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1. It was perhaps the most famous of all covers of a Bob Dylan song. Who recorded "Mr Tambourine Man" and took it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and later saw it on the covers disc "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

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.

2. Come all, without, come all within: whose cover of the Bob Dylan song "The Mighty Quinn" reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and was included on the covers disc "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

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"

3. Who was it made "All Along The Watchtower" so much his own that even Bob Dylan was impressed? It was track three on the covers disc "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Jimi Hendrix

The Jimi Hendrix Experience chartered just seven times on the Billboard Hot 100. "All Along The Watchtower" was their best performer, reaching number 20 in October 1968.

In 2008 "Total Guitar" magazine conducted a poll that voted this "the best cover song of all time."

Dylan included the song on the LP "John Wesley Harding" in 1967. According to songfacts.com: "Dylan liked Hendrix's version so much, he began playing the Hendrix version instead of his own."

4. Which Belfast boy's cover of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" by Bob Dylan was on the CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'", a compilation of covers?

Answer: Van Morrison

Morrison and his band, Them, included the song on their second album "Them Again" in 1966.

Dylan included it on the album "Bringing It All Back Home" in 1965.

5. Which English-born but Scottish-minded singer sailed into the studio to record Bob Dylan's "Only A Hobo" and had it featured on the covers CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Rod Stewart

Stewart included "Only A Hobo" on his second solo album, "Gasoline Alley" in 1970.

Stewart has covered several other Dylan songs over the years, including "If Not for You"; "Just Like a Woman"; "Sweetheart Like You"; and "Tomorrow Is A Long Time".

Dylan wrote the song in 1963 and it is included on his album "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991".

6. Years before he sang "Tears From Heaven", which legendary British guitarist covered Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and later saw it included on the compilation CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton released "Knocking' On Heaven's Door" as a single in 1975 and it made number 38 in the UK but was nowhere on the charts in the USA.

The song was included on several Clapton albums, and he regularly sang it in concert.

The song was written for the 1973 Western movie "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid", in which Dylan had a cameo role. It appeared on the soundtrack album.

Twenty years later, Dylan allowed Scottish singer Ted Christopher to add a verse in memory of the schoolchildren killed in the Dunblane school shooting. It was a UK number one single.

7. Which blue-eyed British singer got it all to stick together when he had a UK number ten hit with Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" and saw it featured on the covers CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Brian Ferry

In 1973, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" was Brian Ferry's first UK top ten hit, just squeezing it at number ten. It was on his album "These Foolish Things".

A clue in the question alludes to "Let's Stick Together", Brian Ferry's third solo album after leaving Roxy Music. It was released in 1976.

Eddie Brickell & New Bohemians took "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" to number 28 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts in February 1990.

Dylan included the song on "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" in 1963. He wrote it in Greenwich Village on a typewriter owned by Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) as a poem. Tom Paxton persuaded him to add music and turn it into a song.

8. Which progressive bluesman from the Lone Star State had a recording of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" included on the covers CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Johnny Winter

Winter included "Highway 61 Revisited" on his second album, "Second Winter" in 1969.

Four years earlier it had been the title track of an album by Dylan.

Winter, who died at the age of 70 in 2014, was described by 'Rolling Stone' magazine as: "...one of the first blues rock guitar virtuosos."

Winter was admired for the raw power of his singing and playing and concert-goers loved it. For all that, he did not unduly trouble the charts, barely making it into the Hot 100 with "Johnny B. Goode, number 92 in 1970; and "Jumpin' Jack Flash", number 89 in 1971.

In the book book "Chronicles": Dylan wrote: "Highway 61 begins about where I came from, Duluth, to be exact."
"I always felt like I'd started on it, always had been on it, and could go anywhere from it."

9. Which Nashville Tennessee rockers saw their cover of Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" included in the covers CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Jason And The Scorchers

Jason And The Scorchers included "Absolutely Sweet Marie"on "Both Sides Of The Line" in 1996.

The band got together in Nashville, Tennessee in 1981 and for a few brief years in the mid 1980s were described as one of the best live bands around.

They recorded sporadically and were still touring almost 40 years later.

Dylan included "Absolutely Sweet Marie" on "Blonde on Blonde" in 1996.

10. As solo artists, one was renowned for his singing and the other for his guitar playing. Which duo's cover of the Bob Dylan song "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry", recorded without much blood, sweat, or tears, appeared on the CD "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"?

Answer: Al Kooper and Steven Stills

Kooper was in at the start for the formation of Blood Sweat and Tears. In 1968 he persuaded Mike Bloomfield and Steven Stills to join him on an album called "Super Session".

Kooper and Bloomfield sang five tracks on side one, and Stills joined Kooper for four on side two. One of these was "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry".

The song itself was on Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" in 1965. The lyrics were a mixture of Dylan's own combined with snatches from blues standards.

It was also one of the songs that Dylan played in his controversial electrified performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. The songs were greeted with boos from Dylan fans.

Source: Author darksplash

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

In 1998, the PolyGram record company released a CD of Bob Dylan songs as covered by other artists. From the clues, work out who the singers were on the disc "And The Times They Were A-Changin'"

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