Thursday, April 06, 2006

Dylan's first LP only cost $402 to produce

That's all it cost to record Bob Dylan's first LP for Columbia Records in 1961. He recorded 18 songs in 2 three hour sessions accompanying himself on the guitar. Interstingly, Columbia wasn't too sure about the LP and began to think that legendary John Hammond's golden years had erroded so they delayed releasing it until March 1962 and it only sold 5000 copies in the first year!
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Anonymous said...

But it was not the first time that Dylan appeared on a record. His first appearance, uncredited, was on Harry Belafonte's "Midnight Special". The harmonica player on the title track is Bob Z.

12:22 PM

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