Subject:      Re: Wade In The Water
From:         tobias.yamabe.tornell@online.dextel.se (Tobias Yamabe-Tornell)
Date:         1995/06/08
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

On June 08, Andrew Russ wrote:
>Give us more information -- do you have the title, record company,etc.  
>Why was it put out? 
>
>Did Joyce, Hemingway, etc. -- did they just write the words and others 
>adapted them into songs or are those authors actually recorded reading 
>(or, heavens forbid, are they trying to sing?).  Are you sure that "Dylan"
>that sings "Wade In the Water" is Bob Dylan and not Dylan Thomas?  

I guess it's a Swedish record. It's called "Bakhalls litterara roster" (Eng:
The ambush's literary voices) and the recordcompany seems to be Bakhall. It
features:
Boris Vian - singing "J'suis Snob" 1955
Bob Dylan (yes!) - singing "Wade in the Water" 1961
Sture Dahlstrom - singing some blues
James Joyce - reading (yes!) from "Finnegans Wake"
Ezra Pound - reading from "Moerurs Contemporaines"
Dylan Thomas - reading the poem "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines"
Gertrude Stein - reading Henri Matisse
T S Eliot - reading from "The Desolated Country" (I don't know if that is the
right translation)
Allen Ginsberg - reading from "Footnote to Howl"
Ernest Hemingway - tells about the play "The fifth Column" (I don't know if
that is the right translation)
Jack Kerrouac - tells about Neal Cassady
P K Dick - reading
Hermann Hesse - reading

I must add that I never seen the record in any store, only read about it in a
newspaper.
But back to my first question: Is WITW an interesting song?

Tobias
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