Tracks from this session:
1. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (featured in No Direction Home movie)
2. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (9 - from No Direction Home Soundtrack)
3. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence (12 - from Highway 61 Revisited Again)
4. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (13 - from The Bootleg Series Vol. 2)
5. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence (16 - from The Bootleg Series Vol. 2)
6. Like A Rolling Stone (17 - from Highway 61 interactive cd-rom)
7. Like A Rolling Stone (18 , 19 or 20 - from Bootleg Series Vol. 2)
8. Like A Rolling Stone (21 - from Highway 61 interactive cd-rom)
9. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (take 13 - alternate source - mono, with intro and real ending)
10. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence (take 16 - alternate source - mono with count in)
Session Details:
Studio A
Columbia Recording Studios
New York City, New York
15 June 1965
The first Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Tom Wilson.
1. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
2. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
4. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
5. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
7. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
8. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
9. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
10. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
11. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
12. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
13. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
14. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
15. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
16. Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
17. Like A Rolling Stone
18. Like A Rolling Stone
19. Like A Rolling Stone
20. Like A Rolling Stone
21. Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan (guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal), Mike Bloomfield (guitar), Al Gorgoni (guitar), Frank Owens (piano), Bobby Gregg (drums), Joseph Macho Jr. (bass), Al Kooper (organ).
Notes.
· 2, 3, 5, 14, 15, 17-20 are false starts.
· 4, 10 are interrupted
· Only released tracks and probably 10 are in circulation.
· 1-9, 13 Phantom Engineer on recording sheet.
· 10-12 Over The Cliffs, pt 1 on recording sheet.
· 14-16 Over The Cliff on recording sheet.
· Recorded 2:30-5:30 pm.
Parts of 17 and 21 released on Interactive Music CD–ROM Highway 61 Interactive, Columbia/Graphix Zone CDAC 085700, February 1995.
13, 16, 17 and one of 17-21 released on THE BOOTLEG SERIES (RARE & UNRELEASED) 1961–1991, Volume 2, Columbia 468 086 2, 26 March 1991.
CO-numbers:
86443 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
86444 Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
86445 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
86446 Like A Rolling Stone
References.
Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 1). The Telegraph #52, Summer 1995, pp. 113-114.
Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 39–43.
Stereo studio recordings.