The Never Ending Pool

Ooops, sorry, posted that first in the "off topic" are. It definitely belongs here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yvOKR_csnI

Why canīt I embed the clip?

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what am I doing wrong? Stupid me!

Here we go:

1961, Bob Dylan played harmonica during a Harry Belafonte recording session (produced by Hugo Montenegro) at RCA Studios, New York, NY.

> First recording of Bob?

No. The Belafonte recording was done right after the three November, 1961 sessions for Bob Dylan. That album wasn't released, however, until March, 1962. Belafonte's album, Midnight Special, was released in May, 1962.

Source: Robert Shelton's No Direction Home

Thanks Warren, I was unsure, thatīs why I put the question mark.

Bob was tapping his foot, and the sound of that was being picked up on the recording. Not wanted, they put a pillow under his foot.

PARTIAL RETRACTION:

Having had an uneasy feeling that I was (partially) wrong on this, and risking and earful from PSB (take that light-heartedly, Peter), I just read this All Music Guide excerpt about Bob's contribution to Carolyn Hester's 1961 Columbia album:

In 1960 she made her second album, Carolyn Hester, for Tradition, the label run by the Clancy Brothers. This cast her very much in the thick of the folk revival, including such standards of the movement as "The House of the Rising Sun" and "She Moves Through the Fair, " sung in her high, almost shaky and girlish voice. In the early 1960s she was briefly married to author and folk singer-songwriter Richard Farina, who became friendly with Bob Dylan shortly after Dylan's arrival in New York. While recording her third album (also, confusingly, titled Carolyn Hester) for Columbia and producer John Hammond in September 1961, she invited Dylan, then almost unknown, to play harmonica on a few cuts. His work on the album helped bring him to the attention of Hammond, who signed Dylan to Columbia as a solo artist shortly afterwards.

Now, I won't swear that these [three, according to Shelton] cuts were Bob's first studio work, only that they preceded Bob's first album and the subsequent Belafonte recording.

Surely, there's a site out there that spells this stuff out, no?

http://wm02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jifpxqq5ld6e~T1

Apocalypso Singer wrote:

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what am I doing wrong? Stupid me!

this is the way to do it: you have to us accolades like

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Yes, the Carolyn Hester album sessions for Columbia were Bob's first time in a professional recording studio. These sessions took place on 29th September, 1961 - the same day that Robert Shelton's rave review of Bob's performance at Gerde's Folk City appeared in the New York Times, which led to Hammond signing Bob as well.

I wanted to check out what Bob says about this first recording in Chronicles, but I can't locate my copy at the moment. I remember he mention it in some detail. He also writes very interestingly about recording with Belafonte, which took place in February 1962 ("probably December 1961 - Dundas; "June 1961" - Krosgaard; "Early Fall 1961: October?" - Heylin. However, this note on Alan Fraser's brilliant "Searching for a Gem" site is conclusive:

QUOTE:
[The Belafonte session] was for years thought to be Bob's first commercial recording session, and is dated variously between Jun and Dec 1961 by Krogsgaard, Dundas and Heylin. However, documentation found in 2001 in the RCA vaults along with the tapes dates the session definitively as having been recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, on the later date of 2 Feb 1962.

So there you have it. Bob's first professional studio recordings took place in this order: 1) Sessions for Carolyn Hester's self-titled third album, Sept 29th, 1961; 2) Recording of "Bob Dylan", November 20th & 22nd, 1961; 3) Harry Belafonte 'Midnight Special' session, Feb 2nd, 1962.