yes he was huge from the begining, every time a new album came out i listened over and over. But then again there were many different segments and types of music all happening at the same time and in the early 60s people would listen to them all. You could turn on the radio and hear Dylan, Surf music, Motown, teeny bopper, country and western, jazz, ballads, crooners, and the oldies from the late 50s and all the rest within a single hour from a single station ! That's what was so great. I lived in Southern California when the first two rock n roll station were KFWB and KRLA and you could get all the types i mentioned and more. It was the best times ever for music.....
To your question, yes, Dylan was big,huge,he was the voice for everyone who knew what was happening in our country and decided to sing about it. His songs are as relevant now as they were then.
By 1965, Bob Dylan was a very successful singer/songwriter and his success only grew from there. He was often called 'The voice of a generation.' He is the only songwriter to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Yes, Bob Dylan was big back then. Definitely! Knew all his songs, all the lyrics. Radio was different back then. turn it on, you could hear Dylan, Joplin, Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones, the list goes on and on. Glad to have lived through that period, the music never gets old.
He sang at the rally in Washington DC when Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech. Like the Beatles & Stones, Dylan became huge fast. Everywhere they went they would be besieged by questions from the press, and they learned fast to play with it. In that 65 tour Dylan came to Sheffield where I lived ~ he was asked why he wore his hair so long, and he said, well, I reckon the more hair you have growing on the outside of your head the less you have growing inside
The Times They Are a-Changin' but also unfortunately never really change on a fundamental level - and that is why Dylan's lyrics still have cultural relevance even today. This song also makes me think about Dylan's own personal journey as an artist. He was constantly evolving and reinventing himself and never allowed people to box him in creatively.
I was a teenager at the time and he was a BIG DEAL. New, but still a big deal. Songs like this, to me, made Dylan the greatest songwriter of his generation. By a long way.
In the UK, in the early 60's, he was very big, with people who were into that type of music (me). I bought a Dylan EP in 1964 and took it home to play, I was 12. Dad listened in and asked me 'do you like this stuff??' 30 years later on a visit to Dad he said "look what I've bought, Son", it was a Dylan album. I said "I knew you'd get it in the end, Dad".
How true especially today, l thought this song applied to my generation at the time, but now it's message rings true again, Dylan was very popular with many in the 60's 😃. Peace 😊✌️ and Love❤ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 💃🕺 Great Reaction👍 more folk music please 🙏 The Weavers "Wimoweh - The Lion Sleeps Tonight"😴 💤
Prins Chrles ( now king) was at his concert in 65, Paul McCartney said he was waiting on the hotel to meet him, Paul said " it was like meeting the pope, " that was what Dylan ment in the 60s.
I'm 73 yes he was a big deal. He was like the king of folk rock. Folk Rock was the sign of the times. Lyrics was the message. He was decades ahead of his time. His message STILL applies to today. His music had a bunch of huge hits such as Lay Lady Lay and Knocking on Heaven's Door just to name a few.
I was in elementary school in the 60s and we sang, "Blowin' In The Wind" in our classes in school. So, yes, his music was well known in the 60s. "Mr Tambourine Man" was also very popular.
Bob Dylan's songs won him a Nobel Prize for Literature. When he sang, people listened. Believe it or not, Bob Dylan was a bigger deal then than he is now.
When he sang this the times were changing. The youth were rising up like never before and turning against war and discrimination. The youth of this time were more aware than those before. And the established order was shaken. They were rattled. And it took them quite a while to get back to where they could easily divide and fool us all.
He had a couple of mainstream radio hits, but back then, FM radio was the 'alternative' radio where you heard him. In my life, he was well known at the time. Remember the times: Viet Nam, Kent State, the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Patti Hurst...turbulent times, indeed. Now..' Love Minus Zero No Limit' and also 'The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest' by Dylan but covered by Gerry Garcia and David Grisman gotta be my favorites
He was originally categorised as a protest singer, in the tradition of Woody Guthrie. He went on of course to defy categorisation. I find his live perfomances to be a bit like russian roulette, in that five times out of six he fires blanks, but the sixth time, he kills.
Dylan HUGE in the day. He was introduced to the world with the help of Joan Baez, who brought him on stage with her. Dylan was just meant to be, he rose out of the quagmire and spoke for his generation.
Dylan attended the University of Minnesota (1959) for only a half year but, I was once told by a woman who was on campus at the same time, "He had a following even then". Later, in the year of 1961, Dylan arrived in Greenwich Village New York and developed (at age 19-20) a new and larger following. Released his first album in 1962.
Bob Dylan was a very big deal.He captured a moment.President Kennedy was assassinated 3 months before this was released The Civil rights movement started and the Viet Nam war protests began. A tumultuous time in our history . You got it right guys. What memories this brings up.
In 1965 Bob was known in the counter-culture, he wasn't what you would call popular. Popular was the Beatles, Stones, Beach boys and Many Motown groups. In July of 65 Bob's first radio hit, Like a rolling Stone made it to #2 on the charts.
You got to remember the Brits and Americans are best of friends separated by a Common Language it's amazing that the audience understood half of what he said
He was and remains an incredibly big deal. As Joan Baez sings about him in Diamonds and Rust, you burst on the scene already a legend! Yes, he just exploded on the scene by 1964. There was never anyone quite like him before or since. He left home in Minnesota and came to Greenwich Village in New York City in the early 60s where the music scene was very fertile
Today we have Jesse Welles, a prolific songwriter and talented musician kind of in the style of Bob Dylan. It will be interesting to follow his trajectory. Jesse puts out a couple songs a week, the videos are of just him, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and adding harmonica to guitar on instrumental bits.
Very ironic, a progressive song on the day the clock was set back 60 years. He sang at the I had a dream speech and we just heard I have a nightmare speech followed by YMCA with a dancing orange bear. Time to revive this song.In those days we sat in a coffee joint after school where the juke box had Ticket to ride, Like a rolling stone, Satisfaction all recent hits. 😢❤
The Beatles look up to Dylan, and he liked them. They were the major influencers of the 60s, the Hippie movment and the rest would never happend without them.
Bob Dylan was a huge deal. I would suggest with Dylan it's usually better to hear his studio versions of his songs first before listening live. Sometimes it's difficult to hear the words clearly live and with his songs the poetry is the point. I'm enjoying your dive into our national treasure.❤
You might want to go from this song to "A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall". Released May 27, 1963. This was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The song on the album is wonderful. This version too is unforgettable : Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Nara, Japan, May 22, 1994).
He was extremely popular back in the 60s and his songs were used in the civil rights movement. He was a keen observer of social and political mood and his lyrics captured the times and his words and message are still relevant, maybe even more so.
He was huge with young people across colleges and universities around the world. He was already moving away from this very direct form of protest and was starting to get into a more personal and poetic exploration of society and the human condition.
He was a big deal, The Beatles were also on the scene, folk would go to a Beatles concert and no one could hear what they were singing, so much screaming and hysterics, a Dylan concert folk wanted to hear the lyrics, he often performed his songs before they were out on albums, you could hear a pin drop. This is a little faster than the album.
Bob Dylan was a major force in the sixties. I was 20 years old and times were changing - opposition to Vietnam war, sex was more open, relationships were different, music changed dramatically. Peter paul and Mary did a more melodic version but Bob was not subtle.
Recommend watching Martin Scorsese's documentary "No Direction Home" tolesrn about young Bob and American culture back in the 60's. He became "1" in the folk music crowd and then he went electric and became popular for a younger crowd.
Timeless, but we also need a Bob Dylan for our time. A social movement to stand up for human rights and democracy is just as important now as is was then. It's the only defence we have against an autocratic, dystopian society.
For this song "The Times They Are a Changin'" and another one you just listened to, "Blowin' in the Wind" -- of course all respect to Dylan as the writer -- but you MUST listen to Peter Paul and Mary's versions of BOTH of these songs -- magical, transcendent, so riveting, I hope you get to see this suggestion.
Bob Dylan's popularity was a slow build - his songs were respected by other artists, and eventually many of them started spreading his songs on their albums, such as Joan Baez and Peter Paul & Mary and The Byrds. The Beatles were influenced by Dylan, too.
At the time, American society was deeply divided. Over-simplified, there were fans of the Cold War who felt the US was leading the fight against godless communism. Then there were those who didn't find US policy to be very righteous. Fold in woman's rights, other civil rights and it's familiar political divides. Dylan is from the US folk music tradition that usually found itself in opposition to the wealthy and powerful. So he was both loved and hated.
Bob Dylan has even joked that he has never been a professional singer. He's a songwriter and a guitarist, at least in the top five of the greatest songwriter in the last 100 years or so. He has written an absurd number of songs and many stars whose songs you have heard that are hits were actually written by him you just never heard him even sing them.
Bob was stressed out knowing that he was soon to go electric, and he knew that many of his fans would reject this. Also, he was doing a lot of drugs, maybe because of that stress. I think that might have contributed to the ridiculously fast temp of this performance
Bob Dylan was a bigger deal in the early to mid sixties than he was afterwards. That was when he did his best work, later on he just wanted to be a pop star.
Bob wanting to be a pop star? I would love to hear what he would have to say about that. You would have to take cover. Blood on the Tracks, one of his finest albums, was released in the seventies and was certainly not the product of a man looking to be a “pop star.”
For this song "The Times They Are a Changin'" and another one you just listened to, "Blowin' in the Wind" -- of course all respect to Dylan as the writer -- but you MUST listen to Peter Paul and Mary's versions of BOTH of these songs -- magical, transcendent, so riveting, I hope you get to see this suggestion.
He was already iconic at this moment.....the tip of the spear of cultural and musical change!
A spokesperson for his generation and beyond. Very popular during his time…
yes he was huge from the begining, every time a new album came out i listened over and over. But then again there were many different segments and types of music all happening at the same time and in the early 60s people would listen to them all. You could turn on the radio and hear Dylan, Surf music, Motown, teeny bopper, country and western, jazz, ballads, crooners, and the oldies from the late 50s and all the rest within a single hour from a single station ! That's what was so great. I lived in Southern California when the first two rock n roll station were KFWB and KRLA and you could get all the types i mentioned and more. It was the best times ever for music.....
Thank you. Amazing 🤩
The times are changing more now than even during the 60’s. Great reaction.
Bob was VERY big in the 60s. A magnificent lyricist.❤❤
To your question, yes, Dylan was big,huge,he was the voice for everyone who knew what was happening in our country and decided to sing about it. His songs are as relevant now as they were then.
By 1965, Bob Dylan was a very successful singer/songwriter and his success only grew from there.
He was often called 'The voice of a generation.'
He is the only songwriter to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Yes, Bob Dylan was big back then. Definitely! Knew all his songs, all the lyrics. Radio was different back then. turn it on, you could hear Dylan, Joplin, Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones, the list goes on and on. Glad to have lived through that period, the music never gets old.
He sang at the rally in Washington DC when Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech. Like the Beatles & Stones, Dylan became huge fast. Everywhere they went they would be besieged by questions from the press, and they learned fast to play with it. In that 65 tour Dylan came to Sheffield where I lived ~ he was asked why he wore his hair so long, and he said, well, I reckon the more hair you have growing on the outside of your head the less you have growing inside
The Times They Are a-Changin' but also unfortunately never really change on a fundamental level - and that is why Dylan's lyrics still have cultural relevance even today. This song also makes me think about Dylan's own personal journey as an artist. He was constantly evolving and reinventing himself and never allowed people to box him in creatively.
All I can say ( BACK IN THE DAY).... We made it thru the 60s..... We can make NOW!!! Oh the times are a changing❤❤✌️
Good for you.................but I'm not so sure......................the next 4 years could be horrible !
I was a teenager at the time and he was a BIG DEAL. New, but still a big deal. Songs like this, to me, made Dylan the greatest songwriter of his generation. By a long way.
In the UK, in the early 60's, he was very big, with people who were into that type of music (me). I bought a Dylan EP in 1964 and took it home to play, I was 12. Dad listened in and asked me 'do you like this stuff??' 30 years later on a visit to Dad he said "look what I've bought, Son", it was a Dylan album. I said "I knew you'd get it in the end, Dad".
How true especially today, l thought this song applied to my generation at the time, but now it's message rings true again, Dylan was very popular with many in the 60's 😃. Peace 😊✌️ and Love❤ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 💃🕺 Great Reaction👍 more folk music please 🙏 The Weavers "Wimoweh - The Lion Sleeps Tonight"😴 💤
Thank you 😊
I was 14 when this song came out. He made me grow up faster than I was comfortable doing. I never got over this.
Prins Chrles ( now king) was at his concert in 65, Paul McCartney said he was waiting on the hotel to meet him, Paul said " it was like meeting the pope, " that was what Dylan ment in the 60s.
I'm 73 yes he was a big deal. He was like the king of folk rock. Folk Rock was the sign of the times. Lyrics was the message. He was decades ahead of his time. His message STILL applies to today. His music had a bunch of huge hits such as Lay Lady Lay and Knocking on Heaven's Door just to name a few.
I was in elementary school in the 60s and we sang, "Blowin' In The Wind" in our classes in school. So, yes, his music was well known in the 60s. "Mr Tambourine Man" was also very popular.
With Dylan, right from the beginning, it was always what will he say next. He was mind expanding for many. He was speaking for a generation.
He came out of nowhere, for me. He started in folk music but went big when he switched from acoustic instruments to electrically amplified music.
He didn't like it, but he was the voice of his generation.
Bob was one of the people who brought folk music into the rock world and led to groups like Pure Prairie League and CSN&Y. He was well known.
Folk music was more about telling a story or sending a message than a good beat and guitar solos. Dylan excelled at that. ☮❤🎶
He was big from the beginning. As Joan Baez said about Bob Dylan: "You burst on the scene already a legend." That pretty much sums it up.
GOD BLESS GUYS, HAVE A BLESSED SUNDAY! 💯😊
Bob Dylan's songs won him a Nobel Prize for Literature. When he sang, people listened. Believe it or not, Bob Dylan was a bigger deal then than he is now.
Exactly. We can imagine people listened when Bob was singing. Amazing 😍
When he sang this the times were changing. The youth were rising up like never before and turning against war and discrimination. The youth of this time were more aware than those before. And the established order was shaken. They were rattled. And it took them quite a while to get back to where they could easily divide and fool us all.
He had a couple of mainstream radio hits, but back then, FM radio was the 'alternative' radio where you heard him. In my life, he was well known at the time. Remember the times: Viet Nam, Kent State, the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Patti Hurst...turbulent times, indeed. Now..' Love Minus Zero No Limit' and also 'The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest' by Dylan but covered by Gerry Garcia and David Grisman gotta be my favorites
This is a great one from Dylan, love the harmonica 😊
He won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Other Folk singers to watch. Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary, and Kingston Trio.
Fantastic classic Bob Dylan ❤❤❤❤
Yes they are❤
He was originally categorised as a protest singer, in the tradition of Woody Guthrie. He went on of course to defy categorisation. I find his live perfomances to be a bit like russian roulette, in that five times out of six he fires blanks, but the sixth time, he kills.
Dylan HUGE in the day. He was introduced to the world with the help of Joan Baez, who brought him on stage with her. Dylan was just meant to be, he rose out of the quagmire and spoke for his generation.
Dylan attended the University of Minnesota (1959) for only a half year but, I was once told by a woman who was on campus at the same time, "He had a following even then". Later, in the year of 1961, Dylan arrived in Greenwich Village New York and developed (at age 19-20) a new and larger following. Released his first album in 1962.
Dylan isn't so much a rabbit hole, as a whole warren lol. his Masters of War is a masterpiece. But then all his songs are.
Hi bob was huge in the 60’s … yes very popular
Bob Dylan was a very big deal.He captured a moment.President Kennedy was assassinated 3 months before this was released The Civil rights movement started and the Viet Nam war protests began. A tumultuous time in our history . You got it right guys. What memories this brings up.
In 1965 Bob was known in the counter-culture, he wasn't what you would call popular. Popular was the Beatles, Stones, Beach boys and Many Motown groups. In July of 65 Bob's first radio hit, Like a rolling Stone made it to #2 on the charts.
He was both famous and infamous depending on who you asked.
very big with young people as were many folk singers . avery popular tv show was Hootenanny showcasing folk music
You got to remember the Brits and Americans are best of friends separated by a Common Language it's amazing that the audience understood half of what he said
He was and remains an incredibly big deal. As Joan Baez sings about him in Diamonds and Rust, you burst on the scene already a legend! Yes, he just exploded on the scene by 1964. There was never anyone quite like him before or since. He left home in Minnesota and came to Greenwich Village in New York City in the early 60s where the music scene was very fertile
Today we have Jesse Welles, a prolific songwriter and talented musician kind of in the style of Bob Dylan. It will be interesting to follow his trajectory. Jesse puts out a couple songs a week, the videos are of just him, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and adding harmonica to guitar on instrumental bits.
Very ironic, a progressive song on the day the clock
was set back 60 years.
He sang at the I had a dream
speech and we just heard
I have a nightmare speech
followed by YMCA with a
dancing orange bear. Time
to revive this song.In those
days we sat in a coffee joint
after school where the juke
box had Ticket to ride, Like
a rolling stone, Satisfaction
all recent hits. 😢❤
Before the rabbit trail ends someone needs to suggest Hurricane cause it is musically so different.
Yep! Our next one 😁 Already on 💚
The New movie tells the story straight ! A must watch.
The Beatles look up to Dylan, and he liked them. They were the major influencers of the 60s, the Hippie movment and the rest would never happend without them.
Bob Dylan was a huge deal. I would suggest with Dylan it's usually better to hear his studio versions of his songs first before listening live. Sometimes it's difficult to hear the words clearly live and with his songs the poetry is the point. I'm enjoying your dive into our national treasure.❤
You might want to go from this song to "A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall". Released May 27, 1963. This was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The song on the album is wonderful. This version too is unforgettable : Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Nara, Japan, May 22, 1994).
He was extremely popular back in the 60s and his songs were used in the civil rights movement. He was a keen observer of social and political mood and his lyrics captured the times and his words and message are still relevant, maybe even more so.
He was huge with young people across colleges and universities around the world. He was already moving away from this very direct form of protest and was starting to get into a more personal and poetic exploration of society and the human condition.
Dylan was huge back then. As big as it gets.
Dylan was one of the Fathers of the movement
😑😔🙏🏽💔✌🏾the more things change yet somehow they stay the same
He was a big deal, The Beatles were also on the scene, folk would go to a Beatles concert and no one could hear what they were singing, so much screaming and hysterics, a Dylan concert folk wanted to hear the lyrics, he often performed his songs before they were out on albums, you could hear a pin drop. This is a little faster than the album.
Bob Dylan was a major force in the sixties. I was 20 years old and times were changing - opposition to Vietnam war, sex was more open, relationships were different, music changed dramatically. Peter paul and Mary did a more melodic version but Bob was not subtle.
Recommend watching Martin Scorsese's documentary "No Direction Home" tolesrn about young Bob and American culture back in the 60's. He became "1" in the folk music crowd and then he went electric and became popular for a younger crowd.
He could see the changes in society coming...antiwar, civil rights, young people living different lives than their parents.
I would suggest "Song to Woody" for a next song by Dylan. Great reaction.
Yes he was big from about 1964 or even a bit earlier. He was there, big, and getting bigger.
Beautiful song.
I think people also felt his music supported them. He represented them.
Dylan is the pure an the raw, but Joan Baez sings his Songs perfekt.
Lots of cheering and applause. The next year was booing and shouts of traitor.
I highly recommend the movie out now about Dylan called ''The Complete Unknown'' -- those curious about him will be taken to another level ...IMO
Super, thank you 😊
Dylan was getting big in 1962, got even bigger in 1963, and by 1965 he was massively embiggened
He was a big deal...❤
He still is a big deal.
Timeless, but we also need a Bob Dylan for our time. A social movement to stand up for human rights and democracy is just as important now as is was then. It's the only defence we have against an autocratic, dystopian society.
Dylan was always big.
For this song "The Times They Are a Changin'" and another one you just listened to, "Blowin' in the Wind" -- of course all respect to Dylan as the writer -- but you MUST listen to Peter Paul and Mary's versions of BOTH of these songs -- magical, transcendent, so riveting, I hope you get to see this suggestion.
Check out the song “Shelter from the Storm” by Bob Dylan. A great song.
If you want to learn about Dylan, check out the new book, "You Don't Need a Weatherman: Bob Dylan for Beginners "
Bob Dylan's popularity was a slow build - his songs were respected by other artists, and eventually many of them started spreading his songs on their albums, such as Joan Baez and Peter Paul & Mary and The Byrds. The Beatles were influenced by Dylan, too.
At the time, American society was deeply divided. Over-simplified, there were fans of the Cold War who felt the US was leading the fight against godless communism. Then there were those who didn't find US policy to be very righteous. Fold in woman's rights, other civil rights and it's familiar political divides. Dylan is from the US folk music tradition that usually found itself in opposition to the wealthy and powerful.
So he was both loved and hated.
That's interesting. Thank you 😊
Bob Dylan has even joked that he has never been a professional singer. He's a songwriter and a guitarist, at least in the top five of the greatest songwriter in the last 100 years or so. He has written an absurd number of songs and many stars whose songs you have heard that are hits were actually written by him you just never heard him even sing them.
Bob was stressed out knowing that he was soon to go electric, and he knew that many of his fans would reject this. Also, he was doing a lot of drugs, maybe because of that stress. I think that might have contributed to the ridiculously fast temp of this performance
Yes,he was a big deal back then. His were some of my first albums that I bought as a teen.
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Bob Dylan was a bigger deal in the early to mid sixties than he was afterwards. That was when he did his best work, later on he just wanted to be a pop star.
Bob wanting to be a pop star? I would love to hear what he would have to say about that. You would have to take cover. Blood on the Tracks, one of his finest albums, was released in the seventies and was certainly not the product of a man looking to be a “pop star.”
For this song "The Times They Are a Changin'" and another one you just listened to, "Blowin' in the Wind" -- of course all respect to Dylan as the writer -- but you MUST listen to Peter Paul and Mary's versions of BOTH of these songs -- magical, transcendent, so riveting, I hope you get to see this suggestion.