Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word
| "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Single by Joan Baez | ||||
| from the album Any Day Now | ||||
| B-side | "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" | |||
| Released | December 1968 | |||
| Format | 45 RPM single | |||
| Recorded | September 1968, Columbia Studios, Nashville | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 3:26 | |||
| Label |
Vanguard (UK) Vanguard (US) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
| Producer(s) |
Maynard Solomon Joan Baez | |||
| Joan Baez singles chronology | ||||
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"Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" is a song written by Bob Dylan, and long associated with Joan Baez, who has recorded it numerous times, and performed it throughout her career.[1] Baez immediately took to the song, which was written by Dylan sometime around 1965, and began performing it, even before it was finished.[2] In the film Dont Look Back, a documentary of Dylan's 1965 tour of the UK, Baez is shown in one scene singing a fragment of the then apparently still unfinished song in a hotel room late at night.[3] She then tells Dylan, "If you finish it, I'll sing it on a record."[3]
Baez first included the song on Any Day Now, her 1968 album of Dylan covers; she has since recorded it three additional times.[4][5] Her 1968 recording was also released as a single.[6]
Dylan himself never released a version of the song.
References
- ↑ "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
- ↑ "Joan Baez - Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
- 1 2 Pennebaker, D. A., director. Dont Look Back. Docurama, 1967.
- ↑ "John Peel Archive: Joan Baez - Any Day Now 2". John Peel Archive. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
- ↑ "Any Day Now - Joan Baez | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
- ↑ Baez, Joan. "Discography". www.joanbaez.com. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
