It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
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| Song by Bob Dylan | |||||
| Album | Bringing It All Back Home | ||||
| Released | March 22, 1965 | ||||
| Genre | Folk rock | ||||
| Length | 4:12 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Writer | Bob Dylan | ||||
| Producer | Tom Wilson | ||||
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| Single by Them from the album Them Again |
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| A-side | "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) | |
| B-side | "I'm Gonna Dress in Black" | |
| Released | 1966 | |
| Length | 3:50 | |
| Label | Decca Records (UK), Parrot Records (USA) | |
| Producer | Tommy Scott | |
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a song by Bob Dylan. It is Track 11 from the album Bringing It All Back Home, released on 22 March, 1965 by Columbia Records.
Dylan, later describing the song, said that "I had carried that song around in my head for a long time and I remember that when I was writing it, I'd remembered a Gene Vincent song. It had always been one of my favorites, Baby Blue... 'When first I met my baby/she said how do you do/she looked into my eyes and said/my name is Baby Blue.' It was one of the songs I used to sing back in high school. Of course, I was singing about a different Baby Blue."[1]
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[edit] Covers
Among the numerous artists who have covered it[2] were Them (with vocals by Van Morrison) and also by Van Morrison as a solo artist, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Ferry, Echo & the Bunnymen, Barry McGuire, Joan Baez, Falco, Grateful Dead, Graham Bonnet, The Seldom Scene, The Chocolate Watchband, Energy Orchard, The 13th Floor Elevators and, more recently, Hole and the duo of Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs.
The Byrds recorded two versions, four years apart, the first of which was released as an unsuccessful promo single in late 1965. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band covered it for the release of their first album, Volume One. Manfred Mann's Earth Band version has been noted as 'one of the best Dylan covers of its era'. The Animals offered also a 'dramatically bluesy rendition' on their 1977 album Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted [3].George Harrison referenced the title in his 1987 single When We Was Fab. The Milltown Brothers also covered the song in 1993.
Van Morrison's Them band released their version on the 1966 album, Them Again. Greil Marcus states in a 1969 review: "Only on Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' does Van truly shatter all the limits on his special powers...Played very fast, Van's voice virtually fighting for control over the band, 'Baby Blue' emerges as music that is both dramatic and terrifying."[4]
[edit] In the media
- Them's version of the song was used in the 1996 film Basquiat, in the 1972 German film Rocker by Klaus Lemke and the 2000 film Girl, Interrupted.
- The cover of the song by Them is sampled in Beck's Odelay in the song "Jack-Ass".
- The Chocolate Watchband version is featured in the documentary Tarnation.
[edit] Other genres
- The song was a source of inspiration for Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", prompting her to dedicate the story to Dylan.
- A portion of the first verse of the song was used as the title for Barry Hannah's 1995 novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan.
- George Harrison's song When We Was Fab contains the lyric "But it's all over now, baby blue." Harrison worked with Dylan in the Traveling Wilburys.
[edit] References
- ^ n.B.uTHEMEN Baby Blue
- ^ The All Music Guide lists more than 120, as of March 2008
- ^ Eder B., Glorified Magnified (1972) and Before we were so rudely interrupted (1977), AMG
- ^ Rolling Stone Magazine: Greil Marcus review:Astral Weeks 1969-03-01
[edit] External links
- Lyrics: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Janovitz B., It's All over Now, Baby Blue (song entry) at AMG
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