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"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. It has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom.
In spite of the song's title, it is not a blues but rather a folk song that uses the same chord pattern as Pachelbel's Canon. [1] Dylan scholar and musicologist Eyolf Ostrem notes that "[m]usically, it is a close cousin of "'Cross the Green Mountain" with which it shares the ever-descending bass line and some of the chord shadings that never manage to decide whether they're major or minor (and ...
Hollies Sing Dylan is a 1969 cover album featuring songs written by Bob Dylan and performed by the Hollies.It is their eighth UK album. It was also released in the US as Words and Music by Bob Dylan with a different cover but using the same band image and track order. [7]
In the Wind is the third album by the American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in October 1963, a few months before the arrival of the Beatles heralded the British Invasion. It was reissued on audio CD in 1990. The lead-off single of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" sold 300,000 copies in
"Blowing Kisses in the Wind" is a song by American singer and dancer Paula Abdul, taken from her second studio album Spellbound (1991). Written by Peter Lord and produced by Lord and V. Jeffrey Smith, it was released as the album's third official single on October 17, 1991, exclusively to North America, Australia, and Japan, as the album's next single "Vibeology" would be released in Europe ...
For many a stormy wind shall blow, ere Jack comes home again. Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main; For many a stormy wind shall blow ere Jack comes home again! Verse 2 The sailor's life is bold and free, His home is on the rolling sea; And never heart more true or brave, Than his who launches on the wave; Afar he speeds in distant climes ...
In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon speculate that the lyrics may be a holdover from Dylan's previous album of original material, 2009's Together Through Life, where Dylan co-wrote all but one of the songs with Robert Hunter (whereas "Duquesne Whistle" is the ...
When the Wind Blows" marked the second contribution from Bowie to a film based on a Raymond Briggs book – he contributed a filmed introduction to The Snowman in 1982. [3] Bowie's song was the result of a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kızılçay , who would work with Bowie for another 10 years on such projects as Never Let Me ...