I'll Keep It with Mine
| "I'll Keep It with Mine" | |
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| Song by Bob Dylan from the album The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 | |
| Released | March 26, 1991 |
| Recorded | January 27, 1966 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:39 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan |
| Producer(s) | Bob Johnston |
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| Song by Nico from the album Chelsea Girl | ||||
| Released | October 1967 | |||
| Recorded | Mayfair Sound Studios, New York City, April 4, 1967 | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Wilson | |||
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| Single by Fairport Convention | ||||
| from the album What We Did on Our Holidays | ||||
| B-side | "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) | |||
| Released | July 1969 | |||
| Length | 3:01 | |||
| Label | A&M Records 1108 (USA, 1969) | |||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
| Producer(s) | Joe Boyd | |||
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"I'll Keep It with Mine" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964, first officially released by folk singer Judy Collins as a single in 1965. Dylan attempted to record the song for his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
Dylan recorded a vocal-and-piano demo of the song for publishing company M. Witmark & Sons in June 1964, which was released by Columbia in 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964.
In mid-January 1965, during sessions for the Bringing It All Back Home album, Dylan again recorded the song solo, on piano. This version, with the working title "Bank Account Blues", was released in 1985 on the Biograph retrospective. (The album notes contradictorily indicate that this performance was recorded in June 1964 and that it was recorded in January 1965. The latter is correct.)
A full-band rehearsal of the song, recorded during the early Blonde on Blonde sessions on January 27, 1966 (per album booklet), was released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3. The rehearsal is rough and the recording starts well into the first verse, which is briefly interrupted by producer Bob Johnston on a talkback speaker, saying, "What you were doing".
During the seventh session for Blonde on Blonde – on February 15–16, 1966, at the Columbia Music Row Studios, Nashville, Tennessee – Dylan recorded at least ten instrumental takes of the song. However, not every attempt was a complete take, as takes 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are false starts, and takes 1 and 3 are interrupted.
Dylan can be seen performing the song on piano in the film 65 Revisited, which was made during his tour of England in May 1965.
The Bootleg Series version
Unreleased version
Judy Collins released the first recording of the song on a 1965 single released by Elektra Records, which never appeared on any of her albums. In the liner notes of Collins' 1993 Geffen Records album, Just Like A Woman, a Dylan tribute, she mentions that Bob told her that he'd written the song for her.
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