Guest, who said anything about 1963?    I guess I wasn't clear, or misunderstood your earlier comment.   The clips they showed in the Dylan movie from the late 1950's showed an era where the music had yet to break the "color" line.   The music was syrupy sweet. Do a Google search on "Pop charts 1959", or 1960 or even 1961. You will see the music SLOWLY start to change and you are right - by 1963 there was a lot of great music happening. But by 1963 the change was happening. In 1961 when Dylan hit New York City, the folk scene was beginning to blossom - and I feel it was largely due to a backlash against the inspid songs that were on the pop charts.

Don't get me wrong, there was some great music around at the time - but those weren't the songs you would hear all the time on AM radio. You had to do some searching to find the good music.