WCSX Classic Cuts : Like a Rolling Stone
WCSX Classic Cuts
Bob Dylan: “Like a Rolling Stone”
The Hook: Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at number-one on its list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in 2004, and again in 2011.
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
Year: 1965
Writer: Bob Dylan
Stats: Peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: Al Kooper has gotten much acclaim over the years for his organ part on “Like a Rolling Stone.” But he tells us that he doesn’t like it when people confuse his role in making the record with writing the song.
Organist Al Kooper on why he deserves no credit whatsoever for coming up with “Like a Rolling Stone.” OC:…the song. :25
“When it was voted the number-one song of all time, which is what it was voted, and then everyone said congratulations and everything, I said, ‘I know you’re not going to believe this, but I didn’t write that.’ ‘Yeah,’ they said, ‘but you were a part of it.’ I said, ‘No I wasn’t. He wrote the song by himself, I didn’t even know him when he wrote the song.’ People have to understand what songwriting means. The greatest song of all time — okay, but I didn’t write it. I play no role in the song.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLMr784l0Q
