Bob Dylan’s I Want You

https://youtu.be/-iIS6ZZ9RVA

which he played to Françoise Hardy in his Paris dressing room in 1966 as his French was limited, like her English.

A different song of the same name by Marvin Gaye and later covered by Madge.

Bob also wrote a song called Sara but you’ve been over that ground before.

IUka MS

https://youtu.be/2z3tiLbOMtk

I’m afraid although Bob has written many, many songs he hasn’t a complete A-Z, which is why I have to go to Linda Ronstadt and others sometimes, albeit with some reluctance. I will consider covers next time!

Paterson NJ

https://youtu.be/bpZvg_FjL3Q

As Andy Stewart was born in Glasgow, he’s entitled to that song, Paul.

But not this next one: Inverness.

https://youtu.be/6N-5ItHwdJk

https://youtu.be/rxIJnZQmTt4

East Orange NJ

One for the judge!

Two for the price of one, one we’ve just had above too!

TeXarkana TX and KnoXville TN

“I’ve been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana

Washington, Houston, Kingston, TeXarkana,<br aria-hidden=”true”>Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa<br aria-hidden=”true”>Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa<br…

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The album Imagine was number one in both the UK and the US in 1971.

By the mid-70s, certainly in the UK, the Beatles were far less popular.

Sadly, Beatles tourism

In Liverpool was kick started by John’s murder in 1980.

I visited Liverpool in 1974 and had to make up my own walking and bus tour. No Beatles Museum, no Magical Mystery tours, no…

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https://youtu.be/cF4duqDaK6c

Bob’s song about going to see Elvis in Las Vegas.

I seen the arrow on the doorpost<br aria-hidden=”true”>Saying this land is condemned<br aria-hidden=”true”>All the way from New Orleans<br aria-hidden=”true”>To Jerusalem …

https://youtu.be/_AIRdU6CPf0

(Just Like) Starting Over was released as a single before John Lennon’s murder.

In the UK, it had peaked at 8 and fallen to number 21, before Lennon’s death propelled it back up to number 1.

It was, however, overtaken to the Christmas Number One Single that year by the awful, at least to my ears, St Winifred’s School Choir’s “There’s No One…

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Champaign IL

https://youtu.be/X0jcDa2qfE8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrp9967v0po.amp

Apologies if this link may not work from some countries …

https://youtu.be/BxDU9Q2RDBc

1997 /

Well my heart's in the Highlands gentle and fair 
Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air 
Bluebelles blazing, where the ABERDEEN waters flow 
Well my heart's in the Highland, 
I'm gonna go there when I feel good enough to go 

Scots be interested if this a reference
to Scotland, where Dylan once…

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Roseanna in TeXarkana (again).

https://youtu.be/QuJroujjYDk

Omaha (again!)

https://youtu.be/23khUjxKZiE

I got a woman in Jackson, I ain’t gonna say her name.

https://youtu.be/DYBE-F8FIfk

Number one around my birthday, but in Britain it was Lita Roza’s cover version. For trivia buffs, Lita was probably the first Liverpudlian to top the British charts, a decade before The Beatles.

One of the first “new” records I remember was From Me To You in April 1963. My primary school class (P6) allowed four of us to entertain our own…

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We’re a bit spolied for choice in Scotland with alternative twins like The Proclaimers, but I offer Dougie MacLean who is now old enough to be able to include grandchildren in some of his backing bands. His wife painted a number of his album covers too. They bought his old Perthshire schoolhouse, Butterstone, and turned it into a home,…

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A bootleg CD of Bob Dylan at London’s Royal Festival Hall

on 17 May 1964, the first public performance of Mr Tambourine Man.

Chicago

https://youtu.be/3HAjuE9kZdE

Xanthi, in Greece. Pronounced Zanthi.

https://youtu.be/72bgi8t5uCo

Saw her in Glasgow at the Apollo in 1976, supported by the late Andrew Gold, who was also her band leader at the time. Ronstadt came on stage wearing a tartan scarf to get the audience on side, but she didn’t need to.

In 1985 a friend and I visited her father’s hardware store in Tucson AZ, on the kind of daft road trip Brits used to do, and…

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Tangier.

https://youtu.be/BWzMVNy0YwE

VC is part of New Orleans, means “old square”, takes one (me, an old square) to know one.

It appears in the Linda Ronstadt song for Y above.

Vieux Carré is in New Orleans btw, not Japan. Warren Zevon, the songwriter, was obviously struggling for a rhyme with “mama”!

Linda Ronstadt

Well, I met a boy in the Vieux Carres

Down in YOKOHAMA

Picked me up and he threw me down

He said, “Please don’t hurt me, mama”

https://youtu.be/HDolNfsBuX4

At least 23 TeXarkana songs hereabouts

https://www.leadershiptexarkana.com/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2018&month=04&day=21&id=343:did-you-know-texarkana-stars-in-songs-worldwide

Wabasha MN

https://youtu.be/VE6-uc1zr3s

inspired by the intersection of Highway 56 and Wabasha Street in St. Paul, also Minnesota.

Leningrad Cowboys, a Finnish band, released Ulaan Baatar Girls in 1996.

https://youtu.be/wV4qQ1VcKg0

I think I should stick to Bob.

Sleepin' in the woods by a fire in the night
Drinkin' white rum in a Portugal bar
Them playin' leap-frog and hearin' about Snow White
You in the market place in Savanna-la-Mar

Savanna-la-Mar is a town in southwest Jamaica (east of Negril).

https://youtu.be/Ma7BK2MJNqo

https://youtu.be/3kh6K_-a0c4

Stuck Inside of Mob-I-le with the Memph-I-s Blues AgaIn?

Well I found myself in Griffin, in the year of ’83
When a world-famous drover come a-walkin’ up to me

Saskatchewan, not GA.

https://youtu.be/IffF74xKDjM

Paul, will be pleased. I was too late posting this one ….

https://youtu.be/PDBXQFeMb-I

Finchley.

New Vaudeville Band. 1967.

I may regret wasting an “X” with that “D”?!

Delacroix LA

https://youtu.be/QKcNyMBw818

Yes, even more Bob.

https://youtu.be/zHC8oSljELI

Williams’ Point is in Ontario.

But there’s also one in Antarctica

“Crash on the levee, mama<br aria-hidden=”true”>Water’s gonna overflow<br aria-hidden=”true”>Swamp’s gonna rise<br aria-hidden=”true”>No boat’s gonna row<br aria-hidden=”true”>Now, you can train on down<br aria-hidden=”true”>To Williams’…

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Juarez

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Bob Dylan

https://youtu.be/doIMYvZyo_k

https://youtu.be/17OeKTogwB8

Duquesne PA

My wife likes canals, lakes, etc. and “transporter” bridges like the aerial lift bridge in Duluth and a similar one in Middlesborough in Northern England.

She’ll watch traffic for hours.

We also have the Falkirk Wheel here in Scotland:

https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/visit/canals/visit-the-forth-clyde-canal/attractions/the-falkirk-wheel

and…

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Duluth now holds a week of DylanFest every May in Bob’s honour.

It used to be in Hibbing MN where Bob went to school.

I took my wife (who really dislikes Dylan’s voice and will only tolerate two of Bob’s songs on my shuffle playlists, Just Like A Woman and Lay, Lady, Lay) to DylanFest in 2015.

It was in Duluth by then, but I also took her to…

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https://youtu.be/uHVTUNGIqI4

Bruxelles (among others) in yet another of Bob’s.

I think you may be right, Tim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerman,_Minnesota

https://youtu.be/236opOtuv6w

Zimmerman Blues by Ralph McTell. I’m told there are four Zimmermans in the USA alone, but none in Minnesota.

https://youtu.be/dwD2NaPWC9g

Bob’s oXford town is in MS, I guess.

This one’s arguably part of Jackson MO. Not busy, tho’, as they’re trying to redevelop it.

Where I live in Fife in Scotland, we have Upper Largo and Lower Largo just along the coast. Lower Largo is famous for Alexander Selkirk, from

whom Daniel Defoe stole his idea for Robinson Crusoe.

Quite a few places in Britain have crowd “ball games” where Uppies play Downies. I feel a Petula Clark song coming on ….

https://youtu.be/hCuMWrfXG4E

This will be controversial too, I guess

…. Uptown

If I sing I Belong To Glasgow, I don’t call it Glasgow City … and in fact it’s merely a town or toun that’s goin’ roon and roon …. I vote (rather than “bury”) Paul.

Tennessee City, TN 37055, USA