Two albums from Fairport Convention including the "Dylan/Carruthers" song JACK O' DIAMONDS - Fairport Convention (Island, 1968) and Wishfulness Waltz (Mooncrest, 1997)
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| Compiled by Alan Fraser |
Two albums from Fairport Convention including the
"Dylan/Carruthers" song JACK O' DIAMONDS -
Fairport
Convention (Island, 1968) and Wishfulness Waltz (Mooncrest,
1997)
Revised:
29 April, 2008
"Searching For A
Gem" (Home page) |
For the meanings of the song title colours and the circulation codes used in this directory, please see the header page for this section (click on "Up" below).
(Indefinite and definite articles at the beginning of song titles are ignored, so A WOMAN LIKE YOU is on the "W" page, and THE KING IS ON THE THRONE is on the "K" page.)
Odelay, the 1996 Uni/DGC album by Back including the "co-composition"
JACK ASS
| JACK ASS | Beck Hansen/Mike Simpson/John King/Bob Dylan, 1996 | N |
| This song, recorded by Beck on his 1996 Uni/DGC album "Odelay", features a sample of IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE - not by Bob, but from the cover version by Them. It is copyrighted by Bob at Special Rider - thanks to Dag Braathen and Tim Dunn for information | ||
JACK O' DIAMONDS, a Dylan poem set to music by Ben Carruthers and
released without permission. This Jun 1965 UK single (Parlophone R 5295) was
withdrawn, although the song was also recorded by Fairport Convention in 1968
(see above) and in two later live versions. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for the
scan of the UK promo 7" single (the scan of the regular single is from the UK
music magazine "Mojo") This track is now included on the 2007 UK
Zonophone compilation Take My Tip: 25 British Mod Artefacts From The EMI
Vaults
| JACK O' DIAMONDS | Bob Dylan/Ben Carruthers, 1965 | O |
| Not strictly a Dylan song,
but Poem #4 of "Some Other Kind Of Songs..."
from the sleeve notes of "Another Side Of Bob
Dylan", set to music without authorisation along with Poem #5 GO JOSHUA GO by American actor (and friend of Dylan) Ben Carruthers for a BBC
drama called "The Man Without Papers" by Troy Kennedy Martin,
6 Jun 1965. At the time the BBC listings magazine "Radio Times" claimed
the songs, played by a band called Seeds, had been written by Dylan
specially for Ben Carruthers. JACK O'
DIAMONDS was released as a quickly withdrawn UK Parlophone single by Ben Carruthers with the British
group, The Deep (featuring Jimmy Page on guitar). This title is also one
listed as being on a hoax tape called
"The Pittsburgh Radio Tape", mentioned by Paul
Cable in his book "Bob Dylan - His Unreleased
Recordings". The song was recorded by Fairport Convention in 1968 on
their first self-titled album (UK LP - Polydor 582 035; US LP - Cotillion SD
9024, 1970; UK/US CD - Polydor 835 230-2, 1990), and can also now be
found on the compilation "Wishfulness Waltz" (Mooncrest CRESTCD048, 1997). There is a live version from Aug 1997 on "The Cropredy Box"
(Woodworm Records WR3CD026, 1999/Mooncrest CRESTBCD-042, 1999), and a
second live version from Aug 2002 on the 2CD set "Another Gig :
Another Palindrome" (Woodworm Records WR2CD 039). The original
single by Ben Carruthers and The Deep is now available on the 2007 UK
Zonophone compilation "Take
My Tip: 25 British Mod Artefacts From The EMI Vaults". Thanks to Arie Euwijk for extensive information about Fairport Convention and Ben Carruthers, who sadly died in 1983 from liver failure. Thanks also to Roger Ford, Tim Dunn and Jim Linwood |
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| JAMAICA FAREWELL | "Lord Burgess" (Irving Burgie), 1970 | S |
| Song recorded during the
"New Morning" sessions at Columbia Studios, New
York, 03 Jun 1970 (CO106785), reputed to be 13 minutes in
length - and listed on the recording session sheet as KINGSTON TOWN
(JAMAICA)
The writer is unidentified by Krogsgaard - thanks to Gil Walker for the information that this song is credited to "Lord Burgess" on albums by Arlo Guthrie, Chuck Berry, Harry Belafonte, etc. It is actually copyrighted at ASCAP by Irving Burgie, and has also been recorded by The Kingston Trio, The Four Preps and Chubby Checker among many others. Supposedly Bob Johnston made an acetate of this song for Ron Cornelius, but this story has not been confirmed - hopefully it will turn up on a future "Bootleg Series" release! |
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 Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) - 1987 MCA album by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with JAMMIN' ME |
 High Grass Dogs: Live From The Fillmore - 1999 Warner/Reprise DVD from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with live performance of JAMMIN' ME |
 Anthology: Through The Years - 2000 MCA compilation by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers also with JAMMIN' ME |
| JAMMIN' ME | Bob Dylan/Tom Petty/Mike Campbell, 1986 | N |
| Released on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' 1987 MCA album "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)", also released on promo singles together with BAND OF THE HAND (see "Searching For A Gem", 1987). It also appears on the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' 2000 MCA 2CD compilation "Anthology: Through The Years". No Bob version exists - reportedly Bob just suggested several lines while Tom Petty was working on the song. He is, however, rumoured to play guitar on the Heartbreakers' version. Thanks to Jack from Canada for the scan of "High Grass Dogs: Live From The Fillmore" (Warner/Reprise 38512-2, USA, 1999) DVD release with a live performance of the song | ||
| JESUS IS THE ONE | 1981 | L |
| Written in Oslo, Norway, and performed eight times in Europe in July 1981, with different lyrics each time! | ||
| JUAREZ | 1965 | O |
| Recording session sheet title of JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES, released on "Highway 61 Revisited" | ||
| JULIETTA | 1966 | N? |
| Possible song title listed on the manuscript page of PLEDGING MY TIME, included in "Rough Songs" by Stephen Bishop - for more details see CROSS ROADS | ||
| JULIUS AND ETHEL | 1983 | S |
| A song about the Rosenbergs, out-take from "Infidels", recorded at The Power Station, New York, 27 Apr 1983 | ||
| JUST A LITTLE GLASS OF WATER | 1965 | O |
| Recording session sheet title of SHE'S YOUR LOVER NOW released on "The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3" | ||
| JUST ANOTHER TOMATO IN THE GLASS | 1967 | H |
| Piano instrumental from the Basement Tapes, probably the work copyrighted as CELLAR INSTRUMENTAL NUMBER 1 (information from Tim Dunn). See also EVEN A TOMATO, the instrumental by The Band, which may be a different song. Thanks to Moise Potie for clarification | ||
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