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"Bob Dylan's Dream" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1963. It was recorded by Dylan on April 24, 1963, and was released by Columbia Records a month later on the album ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan''.〔Heylin, ''Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades'', p. 732〕〔Gray, ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', pp. 243-244〕 The song was also recorded as a demo for Dylan's publishing company, M. Witmark & Sons. The demo version, taped the day before the album track, was officially released on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964'' in October 2010. A live version of the song was also released that month on ''In Concert at Brandeis University 10/05/1963''. ==Background== Various accounts have been proposed regarding the song's inspiration, none of them being conclusive. In one, "Bob Dylan's Dream" recalls the times Dylan had spent in Greenwich Village with comedian Hugh Romney and their friends during the early 1960s. Romney, later to become Wavy Gravy of Woodstock and Merry Pranksters fame, lived above The Gaslight Cafe on MacDougal Street, where he worked as entertainment director.〔Sounes, ''Down the Highway'', pp. 92-93〕 The two first met at the Gaslight in the spring of 1961. Dylan approached Romney about the possibility of performing and began appearing regularly at the Gaslight's hootennanies. Within a few months, he debuted at the Gaslight as a featured act.〔Sounes, ''Down the Highway'', pp. 93〕 Dylan frequently hung out upstairs in Romney's apartment and wrote one of his most significant songs there, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", in August 1962 .〔Sounes, ''Down the Highway'', pp. 121-122〕 The next winter, in late January or early February 1963, he wrote "Bob Dylan's Dream" possibly as a nostalgic remembrance of his early days in the Village when his life was less complex.〔〔Bjorner, ''The Yearly Chronicles'', 1963〕 A differing account, by biographer and critic Robert Shelton, posits that the song concerns the lost innocence of Dylan's adolescence in Hibbing, Minnesota.〔Shelton, ''No Direction Home'', p. 156〕 John Bucklen, one of Dylan's closest friends in Hibbing in the mid-1950s, told Shelton he and Dylan used to venture out to his sister's house, where they would play guitar and sing verses.〔Shelton, ''No Direction Home'', pp. 45-46〕 "When I heard the song 'Bob Dylan's Dream'," he said, "I couldn't help but think that some of the sessions we had at my sister's house were part of that 'Dream.'"〔Heylin, ''Revolution in the Air'', p. 124〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Dylan's Dream」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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