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  • Re: Ramblin' Boy & The Ballad of Geraldine

    From Tanya Glenn@21:1/5 to gfr...@gmail.com on Wed Nov 23 19:11:30 2022
    On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 2:00:47 p.m. UTC-4, gfr...@gmail.com wrote:
    Ballad of Geraldine melody is identical to Dylan's Girl From the North Country. Dylan did inform Donovan that he did indeed compose the melody. This was contrary to Donovan's belief that it was traditional. (might be a scene in the film, 'Don't Look
    Back'
    On Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Ed Lewandowski wrote:
    I'm listening to The Very Best of Donovan and the track currently
    playing is called "Ramblin' Boy" which sounds very much like
    Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe". Actually, the tune is identical? There
    is absolutley no information, other than the title of the song with
    this CD. Can anybody fill in the blanks? Who wrote it? When? etc.

    I was just about to post this a track titled "Ballad of
    Geraldine" came on. This one sounds identical to Dylan's "Boots
    of Spanish Leather". Again, can anyone supply more info? Did
    Dylan's songs come first? Is Donovan singing traditional songs?
    What's the story?

    TIA - Ed.
    Tom Paxtons Rambling boy sounds a lot like Dylans dont think twice ... especially the guitar... interesting i think because music used to be more about the music then than the artist... they were just all inspired by each and writing without a thought to
    how similar it may be and certainly not getting upset about it like things are now because thats what it was inspiration. I miss something I never even had the pleasure of knowing. Something it seems none of our youth will ever know when you watch the
    videos now.... MUSIC. The message and the music bought and sold and bought again.

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  • From chrisnd@privacy.net@21:1/5 to Tanya Glenn on Thu Nov 24 14:25:20 2022
    On 24/11/2022 03:11, Tanya Glenn wrote:
    On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 2:00:47 p.m. UTC-4, gfr...@gmail.com wrote:
    Ballad of Geraldine melody is identical to Dylan's Girl From the North Country. Dylan did inform Donovan that he did indeed compose the melody. This was contrary to Donovan's belief that it was traditional. (might be a scene in the film, 'Don't Look
    Back'
    On Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Ed Lewandowski wrote:
    I'm listening to The Very Best of Donovan and the track currently
    playing is called "Ramblin' Boy" which sounds very much like
    Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe". Actually, the tune is identical? There
    is absolutley no information, other than the title of the song with
    this CD. Can anybody fill in the blanks? Who wrote it? When? etc.

    I was just about to post this a track titled "Ballad of
    Geraldine" came on. This one sounds identical to Dylan's "Boots
    of Spanish Leather". Again, can anyone supply more info? Did
    Dylan's songs come first? Is Donovan singing traditional songs?
    What's the story?

    TIA - Ed.
    Tom Paxtons Rambling boy sounds a lot like Dylans dont think twice ... especially the guitar... interesting i think because music used to be more about the music then than the artist... they were just all inspired by each and writing without a thought
    to how similar it may be and certainly not getting upset about it like things are now because thats what it was inspiration. I miss something I never even had the pleasure of knowing. Something it seems none of our youth will ever know when you watch the
    videos now.... MUSIC. The message and the music bought and sold and bought again.

    Hmm, interesting. I admit the melodies are similar but the chord
    sequence is enormously different.
    I think that, since there are only eleven notes in an octave, then the
    number of possibilities for completely new tunes is probably nil by now. Therefore it is inevitable that similarities will occur.
    All that can be creatively changed is a new arrangement of those 12
    notes (and occasionally their octaves), the instruments you play them on
    - and the words of course :-)

    Chris D

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  • From scotwitt@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Ed Lewandowski on Mon Dec 12 13:51:15 2022
    On Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Ed Lewandowski wrote:
    I'm listening to The Very Best of Donovan and the track currently
    playing is called "Ramblin' Boy" which sounds very much like
    Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe". Actually, the tune is identical? There
    is absolutley no information, other than the title of the song with
    this CD. Can anybody fill in the blanks? Who wrote it? When? etc.
    I was just about to post this when a track titled "Ballad of
    Geraldine" came on. This one sounds identical to Dylan's "Boots
    of Spanish Leather". Again, can anyone supply more info? Did
    Dylan's songs come first? Is Donovan singing traditional songs?
    What's the story?
    TIA - Ed.
    It's Tom Paxton's song- Ramblin' Boy. In my repertoire for 30 years.

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