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[@more5600]

"I looked up from the podium and I thought to myself, 'I've never seen such a large crowd.' I was up close when King was giving that speech. To this day, it still affects me in a profound way" - Bob Dylan

[@Cheryworld]

Real history here. 1963. MLK and the March on Washington. Dylan was 22 and had already become cultural important enough to be asked to appear, shortly before King gave his "I have a Dream" Speech

[@blitztim6416]

This is from the same event and podium that MLK delivered his I Have A Dream speech. The man who introduces him is Ozzie Davis, an actor.

[@dignity0327]

Are there any artists alive today that would sing about such an important topic with that same force and presence today? I dont know of one ..and the same issues are still haunting the country today...Dylan is a national treasure!!!!

[@xtinkerbellax3]

Yea it's kind of crazy that with everything that's been happening the past several years there is barely any protest/political music? I remember stuff coming out after the start of Iraq War (Green Day, Bright Eyes) but can't name anything more recent.

[@mamaflush9945]

@@xtinkerbellax3 and also the artist could put it into words and emotion that every day people could feel & relate too. And the people trusted the artists, because they felt as if the artists were just like them.

[@giftedgypsy]

Kendrick Lamar

[@nathannewtson6143]

@@giftedgypsy came to say that exact name

[@notabotiswear6980]

They still do but always with the permission of the "kings" many times even co-sponsored. Never really risking anything.

[@chipjones817]

And I've seen a video of Bob singing this same song about Medger Evers (RIP) in a field, somewhere in the South, to black field workers... Dylan can sing anywhere...if it strikes him.

[@edprzydatek8398]

That was a short clip in the "Don't Look Back" movie. I think it's my favorite part of that movie.

[@cathyhetzel5944]

This man changed my life! You can see why he won The Noble prize for Literature.

[@cindydepriest3720]

Because he told his truth! That is why he scared and intimidated many people.

[@georgecoventry8441]

Exactly that. A lot of people can't handle the truth. They don't want to hear it. They just want to be "entertained" and keep in their comfort zone.

[@jillk368]

Dylan is Jewish. To put it in context, the Holocaust ended less than 20 years before this performance. There were a lot of Jewish people who supported the Civil Rights movement, though most Jews were fairly new to the US in the mid-1900s (2nd generationers, mostly). Their concerns at the state of Civil Rights in this country were very palpable. And their frustration with 'white superiority' very real. He was writing and singing very much from the heart. I grew up knowing some Dylan but have actually come to appreciate him more as I get older. He definitely warrants his legendary status.

[@blitztim6416]

This is from the same event and podium that MLK delivered his I Have A Dream speech. The man who introduces him is the actor Ozzie Davis. This is a heavy song. He’s putting the blame on the politicians.

[@ptournas]

Glad you went with this version. Might not be the best in audio/video quality, but definitely makes the historical context, the lyrics, and how it related to the times clearer for you. Great reaction. There are actually a lot of people who didn't like his voice, but I'm sure you're right, there were also many who didn't like him because of his opinions at the time.

[@Cheryworld]

The song is about Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, murdered shortly before this march, murdered in Mississippi

[@dannybaseball2444]

The MLK "I have a dream" speech performance! Excellent choice, thanks. Also sings this on the voting registration bus tour of the deep south in the same year. Worth looking up. This is why he is a hero to those of us who grew up with him.

[@jnagarya519]

The best live performance of the song was at Newport Folk Festival.

[@aaronhaupert3015]

Love all your Dylan content. He's the greatest of all time! You're doing great!

[@alexanderbrown7631]

You really have to take a listen to the studio version , which you can find on an album called " another side of bob dylan" love the channel.

[@TheDivayenta]

Perfect choice for today- Dylan singing at MLK’s March On Washington. There’s video of Joan Baez , Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary , Odetta and many others at this historic event. And yes, we need to show up for civil voting rights for all now- we’re at another perilous juncture.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Thank you for your introduction of Dylan's music to a new generation. The most influential artist in contemporary music. Nobody wrote lyrics like this.

[@ThaiThom]

Dylan is a genius of course. This has been known by those in the know for a long, long time.

[@dianedarby442]

This is why I'm so happy you react to Dylan - not many do and his voice is so damn important - thank you for introducing him to so many who might not otherwise have every heard him.

[@sandrasofiahsexton3917]

First time hearing this song, and I'm a long-time Bob Dylan fan. I perceive your admiration for his intrepid expression of tolerance, especially fearless for that time. His tolerance included racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and non-conformity. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Twilight-cl3zc]

Bob spoke against oppression on a colour/race scale or on a home domestic level. Bob was so clever, so self assured and so forward thinking...a whirlwind personality in a sea of fools. Bob was funny and never settling for what was taken for granted

[@hongfang2508]

Bob is very young in that video. He always took on tough issues, but early Dylan was very political.

[@maggiebryan2355]

Never been scared always said what he thought

[@davidgale7384]

Courage ? Bob had it. Legendary lyricist/poet. You are right about how many viewed him as on the wrong side of the fence. The history is so important... We had the same dream, Mr. King We are still dreaming... Hopefully we can wake to that new day soon.

[@alberto-os1bx]

I really agree with what you said. And remember that he was 22 when he wrote this song! Isn't that something? Nobody could have done that...but Bob Dylan.

[@marthaz]

Thank you for this reminder. I had people (white) spit in my face many times for being involved in civil rights and associating with other race people - from 1960's on. "Only light can dispel darkness and only love can conquer hate." Bob Dylan was an advocate for the righteous values his whole life.🙏 Happy Dr King day, Chod. Stevie Wonder, "Happy birthday To You"🌈

[@georgecoventry8441]

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez both stood forth with tremendous courage during the Civil Rights movement, and they were both there that day to sing for the marchers. It was a watershed event, the turning of a great historical page.

[@bake7148]

You hit the nail right on the head. We are more polarized now than we ever have been, but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been polarization throughout time. Although Dylan has largely remained apolitical, never supporting any politicians, he has always supported rights for everyone, regardless of race, creed, culture or religion, and that is a big part of the reason why he is loved, but also a big part of the reason why he is hated by many.

[@Toomaletoopaletoostale]

I can’t believe this ever happened. Such an awesome moment and performance.

[@namesameasu]

This song really shows the irony of assassination -- the target is remembered as something comparable to royalty while the assassin-- as often the case, is just some brainwashed dupe: the pawn. Maybe somebody buys him a beer. Does a dirty deed for those in power. The moral is obvious to any sane person: assassinating isn't something to be proud of. It's always the case whether it's a terrorist killing people blindly or some shooter with a deliberate target in mind. Medgar Ever's killer wasn't convicted until 1994, but this song convicted him back in the day as spotlighting him for being the loser that he truly was.

[@allanmcinnes4765]

So true....and William Zanzinger got the same treatment even though the justice system failed Hattie Carroll.

[@thomascanfield9165]

The style of this reminds me how young Bob was so influenced by Woody Guthrie. From what I’ve read his original repertoire was 100% Woody covers before he started writing his own songs. He had an influence on me too. I read his autobiography “ Bound For Glory” in high school and it was the best required reading assignment I ever had.

[@hayleyversailles6946]

lol yah, he and most of the village were just straight ripping off Guthrie for a good long while before finding success.

[@worldview6218]

Well that’s what folk music really was, it was an oral tradition passed down and it tended to be very political and typically leftist and working class in nature and obviously there were songwriters or there wouldn’t be songs to pass down, but that’s just the way it was. Guthrie had the politics and beliefs and music that inspired him as well as the people before them, but what Dylan did was he got completely infatuated with everything about folk music and traditions and he was completely inspired by Guthrie, but as he grew and would hear other musicians or have other experiences and find new inspiration he then found his own voice and began writing his own music and at a certain point he really did just completely blow past the rest of his contemporaries and this song right here is a perfect example of that. Protest songs or songs directly about events such as Emmett till or the deaths of other topics related to civil rights or the govt or war were nothing new and other singer songwriters of the same period also wrote songs about these but they did so within the confines of the folk music traditions which was more like a history and telling of what happened or a why it’s wrong but Dylan approached these songs in a way that was captivating to people who weren’t already ideologically in line with you

[@debrabeck9630]

Thank you for playing and sharing your heartfelt reaction. This was such an important song, and although the wording might be different now the message is the same. When people are used as pawns to instill and to spread hatred, we need songs like this to remind us of our essential shared humanity.

[@brendanc.8019]

22 dang years old at the time. Incredible.

[@326cher]

His voice definitely grows on you!❤

[@jerrymolina2623]

If you like these topical songs. You need to listen to "The ballad of Emmett Till" and "The lonesome death of Hattie Carrol" Bob Dylan often referred to these as Finger pointing songs.

[@unclesamjones]

Try Bob's "When the Ship Comes In" or "Desolation Row"

[@bradsullivan2495]

Folk singer Phil Ochs (pronounced Oaks) also had a song about the murder of Medgar Evers, "Too Many Martyrs." The song also references Emmett Till and other victims.

[@maggiebryan2355]

Wow you have gone back a long way he has great for a long time

[@anfieldarcher8545]

Why I love music it brings everyone together music has no colour just look into the audience

[@bradsullivan2495]

He performed the song about 10 weeks after Evers' murder.

[@seanjustice6178]

You may not like his singing, but damnit, you have to give Bob Dylan for what he's done in his lifetime.

[@seanlynch1185]

I don't get it... bob cant sing???? he could sing the phone book to me.

[@so.its.said.7343]

Powerful!

[@gcoffey223]

Saw that documentary on Netflix, NO DIRECTION HOME... Amazing. Also.. THANK YOU for not interrupting every 10 seconds. New sub btw! Best to all during these harsh upcoming economic times

[@MrNormaltoo]

Dylan is very educational......

[@lhart99]

Thanks for covering this. My parents grew up with this music and passed it on to me as a kid. I guess it has always stuck with me. 🙂

[@barbarakeyock532]

I'm a dylan fan for many many years and I was very proud of him for taking up these subject he does it day in day out. But it didn't dawn on me about the people that hate him and the racist factor.. wow ! Very brilliant

[@cspringer333]

This was his Woody Guthrie stage. Great video

[@JBugz777]

A moment in human history

[@isisheaven9055]

You should try to listen to his song "With God on our side": that is amazing

[@bboyz5713]

i recommend the song: The Lonesmome Death of Hattie Carrol or Hurricane or Maters of war or....i could go on forever

[@larrybrantley8835]

Our country is still divided. There are those who want to drag us back to that time.

[@edprzydatek8398]

And one of their names rhymes with Dump.

[@azcactus2008]

@@edprzydatek8398 you are a pawn for even saying that.

[@rnf1227]

Thank you for all of these Dylan videos. Best wishes from the UK.

[@deborahneale7048]

Dylan's so eloquent.

[@Bastikovski99]

It's crazy how, at an event like this, where you have hundreds of thousands of black people and activists fighting for the rights of blacks, angry and mourning the loss of a civil rights icon, Dylan sings a song about how the real villain isn't the white man who shot him, but those in power who pit one group against the other to benefit themselves. Very few people would have had the balls to do that, especially at such a young age, but it makes it so much more powerful than if he were to have just sung about how sad it is that Medgar Evers got killed.

[@stevevasell429]

Again i urge you to listen to " A Hard Rains Gonna Fall " and " Knockin On Heavens Door ". You wont be disapointed.

[@oleggorky906]

I totally get that. When Dylan sang songs like this he seriously ran the risk of being assassinated because of his association with Martin Luthier King. Listen to The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. Without him even mentioning colour and me not even knowing about American politics at the age of 18 in 1986, what with me coming from the UK, I just knew what he was saying ... even without him saying it, if you know what I mean!

[@lgpsan]

Medgar Evers had been killed about two and a half months before this performance.

[@cathyhetzel7692]

Masters of War! Total genius!

[@ramontieso1208]

its awesome to see a man of your age revere Bob Dylan.

[@johnraygun9868]

Love your breakdowns brother

[@blackeyedlily]

I hope you read the lyrics on this one. It is so relevant to today’s political climate, just as it was at that time.

[@ed.z.]

Courage. Yes. You are right, and insightful.

[@dickwilliam3793]

Not a song, it's a message.

[@jimmyfranklin3862]

I've been. RAIDERS fan since 1970. Also a Huge Dylan fan. Thanks for this post

[@Cuffsmaster]

Now you got the picture of why he was hated. In 1973 or 4 I played that song in a Religious class in a Southern College.

[@philfranco7598]

Bob Dylan is the MASTER…….. Long live Bob Dylan

[@davidtullis2810]

His newest controversial song Murder Most Foul

[@jnagarya519]

Greater performance of this at Newport Folk Festival. Or go to the studio version.

[@ronbock8291]

It’s worth saying that Dylan brought his fan base to this movement.

[@lawrencesimon7355]

of course this performance was from the same stage where later MLK would give his I have a Dream speech, I will always know my musical hero sttod on the stage with MLK that fateful day. I am look ing forward to you doing Every Grain of sand someday. I hope you will do my favorite Dylan cover too Chicago Mass Choir doing the Dylan song Pressing On. Any song you choose from the cd Blood on the Tracks is going to be a winner, since Bob is stll an active artist you should something from his most recent cd My Rough and Rowdy Ways like I Contain Mulltitudes, False Prohet, Good Bye Jimmy Reed or Crossing the Rubicon or My Own Version of You. I would love to see you tackle my second favorite songwriter after Bob Dylan Tom Waits.

[@rodmendoza6679]

With God on our side -I think you would love this song by Bob

[@jnagarya519]

This song is a tribute to Medgar Evers, who was assassinated. One doesn't go to Dylan to feel "happy".

[@hayleyversailles6946]

This song has always intrigued me to hear a Black man's perspective on it. I disagree with lots of the particulars in the lyrics (it's a little too "excuse the racist for being racist"-y IMO) but the overall theme of hatred being something we are taught is spot on. Especially the "taught in his schools that the laws are with him, to protect his white skin, and keep up his hate, so he never thinks straight"--that's exactly what I grew up with in my segregated high school in the 2000s. Happy to have discovered your videos and the extensive look into Bob Dylan's catalog you've done! PS--If you haven't checked out "With God On Our Side", that should be on the list for sure.

[@denroy3]

Interestingly, Dylan told off a lot of the self important protest crowd sometime later after he was given some award. Thought many were just using him. Lol. You could never pin Bob down.

[@richardclark2290]

i teach it in history class , i play dylan talk about him standing up for people being fucked over , against racist war and poverty, i play masters of war to classes first as its a bit faster than his other 'protest songs' we all have to side with anyone or any group being oppressed it dose to matter if you are a man or woman if women are being assaulted on the streets late at night you stand with them change the culture , if black people are being beaten , killed imprisoned for things white youth get away with you stand with them change society and attitudes, if jews are being killed if Muslims are being killed you stand with them just as you stand with white angalo saxons being killed, if foreign people are being killed by your government you stand with the oppressed change attitudes make a better world the kids getting sent to Vietnam did not want to go , the young men in Afghanistan or Iraq did not ask to go the politicians sent them to kill and we have to stand up against the politicians hiding behind their desks sending people to kill and be killed as dylan did, equality and hatred of oppression is its key to dylans work

[@lathedauphinot6820]

History repeats itself, and he’s still here, mind intact, to see it. I wonder if maybe he might have one great album left in him? We sure could use it. When Americans think our greatest threat comes from other Americans we’re in trouble, deluded, and vulnerable, picking at the speck in our brother’s eye while the log in our own blinds us to the monster in front of us. We’re losing our country and blaming each other when we need to unite or lose our world. It’s so sad. Sorry to ramble. Bob would say he’s just a singer, but he’s more than that. Look: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHOxiJ55qNKkd7s

[@otisdylan9532]

It was cool to see the song perform the song in this setting, but if you had any trouble understanding the lyrics, you'll find them more understandable in the studio version. Another great pre-electric Dylan song is "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright".

[@joelliebler5690]

You have a profound understanding of life then and now how the rich and powerful have always effectively divided and conquered the middle class and poor!

[@gcoffey223]

Dylan was like Forest Gump... he was everywhere.

[@zenhaelcero8481]

+1 for more Bob Dylan and +1 for Raiders!

[@allanmcinnes4765]

Dylan lifted the veil on the dark underbelly of life in America. And he did it in a poetic sense that is timeless. His legacy is not all doom and gloom though. He covers every emotion known to man like a true artist.

[@marianclough8577]

I read somewhere that Bob finally feared for his life as he watched King, JFK, and Bobby get assassinated and also experienced hate from the Peace nicks when he began to move away from the future that they were attempting to force on him. He realized that he could be next.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Bob Dylan had and still has big balls. Stand up.

[@Michael_1986]

I am so glad you reviewed this song; this was the one I was going to recommend to you. A few years later, Dylan stopped writing songs like this and went electric, which is why a lot of his fans didn't like him. They felt he sold out. Agreed with what someone else said, go check out the song Hattie Carroll kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4Wlq3Zjjd-gq6c

[@edprzydatek8398]

Absolutely.

[@jnagarya519]

The studio recording, and the Newport performance, are superior to this.

[@mukomerobicheaux6883]

this song makes me think of the capitol rioters

[@musicairplanes4884]

You are correct Chod and you can include Woody Guthrie, Pete Seager and Phil Ochs in that group

[@jnagarya519]

Check out "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll".

[@revaflowers3115]

At this point Bob Dylan,born Zimmerman,was still following his Jewish faith.He later renounced it and became a Christian.But his people were the oppressed of the bible and of WWII and so he new what it felt like to be the underdog.

[@jnagarya519]

Dylan wasn't hated. It was his VOICE that people objected to. They want "pretty" voices. At this point he wasn't heard outside the acoustic folk music scene. It was later, when he "went electric," that he began to become "mainstream". Until then his recordings weren't played on radio. When he went electric and "abandoned" folk he took a lot of criticism from folk "purists". Until then his songs were anthems of the civil rights movement.

[@cathyhetzel7692]

The woman has finally admitted she lied!!!

[@jnagarya519]

"Lighten the mood"!? This is a tribute to the assassinated Medgar Evers. It's an analysis of systemic racism.

[@bangmon1000]

😊👍

[@jnagarya519]

That song starkly applies to, as example, the Armaud Arbery case.

[@SlowfingerJC]

He fought for mankind ... the human race, not race.

[@davidbaker6912]

I would grant him pushing the time line on civil rights...

[@sharonpate5481]

We really just need to keep listening to music! Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for poetry/literature . If you have a movement, Bob Dylan can write a song about it! ☮️❤️🌻👵🏼 He was another Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” ☮️

[@FolkSongsEtAl]

Amazing history - the million man march I think. Real history from a fight that is still going, some battles won and a lot of losses recently.

[@FolkSongsEtAl]

And yes - Dylan was utterly courageous, and filled with integrity.

[@lillynietz17]

UMmmmm....I'm Not sure if your watching the same video..... but THIS particular BD performance was in 1963, THE March on WASHINGTON!!!!! No?...Don't ring a BELL? Shortly after this performance Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have A Dream' Speach....Read a Book...Read a Book....Read a Mo%#*% F#@*&!N! BOOK!

[@jameskennedy721]

This song describes the murder of Medger Evers .

[@thejoelrooganexplosion2400]

xxxx

[@mythicsin3083]

Marlon Brando was another he took a stand.