Just wondering what the song playing in the background is during Luke Wilson (Bobby Cupid)'s first scene. I think he picks it out on the jukebox in his bar, but there's so much talking in that scene I can barely pick out what it is. It sounds like a really early Bob song. Thanks!
shareThe song is "He Was A Friend Of Mine."
shareDave van Ronk used tointroduce that song by saying "I learned this song from Eric von Schmidt. Eric learned it from Bobby Zimmerman. Bobby says he learned it from me..."
The relationship between Dylan and van Ronk was strange and wonderful; it would make an interesting movie in itself.
For instance - "House of the Rising Sun": Most people know that song from the Animals' version. But the Animals were covering Dylan. And Dylan got the song from van Ronk, who took an old New Orleans blues and set it to a variant tune for the murder ballad "Mattie Groves" from the Appalachians...
Virtually every time i saw van Ronkl in concert, if he was talking about the 60s in the Village, he referred to Dylan as "Bobby Zimmerman"...