That all changed on January 13, 1965 when Dylan recorded "Subterranean Homesick Blues", released on the album "Bringing It All Back Home" as the lead-off track, Dylan's first single to chart in the top 40 in the U.S.A.
Positively 4th Street, a tribute to Bob Dylan Subterranean Home Sick: http://youtu.be/jNzv49cPde8 <http://youtu.be/jNzv49cPde8> [image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:37 PM, TurquoiseB <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: > > > > Yep, but we were talking about British imitation rock so > > Vince Taylor and Cliff Richard are two important pioneers > > in the UK. I'm guessing one reason they never made a name > > for themselves in the States is because Americans didn't > > need second-rate copies of their own stars. > > Couldn't have said it better. :-) > > Plus, the music industry mechanism really wasn't in place > to allow for mass distribution of non-US acts at that time. > There was no market perceived for it, so it didn't really > exist. > > BTW, you find the same thing in France, but for another > reason -- the language difference. Plus the fact that rock > sounds *terrible* in French. Rap, it can handle, but rock, > fuggedaboudit. In France, old pop stars like Francoise > Hardy are still minor goddesses, but old rockers like > Johnny Hallyday are major Gods, right up there with > Thor. :-) > > > > The Beatles probably made it because they came along > > after rock 'n' roll's heyday and added enough original > > touches of their own to make it more appealing than > > the saccharine-sweet pop that had by then become the > > norm. > > Tell it, sista. The US pop music scene was really in its > doldrums before the Beatles. Many of the people who > had grown up on it had gravitated to folk music because > there was *energy* there, and there t'weren't none in > pop. > > Then the Beatles arrived, preceded by a wave of near- > hysterical media hype. I'm honestly not sure which con- > tributed more to the Beatles' success in the US -- their > talent, or the hype. I lean to the latter. See enough TV > stories (or, in those days, movie News trailers before > your movie) of star-struck Beatles fans and your young > impressionable mind has already been pre-programmed > to love them when you see them live. > > Still, it *was* a phenomenon in the US, Beatlemania. > By the time it struck, I was a full-fledged folkie, both > listening to and performing the "real music," folk > music performed by upscale white artists. :-) So they > had to drag me away from my Dylan and Baez and > the like to listen to a Beatles album. And to be honest, > I wasn't knocked out at first by the sound. Even then, > I was more fascinated by the *trend*, the fact that > so many were so gaga over them. > > It took the Rolling Stones to knock my socks off. :-) > > >
