All I Really Want to Do Cher

“All I Really Want to Do”  is a song written by Bob Dylan and featured on his Tom Wilson-produced 1964 album, Another Side of Bob Dylan.  It is arguably one of the most popular songs that Dylan wrote in the period immediately after he abandoned topical songwriting.  Within a year of its release on Another Side of Bob Dylan, it had also become one of Dylan’s most familiar songs to pop and rock audiences, due to hit cover versions by Cher and the Byrds.  (More from Wikipedia)

 

Several other major artists have launched their careers with Bob Dylan songs, Olivia Newton-John (“If Not for You”), the Turtles (“It Ain’t Me Babe”), and Cher (“All I Really Want to Do”) among them.  Cher’s hit version of “All I Really Want to Do” had to compete on the charts with the Byrds’ version of the same song, “All I Really Want to Do”.  Additionally, Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band have salted their albums with mostly obscure Bob Dylan songs since their third release, As Is (1966). 

(March 2015)