Posted on 05/20/2009 1:11:32 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A "poem" purportedly written by a teenage Bob Dylan and up for auction at Christie's is actually a song written by the late Canadian country singer Hank Snow, the auction house said on Wednesday. Christie's announced on Tuesday the sale of the hand-written poem believed to have been written in 1957 when Dylan was 16 and away at Jewish camp. But Christie's failed to detect that the words, with a few minor variations, matched those of a song previously recorded by Snow, who died in 1999 at age 85.
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bob dylan’s another washup
So Dylan stole more from just Woody Guthrie “These tunes I am a-changin’” as NatLamp once put it.
“Christie’s announced on Tuesday the sale of the hand-written poem believed to have been written in 1957 when Dylan was 16 and away at Jewish camp.”
“Jewish camp”? If I was a Jew, I wouldn’t fall for that one again. I’ll spend my summer at home, thanks.
Try that again:
So Dylan stole more than just from Woody Guthrie “These tunes I am a-changin’” as NatLamp once put it.
I think Dylan would sound good covering those songs. The Rolling Stones did a good cover of I'm Movin' On.
LOL! I guess Bob Zimmerman never stole from that half witted Stalinist Pete Seeger. Talk about a useful idiot.
Saturday Night Live had a sketch where a young Bob Dylan was visiting Woody Guthrie in the hospital. It alleged that Dylan stole ideas/lyrics from him; at one point he says something to Guthrie who replies, “Yeah, they’ll stone ya for playin’ your guitar!”, and Dylan scribbles the lyric down quickly...
Such is the bias of critics.
Nobody today could cover this Hank Snow number.
“Little Buddy” is a real tear-jerker.
My father used to sing snatches of it sometimes, along with “The Orphan’s Song” and “When the Work’s All Done Next Fall”.
Great songs, but they would raise only sneers, not tears, in today’s cynical media culture.
...Great pic, haven’t seen it for a while. An old friends dad had an album with that shot. Good on yer...
How long before these exact words show up in a Maureen Dowd column?
...I heard Hanks versions, “I’m movin on”, and “When the work’s all done this fall, and when I got back to playing guitar, and I heard Doc Watson pickin em, I put em in my rotation...
What kind of country are we that we have a magazine with the headlines: Mike Tyson Repents, The Dirtiest Girl in Porn, and Inside Obama’s War Council all in the same issue?
Steppenwolf did a nice job on I’m Movin’ On as well - great song!!!!!!!!
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