Bob Dylan's Dream
| "Bob Dylan's Dream" | ||||
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| Song by Bob Dylan from the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | ||||
| Released | May 27, 1963 | |||
| Recorded | April 24, 1963 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 5:03 | |||
| Label | Columbia Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
| The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan track listing | ||||
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"Bob Dylan's Dream" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1963. It was recorded by Dylan on April 24, 1963, and was released by Columbia Records a month later on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
The song was also recorded as a demo for Dylan's publishing company, M. Witmark & Sons. The demo version, taped the day before the album track, was officially released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 in October 2010. A live version of the song was also released that month on In Concert at Brandeis University 10/05/1963.
Various accounts have been proposed regarding the song's inspiration, none of them being conclusive. In one, "Bob Dylan's Dream" recalls the times Dylan had spent in Greenwich Village with comedian Hugh Romney and their friends during the early 1960s. Romney, later to become Wavy Gravy of and Merry Pranksters fame, lived above The Gaslight Cafe on MacDougal Street, where he worked as entertainment director. The two first met at the Gaslight in the spring of 1961. Dylan approached Romney about the possibility of performing and began appearing regularly at the Gaslight's hootennanies. Within a few months, he debuted at the Gaslight as a featured act.
Dylan frequently hung out upstairs in Romney's apartment and wrote one of his most significant songs there, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", in August 1962 . The next winter, in late January or early February 1963, he wrote "Bob Dylan's Dream" possibly as a nostalgic remembrance of his early days in the Village when his life was less complex.
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