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 Around The World pt.1 It’s night time in the big city A pawn shop owner shuts his iron gate A man realizes he is in love. “As we told you on our ‘Hello’ show, there’s many ways to say hello. Well I hope you’re taking notes, cause this week we’re gonna use em.” The Singers and The Songs Blossom Dearie – Rhode Island Is Famous For You The Coasters – Down In Mexico Freddy Fender – Acapulco Rock Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London The Pogues – Dark Streets of London Edith Piaf – Sous le Ciel de Paris The Four Lads – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Shoba – A Sambe Siye E Goli (Let’s Go To Johannesburg) Joe Ely – She Never Spoke Spanish to Me Toots Thielemans & Elis Regina – Aquerela Do Brasil The Byrds – Blue Canadian Rockies Hal Swain and His Band – Hunting Tigers Out In India (Yah) Buck Owens – Made in Japan “The last man to hit the top 10 with a crew cut.” (Sonny Rollins – How are Things in Glocca Morra – (background) The Beatles – Back in the USSR Other People and Players Howard Dietz Arthur Schwartz Jack Haley George M. Cohan Nelson Eddy Peter and Bobby Farrelly Spalding Gray H.P. Lovecraft Gilbert Stuart Scott Hamilton Aztecs El Santo Fats Domino Big Joe Turner Eddy and the Shades Scotty Wayne Eddy Medina Billie Holiday Louis Leplee Johnnie Ray Mitch Miller Constantine the Great Sultan Mehmet II George Bernard Shaw L.L. Zamenhof Bernard Stollman Pharaoh Sanders Ornette Coleman Sun Ra The Fugs The Holy Modal Rounders William Burroughs Paul Bley Butch Hancock Samuel De Champlain Queen Victoria Sean Connery Spice Girls Yip Harburg Burton Lane James Hilton Plato Donovan Superman Brainiac (comics) C.S. Lewis L. Frank Baum The Marx Brothers Movies, TV, Broadway, Books Inside U.S.A. The Wolf Man ESPN Finian’s Rainbow Lost Horizon Duck Soup Places Mexico Rio Grande Turkey Paris Africa Warsaw, Poland Lubbock, TX South America Sao Paulo Rio De Janeiro Brazil Canada Quebec France India “…has half the world’s population of tigers; I think the rest of them are in Detroit.” The Indian Empire “There were rumors at one point we were going to swap England India for Canada, but actually this is just a rumor I’m trying to start.” Suez Canal Bakersfield, CA Shangri-La Himalayas Atlantis Kandor Krypton Narnia Oz Utopia Freedonia Moscow Armenia Estonia Kazakhstan Latvia Lithuania Moldova Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Places that have undergone a name change Ethiopia / Abyssinia Ceylon / Sri Lanka Persia / Iran Mesopotamia / Iraq Siam / Thailand Moldavia / Moldova Record Labels Atco ESP Guest Luke Wilson Other Songs and Albums Cry “Cry and Little White Cloud on one single…that’s value for your buck!” The Little White Cloud That Cried Sweetheart of the Rodeo (not Sweethearts of the Rodeo) Freedonia National Anthem (clip) The White Album Random Etymology POSH