This is a brief interview with Carol Dennis published on "Follow That Dream international" December 1992, a Bruce Springsteen's fanzine. I've cut the other parts leaving only the Bob related piece.

Q. After getting involved with theatre and working with Stevie Wonder and Burt Bacharach you started your long collaboration with Bob Dylan...

A. Yeah, I went on the road for a couple of weeks with Burt Bacharach doing a tour in South America, and I came back to a surprising phone call from a girl who was dating Mr. Dylan at the time, for him. I have say - as embarrassing as it might be - I didn't know who he was, because my young life had been so reclusive and so sheltered. So I called and I asked "Who is Bob Dylan? I got a call, they want me to come and audition for this guy named Bob Dylan. Who is he?". And the Union went "What? Oh My God! In the sixties there was nobody but Bob Dylan and the Beatles!". It was May 1978 when I first met him and started working for him, did the United States, started recording with him.

Q. After your first tour with him, you had a kind of special role in helping with the vocal parts...

A. Well, I mean, I would call background singers and then, you know, he'd hear them of course, the final decision was his, you know. But he knew that I'd basically bring in what he was after, people that could go after a feeling, that it wasn't so much standing there with the music and trying to prove how perfectly you could sing, but people who had a story in their voices, when they'd sing there was a feeling there. That feeling comes from life experiences, and that's what he was after. He wanted his show to have that kind of spontaneous spiritual type of feeling to it, a lot similar to what Bruce is requesting..."

Subject: Bob Dylan's ex on Broadway
From: Nishama7@aol.com -(snipped from PUSSSYKATT)
Date: Sun, Dec 28, 1997 09:46 EST

NY POST....PAGE SIX...

A BIG Broadway secret: one of Bob Dylan's exes - and the mother of two of his
children - is starring on stage right now. Cinemania Online's Roger Friedman
reports that Carol Dennis, who's been knocking out audiences at "Street Corner
Symphony," is a former longtime Dylan lady-friend and backup singer. The couple
met in 1978 after Dylan split with wife Sara Lowndes, mother of Wallflowers
singer Jakob Dylan. Dennis has since sung backup on every Dylan album,
including the latest, "Time Out of Mind." She also sings back-up for Bruce
Springsteen. She told Friedman, "I have three children, but I'm not going to
say which ones are Bob Dylan's." Dennis, according to her spokesman, had made a
pact with her kids not to publicize their paternity. "Bob Dylan has eight or
nine children," Dennis says. "We're not trading on that." 

Subject: Look What I found - Re Ms. Carol Dennis...
From: (RSbklyn@AOL.COM)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:49:22 -0500

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Howdy Folks,

I've heard of Miss Information, but this is ridiculous!

First of all, the name of the woman who was Dylan's backup singer is Carolyn
Dennis, not Carol Dennis.  (Details, details.)

Dennis has since (1978) sung backup on every Dylan album, including the latest, "Time Out of Mind."

Red Flag!! If "Carol Dennis" is the source of that information, she is at best a liar and at worst delusional. Why should anyone believe the rest of the article after reading that baldfaced lie? BTW, the editorial policy of the NY Post (owned by Rupert Murdoch) consists of: "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story".

"Bob Dylan has eight or nine children," Dennis says. "We're not trading on that."

Oh no, "Ms Dennis", that would be WRONG, wouldn't it?? How disingenuous can she be? "Trading on" her claim to have had Dylan's children is EXACTLY what she is doing. And she is doing so right when Dylan is getting so much media attention and she's in a Broadway musical in need of publicity. What a coincidence. Gee, this all reminds me of a song... it starts out

"Someone's got it in for me, They're planting stories in the press..."

G'night and Happy New Year ev'rybody.... Rich Shaffer