Here I am 70 years old in 2024 remembering when I was 11 years old boy at a home for boys in New York State watching Folk Rockers Peter, Paul & Mary on television doing a Bob Dylan song (1962). Priceless. 👍
Written in 1962 when Suze Rotolo, Dylan’s girlfriend, was pursuing art studies in Italy and decided to prolong her stay there, leaving Bob feeling like he was walking down that lonesome road. Thanks David and Harri.
Dylan wrote, and recorded this song. They had hits with several Dylan songs. Perfect blend of his poetic words and the harmony of their beautiful voices.
and Bob Dylan was in his early 20's when he wrote this song. And many others: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Blowing In The Wind, The Times They Are A-Changing. So young and so old at the same time.
Their music is so easy to listen to with great harmonies. I guess that's why folk music is liked so much. Some groups are known for keeping the genre relevant
This was the very first song I ever performed in public, singing and playing the guitar, in 1979. I didn't do it very well, but I still love the song and the arrangement.
One of my fondest memories of my childhood was receiving the double LP concert set for Christmas one year. It takes superb talent for a trio to hold a huge audience spellbound, and PPM had all that and more. Paul was simply incomparable. Blue is still my favourite.
Peter Paul and Mary were icons of a brief era in popular music: Folk. It was late 50s, early 60s and it became popular because it was safe. You could have entertainers like Peter Paul and Mary, The Smothers Brothers, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, etc. on TV variety shows and not worry about offending anyone. They were mildly rebellious without being threatening. The music was good, if tame, and the performers squeaky clean. It was soon replaced by surfing, teen angst and and car songs taking over the Top 40. It was a fun time to reach your teens.
I think you will find Pete Seeger was much more than mildy rebellious, constantly in trouble for his communist views, he was for some time blacklisted and banned from network tv and concert halls.His music was not tame and squeaky clean either. I would also question whether Joan Baez could be described as tame and squeaky clean as well.
@@iandowney4630 Absolutely, anyone that suggests folk music was short lived is clearly lacking in any knowledge of the genre. Surf songs, teen angst and car songs (as mentioned by freedomluvr-vh5ic) have however sunk without trace.
Your comment that this song is like a Bob Dylan song seemed to indicate that you didn't know that this IS a Bob Dylan song. Loved your reaction to this fingerpicking, harsh truth-telling classic.
Very curious to know if you have heard the Cock Robin version then. 😊 And if you haven’t, what you think of it. th-cam.com/video/adLjBvcVpvw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uYiBIgDNxfqjlvUi
Saw them perform when I was 12. Back in 1989. And I got to meet Paul backstage in his trailer. My Dad's friend is a musician and a close friend of Pauls. Paul actually played at his wedding back in the 70s.
Dylan could definitely write a song like that (lol), great that you picked up on that. Peter, Paul, and Mary were beloved to us folkies and hippies back in the day and still are. Nobody like them.
I love Peter, Paul, & Mary. Mary Travers is one of my top Female Singers. I’m digging deep on this one - Alice Faye- Janis Joplin - Ann Wilson- Linda Ronstadt❤❤❤❤❤. Thank you Hari🎶🖖🏼
@@iandowney4630 It was my last year at sleep-away camp and I climbed up into a tree to get a good view.. Was a really special trip and we all knew that the show was going to be a memory. Those were the days..
Paul Stookey, left in picture, sing solo in the beginning. He went to Michigan state University in East Lansing, ca 1958, for a couple of years, the same university I went to later in the mid to late 1970's. Bob Dylan write this famous song. Denial is a river in Egypt....
I've encountered lots of people (who aren't hardcore music fans) who hate Dylan because they can't get past his offbeat voice. I always point them to this PPM cover, which melds Dylan's lyrical genius with vocals that are conventionally pretty. Then they have no excuse to not appreciate his talent.
I was awfully young when this song came out. I was sleeping outside in our yard with my foster sister. We loved to do that and listen to our transistor radio.
Great reaction to a great cover of an absolute stone-cold classic. Thank you. Apt of you to think that Dylan could have written this, since (and by now you know this), Dylan wrote it and performed it first. I love his version more, but still love this version also.
Great cover from PP+M of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" from 1963's Freewheeling Bob Dylan. I highly recommend another cover version from 1992's Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert from MSG. Eric Clapton takes a page from Jimi Hendrix and makes a Dylan tune his own with his absolutely blistering take on "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". For me it's Clapton's best guitar work since the 70's. It's a must hear song.
4:21 ... You got it, another Bob Dylan gem... Harri (and others), likely not a good pick for reaction videos, but a great CD or Bob Dylan covers from lesser known Folk artists, for Dylan's 60th birthday, called "A Nod to Bob" - Some cuts give a new appreciation for some of his lesser known gems... th-cam.com/video/4zPTpMIUgOU/w-d-xo.html
Oh yeah, they made Dylan sound GOOOD. Knew this song long before I felt the pain of love lost… Sadly, it didn’t come to mind 10-11 years later when it applied to me. But now, what a strange memory vibe this gives me. Melancholy joy, weirdly. What I wouldn’t give to feel that sort of sadness again! Or at least, to walk down that lonely road again. ❤️
First, of course, was the Bob Dylan version of this song. Then there was this excellent Peter, Paul and Mary version. THEN came the Four Seasons version which made you ask, Is this the same song?
Quite a few have reacted to Bob Dylan's version, might be the first reaction to Peter, Paul and Mary. Have to say I think the original by Dylan is far superior..
❤I ❤❤ new Christy minstrels❤❤ Barry McGuire❤❤❤ the byrds❤❤ Paul Revere, the Raiders❤❤❤ Tommy James Shadell I know you’ve done some of them keep going to the 60s. It’s great.❤❤❤
Story. I went to the concert. My parents did not know. It was 3 blocks from my college dorm. Dad was flying back from NY & sat next to one of them. Coulda had a back stage pass!
For another great ‘separation’ song, check out Jim Croce ‘Lovers Cross’. Also very beautiful, well dealing with complex negative stuff. I’m sure you won’t need much prompting to listen to another of a Jim’s classics!
It don’t mean a thing, ok? But the robot vac we named Rosie is working, and after running around picking up all the things she shouldn’t be sucking up, and getting dogs and the ferret tended to, I’m in my room, where Rosie cant come, with all the dogs piled up. So this is a treat, to listen to something soft, after 30 minutes of OH SHIT! Grab it, get it, put it away! Dog toys are a thing, around here, and they are everywhere, usually,some in tatters.
This is one of my favourite Dylan songs and PP&M more than do it justice. They are just so ingrained in my childhood, amazing how something like this can take you back. If you haven’t listened to Dylan’s version it is also worth a reaction. Much more scathing this one, but Dylan at his acoustic best.
I got acquainted with this song via the Cock Robin version. Even though it’s a quite bad recording, it is and will always be my favourite version. Peter Kingsbery’s and Ana LaCazio’s voices match together so well and they do such great harmonising together, it’s just unrivalled IMO. Also, it’s like they’re really singing it from their hearts. Let me know what you think: th-cam.com/video/adLjBvcVpvw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uYiBIgDNxfqjlvUi
Everything by pp&m is beautiful. Brings to mind two other smooth separation songs. "Easy" by the commodores and"time for me to fly" by REO speed wagon.
Check out a cover by Alex Archbold on Curiosity Inc ( youtube). He's not a professional singer, but he nailed it. His Johnny Cash is also very dang good. Even Johnny's daughter or granddaughter was blown away by him!
I know The Newbeats covered it, too, around 1965. I can't find a copy of that on YT. But in looking for it, I see many other Sixties cover versions, some of which I never knew about until now.
@@DougRayPhillips Awesome! I love the New beats. Ie: Bread and butter and Run Baby Run. The version of don't think twice by the four seasons aka The Wonder who is on YT. When I saw what Harri was reacting to I searched for the wonder who version right away. Thanks for the info 😊
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Here I am 70 years old in 2024 remembering when I was 11 years old boy at a home for boys in New York State watching Folk Rockers Peter, Paul & Mary on television doing a Bob Dylan song (1962). Priceless. 👍
Isn’t it wonderful, the memories that the music of our youth brings back to us!
Here I am, now 71 years old remembering when I was 12 and my parents took me to my first live concert: Peter, Paul & Mary. ❤
Written in 1962 when Suze Rotolo, Dylan’s girlfriend, was pursuing art studies in Italy and decided to prolong her stay there, leaving Bob feeling like he was walking down that lonesome road. Thanks David and Harri.
I once loved a woman , a child I'm told. I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul . That brings back old memories.
Dylan wrote, and recorded this song. They had hits with several Dylan songs. Perfect blend of his poetic words and the harmony of their beautiful voices.
One of the many Bob Dylan songs, covered by P,P&M. Can't go better than Peter, Paul and Mary for their harmonies.
Wonderful cover of a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. Enjoyed it.
and Bob Dylan was in his early 20's when he wrote this song. And many others: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Blowing In The Wind, The Times They Are A-Changing. So young and so old at the same time.
they did a great job on Bob Dylan's wonderful song
Their music is so easy to listen to with great harmonies. I guess that's why folk music is liked so much. Some groups are known for keeping the genre relevant
This was the very first song I ever performed in public, singing and playing the guitar, in 1979. I didn't do it very well, but I still love the song and the arrangement.
PP&M were sooo big in the early 60s, with such beautifully blended natural voices. The pinnacle of the the Folk Song groups!
One of my fondest memories of my childhood was receiving the double LP concert set for Christmas one year. It takes superb talent for a trio to hold a huge audience spellbound, and PPM had all that and more. Paul was simply incomparable. Blue is still my favourite.
Thanks very much for this request, David. I always loved Peter, Paul and Mary. Thanks for your insightful reaction, Harri 🪅📻
Fantastic Dylan song. They did a great cover of it . Thank you David and Harri.
From me too, loved Peter, Paul and Mary ❤
Peter Paul and Mary were icons of a brief era in popular music: Folk. It was late 50s, early 60s and it became popular because it was safe. You could have entertainers like Peter Paul and Mary, The Smothers Brothers, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, etc. on TV variety shows and not worry about offending anyone. They were mildly rebellious without being threatening. The music was good, if tame, and the performers squeaky clean. It was soon replaced by surfing, teen angst and and car songs taking over the Top 40. It was a fun time to reach your teens.
I think you will find Pete Seeger was much more than mildy rebellious, constantly in trouble for his communist views, he was for some time blacklisted and banned
from network tv and concert halls.His music was not tame and squeaky clean either. I would also question whether Joan Baez could be described as tame and squeaky
clean as well.
I agree completely. Not squeaky clean, nor was folk music a brief thing that’s vanished.
@@iandowney4630 Absolutely, anyone that suggests folk music was short lived is clearly lacking in any knowledge of the genre. Surf songs, teen angst and car songs
(as mentioned by freedomluvr-vh5ic) have however sunk without trace.
@@jameswiglesworth5004 You said it!
Safe enough for prime time TV yes, but let's not forget that they were part of Martin Luther King's Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
Your comment that this song is like a Bob Dylan song seemed to indicate that you didn't know that this IS a Bob Dylan song. Loved your reaction to this fingerpicking, harsh truth-telling classic.
You’re thinking of Ralph McTell’s “Streets of London.”
My favorite cover of this song. Love their guitar work.
Very curious to know if you have heard the Cock Robin version then. 😊
And if you haven’t, what you think of it. th-cam.com/video/adLjBvcVpvw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uYiBIgDNxfqjlvUi
You really should do The Wedding Song, written by Paul Stookey for Peter's wedding. You're welcome in advance!
This group is another rabbit hole to journey down!
They are one of my absolute favorites. Their harmony is glorious! ❤️❤️
Saw them perform when I was 12. Back in 1989. And I got to meet Paul backstage in his trailer. My Dad's friend is a musician and a close friend of Pauls. Paul actually played at his wedding back in the 70s.
Another Dylan Masterpiece
This is my favorite song by Bob Dylan and I think it's a great cover of it with PP&M's great harmonies. Thanks for the memories David and Harri!
"I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul..." Dylan at his most vulnerable.
Dylan could definitely write a song like that (lol), great that you picked up on that. Peter, Paul, and Mary were beloved to us folkies and hippies back in the day and still are. Nobody like them.
Fantastic choice! I love this. Can’t go wrong with this wonderful trio covering another brilliant Dylan song. Thanks Harri and David 🌸✌️
I love Peter, Paul, & Mary. Mary Travers is one of my top Female Singers. I’m digging deep on this one - Alice Faye- Janis Joplin - Ann Wilson- Linda Ronstadt❤❤❤❤❤. Thank you Hari🎶🖖🏼
I saw them when they kicked off their 1978 reunion tour.. It was at the NYS fairgrounds in Syracuse NY..
That must have been great!
@@iandowney4630 It was my last year at sleep-away camp and I climbed up into a tree to get a good view.. Was a really special trip and we all knew that the show was going to be a memory. Those were the days..
@@darikmatters8866yes, they were…. What a great memory.
I've never heard this cover before, but I'm very familiar with the Bob Dylan original. This was nicely done.
That's odd. I thought I knew P,P &M pretty well, snd theirbperformance of this song, but maybe this is a version I've never heard ?
Used to play this Dylan song on my guitar and sang. For some reason, I found it tough! Nothing like this gorgeous rendition!
Paul Stookey, left in picture, sing solo in the beginning. He went to Michigan state University in East Lansing, ca 1958, for a couple of years, the same university I went to later in the mid to late 1970's. Bob Dylan write this famous song. Denial is a river in Egypt....
I've encountered lots of people (who aren't hardcore music fans) who hate Dylan because they can't get past his offbeat voice. I always point them to this PPM cover, which melds Dylan's lyrical genius with vocals that are conventionally pretty. Then they have no excuse to not appreciate his talent.
People who think Bob can't sing are just thick.
Their vocals are always perfection, imo
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I was awfully young when this song came out. I was sleeping outside in our yard with my foster sister. We loved to do that and listen to our transistor radio.
Great reaction to a great cover of an absolute stone-cold classic. Thank you.
Apt of you to think that Dylan could have written this, since (and by now you know this), Dylan wrote it and performed it first. I love his version more, but still love this version also.
"I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul" Great line.
Harri, a guaranteed SMILE.... THE POLYPHONIC SPREE - Light and Day
Thank you !!! Been waiting for someone to react to this one !! Now if only someone would do their version of Early Morning Rain !!!
Great song, but I really like Ian & Sylvia’s version. Not that I don’t like PP, & M.
EVERYBODY was singing and interpreting Bob Dylan songs in the 60's and 70's..
Great cover from PP+M of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" from 1963's Freewheeling Bob Dylan. I highly recommend another cover version from 1992's
Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert from MSG. Eric Clapton takes a page from Jimi Hendrix and makes a Dylan tune his own with his absolutely blistering take on "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". For me it's Clapton's best guitar work since the 70's. It's a must hear song.
4:21 ... You got it, another Bob Dylan gem... Harri (and others), likely not a good pick for reaction videos, but a great CD or Bob Dylan covers from lesser known Folk artists, for Dylan's 60th birthday, called "A Nod to Bob" - Some cuts give a new appreciation for some of his lesser known gems... th-cam.com/video/4zPTpMIUgOU/w-d-xo.html
I like the Dylan version best. His voice is so much better in his early songs, plus his amazing writing. And yes, his sarcasm was well delivered.
Just different. Apples & oranges.
Dylan song. My first concert.
Oh yeah, they made Dylan sound GOOOD. Knew this song long before I felt the pain of love lost… Sadly, it didn’t come to mind 10-11 years later when it applied to me. But now, what a strange memory vibe this gives me. Melancholy joy, weirdly. What I wouldn’t give to feel that sort of sadness again! Or at least, to walk down that lonely road again. ❤️
First, of course, was the Bob Dylan version of this song. Then there was this excellent Peter, Paul and Mary version. THEN came the Four Seasons version which made you ask, Is this the same song?
BOB DYLAN MASTERPIECE!!!
I think you are the first reactor to hit this song. I've always thought this was stunning -- a great Dylan composition, flawlessly executed.
Quite a few have reacted to Bob Dylan's version, might be the first reaction to Peter, Paul and Mary. Have to say I think the original by Dylan is far superior..
Good call on Dylan!
Great insight, the lyrics are by Bob Dylan
A great song by Bob Dylan and covered by many others.My favorite cover of it is by Mike Ness from Social Distortion fame,playing it at Woodstock 1999.
This song was covered by the 4 Seasons with Frankie V doing it all in falsetto - it’s quite different
It's a Dylan song.
Great song, I remember it so well. And Harry, you’re my favorite reactor!
❤I ❤❤ new Christy minstrels❤❤ Barry McGuire❤❤❤ the byrds❤❤ Paul Revere, the Raiders❤❤❤ Tommy James Shadell I know you’ve done some of them keep going to the 60s. It’s great.❤❤❤
Streets of London - Ralph McTell...
Story. I went to the concert. My parents did not know. It was 3 blocks from my college dorm. Dad was flying back from NY & sat next to one of them. Coulda had a back stage pass!
Luved this song growing up ❤
Harri, this IS a Dylan tune. Either this 'In the Wind' or 'Take Five' was my first LP, when they were new. Cheers, --bd
FROM THE FALL OF '63, WRITTEN BY BOB DYLAN .--------------MJL, 77 Y/O
I love it that you said it was like something Dylan would write. I’m sure you know by now who wrote it!
Streets of London..Ralph McTell.
This is one of Bob Dylan's most iconic, famous songs. I'm surprised you didn't recognize it.
Yes, it's a Dylan song, but it was also covered, very interestingly, by The Four Seasons.
I've listened to these three al, my life. You need to dig more into Peter, Paul and Mary. We recently lost Mary Traverse.
For another great ‘separation’ song, check out Jim Croce ‘Lovers Cross’. Also very beautiful, well dealing with complex negative stuff. I’m sure you won’t need much prompting to listen to another of a Jim’s classics!
Hey. It is Bob Dylan songwriter above all.
It don’t mean a thing, ok? But the robot vac we named Rosie is working, and after running around picking up all the things she shouldn’t be sucking up, and getting dogs and the ferret tended to, I’m in my room, where Rosie cant come, with all the dogs piled up. So this is a treat, to listen to something soft, after 30 minutes of OH SHIT! Grab it, get it, put it away! Dog toys are a thing, around here, and they are everywhere, usually,some in tatters.
This reminds you of Bob Dylan because he wrote it and the song that the guitars remind you of is "Streets Of London" by Ralph McTell I'm guessing.
Awesome and Puff the Magic Dragon still makes me get a lump in my throat.Great one David and Harri.
Another of Dylan's songs to check out is "My Back Pages."
❤❤❤❤ stay in the 60s you’ll love it❤❤❤❤
This is one of my favourite Dylan songs and PP&M more than do it justice. They are just so ingrained in my childhood, amazing how something like this can take you back. If you haven’t listened to Dylan’s version it is also worth a reaction. Much more scathing this one, but Dylan at his acoustic best.
Their version of The First Time is gorgeous, just as this is.
Check out "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes.
If you get a chance to..have a listen to The Big Three featuring Mama Cass. They did some beautiful songs in this 3 part folk harmony. ❤😎👍
Streets of London by Ralph McTell?
Morning Harri this is very old song I believe. They sang Puff the Magic Dragon and I was always told it was about smoking marijuana but I don't know.
Try and find Tomorrow is a Long Time, thé live version by Dylan, it’s fabulous
Good guess on it being a Dylan song. You are tuned into his poetry.
I got acquainted with this song via the Cock Robin version. Even though it’s a quite bad recording, it is and will always be my favourite version. Peter Kingsbery’s and Ana LaCazio’s voices match together so well and they do such great harmonising together, it’s just unrivalled IMO.
Also, it’s like they’re really singing it from their hearts.
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Great version by Willie Nelson and Merl Haggard
You should listen to the Four Seasons version, which they released under the name Wonder Who for some reason. It's very different.
Everything by pp&m is beautiful. Brings to mind two other smooth separation songs. "Easy" by the commodores and"time for me to fly" by REO speed wagon.
Check out a cover by Alex Archbold on Curiosity Inc ( youtube). He's not a professional singer, but he nailed it. His Johnny Cash is also very dang good. Even Johnny's daughter or granddaughter was blown away by him!
Harri is the guy.
I expect you know Bob Dylan wrote this song
Dylan wrote it..
Great song Harri! If you dig this version try the version by A band called The Wonder Who AKA The Four Seasons from 1965 😊
I know The Newbeats covered it, too, around 1965. I can't find a copy of that on YT. But in looking for it, I see many other Sixties cover versions, some of which I never knew about until now.
@@DougRayPhillips Awesome! I love the New beats. Ie: Bread and butter and Run Baby Run. The version of don't think twice by the four seasons aka The Wonder who is on YT. When I saw what Harri was reacting to I searched for the wonder who version right away. Thanks for the info 😊
bob dylan song
This is about a man going to Vietnam
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