Sebastian Cabot Actor: Bob Dylan Poet [Import, Original recording remastered]

Sebastian Cabot | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 2, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Rev-Ola
• ASIN: B000N39HEE
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,971 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Who Killed Davey Moore

2. It Ain't Me Babe

3. Boots of Spanish Leather

4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

5. Tomorrow's a Long Time

6. Blowin' in the Wind

7. Seven Curses

8. All I Really Want to Do

9. The Times They Are A-Changin'

10. Quit Your Lowdown Ways

11. Like a Rolling Stone

12. And Mostly They Sing

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It Ain't Me, Babe, Oh-oh-oh-oh No . . ., May 6, 2007

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C. C. Black (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sebastian Cabot Actor: Bob Dylan Poet (Audio CD)

How on earth does one review such a thing as this? It's not really camp, for I have the impression that no one intended this album as a put-on. Yet the collision is so improbable, so jolting--Sabby Cabot reciting Bob Dylan over a delicate string ensemble--that you keep listening because you can't believe what you're hearing. It may help if you're at least in your 40s or 50s, for then you'll remember who Cabot was: Mr. French from the 60s sit-com "Family Affair" and among the voice-artists for Disney's "Sword in the Stone" and "Winnie-the-Pooh." Even then, however, you'll likely shake your head wondering, "What were they thinking?" Take it for what it is, however--a genuine oddity, unintentionally hiliarious and too long out of print--and, like me, you'll be glad you paid the price. In Amazon's parallel CD universe Sir John Gielgud recites the works of Johnny Cash, while Dame Judi Dench covers Mick Jagger. I'd buy them all and love every weird, impossible moment.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sebastian's The MAN! Dylan, eat yer heart out!, February 7, 2008

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Shlomo Sinatra (Alaska) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sebastian Cabot Actor: Bob Dylan Poet (Audio CD)

KICKING ASS and taking NAMES! This CD is so awesome, I can hardly believe it.
And they thought when Dylan "went electric" was mind-blowing and revolutionary.
This was surely the inspiration for Metal Machine Music.

Sebastian makes these songs a lot more fun than Dylan; he blows Dylan out of the water! Dylan never tried to do a re-make of A Family Affair, which PROVES that he knew he could never top The MAN, Sebastian.

There's some liners here but they're like reading.

The best cuts on this are the overblown Who Killed Davey Moore? (where'd Sebastian get a tape of that to cover? he must've had connections.)
The version of It Ain't Me Babe, is where Sebastian proves his machismo more than any other. He tells her to go lightly from the ledge, and laughs at the thought that he's supposed to gather flowers for this chick, come each time she calls, and die for her? HA! Not Sebastian. He knew who was The MAN!

Then there's his macho version of Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, one of my Favorite Dylan songs ever. This version outdoes Trini Lopez's wonderful crooning version, and Mike Ness's fantastic venom-filled version. Here, Sebastian has only to say "'s alright". That's right, she ain't even worth saying "It". He don't care!

Quit your lowdown ways is interesting: he sounds at times like Walter Brennan, and slips into a Howlin' Wolf thing for a few seconds! Surprising, I don't remember that! (he also, in Who Killed Davey Moore, sounds like the Man In A Hurry from the Andy Griffith show (Robert Emhardt).

Like A Rolling Stone. Um, this is the only version of this song that doesn't have the frightening aspect that Dylan's (or Hendrix's) have. I wonder how Dylan or Hendrix would've been narrating Winnie The Pooh.
This album gives pause to meaningful insights like that.

And Mostly They Sing. Hmm, an original. Well, thats it, false advertising! Nah, it's his, um, tribute to the folk singers and protesters of the day. A SHEER ACT OF REBELLION!!! FREEDOM!
Freedom is what Sebastian doing this album is all about.
This album is the sixties Personified!

FREAKS and Counter-culture protesters UNITE! Power to the People! My name is BLUEBOY, dammit!

But, if you've got the original Stereo vinyl album, HANG ON TO IT!!
For some dumb reason, this masterpice is in Mono! This will surely spark a never ending-debate like that of the first four Beatles' albums in that awful, flat mono sound. You don't treat masterpieces by artists of such caliber as Sebastian Cabot or The Beatles this way!!!!

Recommended for fans of ... someone, I forget who.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely worthwhile listening, July 4, 2010

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Charles - Music Lover (Phoenix, AZ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sebastian Cabot Actor: Bob Dylan Poet (Audio CD)

This recording was so severely maligned in the rock press that I knew it would be good. Seriously. Except for the one non-Dylan track, "And Mostly They Sing," this is a different, interesting, and sometimes artful take on eleven Dylan songs.

I'm not making a case that this is a classic, but it has its very worthwhile moments. I think the opening track, "Who Killed Davey Moore," is the most effective on the album. Cabot's dramatic reading is powerfully evocative, and "Seven Curses" comes in a very close second.

For the uninitiated, don't let the negative buzz that always surrounded this album keep you from listening to it. Remember that even the "Rolling Stone Record Guide" in its first edition rated Dylan's outtakes album, "Dylan," with a bullet. These recordings still sound fresh, despite being 40+ years old, which has as much to do with the quality of Dylan's writing as it does with Sebastian Cabot's interpretations.