>>That hadn’t happened in a while: Ever since Scott McKenzie went to San Francisco with flowers in his hair the previous summer, the Yanks had been frosted out of the top spot in Britain. Whether Londoners (Manfred Mann with “Mighty Quinn”, Love Affair with “Everlasting Love”), Scousers (the Beatles with “Hello, Goodbye” and “Lady Madonna”), Northerners (Georgie Fame, “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde”), East Midlanders (Long John Baldry, “Let the Heartaches Begin”), Wiltshire lads (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, “The Legend of Xanadu” - our co-Song of the Week #112), semi-Aussies (the Bee Gees, “Massachusetts”), Anglo-Indians (Engelbert with “The Last Waltz” and Cliff with “Congratulations”), or West Indians with a token Ceylonese (the Foundations, “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You”), the Number One pop stars were all British subjects
Ah but Mighty Quinn was written by Bob Dylan. Everlasting Love was written by Buzz Cason. Each was American with a long history of writing and performing.
Cason’s journey brought him into the Crickets (post Buddy Holly), also writing a song that would later be covered by the Beatles, U2, and Pearl Jam (Solider of Love), writing his biggest hit Everlasting Love, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Cason
Are the lyrics to “Mighty Quinn” the reason why Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?