All I Really Want to Do

Infobox Song
Name = All I Really Want to Do


Caption = Album cover
Type =
Artist = Bob Dylan
alt Artist =
Album = Another Side of Bob Dylan
Published =
Released = 1964
Genre = Folk
track_no =
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 4:04
Writer = Bob Dylan
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Tom Wilson
Chart position =
Tracks =#"All I Really Want to Do"
#"Black Crow Blues"
#"Spanish Harlem Incident"
#"Chimes of Freedom"
#"I Shall Be Free No. 10"
#"To Ramona"
#"Motorpsycho Nitemare"
#"My Back Pages"
#"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"
#"Ballad in Plain D"
#"It Ain't Me Babe"
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Misc = Infobox Single
Name = All I Really Want to Do


Artist = Cher
from Album = All I Really Want to Do
B-side = "I'm Gonna Love You"
Released = 1965
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1965
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 2:59
Label = Imperial Records
Writer = Bob Dylan
Producer = Sonny Bono
Certification = Gold (RIAA)
Last single =
This single = "All I Really Want to Do"
(1965)
Next single = "Where Do You Go?"
(1965)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = All I Really Want to Do
Type = Studio
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "All I Really Want to Do"
track_no = 1
next_track = "I Go to Sleep"
next_no = 2

"All I Really Want to Do" is a song written by Bob Dylan.

ong information

"All I Really Want to Do" was first released on Dylan's 1964 album "Another Side of Bob Dylan".The studio version was also included on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II" in 1971, and live versions were released on "Bob Dylan at Budokan" in 1979 and on "" in 2004.

Musically simple though playful, "All I Really Want to Do" is essentially a list of all the things Dylan does not want to do or be to the listener (perhaps a woman, but just as likely his audience as a whole). This song has also been interpreted as a parody of the way men were beginning to respond to the growing feminist movement, by assuming that platonic friendship is the only truly equal relationship.

History

One hit rendition of the song was by Cher. "All I Really Want to Do" was Cher's debut single, it went on to chart in several countries in 1965. She continued to perform the song in concerts, through her 2000s .

The version by The Byrds, also released in 1965, garnered popularity and became a hit as well. Their version set one of Dylan's verses to an original, minor-key bridge.

Other covers

*The Byrds: "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965)
*Hugues Aufray: "Hugues Aufray Chante Dylan" (1965)
*Duane Eddy: "Duane Does Dylan" (1965)
*The McCoys: "Hang on Sloopy" (1965)
*Billy Strange: "Folk Rock Hits" (1965)
*The Surfaris: "It Ain't Me Babe" (1965)
*Baroque Inevitable: "Baroque Inevitable" (1966)
*Sebastian Cabot: "Sebastian Cabot, Actor - Bob Dylan, Poet" (1967); "Golden Throats, Volume 2: More Celebity" (1991)
*The Hollies: "Hollies Sing Dylan" (1969)
*Bold: "Bold" (1970)
*World Party: "Private Revolution" (1986)
*The Four Seasons: "Four Seasons Sing Big Hits" (1988)
*Flower Power: "Flower Power" (1990)
*The Hooters on "The Hooters Live" (1994)
*Julian Coryell: "Duality" (1997)
*Gerald Quintana and Jordi Batiste: "Els Miralls de Dylan" (1999)
*Barb Jungr: "Every Grain of Sand" (2002); "Waterloo Sunset" (2003); "Love Me Tender" (2005); "Walking in the Sun" (2006); "Just Like A Woman - A Hymn to Nina" (2008)
*Bryan Ferry: "Dylanesque" (2007)
*Tim Fagan: "Moving Fast" (2008)

Charts

Cher