Bob Dylan - "George Jackson"
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Topic: Bob Dylan - "George Jackson"
Posted By: maciav
Subject: Bob Dylan - "George Jackson"
Date Posted: 30 August 2006 at 1:12pm
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Can anyone recommend to me a readily-available import CD that contains this track as it is not available domestically? The imports "The Essential Bob Dylan" and "Masterpieces" both have this track, but they are out of print. Thanks. ------------- Mike C. from PA |
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Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 30 August 2006 at 6:21pm
| It is quite surprising that "George Jackson" has never surfaced on a U.S. CD release, given the plethera of Bob Dylan material available on CD and the fact that the song did reach the Top 40 on Billboard. |
Posted By: anthology123
Date Posted: 05 September 2006 at 9:04am
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Which was considered the A side? The Big Band version or the acoustic
version? I have yet to find the acoustic version on CD. |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 05 September 2006 at 1:56pm
| I brought this song up on the Board 2-3 months ago. My DJ 45 has the Big Band version on one side, and the acoustic version on the other. Both sides include the word "sh*t", clearly heard, even on the copy sent to radio. I never heard it on the radio in late '71/'72, so I don't know which side got played, or how/if radio dealt with the "bad word" situation. Can anyone shed light on particulars? |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 05 September 2006 at 4:53pm
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usually the side with the lower matrix number is the a-side......in this instance the a side is the "big band version".....that side on my 45 has a matrix numbner of zss 156020...the b-side containing the "acoustic version" has a matrix number of zss 156021 ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 22 December 2011 at 10:37pm
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Regarding the commercial 45 of Bob Dylan's "George Jackson", the actual run time for the "Acoustic Version" side is 3:35, not 3:38 as stated on the record label, while the actual run time for the "Big Band Version" side is 5:30, not 5:33 as stated on the record label.
I'd also like to once again bring up Jim's question about how Top 40 radio stations handled playing the song given that promo 45 copies were evidently uncensored? And to those who recall hearing (or playing) this song on the radio, which version did stations favor? |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 24 June 2012 at 8:45am
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What did they do when is was played on AT40 back in Jan. 1972? ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: mstgator
Date Posted: 24 June 2012 at 11:55am
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AT40 engineer Bill Hergenson created his own custom version by editing
out the "sh" sound, so AT40 listeners heard the line as "He wouldn't take it from no one." (As told by Hergenson himself in Pete Battistini's wonderful book American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970s).) |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 24 June 2012 at 12:53pm
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Thanks for the quick response Aaron. Thanks to the newest forum member Kerry I not only heard the edit but even verified it was the acoustic version they played on AT40 (at least on the show from 1/8/72). Thanks again Kerry. ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: JL328
Date Posted: 07 July 2012 at 6:42am
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According to the track listing, the acoustic version of "George Jackson"
(running 3:41) appears on a CD called "Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power 1967-74." Looks like this is a brand new 2012 release from Light in the Attic Records, which I know nothing about except that it appears to be based in Seattle. Does anyone know anything about this? |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 07 July 2012 at 7:45am
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Thanks for the heads up Jeff. This fairly new release is also available on vinyl and apparently is a companion piece to a book with the same title. I've never heard of Light In The Attic Records, but the sample on Amazon sounds like the original acoustic version. ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 22 July 2012 at 8:15am
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WXYG/540 Sauk Rapids-St. Cloud, MN was halfway through the first verse of the Big Band version when I happened upon it during an AM radio bandscan this morning. Even though the 250-watter runs a fairly deep classic album rock playlist, it still came as a surprise, as I hadn't heard "George Jackson" over broadcast radio since 1971.
St. Cloud is a college town in a very conservative area (U.S. Rep: Michelle Bachmann) and WXYG's local owner signed his first station on the air there way back in 1963. I couldn't wait to hear whether or not the track would air intact. It did. |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 13 June 2020 at 10:24am
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The big band uncensored version of the song appears on a 2020 CD set titled the Japanese Singles Collection. The two disc set includes tracks from 1965-1985 released on 45s in Japan (so some of the US singles are omitted). ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 27 November 2023 at 7:59pm
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Great song. Just now discovering it - I don't recall it having been played on
CHUM at the time. Even though the BIg Band Version has the lowest matrix # (therefore usually considered the a-side), Whitburn books show the Acoustic Version as the a- side. ------------- dc1 |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 27 November 2023 at 8:53pm
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In checking over at Qobuz, both the Big Band Version and
the Acoustic Version appear on a collection called "Side Tracks." ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: GregY
Date Posted: 28 November 2023 at 7:12am
| The 2013 box set 'The Complete Album Collection Vol. One' had 2 CDs called "Side Tracks" as the final 2 discs in the set, but only the acoustic version of GJ is on there. |
Posted By: Paul C
Date Posted: 28 November 2023 at 9:53am
The song reached #26 on the CHUM chart, so they must have played it. It was the first Top 40 hit to contain the S-word. Clive Davis says in his autobiography that Columbia did not supply radio stations with an edited version. Stations that played it either made their own edit or played it with the word intact. |
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