I wish I could have met him in person! I admire him for what he was and how his character Mr. Giles French presented himself and was great with the kids: like reading for them at bedtime and getting them ready for school, and more. I love his robust shape and disposition!
"Miss Cissy, before you move out of our apartment to live in Greenwich Village with those nasty hippies, it is important that I warn you of the possible consequences..."
Well that was surreal. Towards the end, he started to pick up a little bit more on the anger of the lyrics, but at the beginning it was kind of too much Mr. French/Winnie the Pooh narrator.
This album is listed in a book called The 100 Worst Rock N Roll Records Of All Time. No, it's not part of the main lists (50 singles and 50 albums),but it is part of a sidebar listed citing the worst Bob Dylan covers (which also includes both Heaven and Guns N Roses' versions of Knockin' On Heaven's Door, suggesting that Dylan songs shouldn't be done as heavy metal power ballads).
Actually the spoken voice highlights some of the flaws in the lyrics. For example, the references evoked, and the manner of exposition, are all clear until the image of the "mystery tramp" appears, which has a jarring effect by being completely arbitrary. I could go on, but it shows why rock lyrics may sometimes verge on great poetry, but most of the time fall well short. Such defects and inconsistencies don't really matter when the music is playing, as the setting allows us to remember the good lines and forget the bad. Without the musical foundation, the words are left to stand on their own. (Leonard Cohen's lyrics often perform very well on the page, without the music. But then again, Dylan's music, as music, is more appealing, to me, than Cohen's.) I'm a huge Dylan fan, incidentally. But this illustrates why the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan was unjustified. Now that the precedent is set, however, they'd better hurry up and give the laurel to Tom Waits as well. And I'm still waiting to see the Nobel in Biochemistry awarded to Keith Richards . . .
Proof positive that only a singer as good as Dylan himself has the capacity through scansion and emphasis to turn the written word into sung poetry. This is so fascinatingly awful that it out-shatners Shatner.
I'm 71 and I don't remember ever hearing this rendition but It's great.
RIP
Sebastian Cabot
(1918-1977)
I feel like I was just quite properly lectured by Mr. French. Smashing.
Mr French, "How does it feel Buffy? To be a complete unknown, to be without a home, like a rolling stone!"
This was done because Bob Dylan had taken over as Mr French for two episodes of Family Affair.
Brilliant! It shows just how poetic rock and roll can be...
Thanks, Sebastian. I can finally understand the original version's slurred words of this song.
Slurred ears. Not words ...
I wish I could have met him in person! I admire him for what he was and how his character Mr. Giles French presented himself and was great with the kids: like reading for them at bedtime and getting them ready for school, and more. I love his robust shape and disposition!
I would have loved to have had my own Mr. French as a child.
Would have appreciated being on the set of Family Affair for its duration.
This is actually good.
The greatest cover song of all time.
Gilbert and Frank sent me here.They couldn't remember which Dylan tune it was.Sebastian certainly made this his own!
This is definitely in the top ten of poetic reads of this classic.
Proto-Shatner!
Shatner's mentor?
"Miss Cissy, before you move out of our apartment to live in Greenwich Village with those nasty hippies, it is important that I warn you of the possible consequences..."
Love it, thanks Sebastian!
"How does it feel Buffy? To be a complete unknown, to be without a home, like a rolling stone!"
I think "Buffy" aka Anissa Jones wanted to be an unknown. Her eyes were so unhappy in some of those episodes.
CooL
Thank you sooooo much. OMG.
Love this ❤️❤️
Well that was surreal. Towards the end, he started to pick up a little bit more on the anger of the lyrics, but at the beginning it was kind of too much Mr. French/Winnie the Pooh narrator.
Great voice.
Marvelous! Splendid!
EXCELLENT🐢 FABOULOUS 🐢AWESOME 🐢
Would be interesting if James Mason would have tried it, but of course, he’s unavailable
Mr. French! Didn't we agree, no moonlighting?
If only Buffy and Jodie knew what he was doing on his Wednesdays off!
Class
His voice sound like Sir Ector from "The Sword in the Stone" and Bagheera from "The Jungle Book"
Tom Armstrong it is Bagheera! ☺
That’s because he voiced Ector, Bagheera, and the narrator of the whinnie the Pooh shorts.
I wish he'd have tackled "Positively 4th Street" on the album after hearing this.
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I needed a good laugh today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
james campbell Ahh, you looked at yourself in the mirror!
Looks like Mr. French was moonlighting on Mr. Davis.
I *told* him that this beatnik thing was just a phase, but nooo...
😂
Bagheera, sir Ector from sword in the stone and narrator of Winnie the Pooh
Nobel-riffic!
This album is listed in a book called The 100 Worst Rock N Roll Records Of All Time. No, it's not part of the main lists (50 singles and 50 albums),but it is part of a sidebar listed citing the worst Bob Dylan covers (which also includes both Heaven and Guns N Roses' versions of Knockin' On Heaven's Door, suggesting that Dylan songs shouldn't be done as heavy metal power ballads).
Pfffft! William Shatner said “hold my beer”
What happened to, “No direction home”?
Actually the spoken voice highlights some of the flaws in the lyrics. For example, the references evoked, and the manner of exposition, are all clear until the image of the "mystery tramp" appears, which has a jarring effect by being completely arbitrary. I could go on, but it shows why rock lyrics may sometimes verge on great poetry, but most of the time fall well short. Such defects and inconsistencies don't really matter when the music is playing, as the setting allows us to remember the good lines and forget the bad. Without the musical foundation, the words are left to stand on their own. (Leonard Cohen's lyrics often perform very well on the page, without the music. But then again, Dylan's music, as music, is more appealing, to me, than Cohen's.)
I'm a huge Dylan fan, incidentally. But this illustrates why the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan was unjustified. Now that the precedent is set, however, they'd better hurry up and give the laurel to Tom Waits as well. And I'm still waiting to see the Nobel in Biochemistry awarded to Keith Richards . . .
Mr. French dropped too much acid before this rendition of Bob Dylan, poet.
Interesting. Not all songs can be spoken, but this is cool, although I prefer to hear someone singing it.
Sir Ector!!!
+ladisneyprincesse and also bagera and the narrator for the pooh trilogoy(honey tree, blustery day and tigger too)
i rember how he use to say wounderfull on faimley afair
I didn't think anything could possibly be worse than William Shatner doing "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"..... I was wrong.
French!
FRENCH!!!....GET OVER HERE!!!
This shows that he really wasn't British. He was actually Canadian.
He was British. He was born in London, but he died in Canada.
Proof positive that only a singer as good as Dylan himself has the capacity through scansion and emphasis to turn the written word into sung poetry.
This is so fascinatingly awful that it out-shatners Shatner.
Bahahahaha!!
Poetry lol
Highlights dylan's conversational diction but is sorely ill-conceived!
That's rubbish