April 25, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘The Times They Are A Changin’, and this version is from the Australian band, The Seekers. This video was posted to You Tube by vbvbvb088 I mentioned in closing last weeks Sunday Music post that I would be skipping this week because of the special meaning of this day in Australia, […]
April 18, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall’, and this version is from Leon Russell. This video was posted to You Tube by ceeceerider Although this song was released on Bob’s second album in 1963, ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’, it was written in mid 1962, and first performed in September of that year at […]
April 11, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’, and this version is from the Australian band The Seekers. The image used in this clip shows the Australian band The Seekers. L to R – Keith Potger, Judith Durham, Bruce Woodley, and Athol Guy. This video was posted to You Tube by dazbluey While […]
April 4, 2010 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ from Peter Paul and Mary. This video was posted to You Tube by heroesofthesidewalk Today, I’m going to start a series on Bob Dylan. That doesn’t mean I’ll be playing a Bob Dylan clip every week for the duration of the series. In the 60’s as Bob […]
March 18, 2018 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Walk On By, sung here in this clip by the American Country singer Leroy van Dyke. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by CaptainJimKirk The Friday just passed was the anniversary of ten years blogging for me. I have more than 1700 individual Posts […]
April 8, 2012 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Time Is Right’ from Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. This video was posted to You Tube by 008Meloman During the time I spent in the Royal Australian Air Force, I was stationed at a number of bases in Eastern Australia. By far the longest time was spent at Williamtown, the base closest […]
June 18, 2017 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Blinded By The Light and the song is performed here by the English band Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Mark Graham In these regular music Posts, I have often said that there’s no rhyme or reason as to […]
August 16, 2015 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is Angel Of The Morning and the song is performed here by Merrilee Rush with her backing band The Turnabouts. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Larry Hinze This song was a huge Number One Smash Hit for Juice Newton in 1981, both as […]
July 6, 2014 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is This Land Is Your Land from Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Centro de Memória Sindical This is the last of the Neil Young series I have been showing here for the last few Months now. This song […]
January 27, 2013 by TonyfromOz
On this weekend here in Australia, we are celebrating Australia Day, so today’s music video comes from Australia, and the song is Someday One Day, sung here in this clip by Australian band, The Seekers. Link to Video at You Tube This video was posted to You Tube by Proculledtwo The Seekers are a band […]
June 5, 2011 by TonyfromOz
Today’s music video is ‘Allentown Jail’ from the Australian band The Seekers. This video was posted to You Tube by seekersarchive If there could ever be a female singer with such a pure voice, then it must be Judith Durham. The band The Seekers formed in the early 1960’s and were the first Australian band […]
July 25, 2010 by TonyfromOz
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