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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Music of the Civil Rights Movement

Bob Dylan performs at August 28, 1963,

March on Washington at Lincoln Memorial.

How Many Times? Seriously.

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-many-times-seriously.html

Peter Paul and Mary, Blowing in the Wind

watch?v=LIFxbOZezhE

Blowing In The Wind (Live On TV, March 1963)

How I Got Over

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-i-got-over.html

"How I Got Over" - Mahalia Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TALcOreZi0A

If I Had A Hammer

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/if-i-had-hammer.html?spref=bl

Trini Lopez If I had a hammer (1963) at UCLA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AjR-tXp8s

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4

Earth Wind & Fire - Where Have All The Flowers Gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_iWzi8Q87I

Strange Fruit

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/strange-fruit.html

He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/hes-got-whole-world-in-his-hands.html

Marian Anderson on Producer's Showcase Vol. 1 (vaimusic.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9AsA0cY8qg

All My Trials, Lord, Soon Be Over
http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/all-my-trials-lord-soon-be-over.html

We Shall Overcome

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-shall-overcome.html

Joan Baez - "We Shall Overcome" - ORIGINAL '63 issue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVb_DunGsM

The Wales Window for Alabama, created by artist John Petts, was a gift to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church from the people of Wales, U.K., after the 1963 bombing. The Christ figure is rejecting injustice with one hand and extends forgiveness with the other. (Photo by Wendy McFadden)

Sunday, April 26, 2020

National Poetry Month Poem #26

Subterranean Homesick Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
A man in the coonskin cap, in the pig pen
Wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A. Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't tie no bows
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Oh, get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Hang bail, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters

Oh, get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance
Learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't want to be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles

Bob Dylan: folk singer, songwriter, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize for Literature

Thursday, April 23, 2020

National Poetry Month: Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet?

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, painting by Julian Lennon when in pre-school

I must say I prefer John Lennon as the greatest rock poet, even though Bob Dylan probably should wear that crown, especially since he has now won the Nobel Prize for Literature! But Lennon, being an artist as well, created poetry of metaphorical paintings and the colors and images soaked with profound emotional intensity. We have recordings of poets reading their work--T.S. Eliot and the Wasteland, Robert Frost and his Snowy Evening. But nothing so dynamic as John Lennon--and his beautiful, accusatory, angry, agonized voice-- singing his personal journey of life with his friends (the Beatles) collaborating musically like Impressionist artists of rock.

Bob Dylan

Who's the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #1

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/09/whos-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-1.html?spref=bl

Greatest Rock Poet (#1 Nomination Again)

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/06/greatest-rock-poet-1-nomination-again.html?spref=bl

John and Julian Lennon

Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #2http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/09/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-2.html

Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet? Revisiting #2

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/06/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-revisiting-2.html?spref=bl

Paul McCartney

Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #3

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/06/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-3.html

Jimmy Paige and Robert Plant

Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination # 4

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2019/04/national-poetry-month-whos-greatest.html

Pete Townshend

Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #5

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2019/04/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-6.html

George Harrison

Who Is The Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #6
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2019/04/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-6_27.html

Neil Young

The Greatest Rock Poet, Nomination #7

Bono

Who Is The Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #8

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2019/04/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-8.html

Bruce Springsteen

Who Is The Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #9

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2019/04/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-9.html

Mao (1972) Andy Warhol (print)

Always wanted to match this painting with these lyrics.

Who Is the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #2

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2013/09/who-is-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-2.html

Revolution

The Beatles: Revolution (live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw

John Lennon

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
All right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
All right, all right
Ah

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
All right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right

National Poetry Month: Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize in Literature. How Does It Feel?

Bob Dylan

I first published this series on the Greatest Rock Poets (term 'rock poet' first used by John Lennon to describe Woody Guthrie)in 2012 when MzTeachuh first started out. I have always contended lyrics can be the finest of poetry. Now I feel very validated.

Who's the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #1

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/04/whos-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-1.html

Some say Bob Dylan is the greatest rock poet. My text book on Poetry, as an English Lit. major at Mount St.Mary's College, has the text of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' as a poem worth studying; included by X. J. Kennedy, the compiler. This was back in 1969! I'll nominate Bob Dylan--incredible metaphors and poetic rhythms. Much better poetry than music, in my opinion.

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (ORIGINAL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0

Like A Rolling Stone

Always the penchant for honesty.

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but know you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

I took this poem/song as a cautionary tale and led a quiet life.

Greatest Rock Poet (#1 Nomination Again) All Along the Watchtower

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/04/greatest-rock-poet-1-nomination-again.html?spref=bl

Watchtower II, Igor Pozdnyakov

Bob Dylan's poetry again.

All Along the Watchtower

"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

All Along The Watchtower --Jimi Hendrix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY&feature=kp

Saturday, April 27, 2019

National Poetry Month: Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize in Literature. How Does It Feel?

Bob Dylan

Who's the Greatest Rock Poet? Nomination #1

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/04/whos-greatest-rock-poet-nomination-1.html

Some say Bob Dylan is the greatest rock poet. My text book on Poetry, as an English Lit. major at Mount St.Mary's College, has the text of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' as a poem worth studying; included by X. J. Kennedy, the compiler. This was back in 1969! I'll nominate Bob Dylan--incredible metaphors and poetic rhythms. Much better poetry than music, in my opinion.

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (ORIGINAL)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0

Like A Rolling Stone

Always the penchant for honesty.

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but know you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

I took this poem/song as a cautionary tale and led a quiet life.

Greatest Rock Poet (#1 Nomination Again) All Along the Watchtower

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2015/04/greatest-rock-poet-1-nomination-again.html?spref=bl

Watchtower II, Igor Pozdnyakov

Bob Dylan's poetry again.

All Along the Watchtower

"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

All Along The Watchtower --Jimi Hendrix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY&feature=kp