On the unhappiest day of the year, why not watch Johnny Ray singing Just Walking in the Rain:

The tie-in to Dylan is easy: Bob has brought up Johnny Ray’s name in many interviews over the years, as someone who made a huge impression on him in the 1950s.

For instance, he talked about Ray, and about radio in the days gone by, to Der Spiegel in 1997:

When I was young, America was connected above all by means of the radio. The radio was the most important. You had stations who could play whatever they wanted. And all of this was broadcast over thousands of miles. Take Jimmy Hendrix, he grew up in Seattle. The radio connected us all. I don’t know when they started to play all that pap, I only know that radio today is different. Someone like the singer Johnny Ray, who was kind of a leper back then, he wouldn’t stand a chance today. Johnny Ray had a whole different kind of dynamic, he had heart and soul and he really wanted us to feel something when he sang.

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