ROCK N ROLL TIMES
PULITZER WORTHY
Opener: Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (from Bringing it all back home on Columbia records march of 1965) track 11 4:12
Commentary: .Ever since Kendrick Lamar recently became the first pop music figure to ever win a Pulitzer Prize, I’ve been thinking about other artists who should have been considered for Pulitzers if the awards had been open to pop albums. I’ve come up with four from the 1960s.
We opened the show with “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” an album with the literary edge and social commentary that should have made it an ideal Pulitzer candidate. The album was Bringing It all Back Home and here are three more songs from that album.
Block One:
Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (same) track 1 2:21
Dylan’s “Love Minus Zero: No Limit” (same) track 4 2:51
Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” (same) track 8 5:30
Commentary: Now lets’ play two tracks from Dylan’s second great album from 1965: Highway 61 Revisited.
Block 2:
Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (from highway 61 revisited album on Columbia records in October of 1965 on Columbia records) track 1 6:13
Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man” (same) track 5 5:58
Commentary: The next album that would have been worthy of a Pulitzer in the 1960s was the Beach Boys’ glorious Pet Sounds.
Block Three:
The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (from Pet Sounds album in 1966 on Capitol) track 1 2:25
The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” (same) track 8 2:51
The Beach Boys’ “I Just Wasn’t Made for these times” (same) track 11 3:12
The Beach Boys’ “Sloop John B” (same) track 7 2:58
Commentary: Here’s another track from Pet Sounds, and then two songs from Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. Another great Pulitzer candidate. But it had little chance in a music competition limited largely to jazz and classical.
Block Four:
The Beach Boys’ “Caroline No” (same) track 13 2:51
Simon & Garfukel’s “El Condor Pasa (If I could)” (from bridge over troubled water album in 1970 on Columbia records) track 2 3:06
Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York City” (same) track So Long Frank Lloyd Wright (same) Cecelia (same) track 5 3:41
Commentary: Here are two more tracks from Simon & Garfunkel’s landmark “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” The Boxer and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Commentary: .Ever since Kendrick Lamar recently became the first pop music figure to ever win a Pulitzer Prize, I’ve been thinking about other artists who should have been considered for Pulitzers if the awards had been open to pop albums. I’ve come up with four from the 1960s.
We opened the show with “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” an album with the literary edge and social commentary that should have made it an ideal Pulitzer candidate. The album was Bringing It all Back Home and here are three more songs from that album.
Block One:
Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (same) track 1 2:21
Dylan’s “Love Minus Zero: No Limit” (same) track 4 2:51
Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” (same) track 8 5:30
Commentary: Now lets’ play two tracks from Dylan’s second great album from 1965: Highway 61 Revisited.
Block 2:
Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (from highway 61 revisited album on Columbia records in October of 1965 on Columbia records) track 1 6:13
Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man” (same) track 5 5:58
Commentary: The next album that would have been worthy of a Pulitzer in the 1960s was the Beach Boys’ glorious Pet Sounds.
Block Three:
The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (from Pet Sounds album in 1966 on Capitol) track 1 2:25
The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” (same) track 8 2:51
The Beach Boys’ “I Just Wasn’t Made for these times” (same) track 11 3:12
The Beach Boys’ “Sloop John B” (same) track 7 2:58
Commentary: Here’s another track from Pet Sounds, and then two songs from Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. Another great Pulitzer candidate. But it had little chance in a music competition limited largely to jazz and classical.
Block Four:
The Beach Boys’ “Caroline No” (same) track 13 2:51
Simon & Garfukel’s “El Condor Pasa (If I could)” (from bridge over troubled water album in 1970 on Columbia records) track 2 3:06
Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York City” (same) track So Long Frank Lloyd Wright (same) Cecelia (same) track 5 3:41
Commentary: Here are two more tracks from Simon & Garfunkel’s landmark “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” The Boxer and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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