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“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his Bringing It All Back Home album, released on March 22, 1965 by Columbia Records (see 1965 in music). The song was originally recorded on January 15, 1965 with Dylan’s acoustic guitar and harmonica and William E. Lee’s bass guitar the only instrumentation. The lyrics were heavily influenced by Symbolist poetry and bid farewell to the titular “Baby Blue.” There has been much speculation about the real life identity of “Baby Blue”, with suspects including Joan Baez, David Blue, Paul Clayton, Dylan’s folk music audience, and even Dylan himself. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” has been covered many times by a variety of different artists, including Baez, Them, The Byrds, The Animals, The Chocolate Watchband, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, Falco, The 13th Floor Elevators, and the Grateful Dead. Them’s version, released in 1966 influenced garage bands during the mid-60′s and Beck later sampled it for his 1996 single “Jack-Ass”.The Byrds recorded the song twice in 1965 as a possible follow up single to “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “All I Really Want to Do”, but neither recording was released in that form. The Byrds did release a 1969 recording of the song on their Ballad of Easy Rider album (see 1969 in music). Bob Dylan most likely wrote “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” in January 1965.[1] The master take of the song was recorded during the sessions for the Bringing It All …
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