{"id":29054,"date":"2024-03-19T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/huey-lewis-lost-a-song-bob-dylan-wrote-for-him-it-was-a-big-mistake\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:02:48","slug":"huey-lewis-lost-a-song-bob-dylan-wrote-for-him-it-was-a-big-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/huey-lewis-lost-a-song-bob-dylan-wrote-for-him-it-was-a-big-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Huey Lewis lost a song Bob Dylan wrote for him: \u201cit was a big mistake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-19\/Getty_HueyLewis_031924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Huey Lewis<\/strong> is owning up to a huge mistake he made during his career. During his appearance on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ue6H3dXMpvw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Monday, March 18, he\u00a0revealed that in the height of his career in the &#8217;80s, <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> sent him a song, and he did nothing with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;He sent me a cassette and a lovely note saying he liked the last record and here&#8217;s a song of mine,&#8221; Huey\u00a0shared, explaining, &#8220;Not only did I not cut it, I don&#8217;t actually know where the cassette is.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He\u00a0clarified that he didn\u2019t actually lose the tape, noting, &#8220;It&#8217;s part of my cassette collection, where there&#8217;s thousands of cassettes there. So I can probably find it eventually.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dylan is considered by many to be one of the best songwriters of all time and even won a\u00a0Nobel Prize for his lyrics. So, why didn\u2019t Lewis record the song?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I have no idea. It was a big mistake, what can I say? I&#8217;m sorry,\u201d Huey said, adding, \u201cNote to self: when Bob Dylan sends you a song, record it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Huey was on <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Kimmel<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> to promote his new Broadway musical, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Heart of Rock and Roll<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which begins previews at the James Earl Jones Theatre on March 29 and opens April 22. Info on tickets can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/heartofrocknrollbway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>heartofrocknrollbway.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ue6H3dXMpvw\" title=\"Huey Lewis on Recording We Are the World, Bob Dylan Writing a Song for Him &amp; New Broadway Musical\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images Huey Lewis is owning up to a huge mistake he made during his career. During his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0Monday, March 18, he\u00a0revealed that in the height of his career in the &#8217;80s, Bob Dylan sent him a song, and he did nothing with it. &#8220;He<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/huey-lewis-lost-a-song-bob-dylan-wrote-for-him-it-was-a-big-mistake\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}