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 Dreams It’s night time in the big city Thunder echoes through the streets A man rents a hotel room under an assumed name. “Every week we tell you that we specialize in dreams, schemes, and themes. Every week we play a theme. The show itself is kind of a scheme. Well that leaves one subject left.” The Singers and the Songs Dinah Washington – Darn That Dream “We play a lot of jazz singers on this show…but sometimes the great soloists go unappreciated. In the background, there’s a long tenor saxophone solo from a live recording by Dinah Washington. The saxophone player’s name is Harold Land http://hardbop.tripod.com/land.html , and like many great horn players he came from Texas. He moved to Los Angeles and played with both of the Liggins brothers, starting off with Jimmy’s band and then going with the more famous Joe Liggins” The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream “I got to hear that intro again, can we hear that, Tex?” Tony Bennett – Boulevard of Broken Dreams (song) Otis Redding – I’ve Got Dreams to Remember Roy Orbison – In Dreams Charlie Mingus – Weird Nightmare The Chords “I always make a point whenever possible to give the names of vocal groups, because all too often they’re just given as a collective noun. Like in this case, you talk about the Chords, you’ve heard them played on oldies shows, on roots of rock shows, but no one ever gives them a moment as individuals. So for James, Carl, Claude, the other James, and Floyd, here’s their big hit, in 1954 – and they wrote it, by the way! It wasn’t even supposed to be the hit. You know Jerry Wexler, who was their A & R guy, had them record this Patty Page song, ‘Cross Over the Bridge,’ but the buying public wasn’t having it. They turned it over, and found this on the B side. Listen carefully to the saxophone solo. A lot of the guys that play horn on these records have deep jazz roots, and if you listen to the beginning of this solo, you can hear the sax player quote the standard, ‘Mean to Me.” The Louvin Brothers – When I Stop Dreaming The Lovin’ Spoonful – Daydream “…who by the way got their name from the same place as the English rock band, 10cc ” The Cherry Pies – Do You Keep On Dreaming? Big Bill Broonzy – Just a Dream (On My Mind) Arnett Cobb – When I Grow Too Old To Dream Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream “Here Tom Waits captures that drunken sea-sick lurch that dreams sometimes have, while he bemoans the real world.” Other Songs and Albums The Honey Dripper Pink Champagne Otis Redding Camptown Races Swanee River My Old Kentucky Home Hard Times Oh, Susannah Flying Home Frank’s Wild Years Other People and Players Clifford Brown Max Roach Eric Dolphy Tangerine Dream Chet Atkins “Probably the most recorded solo instrumentalist in music history. He built RCA Studio B, probably the most hit-generating studio in Nashville. He lived for the music, and at one time said, ‘Years from now, after I’m gone someone will listen to what I’ve done and know I was here. They might not know or care who I was but they’ll hear my guitar speaking for me. We hear ya, Chet.” Les Paul Dolly Parton Skeeter Davis Waylon Jennings Napoleon Bonaparte Jose Canseco Mitch Miller Langston Hughes The Bar-Kays Stephen Foster Roy Orbison David Lynch Dennis Hopper Frank Booth Duke Ellington Willie Smith Bucky Thompson Lester Young Lee Young Claude Treniers The Treniers Mary Shelley Robert Louis Stevenson Abraham Lincoln Frederick August Von Kekule “He once had a dream about a snake biting its own tail. From that dream, he figured out the structure of Benzene. I woulda just figured it was a sex dream or something.’” The Greeks Heraclides The Romans Alfred Maury Elvis Presley James Edwards James Keyes Floyd McCrae Pete Townsend Faye (Ira Louvin’s 3rd wife) Anne Young 10cc John Sebastian Lionel Hampton Illinois Jaquet (tenor sax solo on Flying Home) “It was great on the record, but especially when played live people could hear the birth of rock and roll.” Oscar Hammerstein Sigmund Romberg William Butler Yeats “Emerald Poet” Record Labels Cadence Records Columbia Places Texas Madison, WI The South Pennsylvania Cincinnati New York City Ancient Egypt Kansas City Williamsburg, MO Houston, TX Books and Poems The Talmud Dreams (L. Hughes) Frankenstein Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Aunt Sally’s Policy Players Dream Book Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (WB Yeats) Ode (Arthur O’Shaughnessy) (Quote from this poem also used in movie Willie Wonka, below) Guests Elvis Costello (sings a few lines of Beautiful Dreamer) Jenny Lewis Marianne Faithful – ran into her at Dunkin Donuts “She had an old fashioned powdered and I had a cruller” Movies Blue Velvet Willie Wonka (clip) The Wizard of Oz (clip) Common Dreams (according to Bob anyway) Being chased or attacked Being injured, ill, or dying A car or other vehicle trouble House or property loss or damage Poor tests or other poor performances Falling or flying Being naked in public or inappropriately dressed Missing the boat or other transport Machine or telephone malfunction Sex Natural or man made disasters Being lost or trapped Being menaced by the dead or a spirit “These are the most common dreams, as opposed to candy colored clowns.”