| "I'll Keep It with Mine" | |
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| Song by Bob Dylan from the album The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 | |
| Released | March 26, 1991 |
| Recorded | January 27, 1966 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:39 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Writer | Bob Dylan |
| Producer | Bob Johnston |
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| Song by Nico from the album Chelsea Girl | ||||
| Released | October 1967 | |||
| Recorded | Mayfair Sound Studios, New York City, April 4, 1967 | |||
| Writer | Bob Dylan | |||
| Chelsea Girl track listing | ||||
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| Single by Fairport Convention | ||||
| from the album What We Did on Our Holidays | ||||
| B-side | "Fotheringay" (Sandy Denny) | |||
| Released | July 1969 | |||
| Length | 3:01 | |||
| Label | A&M Records 1108 (USA, 1969) | |||
| Producer | Joe Boyd | |||
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"I'll Keep It with Mine" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964, first officially released by folk singer Judy Collins as a single in 1965. Dylan attempted to record the song for his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
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Dylan recorded the song at least twelve times. The first version, with the working title "Bank Account Blues", was recorded solo, on piano, and was released on the Biograph retrospective. The album notes contradictorily indicate it was recorded "on a particularly productive June night in 1964" and also note it (correctly) as January 14, 1965. A full-band rehearsal of the song, recorded during the early Blonde on Blonde sessions on January 27, 1966 (per album booklet), was released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3). The roughness of the rehearsal is combined with the fact that the recording starts well into the first verse, which is briefly interrupted by producer Bob Johnston on a talkback speaker, saying, "What you were doing." During the seventh session for Blonde on Blonde, at the Columbia Music Row Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, Dylan recorded at least ten instrumental takes of the song between February 15 and 16. However, not every attempt was a complete take, as takes 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are false starts, and takes 1 and 3 are interrupted. None of these takes have been officially released, and are not in general circulation.[1]
The Bootleg Series Version
Unreleased Version
Judy Collins released the first recording of the song on a 1965 single released by Elektra Records, which never appeared on any of her albums. In the liner notes of Collins' 1993 Geffen Records lp, Just Like A Woman, a Dylan tribute, she mentions that Bob told her that he'd written the song for her.
Dylan exposed the song to Warhol Superstar Nico, who recorded and released the song on her 1967 album Chelsea Girl.
It was covered by Fairport Convention and released as a US-only (A&M) single in 1969.
Charley D. & Milo, co-fronted by occultist Lon Milo DuQuette recorded the song for their self-titled 1970 album.
Spooky Tooth lead singer Mike Harrison included a version of the song on his third solo album, Rainbow Rider, released in 1975.
Susanna Hoffs recorded a version for the Rainy Day project.
Marianne Faithfull recorded a cover of the song on her 1987 album, Strange Weather.
Oh Susanna recorded it on her self-titled 2003 album.
New York band Rainer Maria covered this song on their 2006 album Catastrophe Keeps Us Together.
A cover of it was recorded by the electronic pop-rock band Mobius Band's EP Love Will Reign Supreme.
Bettie Serveert covered the song for I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack.
Dean and Britta included two versions of it in 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (2010).
Recorded by Denison Witmer on Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' (2010).
Courtney Love intended to release a cover of the song on what became the Hole album Nobody's Daughter (2010). While the song may have been recorded, it was not included on the album.[2]
The aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net did not place this song in its list of the top 3000 songs of all time, but rated Bob Dylan's version as one of the 1965 songs "bubbling under" the top 3000.[3]