It’s night time in the big city

A businessman kisses his secretary under a street light

A drunken security guard drops his flashlight

“James Thurber once said, ’you can fool too many of the people too much of the time’ and for the next hour we’re gonna try and do just that…for the next hour we‘re gonna play the greatest records about our favorite half-wits, the fools.”

The Singers and Songs

Aretha Franklin: Chain of Fools

Hank Snow: Now And Then There’s A Fool Such As I

Otis Rush: Three Times a Fool

(Or as Bob calls it, three times a Frenchman) “Among the most atmospheric and unusual sounding of all the Chicago blues.”

Sanford Clark: The Fool

“I always thought it was one of the best Elvis Presley records that Elvis never made”

The Clovers: Fool, Fool, Fool

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

Eddie Hope and the Mannish Boys: A Fool No More

“If you want to be a fool no more, you might wan’t to try some Ginkgo Biloba. It’s the extract of the Ginkgo plant. Some people say that it’s a memory enhancer. I read that somewhere but I just can’t remember where.”

Sonny Stitt: Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) (background)

“I always liked songs with parentheses in the title.”

Ike and Tina Turner: A Fool In Love

The Crickets: Love’s Made a Fool of You

The Drifters: Fools Fall in Love

Bobby Blue Bland: I Pity The Fool

Little Walter: Just Your Fool

Buddy and Ella Johnson: Just your fool (clip)

James Carr and Bettie Harris: I’m a Fool For You

Teddy Humphries: Guitar Pickin’ Fool

“The kings of the chord and the sires of the solo”

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love

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(Complete episode Notes available at The Bob Dylan Fan Club)

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