The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)

Infobox Single
Name = The Times They Are a-Changin'


Caption = Album cover
Artist = Bob Dylan
from Album = The Times They Are a-Changin'
Released = 1964
track_no = 1
Format = 7"
Recorded = October 24, 1963 at Columbia Studios, New York City
Genre = Folk
Length = 3:15
Label = Columbia
Writer = Bob Dylan
Producer = Tom Wilson
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single =
This single = "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Next single =
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = The Times They Are a-Changin'
Type = studio
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
track_no = 1
next_track = "Ballad of Hollis Brown"
next_no = 2Infobox Song
Name = The Times They Are a-Changin'


Caption =
Artist = The Beach Boys
Album = Beach Boys' Party!
Released = 8 November 1965
track_no = 11
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length = 2:23
Composer = Bob Dylan
Label = Capitol
Producer = Brian Wilson
Tracks =
#"Hully Gully"
#"I Should Have Known Better"
#"Tell Me Why"
#"Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"
#"Mountain of Love"
#"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
#"Devoted to You"
#"Alley Oop"
#"There's No Other (Like My Baby)"
#"Medley:I Get Around/Little Deuce Coupe"
#"The Times They Are a-Changin' "
#"Barbara Ann""The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1964 album of the same name. In 2004, this song was #59 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Dylan's friend, Tony Glover, recalls visiting Dylan's apartment in September 1963, where he saw a number of song manuscripts and poems lying on a table. "The Times They Are-a Changin'" had yet to be recorded, but Glover saw its early manuscript. After reading the words "come senators, congressmen, please heed the call", Glover reportedly asked Dylan: "What is this shit, man?", to which Dylan responded, "Well, you know, it seems to be what the people like to hear".

A protest song, it is often viewed as a reflection of the generation gap and of the political divide marking American culture in the 1960s. Dylan, however, disputed this interpretation in 1964, saying "Those were the only words I could find to separate aliveness from deadness. It had nothing to do with age." A year later, Dylan would say: "I can't really say that adults don't understand young people any more than you can say big fishes don't understand little fishes. I didn't mean ['The Times They Are a-Changin'] as a statement... It's a feeling."

The song was used at the end of The Wonder Years episode #67

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many other artists, most notably Joan Baez, The Seekers, Marc Bolan , Phil Collins, Simon and Garfunkel, and Nina Simone (on 1969s "To Love Somebody"), and recently by Blackmore's Night and Les Fradkin.

The Beach Boys recorded a cover of the song for their 1965 album Beach Boys' Party!. Damien Leith also covered this song for his 2008 album .

The Byrds also recorded a cover of the song for their 1965 album Turn! Turn! Turn!.

Bruce Springsteen covered this song, with Dylan in attendance, in a concert to honor the artist at The Kennedy Center. [ [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1428464/19971209/dylan_bob.jhtml Bob Dylan Honored at Kennedy Center] , MTV.com, accessed on 2008-06-24]

Burl Ives covered the song on his 1968 album "The Times They Are A-Changin'", named after Dylan's song.

Billy Joel was another famous artist who covered this song, the track can be found on the album My Lives.

John Mellencamp made a home-video recording of the song on a web-cam on September 2, 2008 and put it up on his website the next day as a statement about the possible change the 2008 Presidential Election could bring to America.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes covered the song in their EP Turn Japanese.

References

External links

* [http://bobdylan.com/songs/times.html Lyrics at official Bob Dylan site]