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Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde is an album by Bob Dylan, released in 1966. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 32 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Visions Of Johanna”, on 13 lists with a best position of #23.
Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, arrived on Columbia on June 20, 1966, a double album at a time when rock hardly knew what to do with one. The sessions started in New York in October 1965 with Dylan's live band, the Hawks, among the players, but by January only "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" had made the cut. So producer Bob Johnston steered Dylan, Al Kooper and Robbie Robertson down to the CBS studios in Nashville, where the town's crack session men helped them nail everything else in February and March.
It's the last word of the electric trilogy begun by Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, and it sounds like it: sprawling, organ-drenched music with words that jump from street talk to visions. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "I Want You" made the US top twenty, while "Visions of Johanna" and "Just Like a Woman" rank with his finest songs. The Grammy Hall of Fame took it in 1999.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Blonde on Blonde on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visions Of Johanna | 13 | #23 | – | 1976–2026 | |
| 2 | Just Like a Woman | 10 | #148 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 3 | I Want You | 7 | #207 | – | 2004–2020 | |
| 4 | Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands | 2 | #750 | – | 2001–2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.