Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941. Dylan’s parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, moved the family from Duluth to Hibbing, Minnesota, after his father became stricken with polio. They ran an appliance store and were active in the local Jewish community. Dylan played in several bands while attending Hibbing High School, with names like the Shadow Blasters and the Golden Chords. He started performing regularly on the Minneapolis folk circuit during his one year at the University of Minnesota in 1959. He dropped out of school and moved to New York City after his freshman year. By 1961, Dylan was fully entrenched in the Greenwich Village folk scene and soon came to the attention of legendary Columbia Records talent scout John Hammond. “The young man from the provinces began to make friends very quickly in New York, all the while continuing, as he has since he was ten, to assimilate musical ideas from everyone he met, every record he heard,” Hammond wrote in the liner notes to Dylan’s self-titled 1962 debut album. Dylan, of course, would go on to become one of the greatest songwriters of his generation, with tracks like “Blowin’ In The Wind,” “Like A Rolling Stone” and “Tangled Up In Blue.”