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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:22 am
by royclough
You are both correct, got carried away!!

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:38 am
by einar
Sorry, I regret the doubled nomination of Watchtower. Did Hollies make it to the LP charts with their Hollies sing Dylan? That's my next try. (And I also like to mention Manfred Mann's With God On Our Side. Although not a hit as such)..

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:00 am
by royclough
Hollies Sing Dylan made number 3 in the UK album Charts in 69, Einar.

The thread is UK hits written by Dylan but recorded by other artists in the sixties, if we were to include just Dylan songs recorded other than those he recorded, the list would be pages long.


With God On My Side was released on a Manfred EP (Remember them)if memory serves me correctly.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:58 am
by shamustwin
Dylan wrote This Wheel's on Fire?

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:07 am
by rob_mac
He co-wrote it with Rick Danko of the Band.

Anyway a recap of songs listed so far. 17 in total.

Joan Baez - It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina
Manfred Mann - If You Gotta Go Go Now
Manfred Mann - Just Like A Woman
Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Byrds - All I Really Want To Do
Byrds - You ain’t going nowhere
Johnny Cash - It Ain't Me Babe
Peter Paul & Mary - Blowing In The Wind
Peter Paul & Mary - The times they are a changing
Stevie Wonder - Blowing In The Wind
Cher - All I Really Want To Do
Tremeloes - I Shall Be Released
Ian campbell folk group - The times they are a changing
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire
Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower

There is one more that is a definite. Any ideas??

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:15 am
by Scastles
Turtles, It Ain't Me Babe?

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:29 am
by rob_mac
No

turtles did have three chart hits in the UK, but not that one.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:53 am
by wayang
Prof. Jingle Jangle's post on this thread has given me yet another medley idea...I'll have to start work on it right away.

The title? "All Alone Along The Watchtower Again", naturally...

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:36 am
by rob_mac
One thing that struck me whilst researching this, is that Dylan really took off in a big way in 1965/66 around the same time as all the original Merseybeat groups (Beatles aside) were just going into decline. Are the two facts related? Who knows?

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:58 am
by jingle_jangle
Not related IMO. And I think Dylan took off a full year earlier. His MC accident was in May '66 (same time roughly as Jan Berry's car accident). Boom. Underground.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:07 pm
by rob_mac
In the U.K Bobs single chart career started in 1965 with 5 hits and then 4 in 1966. Followed by 2 in 1969. He may have been popular in terms of Album sales before 1965 but it was his success in the singles charts that I was referring to.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:07 am
by radiognome3
Fairport Convention's version of Percy's Song?

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:51 am
by royclough
There is one more that is a definite. Any ideas??

Alright Rob what is it.

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:31 am
by rob_mac
Ok I'll put you out of your misery!!
Cannot leave it any longer as Im off on my holidays to Spain for 2 weeks in the morning.

John was very nearly there.

It was Fairport Convention with 'Si tu dois partir' which is a Cajun French version of 'If you got to go, go now' which got to no 21 in July 1969.

From Rob

Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:55 am
by royclough
Have a good holiday, would have never got that.