Bob Dylan Trivia

1. Which combo played behind Bob Dylan for several years and had their cover of "Tears Of Rage" included on the CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

From Quiz And The Times They Were A-Changin' - Side Two

Answer: The Band

The Band evolved out of several lineups and were busy as Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks between 1959 and 1963. They parted company with Hawkins in 1963 just before they met Dylan, who was looking for musicians to support his new electrified sound. From the spring of 1966 they played with him on tour. The association lasted for about two years and included numerous recording sessions. The Band continued to play and record until 1976. "Tears Of Rage" was included on the 1968 album "Music From Big Pink", so named because they recorded in the basement of a pink house in New York State. The song was written by Dylan and The Band's lead singer Richard Manuel. It also appeared on Dylan's LP "The Basement Tapes", which was recorded in 1967 but not released until 1975. The release was credited to "Bob Dylan & The Band".

From Quiz And The Times They Were A-Changin' - Side One

Answer: The Byrds

In June 1965, "Mr Tambourine Man" became the first Dylan cover to reach the top of the Hot 100. In December of that year, The Byrds also took "Turn, Turn, Turn" to the top. In between "All I Really Want To Do" peaked at number 40. Dylan released the song on the LP "Bringing It All Back Home" in 1965. The Byrds had two number one hits on the Hot 100 with Dylan songs, but at the time this question was written in February 2020, Dylan had personally never topped the Hot 100.

From Quiz The Ragged Clown at the Gates of Eden

Answer: Newport Folk Festival

Dylan's decision to use electric instruments was said to have been a spur-of-the-moment thing on Saturday, July 24. With just a little practice before Dylan's Sunday time slot, Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band played "Maggie's Farm", "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Phantom Engineer" which would show up on the "Highway 61 Revisited" album as "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry". Besides applause there was considerable booing from the audience; the last 50-plus years have been spent speculating precisely why. Most of the songs Dylan played that day were on the "Bringing It All Back Home" album which had been released in March of that year, encountering only mild complaints for the use of electric instruments. Perhaps when 11,000 people got together in Newport, the dissatisfaction was amplified (sorry). As one music critic noted: "Dylan electrified one half of his audience, and electrocuted the other".

From Quiz Ipod Shuffle 31: Bob Dylan 04: Songs & Albums

Answer: Wiggle Wiggle

"Under the Red Sky" is rather the oddity in Dylan's catalog. Dylan normally does not have star-studded cameos on his albums, but "Under the Red Sky" is the exception. Slash, David Crosby, Elton John, Steve Ray Vaughan, Bruce Hornsby, George Harrison, and Al Kooper all play on the record. Slash plays on "Wiggle Wiggle", which is one of Dylan's most notorious songs.

From Quiz Ipod Shuffle 17: Dylan 02-Name the Album 2

Answer: Bob Dylan

Bob based the melody of his song on Guthrie's "1913 Massacre". Dylan also makes nods to such musical icons as Ledbelly and Cisco Houston. Dylan performed the song at the "30th Anniversary Concert", which Neil Young dubbed as "Bobfest". Unfortunately due to technical issues the recording was unusable for commercial release.

From Quiz Ipod Shuffle 16: Dylan 01-Name the Album 1

Answer: Down in the Groove

The song was written by Walter Bullock and Richard Whiting. Bob released the "Down in the Groove" album in 1988, and it was assembled from a hodgepodge of different recording sessions. The album, like its predecessor "Knocked Out Loaded", was critically damned.

From Quiz Bob Dylan's Topical Songs

Answer: Hurricane

Dylan writes about police corruption and false imprisonment in this song from his "Desire" album. "Doesn't it make you feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game?" he asks America. The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was made into a film called "The Hurricane" in 1999 which starred Denzel Washington.

From Quiz Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Series: Bob Dylan

Answer: John Lee Hooker

On April 11, 1961, Dylan was given the unique opportunity to open the show for the legendary John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City. Gerde's Folk City was an institution for folk and blues music in the early 1960s. People visiting the club in those days most were treated to some of the top players of the genre including Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, Phil Ochs and Doc Watson.

From Quiz Anatomy of a Song: "Sub'n Homesick Blues"

Answer: Twenty

"Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift" Hardly seems worth it, does it?

From Quiz Bob Dylan

Answer: Woody Guthrie

Dylan visited Guthrie in his sanitorium near the end of his (Guthrie's) life and ended up writing a song about him.

From Quiz Bob Dylan, My Hero!

Answer: In My Time of Dyin'

This was Bob Dylan's first album of 1962, an outtake of which was 'Man on the Street,' which can be found on the album called 'The Bootleg Series.'

From Quiz Bob and Suze

Answer: April 5, 1961

Suze saw Bob perform: it was his first paid gig.

From Quiz Bob Dylan

Answer: Robert Allen Zimmerman

Bob was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, but later changed his surname to Dylan, possibly after the late poet Dylan Thomas.

From Quiz Bob Dylan - That's Funny!

Answer: Fab!

From, "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" from the album, "Bringing It All Back Home" (1965). Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota.

From Quiz Mathematical Dylan

Answer: 0

115 X 0 = 0. "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" appears on the album "Bringing it All Back Home." "Love Minus Zero" is also titled "No Limit."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics & Songs

Answer: be friends

This song appears on 'Another Side Of Bob Dylan' - his fourth studio album which was recorded in just one night in 1964.

From Quiz About Bob Dylan's Songs

Answer: Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes

Famous for his wisecracks, Dylan delivered this line, concluding, "and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12." (See http://slate.msn.com/id/1855/)

From Quiz Bob Dylan Quotes

Answer: "Shelter From the Storm"

"When Blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud. I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. Come in, she said I'll give you shelter from the storm."

From Quiz Dylan Covers

Answer: Any Day Now

"Ring Them Bells" has several covers on it, including the title song and "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"; but "Any Day Now" (subtitled "Songs of Dylan") has nothing but Dylan covers.

From Quiz Dylan & Literary Influence

Answer: Pound & Ezra Pound

"And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot / Fighting in the captain's tower . . . / Between the windows of the sea / Where lovely mermaids flow." Dylan may also be alluding, in these last two quoted lines, to T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which contains these verses: "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea,/ By sea-girls wreathed in seaweed, red and brown,/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown."

From Quiz Dylan Biograph Revisited

Answer: Jones

"Million Dollar Bash" was part of the Basement Tapes, recorded with The Band near Woodstock, NY.

From Quiz Bob Dylan Album Covers

Answer: train

From Quiz And The Times They Were A-Changin' - Side Two

Answer: Fairport Convention

Dylan wrote "Percy's Song" in 1964. In 1969 it was picked up by the English folk-rockers Fairport Convention and featured on their "Unhalfbricking" album. Sandy Denny, who was a short-lived member of the Fairports for two spells, sang the lead. She had one of the most hauntingly beautiful voices of the 1960s and 1970s. "Si Tu Dois Partir", another Dylan composition, was Fairport Convention's most successful single, reaching number 21 in the UK in 1969. They also recorded Dylan's "Jack O'Diamonds"; "I'll Keep It With Mine"; and "Million Dollar Bash". As time passed, they concentrated on more of their own compositions. Dylan included Percy's Song on "Biograph" (1985). (Okay: you're annoyed that I put Steeleye Span in there as a red herring. So, sue me.)

From Quiz And The Times They Were A-Changin' - Side One

Answer: Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann had two Billboard number ones among the 11 songs that charted. They were "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" in 1964 and "Blinded By The Light" in 1978. Their Dylan cover was number ten in 1968. Dylan recorded "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" in 1967 for "The Basement Tapes" session. "Mighty Quinn" was not included.on the album from the sessions that was released in 1975. It was not until 1985 that a Dylan recording officially emerged on the compilation album "Biograph"

From Quiz The Ragged Clown at the Gates of Eden

Answer: Mr. Tambourine Man

After performing an electric set with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Dylan returned to the stage with an acoustic guitar and played "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Mr. Tambourine Man". Looking back at all his songs that day, they had a similar theme: unhappiness and a desire to leave, and with those songs Dylan said goodbye to traditional folk music.

From Quiz Let's Sing Like Bob Dylan!

Answer: U2

Did I fool you on this one? The key word is 'performed'. U2 performed "Maggie's Farm" on Amnesty International's "A Conspiracy of Hope Tour" in 1986, usually combining it with another song (which varied, depending on the concert). They apparently never recorded it. Between Bono's delivery and The Edge's guitar work, it had a completely different tone from Dylan's version. If you're interested, it's available on YouTube.

From Quiz Ipod Shuffle 31: Bob Dylan 04: Songs & Albums

Answer: Christmas in the Heart

2009 was quite the surprising year for the Dylan faithful, getting "Together Through Life" in April 2009. Then, just a few months later, we get a (!) Christmas album called "Christmas in the Heart". The last time Dylan recorded albums so closely together was in 1970 with "Self Portrait" and "New Morning". The Christmas album is entirely comprised with old Christmas hymns, carols, and Holiday standards (though sadly no "Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer", though Dylan did record the Gene Autry track "Here Comes Santa Claus".) If you ever want to hear Dylan sing (or more appropriately, mangle) Latin, he sings the first verse of ""O' Come All Ye Faithful" (or "Adeste Fideles") in that long dead language.

From Quiz Ipod Shuffle 17: Dylan 02-Name the Album 2

Answer: Nashville Skyline

During the "Nashville Skyline" sessions, Dylan recorded a very large number of duets with Johnny Cash. The duets are rough and haggard, and have been frequently bootleg. The famous "Is it rolling, Bob" line from "To Be Alone With You" is Dylan talking to his producer, Bob Johnston.

From Quiz Ipod Shuffle 16: Dylan 01-Name the Album 1

Answer: New Morning

"New Morning" is often considered a comeback album, coming out a few months after the trainwreck that is "Self-Portrait". However, if you go by recording sessions, "New Morning" was already completed and ready for release when "Self-Portrait" came out in 1970.

From Quiz Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Series: Bob Dylan

Answer: Woody Guthrie

The song "Song for Woody" was in reverence to the man so many folk singers looked up to as inspiration, Woody Guthrie. The other Dylan penned song on this debut album was titled "Talkin' New York". Also included on this album were the standards "Man of Constant Sorrow", "In My Time of Dyin'" and "Pretty Peggy-O". Dylan also had a version of the classic "House of the Rising Sun" on this debut, but this interpretation was not the influence for The Animals more recognizable version. That distinction belonged to Josh White, the great bluesman from the Piedmont area of North Carolina.

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