The songwriting credits goes officially to all members of the band, but the song is published by Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music label, which indicates Dylan as the main writer. This is contradicted to a slight degree by George Harrison's account of the song in "The True History of the Traveling Wilburys" documentary: "'Tweeter and the Monkey Man' was really Tom Petty and Bob . Well, Jeff and I were there too, but we were just sitting there around in the kitchen, and he was for some reason talking about all this stuff that didn't make much s… read more
The songwriting credits goes officially to all members of the band, but the song is published by Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music label, which in… read more
The songwriting credits goes officially to all members of the band, but the song is published by Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music label, which indicates Dylan as the main writer. Thi… read more
Traveling Wilburys were a supergroup formed by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne. Initially an informal grouping with Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, they got together at Bob Dylan's studio in Malibu, California, to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's "This is Love". The song they came up with was "Handle with Care", which the record company immediately realized was too good to be released as a single "filler". They enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create an album together. Co-written by all… read more