There were at least two studio recordings prior to the one that was released on the album. For 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', however, Dylan wanted to record the song before he became too familiar with it.

Dylan had been playing those other songs live for some time, allowing them to evolve before recording of the album commenced. Tambourine Man', ' Gates of Eden' and ' It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)'. The track was recorded on the same day Dylan recorded the other three songs on side 2 of the album: ' Mr. The master take of the song was recorded on January 15, 1965, during the sessions for the Bringing It All Back Home album and was produced by Tom Wilson.

The Byrds did release a 1969 recording of the song on their Ballad of Easy Rider album.īob Dylan's version Composition and recording īob Dylan most likely wrote 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' in January 1965. Tambourine Man' and ' All I Really Want to Do', but neither recording was released in that form. The Byrds recorded the song twice in 1965 as a possible follow up single to ' Mr. Them's version, released in 1966 influenced garage bands during the mid-60s and Beck later sampled it for his 1996 single ' Jack-Ass'.

'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' has been covered many times by a variety of artists, including Joan Baez, Bryan Ferry, the Seldom Scene, Them (also by Van Morrison as a solo artist), the Byrds, the Animals, the Chocolate Watchband, Graham Bonnet, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, Falco, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Grateful Dead, Leon Russell, Link Wray, Hugh Masekela, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bad Religion, the Matadors, Hole and ANOHNI. There has been much speculation about the real life identity of 'Baby Blue', with possibilities including Joan Baez, David Blue, Paul Clayton, Dylan's folk music audience, and even Dylan himself. The lyrics were heavily influenced by Symbolist poetry and bid farewell to the titular 'Baby Blue'. Lee's bass guitar the only instrumentation. The song was recorded on January 15, 1965, with Dylan's acoustic guitar and harmonica and William E. ' It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his Bringing It All Back Home album, released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records ( see 1965 in music).

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