Bob Dylan’s songs fell halfway in between ... I said that I was about to make an album for John Hammond. I already had a guitar player, Bruce Langhorne, so I asked Bob, “Would you mind ...

It was John that persuaded Benny Goodman to ... and co-produced the following year’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan with Tom Wilson. Hammond continued to identify and to sign artists to Columbia ...

Signed to Columbia by John Hammond, who produced his self-titled ... That promising start was eclipsed completely by The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which was produced by Hammond and Tom Wilson ...

“John Hammond Jr is the son of John Hammond, the great A&R man at CBS who signed Bob Dylan. Oddly enough, he never signed his son, but Rory loved John Hammond Jr’s albums and his ...

From 2006. Show more In a career that stretched from 1932 to 1985, legendary record producer John Henry Hammond discovered Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen.