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"Rita May" (sometimes spelled as "Rita Mae") is a song by Bob Dylan, originally recorded during the sessions for the album Desire, but released only as the B-side of a single and on the compilation album, Masterpieces. [2]
On March 9, 1966, between 9:00 pm and midnight, four versions of "Temporary Like Achilles" were recorded by Dylan and a band at Columbia Studio A, Nashville, with Bob Johnston as producer. [5] [6] [7] Dylan reworked the lyrics during the first three takes, and wrote the lyrics for the first verse of the final version after take 3 was completed. [8]
An early version of "Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)" was recorded during sessions for Infidels, Dylan's 1983 album, as "Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart". [1] A total of thirteen takes of the song were recorded at the Power Station Studio in New York City, in three of the recording sessions, on April 16, April 25 and ...
Take 16, a complete version of the song with just Dylan on piano and vocals – which was highly praised by Paul Williams in Bob Dylan Performing Artist The Early Years 1960–1973 [4] – was released in 2015 on the deluxe and collector's editions of The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966, along with various other takes of ...
Billboard included the song in its list of Dylan's 15 "most poetic lyrics". [5] The Big Issue placed it at #37 on a 2021 list of the "80 best Bob Dylan songs - that aren't the greatest hits" and called it a "jolly break-up song for a change". [6] A 2021 Guardian article included it on a list of "80 Bob Dylan songs everyone should know". [7]
Dylan re-recorded the song with Happy Traum in September 1971 using slightly different chords for inclusion on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II. A live version performed with the Band in the early hours of January 1, 1972 was released on the 2001 reissue of the Band's Rock Of Ages .
The Rolling Thunder rendition of the song was a raging rock song with strident lyrics, in contrast to the original version. [4] [5] Dylan also played the song on his 1978 tour, but did not play it again live until 1998 during his Never Ending Tour. [5] By 2002, the date of its final performances on the Never Ending Tour, Dylan was playing an ...
In spite of the song's title, it is not a blues but rather a folk song that uses the same chord pattern as Pachelbel's Canon. [1] Dylan scholar and musicologist Eyolf Ostrem notes that "[m]usically, it is a close cousin of "'Cross the Green Mountain" with which it shares the ever-descending bass line and some of the chord shadings that never manage to decide whether they're major or minor (and ...