At 12:35 PM -0700 9/17/05, Jim Powell wrote:
thanks, Alex, for your excellent sleuthing. David Crosby also adapted the
lyric (as well as the Dead & Dylan), into a song about the killing of John
Kennedy.
Watch for more information on this at
http://user.well.com/iengaged.cgi?c=deadsongs.vue&f=0&t=90
Earl Crabb knows Mark Spoelstra and promises to find out more
about this.
Here's what Earl just posted on that page:
I recorded Dylan singing a version, May 5 or 6, 1961, in
which
he said he learned the song from Eric von Schmidt, up in Cambridge.
This was at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, held at the Montewese
Hotel, in Branford, CT. Mark Spoelstra was also at that festival,
and certainly heard my tape when he was my next-door neighbor in
1963. I think that tape is out on the web somewhere available.
Mark went to California on October 4, I think, 1963, and I didn't
see him again until 1968 or 1969, when I took over his apartment
he said he learned the song from Eric von Schmidt, up in Cambridge.
This was at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, held at the Montewese
Hotel, in Branford, CT. Mark Spoelstra was also at that festival,
and certainly heard my tape when he was my next-door neighbor in
1963. I think that tape is out on the web somewhere available.
Mark went to California on October 4, I think, 1963, and I didn't
see him again until 1968 or 1969, when I took over his apartment
in Bernal Heights, SF. He came to [Charlie
Frizzell]'s memorial service in
Berkeley last August. We've been in touch lately, and
when I
get back out west, I'll ask him about the song.
I heard what Mark was playing in 1963, and "Just A Hand To Hold"
was not anything I heard, so I seriously doubt that he'd written
it by then. The words are different, very different. I haven't
heard Mark's song even now, but I'll take a listen.
get back out west, I'll ask him about the song.
I heard what Mark was playing in 1963, and "Just A Hand To Hold"
was not anything I heard, so I seriously doubt that he'd written
it by then. The words are different, very different. I haven't
heard Mark's song even now, but I'll take a listen.
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