As it happens, when I’ve Got a Name<\/i> was released in 1973, it had already been a full decade since the release of a very similar song. Bob Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right<\/i> was written in 1962 and released in 1963.<\/p>\n
It’s impossible to listen to the two songs without noticing their uncanny musical similarity. Also, like Forbidden Road<\/i>, both the Bob Dylan song and the Fox\/Gimbel song prominently feature the imagery of roads:<\/p>\n \nI walked along a forbidden road — Forbidden Road (Williams 2024)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nLike the pine trees lining the winding road — I’ve Got a Name (Fox\/Gimbel 1973)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nI\u2019m walkin\u2019 down that long, lonesome road, babe — Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Dylan 1962)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The enormously influential album that the Dylan song appears on is called The Freewheeling Bob Dylan<\/i>, and Suze Rotolo appears on the cover. There’s a good reason for that.<\/p>\n More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As it happens, when I’ve Got a Name was released in 1973, it had already been a full decade since the release of a very similar song. Bob Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right was written in 1962 and released in 1963. It’s impossible to listen to the two songs without noticing their uncanny … Continue reading “Suze Rotolo, part 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27086,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions\/27086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI had to know where does it go
\nLike birds that fly into the sun
\nI had to run, I’m not the only one<\/p>\n
\nI got a name, I got a name
\nLike the singing bird and the croaking toad
\nI got a name, I got a name<\/p>\n
\nWhere I\u2019m bound, I can\u2019t tell
\nBut goodbye\u2019s too good a word, gal
\nSo I\u2019ll just say fare thee well<\/p>\n