I’m somebody 💫

 

On this day in 1982, Bob Dylan was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. According to Randy Poe, the Hall's Executive Director, Dylan had one request: He wanted his picture taken with Dinah Shore.  

Poe: “Decades later, I can still recall the look of shock on Dinah Shore’s face as she came around the corner of the partition and saw Bob Dylan standing there?”

It was David Amram, one of Dylan's tablemates, who asked Dylan "why on earth he wanted his picture taken with Dinah Shore." Amram did not detect a hint of humor in Dylan's response.

Amram: "He looked at me and he said—dead serious—'So my mother will finally think I'm somebody.'"