"Gotta Serve Somebody" is a song by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 from his 1979 studio album Slow Train Coming

Slow Train Coming

Slow Train Coming is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 19th studio album, released by Columbia Records in August 1979.It was the artist's first effort since becoming a born-again Christian, and all of the songs either express his strong personal faith, or stress the importance of Christian teachings...

. It won the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male in 1980. The song was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. As of 2007, the United States Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be 12,846. The city is included in The Shoals MSA. It is famous for its contributions to American popular music.-Geography:Muscle Shoals is located...

. It stands as Dylan's last hit single, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 singles chart. The b-side, "Trouble in Mind" was a Dylan original that did not appear on the album.

This song was featured in HBO's The Sopranos

The Sopranos

The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...

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New wave band Devo

Devo

Devo is an American band formed in 1973 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales . The band had a #14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult...

 covered this song in some concerts as their Christian rock

Christian rock

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 alter-egos DOVE - The Band of Love. This cover was sung by Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh is an American musician, composer, singer and painter. He is the co-founder of the new wave band Devo and has been its lead singer since 1972. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games....

's alter-ego Booji Boy

Booji Boy

Booji Boy is a character created in the early 1970s by American New Wave band Devo. The name is pronounced "Boogie Boy"—the strange spelling "Booji" resulted when the band was using letraset to produce captions for a film, and ran out of the letter "g"...

. The song was also performed by Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...

 for the 1996 Dylan blues-covers album Tangled Up in Blues

Tangled Up In Blues

Tangled Up in Blues: Songs of Bob Dylan is a 1999 album of Bob Dylan songs performed in blues and soul styles by various artists. The album's title is a play on the Dylan song title "Tangled Up in Blue"....

. The song was also covered by Candyrat recording artist Nicholas Barron

Nicholas Barron

Nicholas Barron is an American folk music and blues guitarist based in Chicago, Illinois. Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barron soon moved to New Jersey and spent his childhood growing up in Morristown, New Jersey. His mother was a children's librarian, while his father is a painter...

 on his 2007 album As I Am. In 1999, Natalie Cole

Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...

 recorded a cover of the song for her Snowfall on the Sahara album, featuring a new verse Dylan had written especially for her. Willie Nelson included an 8:00 version of the song on his 2008 album "Moment of Forever".

In response to "Gotta Serve Somebody", John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 wrote and recorded the song "Serve Yourself," which was a parody that mocked the injection of religion into Dylan's songwriting. In his diary, Lennon said of Dylan's song, "The backing was mediocre by Jerry Wexler, the singing was really pathetic, and the words were just embarrassing."

The Brazilian singer Vitor Ramil

Vitor Ramil

Vitor Ramil is a musician, singer, composer and writer from Brazil.- Discography :*Estrela, Estrela *A Paixão de V Segundo Ele Próprio *Tango - re-edited in CD on 1996*À Beça...

, in the album Tambong, recorded a version for this song, called: "Um dia você vai servir alguém".

Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

 recorded a version of the song on his 2008 album "Moment of Forever

Moment of Forever

Moment of Forever is an album from American country music artist Willie Nelson. This album was released on January 29, 2008, on the Lost Highway Records label...

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Bill Perry recorded a version of this song for his album "Raw Deal

Raw Deal

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Axelle Red

Axelle Red

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 recorded a version for her 2009 album "Sisters & Empathy."

Other versions include ones by Etta James

Etta James

Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...

, Aaron Neville

Aaron Neville

Aaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States along with four platinum-certified albums...

, Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B band that was influential in shaping the sound of southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones , Steve Cropper , Lewie Steinberg , and Al Jackson, Jr....

, Shirley Caesar

Shirley Caesar

Shirley Ann Caesar is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades...

, Ben Sidran

Ben Sidran

Ben Sidran is an American jazz and rock pianist, organist, vocalist and writer born in Chicago, noted for his work with the early Steve Miller Band.-Biography:...

, David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career...

, Patti Austin

Patti Austin

-Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....

, Tommy Castro Band, and Nichole Nordeman

Nichole Nordeman

Nichole Ellyse Nordeman is an eight-time Dove Award-winning contemporary Christian American singer–songwriter.-Biography:Nordeman was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she played the piano in church...

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