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Single:
Blowin’ in the Wind entered the Australian singles chart* on 27 July 1963 and peaked at #11. It was #79 on the Top 100 of 1963. The song charted again on 15 August 1964 and peaked at #81.
Album:
The song is on In the Wind which charted in Australia in 1963.
Songwriter:
Bob Dylan
Producer:
Albert Grossman
Record label of Australian release:
Warner Bros
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
PETER, PAUL AND MARY
BONUS SONGS BELOW – The original version of Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan, a version by Stevie Wonder, and a ’60s TV performance by The Bee Gees
Wikipedia:
Blowin’ in the Wind, written by Bob Dylan, has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind” has been described as “impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind”.
The most commercially successful version is by folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, who released the song in June 1963, three weeks after The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was issued. Albert Grossman, then managing both Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, brought the trio the song which they promptly recorded (on a single take) and released.
In 1966, Stevie Wonder recorded his own version which became a top 10 hit in America.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin’_in_the_Wind
Lyrics:
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
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BONUS SONGS – Dylan, Stevie Wonder, teenage Bee Gees
BOB DYLAN
The single Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan didn’t chart in Australia. The song is on the album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan which charted in Australia in 1964.
STEVIE WONDER
A version of Blowin’ in the Wind by Stevie Wonder entered the Australian singles chart on 20 August 1966 and peaked at #60.
THE BEE GEES
Bandstand host Brian Henderson introduces The Bee Gees to sing Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind. In 1963, Barry Gibb was 17 and Robin and Maurice were 14. The clip has been colourised.
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