Thank you Bob for blessing us with an evergreen song. This is true music. Who's here in 2025.. 62 years after this TV performance. Someone should like my comment, so I'll always come back to watch.
We had a teacher at Waltoffer Avenue Elementary School (Bellmore, NY) who sang this at just about every student assembly. Very progressive, even for a Republican Congressional district in 1972.
Man you folks used to have time to do anything in class huh. These days it's all about test scores and students get no breathing room for life and culture
I grew up in an old apartment building with an air shaft in the middle. When I was in my early teens in the 60s someone older than me used to play his Bob Dylan albums all the time and the music filled the air shaft and just carried into every apartment. Such great memories. The person playing the records was my cousin Mike. RIP MIKE, I loved you.
Im 34 yrs old and known of Dylan my whole life and just now during quarantine have I really listened to him. Bob Dylan is music for the broken man trying to find his way home.
Listend to him since I was a about 10 I'm now 64 I introduced my beloved husband last year and so many Bob Dylan songs and lyrics we've listened to over the years mean so much lots of love to true bob Dylan fans xxx
I remember back in the late 1960s/early 1970s when I was little... we had "Folk Masses" in the Catholic Church. Some young people with an acoustic guitar or two... Blowin' In The Wind got everyone of every age singing together. It's such a wonderful memory. Thanks Bob
I remember the nuns singing this to us in the cafeteria in elementary school...I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade...in the early 70s...it's a lovely memory....my little Catholic school was a refuge for a while...Sister Bernadette in 1st grade and Sister Monica in 2nd grade created an atmosphere of love and peace that helped me greatly. Thank you...I hope that your souls are shining with joy.
What do you mean by saying "fals covers"? There are quite a many good covers of this. Actually this is a version too, of his own song, also very good. I, personally, like the recorded album version the best. It is also true that there are not very good "covers" out there too, but mostly those are amateurs expressing their admirations towards Bob's music. I do not believe "fals" is the right word to use to describe most covers. Bob Dylan himself has done many excellent covers of other musicians work before him - many of which made those earlier recordings available to a much wider public now and now for forever. The very meaning of folk music is carrying the torch from the past to the future, making it alive again and again, and adding to it new meanings. There can be some less successful steps, trials in this process - that is true - but that should not discourage anybody from wanting to contribute.
I'll be succinct: "False Covers" is a UA-cam song proclaiming "BOB DYLAN!", but actually it's NOT BOB DYLAN. Or whoever you're looking for. "False Advertising" might be a better descriptor. ProTip: if Comments are disabled, it's never real.
Pretty sure Columbia (or whoever the fuck owns Columbia these days) made it impossible to upload any actual studio versions of his songs. At least any they can't make any revenue from. Imagine how much money Bob made that company.
I remember listening to this song in 1965 when I was a little boy, asking my mother what the lyrics meant. Even as a child, the song left quite an impression on me with it's stark simplicity and universal message. "Abraham, Martin, and John" was another such song. When I think of how far popular music has fallen since then, I could cry.
The summer of “63” as a six-year old I would accompany my mother to the fields for harvesting. There the workers, listening to the radio would sing along to Dylan. This is the first song I learned, and the message is still as strong as ever.
If you think music has fallen far from this, you haven’t listened to the right music. BD will always one of the og greats, but there’s plenty of modern singer songwriters who are right there on his level. Only reason you would disagree is because you wouldn’t give it the time of day. ‘Don’t criticize what you can’t understand’ was literally written for people thinking like ^ this. Just another take, Much love and respect, truly!! 🧡
I am an 80s child. Listening to songs that came before my time creates a special feeling inside me. It's like a time machine bringing me to a different time, a time my parents grew up in, for a short while.
I am so lucky to have lived during this Troubadour's life, luckier to have seen him live in a small 5000 seat intimate concert in the late 70's in Australia, (1978, Festival HALL, Queensland) ...& ...EVEN luckier to have actually shaken his hand!! ( I was in law enforcement security at the time)...I am truly blessed. *Bob kindly thanked us all for keeping him safe. during the tour. Such a gentile soul. I really wished we had iphones then!! I would have amazing pics...
I went to see the movie. First time I hear this song at 53. I Loved it. Love the simplicity yet genious of it all❣️Makes me want to ride in the car and listen to all his songs❣️
I'm from Bangladesh; currently, students are protesting against the dictatorial government. Already 1200+ deaths and still counting! The whole country has become a massacre. This song feels like someone is talking to my heart.
This song came out at a time of huge soical upheaval in America with the black civil rights movement, race riots and the growing movement against the Vietnam war.
This was my dad's favorite song. So when he took his life in 1982, we found a random person to play this at his funeral. I was a teenager at that time, and I always thought of blowing wind as something positive and still do even with tears in my eyes. The wind is constant and brings renewal. Never give up because what might blow in will be holding the key. Peace along this journey called life.
maybe in my generation now only a few people like music like this. I am very happy even though I am only part of those few. thank you Mr. bob dylan, this is very good music with lyrics that make sense
+Buick Le Sabre In those days, a musician didn't get a slot to perform on national television unless they were growing in popularity. I saw Dylan play in 1962 in NYC. This was one of his first songs that I learned to play on guitar in 1963, before Peter, Paul and Mary made it a popular civil rights song.
+Buick Le Sabre You said Dylan wasn't good enough until the Beatles? I'm not sure what you mean. Please clarify. I was around in that era too but very young. I did not discover Dylan until about 10 years later. Within a year of arriving in NYC Dylan was signed to Columbia Records by the legendary John Hammond. There is no doubt the Beatles had an influence on Dylan as Dylan had a HUGE influence on the Beatles. (from the Atlantic) Though The Beatles stayed fairly up to date on popular music in the early 1960s, Bob Dylan wasn't on their radar until the spring of 1964, a full year after The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan established the young songwriter as American folk music's premier voice. Once the band heard that record, during a tour of France, it had an immediate impact on them. "For three weeks in Paris, we didn't stop playing it," Lennon would later say. "We all went potty about Dylan."www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/bob-dylan-and-john-lennons-weird-one-sided-relationship/262680/
Nufot Dylsn snf The Beatles played for different audiences; Dylan emerging in the U.S. with a record contract in '62, playing for the folk/college crowd. The Beatles had their US contract in very late '63/early '64, playing to mostly teens. You, Sir, are misinformed.
A Masterpiece... It hits as deeply today as it did the first time I heard it as a child. I was about 5 years old and I remember crying when I heard it. My older siblings loved Dylan.. Thank God for them...
Bob Dylan doesn't sing a song simply. He roars meaningful messages to the world, containing philosophic ones sometimes. So his songs pull my ears and shake my mind.
+Buick Le Sabre Come to think of it, I remember you wrote your comment about 3 months ago. You wrote "Few people know that " Blowing In The Wind " means in fact " Farting in the Wind ". Is that right? I responded to yours. Don't you remember mine? I looked for it. But mine was eliminated. I don't know why it was eliminated. It's really weird.I write my response of that time to yours once again. "That can be. I mean business. Truth is anytime and anywhere. It is limitless. It is really near or around us. It can be found in farting or pissing or shitting or anything. The important thing is that most common people, foolish, try to discover it far away." Now Do you remember it? Period!
+Buck Le Sabre That might happen. My response really might disappear in the wind or fart or shit. Anyway, I wrote my response to your comment whether you didn't even look it. But my answer was not a joke. I was serious about it cos I thought your joke stood to reason. Anything can happen in the world. Infinite Universe, not defined! Truth is anywhere and anytime, not far away. That's the way the ball bounces.
'I'm x years old and listen to Bob Dylan'.. Great music transcends age. Those who don't appreciate Bob Dylan are either those who have not yet listened, or those that do not wish to hear.
Music is the greatest form of art I've known, and Bob Dylan has written and produced some amazing songs. Over the years he's shared some wonderful music with us, and I'm grateful for that. There should be no doubt, he's one of America's finest songwriters. Thank you Bob.
I was 20 when this came out. I worked in the upper village in Manhattan. I can relate. I was a baby on D-Day and I am lucky to be here writing this. Bob was right-on. AWESOME.
My grandad used to play the Harmonica and he used to play so well. He passed away three years back and I believe he's watching over us from above, because he was a saint! Rest in peace grandpa, we all love and miss you.
Parabéns Dylan, o segundo músico a ganhar o Premio Nobel de Literatura e o primeiro em 103 anos. Rabindranath Tagore recebeu o título em 1913 e compôs mais de 2000 músicas e o hino nacional da Índia.
+Janet_M The composition "Sri Lanka Matha" was written in 1940 by Ananda Samarakone. And it was on November 22, 1951 that this composition was adopted as the country's hymn. Tagore only influenced Ananda Samarokene to create a style of music appropriate for the people of Sri Lanka. (Tagore: composer of the national anthem of India / Samarakone: composer of the national anthem of Sri Lanka). And sorry, I do not write well in English, I'm Brazilian.
Tagore's songs became national anthems in both Bangladesh and India. Bangladesh: www.wikiwand.com/en/Amar_Sonar_Bangla India: www.wikiwand.com/en/Jana_Gana_Mana
Wow. I totally needed to see this. Bob clearly was in tune with something deeper than what other's saw. Even in the "folk" movement. He subconsciously in some ways prophetized the 60s. Amazing poetic lyrics that changed music in my opinion. ✌️✌️✌️
From one Bobby to another....BRAVO my friend. Consciousnesses have been met with your energy and will until the end of time. Well done...well done indeed. 🌱
Pls don’t associate Dylan with the boring and ignorant people who refuse to listen to modern music because of some false assumption that art has worsened as time has gone on. Dylan is my favourite artist of all time but they are countless great modern artists making music in 2020. You just have to be willing to find them, as is true with any point in history.
@xalluex bro: Yes, it is extremely shameful that people Dylan's age when he wrote this are so gullible and low information that they support BLM, which has burned down Black businesses and tries to convince Black folks and other POC that they are eternal victims. It's also shameful that Critical Race Theory is accepted by the Loving Liberals, which is really reverse racism.
It sure is relevant today: One must blow with the wind if one is to survive. A lot of peeps miss the underlying message of the lyrics: This song advises folks to be like the wind in approaching life. In other words, one must be like Captain Louis Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca: Renault: "I have no conviction, if that's what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy."
@@lemurianchick So what should they read then to inform people of the way racism operates if critical race theory is reverse racism and harmful to promote?
Dylan é um poeta, profeta e filósofo ESPETACULAR!!! Todos os questionamentos que fizera há quase 60 anos, até hoje estão sem respostas e acontecendo ao Sopro do Vento....
+Paul Nery i think Bob has not written any book to make a litrature, Rabindranath Tagore wrote many and specifically his Gitanjali made him won it. and i m glad that nobel academy considered Bob.
Jan 2nd, 2025, driving down from gatlinburg tenn back home to sc always listen to this local channel when in area. Had about forgot about this song till they played it now im here.....have a great 2025 peeps. Trust in the Lord
Maravilloso, cada día más me encantan las canciones de Bob Dylan, no me canso de escucharlas. También he leído las traducciones, realmente es muy hermosa su poesía. Bobby l love you forever. 💚
Some of the best music ever created is heavy music, and many of the greatest songs ever include vulgar language. Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Tupac, Nirvana, Behemoth, Frank Zappa, etc.
Lords of Acid did all of that, yet dancing in the rain, under strobe light, to "The Crablouse" during their show at Nautica in Cleveland in 1996 is one of my fondest musical memories.
The lyrics of this song are always alive, now Ukrania. I am from Venezuela and live in Venezuela, and always think about those who still turn their heads to pretend that they do not see and/or do not people cry. My late father used to play this song many many times, especially in every new year celebration. Now that I am 61 I wonder if there is something to celebrate. Great song, it means much much that just words.
My neighbor is from Venezuela. He helps me when I need help. I needed help on the phone when my Spanish is not sufficient. He is a good person. Bendigas a Usted.
known this song for over 10 years and only now find out that the *answer* is blowing in the wind, not the answer is *blowing in the wind* ... big difference.. something light and shallow into something deep
This remains basically untouchable. There are certain guys who are just without a doubt the best messengers in their genre. Here are a few of them who, in my opinion, are the greatest songwriters with a message that I have ever heard: Bob Dylan (Folk Rock) Bob Marley (Reggae) Tupac Shakur (Rap/Hip Hop) John Lennon (Pop Rock) Marvin Gaye (Doo-Wop) Johnny Cash (Country) Woody Guthrie (Folk) Tupac is my personal favorite.
As a 10 year old kid in rural north Louisiana, I never realized that our music instructor, Miss Wilke, was exposing us to some of the greatest music ever written when she had us singing this song in music class. This is the best.
This is a clip for "Folk Songs and More Folk Songs," a program recorded at Westinghouse T.V. Studio in March 1963 and broadcast in May of that year. Also featured on the show were The Brothers Four, Barbara Dane, and The Staples Singers.
paul w Rambling Jack Eliot, Odetta, The Carter family, Lead Belly, Hank Williams, Blind Willie Mctell, Pete Seeger, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson. Dylan is coming right out of the roots of true American music. At this point this was his own style, he learned from the greats like all greats do. Changed popular music forever and he combined Rock N Roll and literature to make a whole new style of music never done before. Won a Nobel Prize and didn’t show up to receive it. One of the greatest poets of our time. Brought the poetry of the surrealist into Rock N Roll and folk. He’s still writing songs to this day that have a cultural impact.
I remember when I listen this song for the first time... I didn't know nothing about English, but the melody and the harmonic made me love it in that just moment and forever... I was 14th then...
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Wel'l. Brazil, as USA had hard politic moments... and both of them were very discussed lately, mainly Brazil... Now the things are normalizing.... No. I never had been in USA. I don't speak English. Only read and write because i don't understand more the spoken English. I have lost 50% my audition.
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Hello, Mark. I thank you, but I had some troubles with scammers on Internet and this is the reason I talk only in public pages. Sorry. Be fine.👋👋
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Thanks, my friend. If you want, you can see me in my You Tube channel. I am not artist, but I like to sing and I am learning to play accoustic guitar in order to play it while I am singing. Have a good night.🙏🙏🌻🌻🎶🎶😗😗
Thank you for your vision to interpret the civil injustices in our nation, and thank you for your words to move us within our histories and the pages of time, to whisper to the generations of who we are. - devers
In 1967 I was sixteen years old. I knew the farm. I knew Church. I knew School. My Church and Family decided that I had "Volunteered, (I use the term loosely) to teach Vacation Bible School at our Church on the South Side of Chicago, South of Roosevelt and West of Pulaski. Fortunately I was assigned the most beautiful, gorgeous, loving, affectionate, perfect 14 female assistant a sixteen year old farm boy could possibly hope for. Every Sunday Morning I would escort my 14 year old female assistant (and first girlfriend) up the Church steps arm in arm and down the Church aisle arm in arm and to her Church pew seat. I would then take my seat on the other side of the aisle with her female relatives, Aunties, Cousins, Nieces and other. Church services in our Church in Chicago were totally different then our Church services in Baraboo, Wisconsin. In sixteen years of attending Church in Baraboo the only Church services I ever enjoyed were at the Holidays. The Church service in Chicago was actually fun to attend. Of course Miss Caroline made it more bearable too. I stayed with families of the Church that a boy about my own age. I would hang out with my three buddies and others and do what they did. The "Good" Church Boys hung out on the Northeast end of the block where the Church was. The "Bad" Gang Boys avoided the Church and hung out at the Western Intersection which was their Intersection. We would meet in the middle of the block to play Four Square on a piece of sidewalk flat enough and unbroken and suitable to draw a Four Square Court with chalk. The Gangs and I knew each other but I avoided them because if they saw me unless I was right near the Church they would be sure to shake me down. They were always friendly but they were not shy about allocating any excess wealth I was carrying on me for themselves. I got to know the Gangs pretty well that summer. There was the local Gang that controlled the immediate vicinity within a radius of at least three blocks. Since I knew the Local Gang members I could safely walk about three blocks from the Church because I would be within the Local Gangs protection area. Normally I walked around with my three buddies or more. It was definitely safer to walk around in a group of four to six boys. I would walk to the Mom and Pop store about three blocks away and back by myself. There was a 50% chance I would get shook down on the way back but I was in no real physical danger because I was in the Neighborhood. The "Hood" as they cll it today. In 1967 every one even those in the "Hood" spoke perfect English. I heard very little slang. Everybody was trying to move themselves up and out of the ghetto. Very, very competitive. My relationship with Miss Caroline was strictly "Puritanical" as any move on my part that might exceed the congregations conception of "Propriety" could lead to my death. REPLY Show less REPLY James Vignali
James Vignali I've never come across anything like this in almost 12 years of reading UA-cam comments! What a brilliant idea. Tell me, my friend (yes, I feel happy addressing you as such now I've read your delightful story), was this your own idea or were you inspired by someone else's example? I found your reminiscences very moving, paradoxically the more so because you wrote in such a factual and unsentimental way. Actually, you write like a PRO. I'm intrigued by the thought that this sort of thing could 'go viral' on YT and other social media. More thoughtful, substantial and quality commenting might revitalise the rather worn out format of these sites. Thank you so much.
One of the absolute BEST song ever composed and performed !! A meaningful classic by Sir Bob Dylan that is as fresh as it was when first sung on camera by the man. An everlasting hit.
I was 20 when this came out. I lived in Astoria. I worked in Manhattan, just above the village. I grew up with this music. It brings tears to my ole eyes. The best times but I didn't know it then. Too many people have died... How true, how sad.
Thank you Bob for blessing us with an evergreen song. This is true music. Who's here in 2025.. 62 years after this TV performance. Someone should like my comment, so I'll always come back to watch.
Have you seen the movie yet? Slow Train Coming and Saved were my favorites:) Went to a concert back in the late 70's in Germany:)
@@pamwilliams6630 Amazing film. 5 thumbs up. Must see.
Just really good music.
Bob's music is evergreen so this 70 year old fan is here too to appreciate real outstanding and meaningful music and lyrics.
Songs that will never die.
Many, many moons ago, my English teacher in junior high used to get his guitar and sing this song to us every Friday. RIP Mr. Stevenson 😔
We had a teacher at Waltoffer Avenue Elementary School (Bellmore, NY) who sang this at just about every student assembly. Very progressive, even for a Republican Congressional district in 1972.
Man you folks used to have time to do anything in class huh. These days it's all about test scores and students get no breathing room for life and culture
Amén
Funny thing is my English teacher showed us this song back in 2010. He was a Vietnam war veteran
74 yrs old and i still listen to this song on my 50 yr radio
Awesome!
This is UA-cam buddy!
@@rtownmassif he can do both??
I grew up in an old apartment building with an air shaft in the middle. When I was in my early teens in the 60s someone older than me used to play his Bob Dylan albums all the time and the music filled the air shaft and just carried into every apartment. Such great memories. The person playing the records was my cousin Mike. RIP MIKE, I loved you.
This song brings back memories that never happened.
Helloo! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you!!! 😊
Naw they happened its encoded in your DNA dreams and all
This this
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Vietnam, Russia, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Contras, Border Crisis, China is waiting. You must have been hibernating for 60 years.
Im 34 yrs old and known of Dylan my whole life and just now during quarantine have I really listened to him. Bob Dylan is music for the broken man trying to find his way home.
Listend to him since I was a about 10 I'm now 64 I introduced my beloved husband last year and so many Bob Dylan songs and lyrics we've listened to over the years mean so much lots of love to true bob Dylan fans xxx
So true it is.live long bob
So very damn truth. Live long sir Zimmerman bob.
this song was actually pretty political in its meaning, it had a lot to do with the civil rights movement
Bob Dylan Zimmerman is the best, only he can do the justice to his songs. Soothing painful but great.
I was about 10 and, get Grandma's transistor radio at night and take it to my room to try and listen to this song. I am old now and, still listening.
I remember back in the late 1960s/early 1970s when I was little... we had "Folk Masses" in the Catholic Church. Some young people with an acoustic guitar or two... Blowin' In The Wind got everyone of every age singing together.
It's such a wonderful memory. Thanks Bob
I remember the nuns singing this to us in the cafeteria in elementary school...I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade...in the early 70s...it's a lovely memory....my little Catholic school was a refuge for a while...Sister Bernadette in 1st grade and Sister Monica in 2nd grade created an atmosphere of love and peace that helped me greatly. Thank you...I hope that your souls are shining with joy.
He’d get 3 X’s on AGT
I'm from 69 and this song was played in church also using the chords and melody and changing the lyrics...
FINALLY! A version that's ACTUALLY by the man himself! :) I went through so much false covers while searching for this song.
What do you mean by saying "fals covers"? There are quite a many good covers of this. Actually this is a version too, of his own song, also very good. I, personally, like the recorded album version the best. It is also true that there are not very good "covers" out there too, but mostly those are amateurs expressing their admirations towards Bob's music. I do not believe "fals" is the right word to use to describe most covers. Bob Dylan himself has done many excellent covers of other musicians work before him - many of which made those earlier recordings available to a much wider public now and now for forever. The very meaning of folk music is carrying the torch from the past to the future, making it alive again and again, and adding to it new meanings. There can be some less successful steps, trials in this process - that is true - but that should not discourage anybody from wanting to contribute.
I'll be succinct:
"False Covers" is a UA-cam song proclaiming "BOB DYLAN!", but actually it's NOT BOB DYLAN. Or whoever you're looking for.
"False Advertising" might be a better descriptor.
ProTip: if Comments are disabled, it's never real.
Pretty sure Columbia (or whoever the fuck owns Columbia these days) made it impossible to upload any actual studio versions of his songs. At least any they can't make any revenue from. Imagine how much money Bob made that company.
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thats why you have to write "Song-Artist and LIVE!!!!"
I remember listening to this song in 1965 when I was a little boy, asking my mother what the lyrics meant. Even as a child, the song left quite an impression on me with it's stark simplicity and universal message. "Abraham, Martin, and John" was another such song. When I think of how far popular music has fallen since then, I could cry.
The summer of “63” as a six-year old I would accompany my mother to the fields for harvesting. There the workers, listening to the radio would sing along to Dylan. This is the first song I learned, and the message is still as strong as ever.
-Lincon Lennon & Luther
@@auggie803 Not Lennon, but John F. Kennedy. John Lennon was still alive when the song was written.
What did your mother say?
If you think music has fallen far from this, you haven’t listened to the right music. BD will always one of the og greats, but there’s plenty of modern singer songwriters who are right there on his level. Only reason you would disagree is because you wouldn’t give it the time of day. ‘Don’t criticize what you can’t understand’ was literally written for people thinking like ^ this. Just another take, Much love and respect, truly!! 🧡
It's the year 2020 and this song still stand as magnificently as it always did.
The best songs can stand the test of time....
Oh jesus its true
...and as true as it always did...
Truth
It hits different
Powerful lyrics. This song always brings a tear to my eyes.
I am an 80s child. Listening to songs that came before my time creates a special feeling inside me. It's like a time machine bringing me to a different time, a time my parents grew up in, for a short while.
Who ever come to listen this song you all have a great taste in music ..God Bless 🎶🎸
I am so lucky to have lived during this Troubadour's life, luckier to have seen him live in a small 5000 seat intimate concert in the late 70's in Australia, (1978, Festival HALL, Queensland) ...& ...EVEN luckier to have actually shaken his hand!! ( I was in law enforcement security at the time)...I am truly blessed. *Bob kindly thanked us all for keeping him safe. during the tour. Such a gentile soul. I really wished we had iphones then!! I would have amazing pics...
Man, that's hella of a good story!!! Do you have any other stories like that?
Helloo! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you!!! 😊
Gentile? I thought he was Jewish?
@@dvddale111 maybe it's gentle
Definitely a Platinum comment nice this October 2021
I went to see the movie. First time I hear this song at 53. I Loved it. Love the simplicity yet genious of it all❣️Makes me want to ride in the car and listen to all his songs❣️
75 now and still love the music and the era. Many people wanting real change and real equality.
I'm from Bangladesh; currently, students are protesting against the dictatorial government. Already 1200+ deaths and still counting! The whole country has become a massacre. This song feels like someone is talking to my heart.
1200 deaths? If thats true then its hard to believe I've not heard about it. Looking into it rn.
We did it brother🇧🇩
Theree literally no way I left that comment 6 days ago, I remember this as if it was like 2 months ago
This song got nothing to do with you.
This song came out at a time of huge soical upheaval in America with the black civil rights movement, race riots and the growing movement against the Vietnam war.
This was my dad's favorite song. So when he took his life in 1982, we found a random person to play this at his funeral. I was a teenager at that time, and I always thought of blowing wind as something positive and still do even with tears in my eyes. The wind is constant and brings renewal. Never give up because what might blow in will be holding the key. Peace along this journey called life.
Stevie wonder took this song and made it waaay better check it out
@@anthonytaylor7928 Then, as to say .. " Take a sad song ... and make it better " Uhhhghhhh ? lol !
Sorry for your loss 😢
maybe in my generation now only a few people like music like this. I am very happy even though I am only part of those few. thank you Mr. bob dylan, this is very good music with lyrics that make sense
He lived in my city. I wished I had appreciated Bob Dylan more than I did back in 1963. He is one of, if not the most prolific poets of our lifetime.
Hello Arlene, How are you doing?
Hello arlene how are you doing?
If you're listening at the end of 2020, you're amazing you know the meaning of music..
Look at the lyrics and that simple music
Huge respect 😇
The music is great. I only wish that something would have changed for the better after all these years.
Summer 2023, still listening ❤️
I'm listening to this song in 2023 and I love this sound quality. It fits this song.
Love the way this music was with me while growing up. Always present, always great, and he came from Hibbing, MN. About 25 miles from where I grew up!
Have you heard the album The Times They are a Changin? Every song is as good as this. I think so anyway
Congratulations! Nobel prize in literature - awesome!
Literature whaaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa
53 years ago this song changed the face of not only music, but society.
53 years ago before I was born but this song said about true stories..I love this song.
+Bob Moslow You need more than a song to change society
+Buick Le Sabre In those days, a musician didn't get a slot to perform on national television unless they were growing in popularity. I saw Dylan play in 1962 in NYC. This was one of his first songs that I learned to play on guitar in 1963, before Peter, Paul and Mary made it a popular civil rights song.
+Buick Le Sabre You said Dylan wasn't good enough until the Beatles? I'm not sure what you mean. Please clarify. I was around in that era too but very young. I did not discover Dylan until about 10 years later. Within a year of arriving in NYC Dylan was signed to Columbia Records by the legendary John Hammond. There is no doubt the Beatles had an influence on Dylan as Dylan had a HUGE influence on the Beatles. (from the Atlantic) Though The Beatles stayed fairly up to date on popular music in the
early 1960s, Bob Dylan wasn't on their radar until the spring of 1964, a
full year after The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan established the young
songwriter as American folk music's premier voice. Once the band heard
that record, during a tour of France, it had an immediate impact on
them. "For three weeks in Paris, we didn't stop playing it," Lennon
would later say. "We all went potty about Dylan."www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/bob-dylan-and-john-lennons-weird-one-sided-relationship/262680/
Nufot Dylsn snf The Beatles played for different audiences; Dylan emerging in the U.S. with a record contract in '62, playing for the folk/college crowd. The Beatles had their US contract in very late '63/early '64, playing to mostly teens. You, Sir, are misinformed.
A Masterpiece... It hits as deeply today as it did the first time I heard it as a child. I was about 5 years old and I remember crying when I heard it. My older siblings loved Dylan.. Thank God for them...
Great song. I'm a one man band on youtube. Hope you can enjoy one of my songs.
Wow when you were 5 you've cried? What you've become now?
@@underdogssrilanka1793 a happy well adjusted adult who appreciates and see beauty in many things... I am lucky I can appreciate life...
❤
How many ears must one man have before to hear people cry ?
Very DEEP and MEANINGFUL phrase
Genius!! Will we ever get to hear this sort of music with such amazing meaningful lyrics ever again?
Bob Dylan doesn't sing a song simply. He roars meaningful messages to the world, containing philosophic ones sometimes. So his songs pull my ears and shake my mind.
Put that bullshit into your mouth. Otherwise, the bullshit will blow you out of the water. Idiot!
great comment... and very true!
+Morgan Jonas Thanks for your compliment and footage.
+Buick Le Sabre Come to think of it, I remember you wrote your comment about 3 months ago. You wrote "Few people know that " Blowing In The Wind " means in fact " Farting in the Wind ". Is that right? I responded to yours. Don't you remember mine? I looked for it. But mine was eliminated. I don't know why it was eliminated. It's really weird.I write my response of that time to yours once again. "That can be. I mean business. Truth is anytime and anywhere. It is limitless. It is really near or around us. It can be found in farting or pissing or shitting or anything. The important thing is that most common people, foolish, try to discover it far away." Now Do you remember it? Period!
+Buck Le Sabre That might happen. My response really might disappear in the wind or fart or shit. Anyway, I wrote my response to your comment whether you didn't even look it. But my answer was not a joke. I was serious about it cos I thought your joke stood to reason. Anything can happen in the world. Infinite Universe, not defined! Truth is anywhere and anytime, not far away. That's the way the ball bounces.
Bob Dylan's music is a journey through time and emotions, speaking to the deepest parts of our souls and resonating with listeners of all ages.
'I'm x years old and listen to Bob Dylan'.. Great music transcends age. Those who don't appreciate Bob Dylan are either those who have not yet listened, or those that do not wish to hear.
Music is the greatest form of art I've known, and Bob Dylan has written and produced some amazing songs. Over the years he's shared some wonderful music with us, and I'm grateful for that. There should be no doubt, he's one of America's finest songwriters. Thank you Bob.
fishinsolitude Kant once said "Music is the quickening art." -And I think Bob Dylan is one of the greatest poets to ever live.
I was 20 when this came out. I worked in the upper village in Manhattan. I can relate. I was a baby on D-Day and I am lucky to be here writing this. Bob was right-on. AWESOME.
It's the year 2023 and this song still stand as magnificently as it always did.
You are wrong. It's the year 2024 and this song still stand as magnificently as it always did.
@@leftypick4854 no sir you are wrong. It is the year 2025 and this song still stands as magnificently as it always did
@@Rescue2225 No I ain't. It is just 2024 and a few days after.
My grandad used to play the Harmonica and he used to play so well. He passed away three years back and I believe he's watching over us from above, because he was a saint! Rest in peace grandpa, we all love and miss you.
What amazes me is that, this song was written 53 years ago, but it is still modern.
What amazes me is that A Hard Rain was written more than five decades ago and yet is even more relevant today.
How many times shall the biafrans die before the world can hear.
... and relevant!
Thiago Silva This song is & always will be a golden oldie :)
yes, this song still carries a lot of weight. Changed from man to a student and people to students and it is a rally cry for good causes.
Parabéns Dylan, o segundo músico a ganhar o Premio Nobel de Literatura e o primeiro em 103 anos. Rabindranath Tagore recebeu o título em 1913 e compôs mais de 2000 músicas e o hino nacional da Índia.
Luiz Henrique i didn't know this. thank you for letting us know.
Great information Luiz. Thank you for sharing this.
+Janet_M The composition "Sri Lanka Matha" was written in 1940 by Ananda Samarakone. And it was on November 22, 1951 that this composition was adopted as the country's hymn. Tagore only influenced Ananda Samarokene to create a style of music appropriate for the people of Sri Lanka. (Tagore: composer of the national anthem of India / Samarakone: composer of the national anthem of Sri Lanka). And sorry, I do not write well in English, I'm Brazilian.
Tagore's songs became national anthems in both Bangladesh and India.
Bangladesh: www.wikiwand.com/en/Amar_Sonar_Bangla
India: www.wikiwand.com/en/Jana_Gana_Mana
+Asif Mehedi PT: Obrigado pelas informações. EN: Thanks for info.
I buried my father to this in 2016.A tune he loved and play.xx
Sorry and played
Wow. I totally needed to see this. Bob clearly was in tune with something deeper than what other's saw. Even in the "folk" movement. He subconsciously in some ways prophetized the 60s. Amazing poetic lyrics that changed music in my opinion. ✌️✌️✌️
Only 20 years old when he wrote this song.
I was 2 1/2.
the answer is blowing the wind man
Max Power I think He wrote this song because he was 20 years old
You'd think this song was written by a 60 year old black man but was really written by a skinny white kid from Minnesota. Amazing.
Max Power Why is that amazing?
I can't make it one minute into this video before I want to shed a tear. Such a beautiful song...
I'm now 84 and my first reaction remains the same as when I was in my 20's... WOW.
80 more ! Keep pushing... God bless..
Forever young
👍
长命百岁🎉🎉🎉不只百岁
A lot of love and respect from România! Happy anniversary, happy birthday, Bob! Stay blessed and in good health! Lily
This is my Guru's one of the most beloved song.
Now I understand why.
Sadaghuru
❤
Sempre admirei esse cantor. Me faz voltar ao passado. Onde eram feitas essas lindas cancoes. Beautiful
From one Bobby to another....BRAVO my friend. Consciousnesses have been met with your energy and will until the end of time. Well done...well done indeed. 🌱
Recent tragic events have brought me back here.
same here. This started playing while I was out clearing my head/exercising, and I was just like damnn..
Yeah. I was just reading and doing a little work on my own things. This song entered my head and it made me think of recent events.
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
There were a number of tragic events around the world,so let`s make it a collective rememberance.
hearing how relevant these questions still are really makes me see how far we still need need to go as a race
When listening to Bobs lyrics I sometimes wonder is he truly one of us....Genius at such a young age...Truly a gift from the God
At the end of 2020, I don’t know how we could have endured these times without this divine, channeled song that brings tears still.
学生時代から大好きな歌でした。有名な曲ですが、何かを訴える信念が強く感じられます。ただ風だけが知っている、印象的です。
that is without a doubt one of the greatest and most well written songs ever
If we are listening in 2020,than our taste of music is still good.
Or we are slaves to UA-cam recommendations.
Pls don’t associate Dylan with the boring and ignorant people who refuse to listen to modern music because of some false assumption that art has worsened as time has gone on. Dylan is my favourite artist of all time but they are countless great modern artists making music in 2020. You just have to be willing to find them, as is true with any point in history.
You're a man of culture
Helloo! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you!!! 😊
2021
Quand j'étais au lycée nous répétons cette magnifique chanson chaque semaine c'était la belle époque avec. Notre professeur de français madame Metz
I'm so blessed to have heard this literally from the womb, my parents playing it before I was born. Walking into hope, still not giving up on us!!
I’m 25 and I am in love with Bob Dylan because of my father. I will pass that down to my child one day.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
After more than 50 years the lyrics still apply.
More and more all the time. We are doomed if we don't listen to the words with our heart.
We'll never learn 😔 😔
Poet and prophet
And they always will
its so limited that it always work
I learned guitar to play this song. Thanks, Bob, and congratulations on the Nobel Prize.
Jantango Me too...cheers 🎵🎵🎵
I was 17 when this song came out, it was so a part of my youth, takes me back in time, like a rolling stone.
i hope we have a folk revival in america soon, people are gonna get tired of computerized music eventually, your soul can feel these things.
The return of vinyl is a start. ;)
turn back time...
+Maria Anne 👌
true
me too bless you
so so so so much is needed for s al o heal before we go to war! please start now!
Chanson indémodable, interpréter a merveille. Mercy, monsieur DYLAN.😊
It's almost shameful how incredibly relevant this song still is.
Yeah. Socialistic 'Freedom' and diversity have contributed so much to America.
@xalluex bro: Yes, it is extremely shameful that people Dylan's age when he wrote this are so gullible and low information that they support BLM, which has burned down Black businesses and tries to convince Black folks and other POC that they are eternal victims. It's also shameful that Critical Race Theory is accepted by the Loving Liberals, which is really reverse racism.
It sure is relevant today: One must blow with the wind if one is to survive. A lot of peeps miss the underlying message of the lyrics: This song advises folks to be like the wind in approaching life. In other words, one must be like Captain Louis Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca:
Renault: "I have no conviction, if that's what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy."
@@lemurianchick please do me a favor and explain CRT to me
@@lemurianchick So what should they read then to inform people of the way racism operates if critical race theory is reverse racism and harmful to promote?
Dylan é um poeta, profeta e filósofo ESPETACULAR!!!
Todos os questionamentos que fizera há quase 60 anos, até hoje estão sem respostas e acontecendo ao Sopro do Vento....
Poetry and music at its finest...possibly the most influential musician of our time...
First musician ever to win Nobel Prize in Literature today on Oct 13, 2016
I just read that he is the second. The first one was Rabindranath Tagore, that won in 1913.
But Dylan totally deserves it !!!!
+Paul Nery i think Bob has not written any book to make a litrature, Rabindranath Tagore wrote many and specifically his Gitanjali made him won it.
and i m glad that nobel academy considered Bob.
man,.......
he write more of 30 books
Vijay Yadav He also wrote all of his dozen or so songs. I think he deserves it.
One of my all time favorite songs! Bob Dylan is a true inspiration!
Jan 2nd, 2025, driving down from gatlinburg tenn back home to sc always listen to this local channel when in area. Had about forgot about this song till they played it now im here.....have a great 2025 peeps. Trust in the Lord
Maravilloso, cada día más me encantan las canciones de Bob Dylan, no me canso de escucharlas. También he leído las traducciones, realmente es muy hermosa su poesía. Bobby l love you forever. 💚
Fond memories when I (as a 16 year old usher) heard Dylan sing this live at Berkeley Community Theater. Tears of joy.
...... 62 years on ..... Dylan and his verse are so relevant ...... How come we never learn.
"What a stupid way to run the world." (Bob Geldof)
It is my first time when i heard this
This is wonderful music!!!
My discovery of life!!!
Nothing can replace this classic. A one of a Kind.
He's just a human, but an extraordinary one. He influenced many many lives. All for the good.
Did you know Sam Cooke was inspired by this song to write 'a change is gonna come'
Ed Kaz! he admitted to selling his soul to the fall in dark one, for fame and $$$$$$$
May I see your documentation of this? Thanks. Satan
Ed Kaz! you can just Google it bob dylan saying on a documentary about selling his soul
OK I'm sure it's true Dawn. So it's a good thing. I'm converting to Satanism. Thanks for the tip!
Music touches our heart without vulgar language, without nudity, without heavy music..... Just voice, a voice is enough to win our hearts ❤️
Those should be lyrics brother, I believe you can find the song in that feeling.
Some of the best music ever created is heavy music, and many of the greatest songs ever include vulgar language. Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Tupac, Nirvana, Behemoth, Frank Zappa, etc.
Lords of Acid did all of that, yet dancing in the rain, under strobe light, to "The Crablouse" during their show at Nautica in Cleveland in 1996 is one of my fondest musical memories.
@@lifeofcurtisc2729 Trash
I am a sixties child, love the music from that decade! Greetings from Argentina 🙋🏼♀️
Это прекрасно 🎉🎉🎉
@@Екатерина-г8э4ь ???
The lyrics of this song are always alive, now Ukrania. I am from Venezuela and live in Venezuela, and always think about those who still turn their heads to pretend that they do not see and/or do not people cry.
My late father used to play this song many many times, especially in every new year celebration. Now that I am 61 I wonder if there is something to celebrate. Great song, it means much much that just words.
Venezuela & the EU are negotiating over an oil biz.
Thx to the Russians..
My neighbor is from Venezuela. He helps me when I need help. I needed help on the phone when my Spanish is not sufficient. He is a good person. Bendigas a Usted.
An everlasting classic!! They’ll be playing this for generations!!
known this song for over 10 years and only now find out that
the *answer* is blowing in the wind, not
the answer is *blowing in the wind* ... big difference..
something light and shallow into something deep
SO MUCH BEYOND WORDS RESPECT 🙏🏻 GRATITUDE 🙏🏻 LOVE FOR THIS MAN'S WORDS SOUNDS SONGS SOUL 🙏🏻💯❤️💛🎶
It's the end of May of 2021...And I can still feel it's depth...As people will even a century later...❤️❤️❤️
This remains basically untouchable. There are certain guys who are just without a doubt the best messengers in their genre. Here are a few of them who, in my opinion, are the greatest songwriters with a message that I have ever heard:
Bob Dylan (Folk Rock)
Bob Marley (Reggae)
Tupac Shakur (Rap/Hip Hop)
John Lennon (Pop Rock)
Marvin Gaye (Doo-Wop)
Johnny Cash (Country)
Woody Guthrie (Folk)
Tupac is my personal favorite.
Paul McCartney ( Pop Rock)
Undoubtedly one of the most powerful songs of the 20th century!
Jesson Balingan Absolutely! 🎵🎵🎵🤗
With "Times they are a changing."
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my attempt to sing it : )
Helloo! I covered this song in my channel and I really hope you like it!! See you!!! 😊
Have you heard of the song called "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan.
As a 10 year old kid in rural north Louisiana, I never realized that our music instructor, Miss Wilke, was exposing us to some of the greatest music ever written when she had us singing this song in music class. This is the best.
An absolute classic that never gets old. Such a wonderful song! I love the sound of his voice on this song
One Night in Miami Brought me here, if you haven’t seen the movie go watch it
Damn good movie i didn't like how they skipped over sam cooke death he died b4 Mr. X
Moi aussi
J ai vu le film avec Malcom x
Me too lol
same
Yuppp what a fucking great movie.
beautiful one of the most inspiring songs ive heard when it comes to songwriting
Oh iove this artist and. Song here from Brazil
Thank you
This is a clip for "Folk Songs and More Folk Songs," a program recorded at Westinghouse T.V. Studio in March 1963 and broadcast in May of that year. Also featured on the show were The Brothers Four, Barbara Dane, and The Staples Singers.
Three chords and the truth
Three cords and the boredom.
@@trickydick6152 each to his own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
tricky dick What? You didn’t get the reaction you wanted.
@@Unseen_warfare. I didn't want any reaction. I just described mine.
paul w Rambling Jack Eliot, Odetta, The Carter family, Lead Belly, Hank Williams, Blind Willie Mctell, Pete Seeger, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson. Dylan is coming right out of the roots of true American music. At this point this was his own style, he learned from the greats like all greats do. Changed popular music forever and he combined Rock N Roll and literature to make a whole new style of music never done before. Won a Nobel Prize and didn’t show up to receive it. One of the greatest poets of our time. Brought the poetry of the surrealist into Rock N Roll and folk. He’s still writing songs to this day that have a cultural impact.
I remember when I listen this song for the first time... I didn't know nothing about English, but the melody and the harmonic made me love it in that just moment and forever... I was 14th then...
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Hello, Mark. All right with me and I hope you are well too. Yes... I am a country girl...😃😃 still! I am from Brazil.
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Wel'l. Brazil, as USA had hard politic moments... and both of them were very discussed lately, mainly Brazil... Now the things are normalizing....
No. I never had been in USA. I don't speak English. Only read and write because i don't understand more the spoken English. I have lost 50% my audition.
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Hello, Mark. I thank you, but I had some troubles with scammers on Internet and this is the reason I talk only in public pages. Sorry. Be fine.👋👋
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Hello, Mark. I thank you very much and I wish you can be ever fine and happy.🌻🌻😗😗
@MarkClifford-gs6yu Thanks, my friend. If you want, you can see me in my You Tube channel. I am not artist, but I like to sing and I am learning to play accoustic guitar in order to play it while I am singing. Have a good night.🙏🙏🌻🌻🎶🎶😗😗
Même en 2023 cette chanson aura toujours fait effet sur nous. You are thé best, Monsieur👏
happy 75th birthday Dylan! may you stay forever young!
So young and so wise a songwriter way ahead of his time Bob Dylan.
One of the greatest poets of the xx century...
Thank you for your vision to interpret the civil injustices in our nation, and thank you for your words to move us within our histories and the pages of time, to whisper to the generations of who we are. - devers
In 1967 I was sixteen years old. I knew the farm. I knew Church. I knew School. My Church and Family decided that I had "Volunteered, (I use the term loosely) to teach Vacation Bible School at our Church on the South Side of Chicago, South of Roosevelt and West of Pulaski. Fortunately I was assigned the most beautiful, gorgeous, loving, affectionate, perfect 14 female assistant a sixteen year old farm boy could possibly hope for. Every Sunday Morning I would escort my 14 year old female assistant (and first girlfriend) up the Church steps arm in arm and down the Church aisle arm in arm and to her Church pew seat. I would then take my seat on the other side of the aisle with her female relatives, Aunties, Cousins, Nieces and other. Church services in our Church in Chicago were totally different then our Church services in Baraboo, Wisconsin. In sixteen years of attending Church in Baraboo the only Church services I ever enjoyed were at the Holidays. The Church service in Chicago was actually fun to attend. Of course Miss Caroline made it more bearable too.
I stayed with families of the Church that a boy about my own age. I would hang out with my three buddies and others and do what they did. The "Good" Church Boys hung out on the Northeast end of the block where the Church was. The "Bad" Gang Boys avoided the Church and hung out at the Western Intersection which was their Intersection. We would meet in the middle of the block to play Four Square on a piece of sidewalk flat enough and unbroken and suitable to draw a Four Square Court with chalk. The Gangs and I knew each other but I avoided them because if they saw me unless I was right near the Church they would be sure to shake me down. They were always friendly but they were not shy about allocating any excess wealth I was carrying on me for themselves. I got to know the Gangs pretty well that summer. There was the local Gang that controlled the immediate vicinity within a radius of at least three blocks. Since I knew the Local Gang members I could safely walk about three blocks from the Church because I would be within the Local Gangs protection area. Normally I walked around with my three buddies or more. It was definitely safer to walk around in a group of four to six boys. I would walk to the Mom and Pop store about three blocks away and back by myself. There was a 50% chance I would get shook down on the way back but I was in no real physical danger because I was in the Neighborhood. The "Hood" as they cll it today. In 1967 every one even those in the "Hood" spoke perfect English. I heard very little slang. Everybody was trying to move themselves up and out of the ghetto. Very, very competitive.
My relationship with Miss Caroline was strictly "Puritanical" as any move on my part that might exceed the congregations conception of "Propriety" could lead to my death.
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James Vignali This is an amazing story. Really a shame that it does not get more attention.
James Vignali
I've never come across anything like this in almost 12 years of reading UA-cam comments! What a brilliant idea.
Tell me, my friend (yes, I feel happy addressing you as such now I've read your delightful story), was this your own idea or were you inspired by someone else's example?
I found your reminiscences very moving, paradoxically the more so because you wrote in such a factual and unsentimental way. Actually, you write like a PRO.
I'm intrigued by the thought that this sort of thing could 'go viral' on YT and other social media. More thoughtful, substantial and quality commenting might revitalise the rather worn out format of these sites.
Thank you so much.
Simply brilliant , so many great songs
‘To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all’ - Oscar Wilde
One of the absolute BEST song ever composed and performed !!
A meaningful classic by Sir Bob Dylan that is as fresh as it was when first sung on camera by the man. An everlasting hit.
Stevie wonder version is waaaay better check it out
@Anthony Taylor
Stevie Wonder's version is equally good but I love Bob's acoustic version without the drums..
@@anthonytaylor7928 It is not
I was 20 when this came out. I lived in Astoria. I worked in Manhattan, just above the village. I grew up with this music. It brings tears to my ole eyes. The best times but I didn't know it then. Too many people have died... How true, how sad.
I wasn't even born at that time but Bob Dylan seems like the coolest musician of all time. So effortlessly cool.
Did almost all the cool people die from then? Is all hope gone now?
Question to Michael Mika(if he's still alive)
@@christinacope562 Hope has not gone... We have Jesus...and GOD...
@@christinacope562 Still kicking at 78. God help the people of Ukraine.... We are with you. If I could I would go there to help you.
@@christinacope562 79 now..