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Thread #68781   Message #1161721
Posted By: GUEST,bigJ
14-Apr-04 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: Dylan's tune for 'The Times They Are...'
Subject: RE: Dylan's tune for 'The Times They Are...'
When I read this article in Monday's Daily Telegraph I went on a hunt through my eps and there, on the shelf, was 'Four For Fun' dated 1963 (hell I'm getting old). But the interesting thing is that in the article it says:-

(Rab) Noakes said that Dylan would have been exposed to the tune through a close friend, the musician and novelist Richard Farina, who married Joan Baez's sister, Mimi.
Farina performed on television in London alongside Scottish folk singers and later visited them in Edinburgh, where he was introduced to Henderson.

Now, when Greg Stephens and I were young children there was a BBCTV current affairs programme called 'Tonight' hosted by Cliff Michelmore.
At the end of the programme there would be a folk or contemporary song performed by Scots singer Rory McEwen or by Guyanan singer Cy Grant. Later it was Rory and brother Alex McEwen and later still Jimmy MacGregor and Robin Hall.
In 1962 - two years before the appearance of 'The Times They..." - Rory and Alex produced a show at the Edinburgh Festival from which the aforementioned ep was produced. And who were their guests in the show and on the record - well, according to the sleeve notes "Carolyne and Dick Farina, a husband and wife team from America."

And the songs they sang on the ep : Salty Dog/ The Chastity Belt/ Deep Blue Sea AND Banks O' Sicily.

However, the conundrum for me is, who was Carolyne? Or was she actually Mimi?
Any contributions?