![]() Charles Hollingswort from Leeds, AlThe Box Tops also covered this song.I take it as the possible suggestion for Dylan's interpretation-being released from Hell on Earth. After visiting this site and reading this, I know that I made the right choice. It was from a box set that Dad and I shared and I'd heard it a few times, but had never analyzed it. I picked this song instead, never knowing that it was an original Dylan song. It was a cold fall day and the mourners were getting impatient. We couldn't get the funeral home's boom box to play the Dylan song that my sister had chosen for him, "See that my grave is kept clean". Malisa from Philadelphia, PaI buried my father to this song.Marco from Belo Horizonte, BrazilJoe Cocker covered it too in his "With a little help from my friends" album.Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 20th 1969, "I Shall Be Released" by the Box Tops entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #90 eventually it peaked at #67 and spent 5 weeks on the Top 100.Ä«etween 19 the Memphis-area quintet had ten Top 100 hits their two biggest hits were "The Letter" (#1 for 4 weeks in 1967) and "Cry Like A Baby" (#2 for 2 weeks in 1968).The beauty of Rich's voice evokes such emotion that I always want to be able to tap into when I think of who went before me. Brenda from Panama City, FlI chose this as one of several songs to memorialize my departed brother.Marty from Cleveland, OhPeter, Paul and Mary did an excellent version of this song in 1968 on their album entitled "Late Again.".Svante from Karlstad, SwedenI shall be released was also recorded by the Tremeloes in late 1968 but didn't make the England top twenty then.The Band plays on the album this is from. Ronald from ScrantonThis is not a song written by the Band.I enjoy projecting my struggles onto the song, making listening to it very comforting (my personal favorite version is the Nina Simone version, the swelling of her voice in the chorus is just IT for me) Mae On Music from MaeonmusicI prefer not to define what the release is when it comes to this song because so many people can relate to it.Anonymousmy faourite verson of his is by the jamaican group THE HEPTONES, ewcorded circa 1969 in he reggae genre.The west-east thing showed his faith in a re-birth, a "new morning". Give Dylan credit for turning his self pity and self absorption into a pseudo-gospel song. This was a real low point in his career and he was filled with helplessness and resentment. Sid Clark from Elkins WvThink this was wrote during a bad amphetamine habit withdrawal, which is what really happened, not that motorcycle accident story.Clem from DallasThe song was written for Ruben 'Hurricane' Carter the boxer wrongly convicted of murder who was exonerated after serving 20 years in prison.
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