Bob Dylan has been writing songs for decades. While he has had quite a few hits under his own name, other musicians made some Dylan songs more famous. He also wrote songs with other artists that he never released himself. Here are seven surprising songs that Dylan wrote.
‘Wagon Wheel’
In 2004, Old Crow Medicine Show released “Wagon Wheel,” the lead single on their debut album. Since then, musician Darius Rucker released a popular cover of the song. While Ketch Secor, the lead singer of Old Crow Medicine Show, wrote the verses to the song, he borrowed the chorus and melody from a 1973 Dylan demo entitled “Rock Me Mama.”
“Bob Dylan cast a spell with every song he made, particularly in 1973, when he wrote that chorus,” Secor told Relix. “I’m convinced that he put down his legal pad after he wrote that chorus, and he scrapped it because he wrote ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.
‘Wagon Wheel’
In 2004, Old Crow Medicine Show released “Wagon Wheel,” the lead single on their debut album. Since then, musician Darius Rucker released a popular cover of the song. While Ketch Secor, the lead singer of Old Crow Medicine Show, wrote the verses to the song, he borrowed the chorus and melody from a 1973 Dylan demo entitled “Rock Me Mama.”
“Bob Dylan cast a spell with every song he made, particularly in 1973, when he wrote that chorus,” Secor told Relix. “I’m convinced that he put down his legal pad after he wrote that chorus, and he scrapped it because he wrote ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.
- 7/16/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
George Harrison was an excellent songwriter, often overshadowed by his fellow bandmates in The Beatles: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. His talent shone through, but it was often restricted, something he was frustrated by. Fellow songwriter and friend Bob Dylan agreed with his frustrations, saying he believed George Harrison could have been “as big as anybody” if he wasn’t with The Beatles.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the main songwriting duo of The Beatles George Harrison and Bob Dylan | Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
McCartney and Lennon are among the most successful songwriting duos ever. While there are debates on who primarily wrote different songs, the Lennon-McCartney credit is attached to plenty of The Beatles’ biggest hits. Meanwhile, Harrison’s songwriting contributions were limited. Still, he was responsible for some memorable tracks, such as “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
In an interview with The New Yorker,...
Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the main songwriting duo of The Beatles George Harrison and Bob Dylan | Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
McCartney and Lennon are among the most successful songwriting duos ever. While there are debates on who primarily wrote different songs, the Lennon-McCartney credit is attached to plenty of The Beatles’ biggest hits. Meanwhile, Harrison’s songwriting contributions were limited. Still, he was responsible for some memorable tracks, such as “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
In an interview with The New Yorker,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Beatles recorded rock ‘n’ roll hits like “Twist & Shout,” “psychedelic” songs like “Strawberry Fields Forever” and ballads like “Yesterday.” One “Fab Four” member acknowledged their experimentation in other sounds and genres, sharing his thoughts in a 1966 interview.
What genre is the Beatles? Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon of The Beatles jumping on wall, used on the ‘Twist & Shout’ EP cover | Fiona Adams/Redferns via Getty Images
As noted by Musician Wave, most listeners classify the Beatles as a rock ‘n’ roll group, especially with early hits like “Twist & Shout” and “Love Me Do.” The website argues this genre would be too narrow for the group, as they also explored blues, pop rock, and folk.
As the group matured, they explored new instruments, sounds, and recording techniques. They were one of the first groups to use backward vocals and guitar tracks. They featured...
What genre is the Beatles? Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon of The Beatles jumping on wall, used on the ‘Twist & Shout’ EP cover | Fiona Adams/Redferns via Getty Images
As noted by Musician Wave, most listeners classify the Beatles as a rock ‘n’ roll group, especially with early hits like “Twist & Shout” and “Love Me Do.” The website argues this genre would be too narrow for the group, as they also explored blues, pop rock, and folk.
As the group matured, they explored new instruments, sounds, and recording techniques. They were one of the first groups to use backward vocals and guitar tracks. They featured...
- 2/28/2023
- by Julia Dzurillay
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
George Harrison‘s 80th birthday will be remembered with spiritual festivities in his hometown of Liverpool, England. Fans can honor the day the legendary Beatles guitarist was born, Feb. 25, 1943, in the place where he was raised and called home.
George Harrison celebrates his 80th birthday on Feb. 25, 2023, | Joshua Blanchard/ David Redfern/Getty Images George Harrison’s humble beginnings kept him grounded
George Harrison’s arrival into the world came via a house on Arnold Grove, a cul-de-sac in the Wavertree area of Liverpool. His parents were Louise and Harry Harrison. George was the youngest of their four children, behind Louise, Harry, and Peter.
His father was a bus driver, and his mother was a shop assistant in Liverpool. The family later moved to the Speke area of the town.
Harrison was a poor student but found passion in music. His parents allowed him to form a skiffle group with his...
George Harrison celebrates his 80th birthday on Feb. 25, 2023, | Joshua Blanchard/ David Redfern/Getty Images George Harrison’s humble beginnings kept him grounded
George Harrison’s arrival into the world came via a house on Arnold Grove, a cul-de-sac in the Wavertree area of Liverpool. His parents were Louise and Harry Harrison. George was the youngest of their four children, behind Louise, Harry, and Peter.
His father was a bus driver, and his mother was a shop assistant in Liverpool. The family later moved to the Speke area of the town.
Harrison was a poor student but found passion in music. His parents allowed him to form a skiffle group with his...
- 2/25/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan and George Harrison built a strong friendship that saw the two writing and performing songs together. One song written by Dylan was recorded by both himself and Harrison on separate projects in different arrangements. The two later played the song together in a rare performance that is hard to find.
Bob Dylan wrote ‘If Not For You’ for his wife George Harrison and Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
“If Not For You” is a song from Dylan’s 1970 album New Morning. Dylan wrote the track as a love song for his first wife, Sara Dylan. It was part of a series of tracks Dylan wrote about his commitment to family and life’s simple pleasures. Dylan commented on the track in the 1980s, saying it came off as “kind of folky.”
“It seemed simple enough, sort of Tex-Mex,” Dylan said. “I would never explore all the...
Bob Dylan wrote ‘If Not For You’ for his wife George Harrison and Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
“If Not For You” is a song from Dylan’s 1970 album New Morning. Dylan wrote the track as a love song for his first wife, Sara Dylan. It was part of a series of tracks Dylan wrote about his commitment to family and life’s simple pleasures. Dylan commented on the track in the 1980s, saying it came off as “kind of folky.”
“It seemed simple enough, sort of Tex-Mex,” Dylan said. “I would never explore all the...
- 2/1/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Look at her, she’s Sandra Dee… and also a spandex-rocking stiletto queen. Those extremes were dictated by the plot of “Grease,” but Olivia Newton-John had a strong narrative arc in her recording career, too. First, she was the country-pop crossover queen who set a template for Shania Twain; then, a dance-pop princess who could well have been the proto-Kylie; finally, a mature balladeer leaning toward self-help material that befit the public struggles and inspirational tone of her life’s difficult last act.
In celebration of the pop icon who died Monday at age 73, here’s a survey dedicated to covering the musical peaks and occasional eccentricities of a career that stretched from her film debut in 1965 to her ’70s and early ’80s heyday to her reflective final albums in the 2010s. The “Hopelessly Devoted” singer doesn’t deserve anything less than 25 critical devotionals.
25. ‘I Touch Myself’
Even most of...
In celebration of the pop icon who died Monday at age 73, here’s a survey dedicated to covering the musical peaks and occasional eccentricities of a career that stretched from her film debut in 1965 to her ’70s and early ’80s heyday to her reflective final albums in the 2010s. The “Hopelessly Devoted” singer doesn’t deserve anything less than 25 critical devotionals.
25. ‘I Touch Myself’
Even most of...
- 8/9/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
After breaking out as a country star, she rode the changing moods of pop, through rock, electronic and, of course, the film musical – pre-empting the visual album along the way
Olivia Newton-John, star of Grease, dies aged 73A life and career in picturesTributes flow after Australian star’s death
There’s a limited idea that Olivia Newton-John’s career, whether in cinema or pop, ran solely from “virginal girl-next-door” to “spandex-clad vixen”, as one rather snotty obituary put it. While that transformation may apply to her most famous role as Sandy in the musical Grease, it does a disservice to how ably – and convincingly – the chameleonic British-Australian musician shape-shifted between genres and rode the changing moods of pop to become one of the biggest hit-makers of her era and an enduring cult icon.
Newton-John broke out at the beginning of the 1970s as a country-pop singer, with single If Not For You,...
Olivia Newton-John, star of Grease, dies aged 73A life and career in picturesTributes flow after Australian star’s death
There’s a limited idea that Olivia Newton-John’s career, whether in cinema or pop, ran solely from “virginal girl-next-door” to “spandex-clad vixen”, as one rather snotty obituary put it. While that transformation may apply to her most famous role as Sandy in the musical Grease, it does a disservice to how ably – and convincingly – the chameleonic British-Australian musician shape-shifted between genres and rode the changing moods of pop to become one of the biggest hit-makers of her era and an enduring cult icon.
Newton-John broke out at the beginning of the 1970s as a country-pop singer, with single If Not For You,...
- 8/9/2022
- by Angelica Frey
- The Guardian - Film News
Farewell, Olivia Newton-John, the eternally beloved pop queen who died Monday at age 73. No Seventies star had a weirder pop trajectory, going from the world’s favorite Australian country singer to a brazen Eighties black-leather New Wave diva in just a few years. But Olivia could do it all: weepy ballads like “I Honestly Love You,” country twang like “Let Me Be There,” Fifties pastiche in Grease. Disco show tunes with Gene Kelly and Elo in Xanadu. Heavy-breathing rock odes to sex like “Magic” and “Make a Move On Me.
- 8/9/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
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If you were raised in a house tuned to Am radio in the 1970s and early ‘80s, chances are that the crystalline vocals of Olivia Newton-John, who died Monday at age 73 at her Southern California ranch, were a big part of your childhood soundtrack.
This was especially true if you grew up in Australia, where we eagerly claimed her as our own, even if Onj was born in Britain and moved with her family to Melbourne when she was 5. I just have to think about her 1971 breakthrough hit, a wistful, soft-rock country love song by Bob Dylan called “If Not for You,” to start it playing in my head on a loop for days. “Let Me Be There,” from the same debut solo album has a similar lasting hold over me, as does “Banks of the Ohio,” a 19th-century down-home murder ballad rendered with sweet,...
If you were raised in a house tuned to Am radio in the 1970s and early ‘80s, chances are that the crystalline vocals of Olivia Newton-John, who died Monday at age 73 at her Southern California ranch, were a big part of your childhood soundtrack.
This was especially true if you grew up in Australia, where we eagerly claimed her as our own, even if Onj was born in Britain and moved with her family to Melbourne when she was 5. I just have to think about her 1971 breakthrough hit, a wistful, soft-rock country love song by Bob Dylan called “If Not for You,” to start it playing in my head on a loop for days. “Let Me Be There,” from the same debut solo album has a similar lasting hold over me, as does “Banks of the Ohio,” a 19th-century down-home murder ballad rendered with sweet,...
- 8/9/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Olivia Newton-John, the celebrated pop culture icon known for her performances in Grease and Xanadu, as well as her Grammy-winning hits like “I Honestly Love You” and “Physical,” died Monday, Aug. 8. She was 73.
Newton-John’s husband, John Easterling, confirmed her death on Instagram, writing that she “passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends.” No exact cause of death was given.
The statement continued, “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer.
Newton-John’s husband, John Easterling, confirmed her death on Instagram, writing that she “passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends.” No exact cause of death was given.
The statement continued, “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer.
- 8/8/2022
- by Jon Blistein and Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Olivia Newton-John died on August 8 at age 73 after a battle with breast cancer.
The British born Australian star shot to fame in “Grease” opposite John Travolta in 1978. A four-time Grammy winner, Newton-John won Record of the Year for “I Honestly Love You” and “Physical,” as well as “Grease” song “You’re the One That I Want,” which still ranks as one of the bestselling singles of all time.
Newton-John’s husband John Easterling confirmed her passing on Facebook.
“Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends,” Easterling wrote. “We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
Easterling continued, “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund,...
The British born Australian star shot to fame in “Grease” opposite John Travolta in 1978. A four-time Grammy winner, Newton-John won Record of the Year for “I Honestly Love You” and “Physical,” as well as “Grease” song “You’re the One That I Want,” which still ranks as one of the bestselling singles of all time.
Newton-John’s husband John Easterling confirmed her passing on Facebook.
“Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends,” Easterling wrote. “We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
Easterling continued, “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund,...
- 8/8/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Olivia Newton-John, the top female pop vocalist of the 1970s who starred in movies including “Grease” and “Xanadu,” died Monday. She was 73.
Her husband, John Easterling, posted the news on her official Facebook page, writing: “Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
A cause of death was not given, but Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer that surfaced for a third time in 2017. “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” her husband wrote. “Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.”
Her “Grease” costar and hit duet partner John Travolta was quick to weigh in with a tribute on social media.
Her husband, John Easterling, posted the news on her official Facebook page, writing: “Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
A cause of death was not given, but Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer that surfaced for a third time in 2017. “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” her husband wrote. “Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.”
Her “Grease” costar and hit duet partner John Travolta was quick to weigh in with a tribute on social media.
- 8/8/2022
- by Chris Morris
- Variety Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Olivia Newton-John, the angelic Australian singer who forged a hopelessly devoted following with her chart-topping hits “Physical,” “Have You Never Been Mellow” and “You’re the One That I Want,” her Grease duet with John Travolta, has died. She was 73.
Newton-John died Monday morning at her ranch in Southern California, her husband, John Easterling, announced on Facebook.
“Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” he wrote. “Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.”
Born in England and raised in Melbourne, Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, and she announced in May 2017 that after 25 years in remission the disease had spread to her lower back. The singer in August 2018 canceled a two-date tour just three...
Olivia Newton-John, the angelic Australian singer who forged a hopelessly devoted following with her chart-topping hits “Physical,” “Have You Never Been Mellow” and “You’re the One That I Want,” her Grease duet with John Travolta, has died. She was 73.
Newton-John died Monday morning at her ranch in Southern California, her husband, John Easterling, announced on Facebook.
“Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” he wrote. “Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.”
Born in England and raised in Melbourne, Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, and she announced in May 2017 that after 25 years in remission the disease had spread to her lower back. The singer in August 2018 canceled a two-date tour just three...
- 8/8/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Good morning, Brewbies! I can't believe I finally get to say the thing I'm about to say: Pretty Little Liars is back tonight, bitches!
There's an all-day marathon on ABC Family if you need to catch-up before tonight's winter premiere. And, as always, we'll be live-tweeting the show with the hashtag #BooRadleyVanCullen!
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Good morning, Brewbies! I can't believe I finally get to say the thing I'm about to say: Pretty Little Liars is back tonight, bitches!
There's an all-day marathon on ABC Family if you need to catch-up before tonight's winter premiere. And, as always, we'll be live-tweeting the show with the hashtag #BooRadleyVanCullen!
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- by stuntdouble
- AfterEllen.com
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