1989 SONGS IN MY HEART

 

 

6       the never-ending tour: SEcond Year... 2

6.7        Summary. 2

6.7.1         Statistics. 2

6.7.2         Alphabetical song list. 4

7       DYLAN SONGS 1989.. 7

8       SOURCES.. 7

9       SUGGESTED READINGS.. 8

9.7        General background.. 8

9.8        Article compilations. 8

9.9        Articles. 8

 

 

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6            the never-ending tour: SEcond Year

 

 

6.7          Summary

6.7.1        Statistics

 

Show statistics

 

Abbreviations

es

early songs, 1961-1966

gp  

songs from the "gospel years", 1979-1982

ap  

songs from the "amnesia period", 1967-1972

ls

late songs, 1983 -

70  

songs from the middle seventies, 1973-1978

co  

covers

 

 

Mean

Tot #

 

 

# of songs from

 

 

 

 

time

songs

es

ap

70

gp

ls

co

European Summer Tour

83

337

197

48

24

12

22

28

 

 

 

58%

14%

7%

3%

6%

8%

US Summer Tour

88

822

500

104

36

33

50

99

 

 

 

60%

12%

4%

4%

6%

12%

US Fall Tour

90

455

223

49

21

21

122

19

 

 

 

49%

10%

4%

4%

26%

4%

1 9 8 9

87

1614

920

201

81

66

194

147

 

 

 

57%

12%

5%

4%

12%

9%

 

 

1

European Summer Tour

2

North America Summer Tour

3

US Fall Tour

 

 

 

 

1

2

3

1989

Number of shows:

21

51

27

99

Number of circulating shows:

21

51

27

99

Number of circulating & complete shows:

21

51

26

98

Number of unique shows[1]:

21

50[2]

27

98

Number of different shows[3]:

21

50

27

98

Number of different songs[4]:

70

106

82

136

Number of unique songs[5]:

68

99

78

122

Number of performed songs:

337

822

455

1614

Mean number of performed songs:

16

16

16

16

Variation[6]:

4.4

6.6

4.9

8.3

 

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Album statistics:

 

 

# of

 

# of

 

Album

songs

%

perf

%

Bob Dylan

2

  1.7%

11

  0.7%

Freewheelin'

5

  4.2%

103

  6.4%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

5

  4.2%

93

  5.8%

Another Side

4

  3.4%

55

  3.4%

Bringing It All Back Home

8

  6.7%

238

 14.7%

Highway 61 Revisited

6

  5.0%

212

 13.1%

Blonde On Blonde

9

  7.6%

167

 10.3%

Basement Tapes

1

  0.8%

8

  0.5%

John Wesley Harding

3

  2.5%

76

  4.7%

Nashville Skyline

2

  1.7%

9

  0.6%

Selfportrait

1

  0.8%

4

  0.2%

New Morning

1

  0.8%

8

  0.5%

Greatest Hits Vol. 2

3

  2.5%

65

  4.0%

Pat Garrett

1

  0.8%

37

  2.3%

Planet Waves

1

  0.8%

9

  0.6%

Blood On The Tracks

4

  3.4%

72

  4.5%

Desire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Street-Legal

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Slow Train Coming

4

  3.4%

21

  1.3%

Saved

1

  0.8%

23

  1.4%

Shot Of Love

6

  5.0%

22

  1.4%

Infidels

1

  0.8%

11

  0.7%

Empire Burlesque

2

  1.7%

36

  2.2%

Knocked-Out Loaded

2

  1.7%

3

  0.2%

Hearts Of Fire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Down In The Groove

3

  2.5%

69

  4.3%

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1

1

  0.8%

2

  0.1%

Oh Mercy

6

  5.0%

95

  5.9%

 

6.7.2        Alphabetical song list

 

Abbreviations

 

op

opening song

ac

acoustic set

s1

1st electric set

en

encores

s2

2nd electric set

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

European Summer Tour

2

North America Summer Tour

3

US Fall Tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

played in

 

 

 

 

played during

 

Song

 

op

s1

ac

s2

en

1

2

3

Absolutely Sweet Marie

 

 

6

 

 

 

6

1

4

1

All Along The Watchtower

 

 

17

 

6

40

63

15

34

14

And It Stoned Me

 

 

 

 

1

1

2

1

1

 

B-Thang

IN

1

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

Baby Let Me Follow You Down

AC

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

3

 

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

 

32

 

2

 

34

7

21

6

Ballad Of Hollis Brown

 

 

24

 

 

 

24

7

12

5

Barbara Allen

AC

 

 

9

 

10

19

7

8

4

Barbara Allen

AE

 

 

 

 

1

1

 

1

 

Blowin' In The Wind

AC

 

 

5

 

11

16

8

8

 

Boots Of Spanish Leather

AC

 

 

18

 

2

20

4

11

5

Confidential

 

 

2

 

1

 

3

1

2

 

Congratulations

 

 

1

 

 

1

2

2

 

 

Dark As A Dungeon

AC

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

Dead Man, Dead Man

 

 

4

 

 

 

4

 

 

4

Disease Of Conceit

 

 

 

 

 

11

11

 

 

11

Don't Pity Me

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

 

1

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

1

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

AC

 

 

27

 

3

30

7

16

7

Driftin' Too Far From Shore

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

E-Thang

IN

4

 

 

 

 

4

 

4

 

Early Morning Rain

 

1

2

 

1

 

4

 

4

 

Eileen Aroon

AC

 

 

2

 

1

3

3

 

 

El Paso

IN

1

 

 

 

1

2

 

2

 

Every Grain Of Sand

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

1

 

 

Every Grain Of Sand

AC

 

 

1

 

 

1

1

 

 

Everybody's Movin'

 

1

 

 

1

 

2

 

1

1

Everything Is Broken

 

 

 

 

27

 

27

 

 

27

Forever Young

 

 

8

 

 

 

8

 

7

1

Forever Young

AE

 

 

1

 

 

1

1

 

 

G-Thang

IN

1

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

Gates Of Eden

AC

 

 

27

 

 

27

6

13

8

Girl From The North Country

AC

 

 

13

 

3

16

6

7

3

Give My Love To Rose

AE

 

 

 

 

1

1

1

 

 

Gotta Serve Somebody

 

1

7

 

3

 

11

 

10

1

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

AC

 

 

12

 

 

12

1

2

9

Highway 61 Revisited

 

 

45

 

1

 

46

13

24

9

The Harder They Come

 

 

3

 

1

 

4

 

4

 

Heart Of Mine

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

Hey La La (Hey La La)

 

1

1

 

1

 

3

2

1

 

I Believe In You

 

 

6

 

 

 

6

 

3

3

I Don't Believe You

 

 

8

 

1

 

9

2

4

3

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

I Shall Be Released

 

 

 

 

60

 

60

13

35

12

I Want You

 

2

28

 

 

 

30

1

18

11

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

 

 

12

 

 

 

12

2

5

5

I'll Remember You

 

 

4

 

18

 

22

2

13

7

I'm In The Mood For Love

 

 

1

 

1

 

2

 

2

 

I'm In The Mood For Love

AC

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

1

 

In The Garden

 

 

 

 

23

 

23

7

8

8

In The Pines

AC

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

1

 

Instrumental Jam

IN

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

It Ain't Me, Babe

AC

 

 

16

 

9

25

7

11

7

It Takes A Lot To Laugh

 

 

2

 

20

 

22

1

11

10

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

 

 

4

 

 

 

4

3

1

 

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

AC

 

 

22

 

3

25

 

16

9

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

AC

 

 

27

 

 

27

 

21

6

John Brown

 

 

13

 

 

 

13

4

7

2

Just Like A Woman

 

 

20

 

 

 

20

7

10

3

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

 

 

 

2

 

2

 

2

 

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

 

 

 

 

 

2

2

 

1

1

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

AC

 

 

1

 

1

2

 

1

1

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

AE

 

 

15

 

18

33

16

15

2

Lakes Of Pontchartrain

AC

 

 

7

 

1

8

3

2

3

Lay Lady Lay

 

 

5

 

 

 

5

 

 

5

Legend In My Time

 

 

2

 

1

 

3

 

3

 

Lenny Bruce

 

 

2

 

 

 

2

 

1

1

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

 

 

7

 

8

3

18

1

9

8

Like A Rolling Stone

 

 

 

 

99

 

99

21

51

27

Lonely Is A Man Without Love

IN

1

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

AC

 

 

12

 

1

13

4

5

4

Lonesome Town

 

 

3

 

 

 

3

1

2

 

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

AC

 

 

19

 

 

19

 

15

4

Maggie's Farm

 

 

 

 

 

54

54

16

27

11

Mama, You Been On My Mind

AC

 

 

10

 

 

10

3

5

2

Man Gave Names To All The Animals

 

 

2

 

 

1

3

1

2

 

The Man In Me

 

 

7

 

1

 

8

1

6

1

Man In The Long Black Coat

 

 

5

 

9

1

15

 

 

15

Man Of Constant Sorrow

AC

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

4

 

Man Of Peace

 

 

11

 

 

 

11

 

 

11

Masters Of War

 

 

24

 

4

 

28

5

15

8

More & More

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

Most Likely You Go Your Way

 

38

4

 

 

 

42

10

30

2

Most Of The Time

 

 

 

 

11

12

23

 

 

23

Mr. Tambourine Man

AC

 

1

40

 

23

64

16

39

9

My Back Pages

 

 

5

 

1

 

6

 

 

6

Nothing But You

 

 

3

 

 

 

3

 

3

 

One Irish Rover

 

 

3

 

11

 

14

 

13

1

One Too Many Mornings

AC

 

 

16

 

4

20

5

12

3

Pancho And Lefty

 

1

1

 

 

 

2

1

1

 

Pledging My Time

 

 

 

 

2

 

2

 

2

 

Positively 4th Street

 

1

20

 

1

 

22

 

14

8

Precious Memories

 

 

1

 

1

 

2

 

 

2

Pretty Peggy-O

 

 

4

 

2

 

6

 

6

 

Queen Jane Approximately

 

 

3

 

6

 

9

 

8

1

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

 

3

7

 

1

2

13

 

8

5

Rank Strangers To Me

AC

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

3

 

Rank Strangers To Me

AE

 

 

8

 

2

10

 

9

1

Ring Them Bells

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

Seeing The Real You At Last

 

7

5

 

2

 

14

1

5

8

She Belongs To Me

AC

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

4

 

Shelter From The Storm

 

 

20

 

3

 

23

6

12

5

Shot Of Love

 

1

5

 

 

 

6

2

3

1

Silvio

 

 

 

 

49

 

49

17

31

1

Simple Twist Of Fate

 

 

22

 

 

 

22

6

8

8

Song To Woody

AC

 

 

5

 

 

5

1

1

3

Stuck Inside Of Mobile

 

2

31

 

 

 

33

8

16

9

Subterranean Homesick Blues

 

14

 

 

 

 

14

9

2

3

Tangled Up In Blue

 

1

 

 

 

 

1

1

 

 

Tangled Up In Blue

AC

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

Tears Of Rage

 

 

5

 

3

 

8

1

3

4

The Times They Are A-Changin'

 

3

 

 

 

 

3

2

 

1

The Times They Are A-Changin'

AC

 

 

 

 

13

13

5

7

1

To Be Alone With You

 

4

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

4

To Ramona

AC

 

 

11

 

4

15

6

7

2

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

 

 

2

 

 

 

2

 

2

 

Trail Of The Buffalo

 

 

1

 

1

 

2

1

1

 

Trail Of The Buffalo

AC

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

1

 

Trouble

 

7

 

 

 

 

7

 

5

2

Two Soldiers

AC

 

 

5

 

1

6

1

2

3

Visions Of Johanna

 

2

 

 

 

 

2

 

2

 

Visions Of Johanna

AC

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

Wagoner's Lad

AC

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

1

1

Watching The River Flow

 

 

2

 

1

 

3

 

3

 

The Water Is Wide

 

 

1

 

1

 

2

2

 

 

What Good Am I?

 

 

9

 

9

 

18

 

 

18

When Did You Leave Heaven?

 

 

1

 

4

 

5

3

2

 

When Did You Leave Heaven?

AC

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

2

 

When First Unto This Country

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

 

1

When You Gonna Wake Up

 

 

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

You Don't Know Me

 

 

3

 

2

 

5

2

3

 

You're A Big Girl Now

 

 

24

 

1

 

25

10

9

6

 

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                                                    TOP TWENTY

 

Rank

Song

 

#

  1

Like A Rolling Stone

 

99

  2

Mr. Tambourine Man

AC

64

  3

All Along The Watchtower

 

63

  4

I Shall Be Released

 

60

  5

Maggie's Farm

 

54

  6

Silvio

 

49

  7

Highway 61 Revisited

 

46

  8

Most Likely You Go Your Way

 

42

  9

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

34

10

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

AE

33

11

Stuck Inside Of Mobile

 

33

12

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

AC

30

13

I Want You

 

30

14

Masters Of War

 

28

15

Everything Is Broken

 

27

16

Gates Of Eden

AC

27

17

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

AC

27

18

It Ain't Me, Babe

AC

25

19

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

AC

25

20

You're A Big Girl Now

 

25

 

Played only once in 1989

B-Thang

Park City 1 September 1989

Don't Pity Me

Joliette 31 July 1989

Driftin' Too Far From Shore

Milwaukee 3 July 1989

Give My Love To Rose

Christinehof 27 May 1989

G-Thang

Santa Barbara 5 September 1989

Heart Of Mine

St. Louis 9 August 1989

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

Milwaukee 3 July 1989

In The Pines

Milwaukee 3 July 1989

Lonely Is A Man Without Love

Berkeley 3 September 1989

More & More

Houston 26 August 1989

Ring Them Bells

Poughkeepsie 20 October 1989

When First Unto This Country

Norfolk 7 November 1989

When You Gonna Wake Up

Poughkeepsie 20 October 1989

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7            DYLAN SONGS 1989

 

Born In Time

outtake, later re-recorded for Under The Red Sky

Dignity

outtake, eventually released on Greatest Hits Vol. 4

Disease Of Conceit

Oh Mercy

Everything Is Broken

Oh Mercy

God Knows

outtake, later re-recorded for Under The Red Sky

Man In The Long Black Coat

Oh Mercy

Most Of The Time

Oh Mercy

Political World

Oh Mercy

Ring Them Bells

Oh Mercy

Series Of Dreams

outtake, eventually released on Bootleg Series Vol. 3

Shooting Star

Oh Mercy

What Good Am I?

Oh Mercy

What Was It You Wanted

Oh Mercy

Where Teardrops Fall

Oh Mercy

 

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8            SOURCES

 

Tim Dunn

I Just Write 'Em As They Come. An Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan. A Not-A-Ces Publishing Venture 1990

Glen Dundas

Tangled Up In Tapes — 4th Edition

A Recording History of Bob Dylan

SMA Services, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 1999. Softcover 334 pages.

John Baldwin

The fiddler now upspoke, Volumes 1–5

A collection of Bob Dylan interviews and press conferences.

Desolation Row Promotions, 1995.

Clinton Heylin

A Life In Stolen Moments.

Bob Dylan Day By Day 1941-1995.

Schirmer Books 1996, 404 pages.

Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994

St. Martin's Press, 1995, 233 pages.

Michael Krogsgaard

Positively Bob Dylan

A Thirty-Year Discography, Concert & Record Session Guide 1960-1991.

Popular Culture, Ink. 1991. 500 pages

 

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9            SUGGESTED READINGS

9.7          General background

John Bauldie

The Diary of a Bobcat
Wanted Man 1995, 90 pages. Collected diaries from The Never-Ending Tour.

Michael Gray

Song & Dance Man III. The Art Of Bob Dylan

Cassell 1999. Hardback 918 pages (!!)

Clinton Heylin

Behind The Shades. A Biography.

Summit Books 1991, 500 pages.

Anthony Scaduto

Bob Dylan. An intimate biography. New American Library 1973

Robert Shelton

No Direction Home. The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. New American Library 1986.

9.8          Article compilations

Carl Benson (ed.)

The Bob Dylan Companion — Four Decades of Commentary.

Schirmer Books, New York 1998. Softcover 306 pages.

Craig McGregor (ed.)

Bob Dylan. A Retrospective.

William Morrow 1972

Elizabeth M. Thomson (ed)

Conclusions On The Wall. New Essays On Bob Dylan.

Thin Man 1980

Paul Williams

Watching The River Flow

Observations on Bob Dylan's Art-in-Progress, 1966-1995.

Omnibus Press 1996, 255 pages.

 

9.9          Articles

Crying in the Wilderness – review of Oh Mercy by John Lindley in The Telegraph #34

A New Sense Of Dignity. A brilliant analytical piece about the song by Nick de Somogyi. – The Telegraph 53 (Winter 1995)

Daniel Lanois & Oh Mercy – article by John Bauldie in The Telegraph #34

Oh Mercy – review in Rolling Stone #565

Oh Mercy: An Overlooked Review – by Frank Lovece, Homer, the Slut #3

Oh Mercy: Best Ever Album? – by Mark Carter, Homer, the Slut #3

Oh Mercy: What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted? – by I. G.Roberts, Homer, the Slut #3

Oh, Bob, Oh Mercy – review in Rolling Stone #566

On Chabad Again – article in Rolling Stone #565

Pancho And Lefty – lyrics in Isis #26

Pay for your ticket and don't complain – article by John Bauldie in The Telegraph #33

Ride yourself blind for the next town on time – article in Isis #25

Series Of Dreams – by John Burns, The Bridge No. 1. Summer 1998

The Big Apple Bobbing – article by Roy Kelly in The Telegraph #34

The Oh Mercy Interview – by Edna Gundersen, On The Tracks #3 (Spring 1994), #4 (Fall 1994)

Traveling in the north country fair – article by Dave Dingle in Isis #26

 

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[1] a show is unique if no other show has the same songs in the same order

[2] Cuyahoga Falls, July 9 and Harrisburg, July 11 are identical!

[3] a show is different from another show if the set of songs are different, regardless of order

[4] electric and acoustic versions are counted as different songs

[5] a song is counted as unique regardless of how it is performed

[6] variation is computed as the quote between number of different songs and mean number of performed songs