It Ain't Me Babe
| "It Ain't Me Babe" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song by Bob Dylan from the album Another Side of Bob Dylan | ||||
| Released | August 8, 1964 | |||
| Recorded | June 9, 1964 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
| Composer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
| Producer(s) | Tom Wilson | |||
| Another Side of Bob Dylan track listing | ||||
|
||||
| 11 tracks |
|---|
|
"It Ain't Me Babe" is a song by Bob Dylan that originally appeared on his fourth album Another Side of Bob Dylan, which was released in 1964 by Columbia Records. According to music critic Oliver Trager, this song, along with others on the album, marked a departure for Dylan as he began to explore the possibilities of language and deeper levels of the human experience. Within a year of its release, the song was picked up as a single by artists who were forging the folk rock movement, including The Turtles and The Byrds.
Dylan's biographers generally agree that the song owes its inspiration to his former girlfriend Suze Rotolo. He reportedly began writing the song during his visit to Italy in 1963 while searching for Rotolo, who was studying there.
Clinton Heylin reports that a Times reporter at a May 1964 Royal Festival Hall concert where Dylan first played "It Ain't Me" took the chorus "no, no, no" as a parody of the Beatles' "yeah, yeah, yeah" in "She Loves You". The melody in both phrases uses a scale descending through a minor third. (Dylan played at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, May 17, 1964. The Times reviewed the performance in the following day's edition under the heading of "A Minnesota Minstrel." However, the review makes no mention of "It Ain't Me, Babe.")
...
Wikipedia