Information provided courtesy of the Bob Dylan Fan Club's annotated Theme Time project at http://www.thebobdylanfanclub.com/themetime/ where you'll find even more info/links than included here Fools It’s nighttime in the big city A businessman kisses his secretary under a street light A drunken security guard drops his flashlight “James Thurber once said, ’you can fool too many of the people too much of the time’ and for the next hour we’re gonna try and do just that…for the next hour we‘re gonna play the greatest records about our favorite half-wits, the fools.” The Singers and The Songs Aretha Franklin – Chain of Fools Hank Snow – Now And Then There’s A Fool Such As I Otis Rush – Three Times a Fool (or as Bob calls it, three times a Frenchman) “Among the most atmospheric and unusual sounding of all the Chicago blues.” Third on a Match “As bad as it is to be three times a fool, it’s even worse to be third on a match.” (background) Sanford Clark – The Fool “I always thought it was one of the best Elvis Presley records that Elvis never made” The Clovers – Fool, Fool, Fool “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” Eddie Hope and the Mannish Boys – A Fool No More “If you want to be a fool no maore, you might wasn’t to try some Ginkgo Biloba. It’s the extract of the Ginkgo plant. Some people say that it’s a memory enhancer. I read that somewhere but I just can’t remember where.” Sonny Stitt – Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)—background “I always liked songs with parentheses in the title.” Ike and Tina Turner – A Fool In Love The Crickets – Love’s Made a Fool of You The Drifters – Fools Fall in Love Bobby Blue Bland – I Pity The Fool Little Walter – Just Your Fool Buddy and Ella Johnson – Just your fool (clip) James Carr and Bettie Harris – I’m a Fool For You Teddy Humphries – Guitar Pickin’ Fool “The kings of the chord and the sires of the solo” Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall in Love Other People Don Covey Evon Kruger? Match seller Sam Patch “Yankee Leaper” Anne Bolin Henry The 8th Gene Brown – foolproof systems Shakespeare – “Hell of a cat” William S Burroughs Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Sir, I admit your general rule that every poet is a fool, but you yourself may serve to show it, every fool is not a poet." Mr. T Mohammed Ali Waldo Peirce – painter Abraham Lincoln MLK Rpy Riegels-- 1929 Rosebowl Jim Marshall – MN Vikings “And I was there that day. (chuckles) Strange but true.” Other Singers and Songs Pop and Mavis Staples Willie Dixon (producer) Nancy Sinatra Elvis Presley Buddy Holly Bob Mongomery Lee Hazelwood – composer and producer Al Casey Matthew McCarter Jerome Windley Bill Harris Sonny Curtis Bobby Fuller “I Fought the Law” Clyde McFatter Johnny Paycheck David Allen Coe "You’re Gonna Make it After All" Ahmet Ertegun “He was that rare creature who could lead a business and still be in love with the music. We could sure use a lot more of that now.” Michael Jackson Diana Ross Billy Ward and The Dominoes OV Wright Ray Charles Little Walter Buddy and Owen Johnson Rodger Humphries Frank Humphries Eldridge Humphries Record Labels Atlantic Records – “Looks like we’re gonna play a lot of records This week from the Atlantic Label. Don’t know sure if that means anything but I find it interesting” RCA Cobra Record Chess Marlin Duke Goldwax Literature Stephen Crane (foolish poet)– (Bob Reads) "Why do you strive for greatness, fool? Go pluck a bough and wear it. It is as sufficing. My Lord, there are certain barbarians Who tilt their noses As if the stars were flowers, And Thy servant is lost among their shoe-buckles. Fain would I have mine eyes even with their eyes. Fool, go pluck a bough and wear it." A Midsummer Nights Dream Twelfth night As You Like It Gene Brown“Fool-proof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools” Mark Twain “The first day of April is the day that we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” T.S. Elliot – The Waste land TV and Movies The Maltese Falcon “I’m no fool, no siree, we play safe” jingle The Simpsons (clip) “I’ve got to fool before the day is out….” Bart Mary Tyler Moore Show Rocky III “I’m No Fool” [Jiminy Cricket] - Cliff Edwards [Husker Du's version] (from The Music of Disney: A Legacy of Song) Places New Jersey Niagara Falls East St. Louis Paris Memphis Guest Deke Dickerson – “He’s a walking hillbilly encyclopedia” Other History of April Fools Day “The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.”