"Lay Lady Lay", I have loved this song for decades. I am 69 years old now. I actually use it as my morning alarm on my ipad for those mornings I have to go somewhere and can’t sleep in. I got to see Dylan in concert at Universal Studios Amphitheater in the late 1970s.
I've always enjoyed "Lay Lady Lay". The first time I heard it I was surprised to learn it was Bob Dylan's singing voice. It's the best I've ever heard him sound and a complete departure from his previous material.
I say all along the watchtower & like a rolling stone are my favorites of his. But I like a lot of his stuff. I grew up with his music. My parents are flower children. They were part of the counterculture. They have a lot of his records. Some they gave to me.
Funnily enough, it's usually the tunes that an artist dislikes for being different from their usual sound, which end up becoming some of their best known work.
Late today as usual. Love Dylan. ❤ I want to take this time to wish Everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Yule or whatever you celebrate. Grateful to be here, and happy to be able to listen to the Professor.
I LOVE "LAY LADY LAY"! I was a 10 year-old kid when this song was a hit. I was fortunate enough to have an older sister (who passed a few months ago) who let me listen to her records when she was out (which was a lot during her late teens) and "Nashville Skyline" was among them. The entire album is incredible, and almost criminally underplayed and underrated. Dylan's voice was smooth as silk throughout the entire album, not just "LLL". And the songs sere magnificent! The lyrics were wonderful and straightforward---no deciphering required. A couple of the standout tracks are "I Threw It All Away", "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" and "Girl From The North Country" (a duet with Johnny Cash. In general, I'm not a huge fan of country music. But there are a few notable exceptions, and this album is definitely one of those exceptions.
Great story behind this definite classic, can you imagine just being a fly on the wall when all those artists that changed music while they just sit around playing each other some of the songs they were coming up with. I'm planning on the movie during the holidays. Great episode professor many things I did not know
This song, this whole album brings back the time so vividly; the colors of the day, the quality of light, the creak of a wooden floor. It makes the past seem real and all the years since a dream. Beautiful song. Thanks, Bob.
@@ProfessorofRock I think it would have been cool if Dylan created a duo career and fictional persona around “Lay Lady Lay”. It could have been what Chris Gaines was to Garth Brookes.
particularly the “alt” version of Tangled Up that’s on the Bootleg Vol 2 set! That’s one that the “alt” version then the original, & that’s sayin A LOT!
This was the first song that I noticed Dylan had a good voice. Dylan's songs are great, and his musicianship was incredible. His songs performed by Peter, Paul and Mary are great because of the song and the voices that sing it.
This album is timeless and this song is an excellent fit. I'm not usually a fan of biopics, but this Complete Unknown looks good so I'll try to give it a shot. It looks like a good holiday after the presents are open and the kids start falling asleep kind of movie. Happy holidays to the Professor, his family and crew, and all the other music fans like me that get daily inspiration and relief from this channel!
Enrico Caruso was in San Francisco for the 1906 Earthquake. He was so stunned by the destruction and the power of nature he feared he had lost his singing voice. One of the opera house or hotel staff saw him saw him bewildered and Caruso said "How can I help, what can I do?", and the staffer just said, "Sing, give your gift, the gift of music!". Caruso admitted he thought he lost it, but with the bellboy's encouragement, he found that it was *all* he could do, something to bring some joy to the immense suffering before him.
Back in the mid 80s, I was so convinced that this was Mac Davis I actually called into a radio station to plead my case. The DJ kept saying, "I'm looking at the record here" and I just kept on going because I simply could not believe that it was Dylan. Man, I was such a stubborn shithead... Thanks for this, bro, and I too am looking forward to the movie. Cheers!
i remember a story about ray stevens playing in england in front of the queen or she was present at a show and requested he sing this song and he laughed and said that wasn't him... i don't know how true it might be i just remember hearing it in the car on the radio
Lay Lady Lay and Knocking on Heaven's Door are the Dylan sung songs that I really like. I think he is a really great song writer. His common vocal style is not my cup of tea. Reminds me of many Blue Grass styles which I don't listen too. I think he has written more great songs than anyone. Springsteen is in second place. They both have wrote song that others have covered and done well.
My aunts use to beg my cousin to perform this song at every family reunion, I was more into Master of Puppets back then but learned to appreciate Dylan later in life.
I was 14 in 69 , because of my folks Lay Lady Lay was kind of scary for me to appreciate fully , but eveyone loved it. I loved the album and found the song , " I Threw It All Away " my fav.
I already bought my ticket to see "A Complete Unknown " Bob Dylan movie. I am seeing the film Dec 25th 9AM matinee. I wonder how many music fanatics are coming at this time 😊
I, like many others, learned to play guitar to laid. LOL So naturally this song was an absolute must in your repertoire. You couldn't match Bob, but be sincere, get the runs and fills right, and not look them in the eye until the bridge . God what a wonderful piece.
Duran Duran did an under the radar cover on their 1995 Album Thank You. When I first heard it would never have thought it was written by the same guy that did All Along The Watchtower…
I bought Nashville Skyline when it was released, over 50 years ago. I loved it then and it is still one of my favorite vinyls in my collection. Every song is a treasure!
When I first heard this tune, back when I was 8 or 9, I had always thought it was Roger Miller, sounding like King Of The Road. Several years later I learned it was actually Bob Dylan; mind blown!
My first boyfriend was a huge Dylan fan and for several years played all the existing albums back to back while we were hanging out at his place. (This was the early 70s.) They all run together for me so I don't have a favorite album but this is by far my favorite single of the lot. So moody, so languorous.
I sort of got into Bob Dylan because of "Lay Lady Lay" but not in the way that you might think. My dad really liked the song. So when he joined the Columbia House Record club (which gave you 12 free records at the start if you promised to purchase a certain number of records within a specified period of time) he ordered Bob Dylan Greatest Hits vol. 1 and 2. He said he thought he would like the rest of Dylan's music, but he was not impressed. I, however, was hooked so he let me take passion of the records. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Bob Dylan movie. James Mangold does great with historic biopics; Timothee is on a roll with roles; and I've wanted a Bob Dylan biopic for years.
@@ProfessorofRock Heard a DJ reveal it way back after it had its run on the charts. Critics had claimed it was too sexual, so Dylan shared the secret. Listen to the lyrics, it fits.
I gotta say that I can't help but hear Lay Lady Lay as anything else but a soft core song...😂. It's definitely easier to listen to than other Bob performed songs.
@5:09... The actual cab incident that was unplanned/unscripted! Dustin and John never broke character. Dustin chastising the cabby and John just continuing to walk. When you talk about Bob, Johnny and Joan passing the guitar around as a "Meeting of Legends"; they weren't Legends then, they were musicians doing gigs etc. I will say that Lay Lady Lay is my favorite Dylan song. Oh, Enrico Caruso is famous for "O Sole Mio"! (which of course was parodied in the Jim Carrey movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) 😎
PoR, one of the best summer songs in '69. Having mentioned The Everly Bros. I was wondering if you and the commenters know that EB had a last great '67 hit song titled "Bowling Green?"
Being a Dylan fan who followed and appreciated his style changes from folk to electric to his Christian music (on Desire) and his vocal changes, of course I love this song.
❤❤❤❤❤ I could have sworn that was Mac Davis' singing!!!! Never realized or heard that it was Dylan. The first time I heard it, I thought Oh, Mac Davis has a new song! LOL This is a derp-dee me moment! LOL Have an awesome day! 😊
**PROF. LAYS DOWN THE LAW ON DYLAN's "LAY LADY LADY"....WHILE RBS LAYS DOWN, DUE TO A BUSTED BACK....*** ...well, 'tis the Season for RBS to stay still (unwillingly), but I can give charts, and wish Prof. (& us Classmates) a Happy Holidays....Sept., 1969....(cont.) 10. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - "The Tiger" (aka Tom Jones) 9. Sweet Caroline - *DIAMOND* 8. Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night 7. ***Lay Lady Lay*** - *DYLAN* 6. Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon 5. Get Together - Youngbloods 4. Green River - CCR 3. Sugar Sugar - Archies 2. A Boy Named Sue - *CASH* 1. Honk Tonk Women - Rolling Stones ....you spend the Holidays Nice N' Easy, Prof., Thanks for the Hard Work in 2024....CLASS DISMISSED! ....but, AFTER today's POST! ...ha-HAAA! ...keep DYLAN-in'! ; )
@@LaManteca76 ....ah, this happens more for me, these Days...I'm 62! ...It just makes One feel REEEAL stupid, when it's caused by a minor thing..... Oh well, la la la.....
I'm laughing because this song is why I have the cassette. My brother was a huge Dylan fan. Owned all his records. Had a wall poster. Anyway, there came a time when he was trying to record something on his cassette player, only he had this cassette in there and not a blank cassette as he thought. He kept trying to lock it into record, and it wouldn't stick. Then he opened the player and saw what he'd done. I was laughing my ass off. Lay lady lay ended up with a bunch of recorded nothing e oum, e oum, e oum, etc. 😂 He ended up giving it to me. I loved "Girl from the North Country", so I didn't mind at all! 😂
Gonna have to find that Everybody’s Talkin episode. The connection here is interesting to me that while it’s associated with Nilsson, it’s written by Fred Neil, who was Dylan’s primary early New York music connection. My favorite band from the early 90’s is a very underground band Moose, who cover Everybody’s Talkin and in an interview they were asked if they were Nilsson fans and they answered they were more of Fred Neil fans.
@@Kiddman32 not at all. He was always into crooners, and this is the first time he took a chance to be one himself. I think he developed this voice because he wanted to sound good, complimentary, for his session with Cash.
Ironic: "Lay Lady Lay" and "Everybody's Talkin'" were my audition songs for the San Francisco run of the musical Hair produced by Tommy Smothers and my late Friend Ken Kragen in 1969. I still have the sheet music. I didn't get the part but they let me sing in the chorus!
Maybe this is just urban legend, but the story about Dylan's changed voice was that he had been in a car/motorycle accident and either broke his neck or just injured his vocal cords. This story was circulating at the time of the album's release.
I heard the motorcycle accident story from my older brother (who had the album) and I remember thinking how much better Dylan’s voice sounded on this song!
I knew you were gonna talk about "Lay Lady Lay" when I saw your thumbnail. It had to be that song, because it was so far out from what Bob sang, (Folk/Rock) to being a troubador balladeer.
I can listen to “Lay Lady Lay,” but it’s far from my favorite Dylan tune. My mother met Dylan in Minnesota, though at the time she had no idea he was going to become this major music player in the world of the sub-culture movement. Mother also ran into him after he released “Nashville Skyline”. Though Dylan wasn’t big into handing out his signature, he signed her album after they sat and chatted awhile about bumping into each other many years prior. After mother died ( lowercase “m” is intentional ), I procured the album from mother’s collection. The rest went to my oldest sister. However, my ex-wife destroyed the album, along with the twenty KISS albums I had. She also destroyed my Franco Harris autographed football given to me by my Bug Brother in the Big Brother and Big Sister Program. The craziest part is that after about five or six years, my ex and I have become ok friends. But I sure would have preferred that she had left my stuff alone. You know, I truly believe mother’s story about Dylan’s autograph on the album is true. I’m 57 years old and I’ve believed the story since the first day she told us when we were kids.
I'm not a fan of Dylan as far as his singing goes, but this one is great. I remember listening to it in the late 70s. He's the greatest songwriting of all time. The goat.
I'm not a great fan of Bob Dylan but I do like some of his songs especially those sang by other artists like the Byrds but i did like Lay Lady Lay and I thought sounded like a country song and I also liked Hurricane as well. this was another great episode and the behind the scenes of Dylan's songs Oh at first i thought it was Harry Nilsson on the radio until i found out it was Bob Dylan instead Thanks again Professor and have a nice Christmas Wednesday Thank You.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
This could be a use for AI. Train it on Bob and Barbra's voices as they sounded at the time, rearrange the piece into a duet (again?), and let us know what it might have sounded like.
I remember loving Lay Lady Lay as an infant. Lol. No kidding. My mom had the radio on all day and this song came on often and I loved it. The only thing i love more than Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay, is Ministry’s version of Lay Lady Lay. ❤❤
One of my favorite duets is Bob Dylan and Bette Midler. "Buckets of Rain". Bob Dylan can bend into different voices and is much better than people realize.
This song was an iconic part of my childhood journey into the music business. As a producer I am very curious why it was decided to speed up his vocal; and was the track sped up as well?
Poll: Who is your pick for the MOST UNIQUE singing voice of the rock era?
Bob
Ian Curtis
Tiny Tim
Bjork
Rod Stewart
Cindy Lauper
Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)
"Lay Lady Lay", I have loved this song for decades. I am 69 years old now. I actually use it as my morning alarm on my ipad for those mornings I have to go somewhere and can’t sleep in. I got to see Dylan in concert at Universal Studios Amphitheater in the late 1970s.
Awesome!
I saw him back around 2000ish with the Brian Setzer Orchestra as the opening band. Talk about a weird pairing.
I didn't see him until the 80s, but I'm really glad I got the chance.
I should set this as a ringtone too! Great idea.
I never wanted to see him until the Traveling Wilburys album. Talk about super groups! 👌
I've always enjoyed "Lay Lady Lay". The first time I heard it I was surprised to learn it was Bob Dylan's singing voice. It's the best I've ever heard him sound and a complete departure from his previous material.
Lay Lady Lay is easily Dylan's best vocal performance (IMHO). It's also my favorite by him.
I think so too.
I also like his vocals on “Things Have Changed.”
I say all along the watchtower & like a rolling stone are my favorites of his. But I like a lot of his stuff. I grew up with his music. My parents are flower children. They were part of the counterculture. They have a lot of his records. Some they gave to me.
Funnily enough, it's usually the tunes that an artist dislikes for being different from their usual sound, which end up becoming some of their best known work.
Agreed!
True!
Right?
Very true
And it isn’t different here.
This was my mom's favorite Dylan song. I love the drum beat and steel guitar combo. It's hauntingly beautiful.
Same!
Late today as usual.
Love Dylan. ❤
I want to take this time to wish Everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Yule or whatever you celebrate. Grateful to be here, and happy to be able to listen to the Professor.
greetings, Roger.
Happy Holidays to you as well! 😀
I want to with you the happiest Christmas ever Roger! Grateful for you support!
@@ProfessorofRock
Thanks, Professor. 🎉
@@rogerdeahl9629 happy holidays to you and your pets
I always preferred Bob’s songwriting to his voice. I was pleasantly surprised by the vocals on Lay Lady Lay.
Yes, I never cared for his voice but what a songwriter 🎶
While I never listened to Dylan much when I was younger but I have learned to enjoy him as time has passed. Thanks for covering this, Prof.
Thanks Terrick!
I LOVE "LAY LADY LAY"! I was a 10 year-old kid when this song was a hit. I was fortunate enough to have an older sister (who passed a few months ago) who let me listen to her records when she was out (which was a lot during her late teens) and "Nashville Skyline" was among them.
The entire album is incredible, and almost criminally underplayed and underrated. Dylan's voice was smooth as silk throughout the entire album, not just "LLL". And the songs sere magnificent! The lyrics were wonderful and straightforward---no deciphering required.
A couple of the standout tracks are "I Threw It All Away", "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" and "Girl From The North Country" (a duet with Johnny Cash.
In general, I'm not a huge fan of country music. But there are a few notable exceptions, and this album is definitely one of those exceptions.
One of my VERY FAVORITE love songs of All time. ❤ INCREDIBLE
Great story behind this definite classic, can you imagine just being a fly on the wall when all those artists that changed music while they just sit around playing each other some of the songs they were coming up with. I'm planning on the movie during the holidays. Great episode professor many things I did not know
No kidding. Thanks My Name!
I should go ahead and get tickets to see the movie too.
One of many musical greats to come out of Minnesota!!
My favorite from that album is, "girl from the north country" then "lay lady lay" also "tonight I'll be staying here with you" all great. So great.
Girl from the North Country is a great piece.
This song, this whole album brings back the time so vividly; the colors of the day, the quality of light, the creak of a wooden floor. It makes the past seem real and all the years since a dream. Beautiful song. Thanks, Bob.
Great post!
I can so imagine!
I was 15 when this song came out and there was no doubt that it was Dylan singing this song. I had a Literature teacher that was obsessed with Dylan.
Cool!
@@ProfessorofRock I think it would have been cool if Dylan created a duo career and fictional persona around “Lay Lady Lay”. It could have been what Chris Gaines was to Garth Brookes.
Hurricane and Tangled up in Blue are stellar
particularly the “alt” version of Tangled Up that’s on the Bootleg Vol 2 set! That’s one that the “alt” version then the original, & that’s sayin A LOT!
THanks Richard!
Yes!
Great songs!
"Shelter From The Storm"
This was the first song that I noticed Dylan had a good voice. Dylan's songs are great, and his musicianship was incredible. His songs performed by Peter, Paul and Mary are great because of the song and the voices that sing it.
Good call!
Love the song, it's beautiful. '69, I was 18,brings back memories of old friends no longer here.
Not a big Dylan Fan but Lay Lady Lay is a great song. Its on my regular play list.
Very cool!
Same here!
"Lay Lady Lay " amazed me. "Holy cow," I thought, "Dylan can _sing_!" Loved it from first hearing.
Lay Lady Lay was one of the first songs I ever sang and played on acoustic guitar for my Lady..Great song...Thanks Adam....Merry Christmas
I've liked this song, for what seems like forever, but I just learned within the past couple of years that it was Dylan! What a mind-blow that was!
Cool!
Same here
This album is timeless and this song is an excellent fit. I'm not usually a fan of biopics, but this Complete Unknown looks good so I'll try to give it a shot. It looks like a good holiday after the presents are open and the kids start falling asleep kind of movie. Happy holidays to the Professor, his family and crew, and all the other music fans like me that get daily inspiration and relief from this channel!
I'm excited!
Christmas will make me feel like a little kid again!
There wasn't a bigger fan of Bob's than my 19 yr old self. I'm glad to see him finally comfortable being Bob Dylan
He had the same lounge lizard voice singing Knocking on Heaven's Door.
Two of my least favorite Dylan songs.
Enrico Caruso was in San Francisco for the 1906 Earthquake. He was so stunned by the destruction and the power of nature he feared he had lost his singing voice. One of the opera house or hotel staff saw him saw him bewildered and Caruso said "How can I help, what can I do?", and the staffer just said, "Sing, give your gift, the gift of music!". Caruso admitted he thought he lost it, but with the bellboy's encouragement, he found that it was *all* he could do, something to bring some joy to the immense suffering before him.
Thank you Professor! Happy Holidays Everyone! ❄️☃️🎄✌🏼
Let's hear some Roth era Van Halen history thank you
Lay Lady Lay is one of my favorite sounds from Bob, once again transformed. The tender voice left me, awe struck! ✌️🎶💜
Bob Dylan did write some beautiful songs, but this would be the rare case in which he sang it beautifully as well.
Lay Lady Lay classic Bob, always changing, always evolving, always surprising us. Some we see coming, some not.
Back in the mid 80s, I was so convinced that this was Mac Davis I actually called into a radio station to plead my case. The DJ kept saying, "I'm looking at the record here" and I just kept on going because I simply could not believe that it was Dylan. Man, I was such a stubborn shithead... Thanks for this, bro, and I too am looking forward to the movie. Cheers!
i remember a story about ray stevens playing in england in front of the queen or she was present at a show and requested he sing this song and he laughed and said that wasn't him... i don't know how true it might be i just remember hearing it in the car on the radio
Merry Monday Music Junkies!
Good morning!
Hey, Code.
Morning
@@Lam_3-22-23Morning Marcus!
@@Whisper_292Welcome Whisper!
I was a kid when this song came out. Totally understood the meaning. 👍👍
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Lay Lady Lay and Knocking on Heaven's Door are the Dylan sung songs that I really like. I think he is a really great song writer. His common vocal style is not my cup of tea. Reminds me of many Blue Grass styles which I don't listen too. I think he has written more great songs than anyone. Springsteen is in second place. They both have wrote song that others have covered and done well.
Thanks!
Love this song!💜 Went straight to my playlists to add the song. Yes!
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That super clean steel guitar reminds me of George Straight All My Exes Live in Texas.
Right on!
My aunts use to beg my cousin to perform this song at every family reunion, I was more into Master of Puppets back then but learned to appreciate Dylan later in life.
Very cool!
I was 14 in 69 , because of my folks Lay Lady Lay was kind of scary for me to appreciate fully , but eveyone loved it. I loved the album and found the song , " I Threw It All Away " my fav.
I already bought my ticket to see "A Complete Unknown " Bob Dylan movie. I am seeing the film Dec 25th 9AM matinee. I wonder how many music fanatics are coming at this time 😊
I'm def going! That night!
I know a lot of movies get released on Christmas Day but I honestly never gone. Actually surprised people go!
@@AnnaTrail-xp8pr You are going early!
@@ProfessorofRock I am not going at all. The closest theater is an hour away.
@AnnaTrail-xp8pr It's a music history lesson- Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seger, Woody Guthrie, and Johnny Cash.
Probably my favorite Dylan track. I love the production on this one!
My favorite bob Dylan song. I love this song. Thank you professor for talk about this great song. I love it. It should've been in midnight Cowboy.
Thank Wayne!
I, like many others, learned to play guitar to laid. LOL So naturally this song was an absolute must in your repertoire. You couldn't match Bob, but be sincere, get the runs and fills right, and not look them in the eye until the bridge . God what a wonderful piece.
Duran Duran did an under the radar cover on their 1995 Album Thank You. When I first heard it would never have thought it was written by the same guy that did All Along The Watchtower…
I mentioned it!
@ They got bad press over that album, but surprisingly the rest of the album was better than White Lines.
I bought Nashville Skyline when it was released, over 50 years ago. I loved it then and it is still one of my favorite vinyls in my collection. Every song is a treasure!
This is my Dylan jam. I was shocked by his voice the first time I heard it.
Mr. Dylan touched a lot of talented hearts
I knew what song it was going to be as soon as you started doing the intro. When I first heard this song I never would have guessed it was Bob Dylan.
When I first heard this tune, back when I was 8 or 9, I had always thought it was Roger Miller, sounding like King Of The Road. Several years later I learned it was actually Bob Dylan; mind blown!
I had a friend who didn't like Bob Dylan, but absolutely LOVED this album!
Very insightful and enjoyable. You're doing it right my friend
My first boyfriend was a huge Dylan fan and for several years played all the existing albums back to back while we were hanging out at his place. (This was the early 70s.) They all run together for me so I don't have a favorite album but this is by far my favorite single of the lot. So moody, so languorous.
No words just a good episode
Wow, I was listening to top 40 radio when this came out! I feel even older now.
I sort of got into Bob Dylan because of "Lay Lady Lay" but not in the way that you might think. My dad really liked the song. So when he joined the Columbia House Record club (which gave you 12 free records at the start if you promised to purchase a certain number of records within a specified period of time) he ordered Bob Dylan Greatest Hits vol. 1 and 2. He said he thought he would like the rest of Dylan's music, but he was not impressed. I, however, was hooked so he let me take passion of the records. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Bob Dylan movie. James Mangold does great with historic biopics; Timothee is on a roll with roles; and I've wanted a Bob Dylan biopic for years.
Apparently, the song was about a dog named Lady and much more innocent than people first assumed.
You serious Clark?
@@ProfessorofRock Heard a DJ reveal it way back after it had its run on the charts. Critics had claimed it was too sexual, so Dylan shared the secret. Listen to the lyrics, it fits.
I don’t know anyone with the name Lady!
Channeled his inner Gordon Lightfoot.
I gotta say that I can't help but hear Lay Lady Lay as anything else but a soft core song...😂. It's definitely easier to listen to than other Bob performed songs.
@5:09... The actual cab incident that was unplanned/unscripted! Dustin and John never broke character. Dustin chastising the cabby and John just continuing to walk. When you talk about Bob, Johnny and Joan passing the guitar around as a "Meeting of Legends"; they weren't Legends then, they were musicians doing gigs etc. I will say that Lay Lady Lay is my favorite Dylan song. Oh, Enrico Caruso is famous for "O Sole Mio"! (which of course was parodied in the Jim Carrey movie: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) 😎
I thought it was lay across funky brass bed! 🤣 And Bob comes across a big brass bed.
I never really liked Dylan’s voice until I heard Lay, Lady Lay. Such a beautiful song.
I'm always here for Dylan 🤘🏼😎
Awesome!
Charlie Rich ... love his voice, love that 70s era country music.
Agree I just listened to him the other day.
YEs! He was so good!
Hated what he did to John Denver though!
@@ProfessorofRock I don't know what he did to John?
@@ProfessorofRockI thought it was pretty based.
PoR, one of the best summer songs in '69. Having mentioned The Everly Bros. I was wondering if you and the commenters know that EB had a last great '67 hit song titled "Bowling Green?"
Being a Dylan fan who followed and appreciated his style changes from folk to electric to his Christian music (on Desire) and his vocal changes, of course I love this song.
I didn’t know anything about this
Great video
❤❤❤❤❤ I could have sworn that was Mac Davis' singing!!!! Never realized or heard that it was Dylan. The first time I heard it, I thought Oh, Mac Davis has a new song! LOL This is a derp-dee me moment! LOL
Have an awesome day! 😊
Thanks Dann!
**PROF. LAYS DOWN THE LAW ON DYLAN's "LAY LADY LADY"....WHILE RBS LAYS DOWN, DUE TO A BUSTED BACK....*** ...well, 'tis the Season for RBS to stay still (unwillingly), but I can give charts, and wish Prof. (& us Classmates) a Happy Holidays....Sept., 1969....(cont.)
10. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - "The Tiger" (aka Tom Jones)
9. Sweet Caroline - *DIAMOND*
8. Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night
7. ***Lay Lady Lay*** - *DYLAN*
6. Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
5. Get Together - Youngbloods
4. Green River - CCR
3. Sugar Sugar - Archies
2. A Boy Named Sue - *CASH*
1. Honk Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
....you spend the Holidays Nice N' Easy, Prof., Thanks for the Hard Work in 2024....CLASS DISMISSED! ....but, AFTER today's POST! ...ha-HAAA! ...keep DYLAN-in'! ; )
Busted back! What happened? RBS peace and prayers! Hope you get better!
@@ProfessorofRock ....I lifted A TOWEL off the Floor!! ...It's the small things that'll GET YOU, Man!🤕 ...Thanks, enjoy your Holidays! ; )
Oooh I hope you feel better. My back hurt this morning but after a few mins I was able to get up.
@@LaManteca76 ....ah, this happens more for me, these Days...I'm 62! ...It just makes One feel REEEAL stupid, when it's caused by a minor thing..... Oh well, la la la.....
A very happy Christmas and New Year to you too!
I knew Dylan hated the song, but I didn’t recognize the thumbnail. 🤷🏼♂️
This is the only Dylan song I ever liked. 😂
Uh oh!
Me too, didn't know it was Dylan at the time...
I like Dylan. I get why people don’t though.
I'm laughing because this song is why I have the cassette. My brother was a huge Dylan fan. Owned all his records. Had a wall poster. Anyway, there came a time when he was trying to record something on his cassette player, only he had this cassette in there and not a blank cassette as he thought. He kept trying to lock it into record, and it wouldn't stick. Then he opened the player and saw what he'd done. I was laughing my ass off. Lay lady lay ended up with a bunch of recorded nothing e oum, e oum, e oum, etc. 😂 He ended up giving it to me. I loved "Girl from the North Country", so I didn't mind at all! 😂
Thanks for sharing!
Gonna have to find that Everybody’s Talkin episode. The connection here is interesting to me that while it’s associated with Nilsson, it’s written by Fred Neil, who was Dylan’s primary early New York music connection. My favorite band from the early 90’s is a very underground band Moose, who cover Everybody’s Talkin and in an interview they were asked if they were Nilsson fans and they answered they were more of Fred Neil fans.
Thanks!
Oh, puhLEEEEEEZ! Only reason Dylan's "voice" sounded different on Lay Lady Lay was the 14 tons of reverb they slathered all over it.
@@Kiddman32 People tip toe around subject instead of just being honest. I honestly don't get it! See what I did there!
@@Kiddman32 not at all. He was always into crooners, and this is the first time he took a chance to be one himself. I think he developed this voice because he wanted to sound good, complimentary, for his session with Cash.
That is not true. Studio’s were limited to only 10 tons of reverb in the 60’s!😂😂
Ironic: "Lay Lady Lay" and "Everybody's Talkin'" were my audition songs for the San Francisco run of the musical Hair produced by Tommy Smothers and my late Friend Ken Kragen in 1969. I still have the sheet music. I didn't get the part but they let me sing in the chorus!
Maybe this is just urban legend, but the story about Dylan's changed voice was that he had been in a car/motorycle accident and either broke his neck or just injured his vocal cords. This story was circulating at the time of the album's release.
I remember my Dad telling me about that!
I heard the motorcycle accident story from my older brother (who had the album) and I remember thinking how much better Dylan’s voice sounded on this song!
Great song. I thought it was different when I was a kid. Liked it, but didn't understand it :)
Cool!
My wife always swore this was Mac Davis
My second favorite Dylan song behind Tangled Up In Blue
I knew you were gonna talk about "Lay Lady Lay" when I saw your thumbnail. It had to be that song, because it was so far out from what Bob sang, (Folk/Rock) to being a troubador balladeer.
When this first came out I thought it was Mac Davis!!
I can listen to “Lay Lady Lay,” but it’s far from my favorite Dylan tune.
My mother met Dylan in Minnesota, though at the time she had no idea he was going to become this major music player in the world of the sub-culture movement. Mother also ran into him after he released “Nashville Skyline”. Though Dylan wasn’t big into handing out his signature, he signed her album after they sat and chatted awhile about bumping into each other many years prior.
After mother died ( lowercase “m” is intentional ), I procured the album from mother’s collection. The rest went to my oldest sister. However, my ex-wife destroyed the album, along with the twenty KISS albums I had. She also destroyed my Franco Harris autographed football given to me by my Bug Brother in the Big Brother and Big Sister Program. The craziest part is that after about five or six years, my ex and I have become ok friends. But I sure would have preferred that she had left my stuff alone.
You know, I truly believe mother’s story about Dylan’s autograph on the album is true. I’m 57 years old and I’ve believed the story since the first day she told us when we were kids.
I'm not a fan of Dylan as far as his singing goes, but this one is great. I remember listening to it in the late 70s. He's the greatest songwriting of all time. The goat.
Love Dylan and this song! 👏🏿
Funny you mentioned that Cher covered this as she too had a dramatic change in her overall sound shortly afterward.
Huh...I got an ad for "An Complete Unknown" before this video. Interesting.... 🤔🤔🤔🤔😑😐
I love this song. It came out the year i was born so it holds a kinda nostalgia for me i suppose.
The Ministry cover of "Lay Lady Lay" was...unique.
I'm not a great fan of Bob Dylan but I do like some of his songs especially those sang by other artists like the Byrds but i did like Lay Lady Lay and I
thought sounded like a country song and I also liked Hurricane as well.
this was another great episode and the behind the scenes of Dylan's songs
Oh at first i thought it was Harry Nilsson on the radio until i found out it was Bob Dylan instead Thanks again Professor and have a nice Christmas Wednesday Thank You.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
THanks Roger! Merry Christmas!
Hey my friend, how are you doing and if you a while, love you, commentary music, history, big fan happy holidays to you and your family❤️😌
Thanks!
This could be a use for AI. Train it on Bob and Barbra's voices as they sounded at the time, rearrange the piece into a duet (again?), and let us know what it might have sounded like.
I remember loving Lay Lady Lay as an infant. Lol. No kidding. My mom had the radio on all day and this song came on often and I loved it. The only thing i love more than Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay, is Ministry’s version of Lay Lady Lay. ❤❤
Ha ha!
Wow! So cool! Thanks Sandi!
Didn't this gifted poet win the Nobel Prize?
You need to mention, Rainy Day Women, Positively 4th Street, Just Like a Woman, and Like a Rolling Stone, my favorite Dylan hits.
I mentioned half of them!
CANT WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE TO COME OUT!!!!🤘🤘🤘
2 more days!!
@@Fast48-1my B-day is 26th, gonna see it then!
Oooh Happy Birthday! 🎂🎈🥳
@@LaManteca76thanks! As we get older, B-Day parties take a whole new meaning 🥃🥃🥃🍻
@@DC8091 Happy Birthday! What a present the movie will be for you!
One of my favorite duets is Bob Dylan and Bette Midler. "Buckets of Rain". Bob Dylan can bend into different voices and is much better than people realize.
Very cool!
I've always loved that, too. I think they should get together again and do "Everything Is Broken."
@@mjemigh3304 Not a bad idea. The first time I heard "Everything is Broken" I thought it was Mark Knopfler.
LayLadyLay has always been one of my favorite Dylan songs. It's why I have a " Big Brass Bed"
Ha ha ha!
Lay Lady Lay is actually my favorite Dylan song that he sings. Probably because his voice was treated.
Ok!
Had to be a Dylan song on Christmas with the movie came out!
This song was an iconic part of my childhood journey into the music business. As a producer I am very curious why it was decided to speed up his vocal; and was the track sped up as well?
No just his vocal.