A List Of The Songs Named In Bob Dylan's 'Murder Most Foul'

This is the most engaging song by Bob Dylan I've heard in decades. As someone who grew up in the era of President Kennedy's assassination, the portrait Dylan paints in "Murder Most Foul" is extraordinary, and takes me back to those days, to my memories of a nation overwhelmed by grief. There's something eerie about this song coming out at this precise moment. I imagine that decades from now, the children of today will have memories of these "quarentimes," as I call them, sparked by songs, film and literature of our era.

The picture Dylan paints of the 1960s in "Murder Most Foul" is sprawling, especially in the musical references he makes across the 17-minute-long song. When I first listened to it, I caught references to dozens of songs, so NPR Music critic Ann Powers and I started combing through the song and making a playlist that roughly follows this lesson in music history as he unspools it. We'll keep looking, and you should too – if you find a song we missed, let us know by posting with the hashtag #mostfoulplaylist at the @allsongs Twitter account and we'll add them.

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1. Children's Music - "Hush Little Baby"
2. The Beatles - "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
3. Gerry & The Pacemakers - "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
4. Joni Mitchell - "Woodstock"
5. The 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"
6. Shirley & Lee - "Let The Good Times Roll"
7. Wanda Jackson - "There's A Party Goin' On"
8. Robert Johnson - "Crossroads"
9. The Grateful Dead - "Deep Ellum Blues"
10. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - "Shotgun"
11. Kay Kyser - "The Wise Old Owl"
12. The Who - "Tommy Can You Hear Me?"
13. The Who - "The Acid Queen"
14. Elvis Presley - "Long Black Limousine"
15. Roomful of Blues - "Backseat Blues"
16. John Michael King - "On the Street Where You Live"
17. Joan Baez - "Oh, Freedom"
18. Little Richard - "Send Me Some Lovin'"
19. Burt Bacharach - "Walk On By"
20. The Everly Brothers - "Wake up Little Susie"
21. Larry Williams - "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
22. Billie Holiday - "You Go To My Head"
23. Patsy Cline - "Crazy"