Kevin Ryan, a Houston music producer and author, engineered a sort of retro mash-up of two of his favorite artists, Bob Dylan and Dr. Seuss.

Ryan took the text from seven Seuss classics, including "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham," and set them to original tunes that sounded like they were right off Dylan's mid-'60s releases. He played all the instruments and sang all the songs in Dylan's breathy, nasal twang. He registered a domain name, dylanhearsawho.com, and in February [of 2007] posted his seven tracks online, accompanied by suitably Photoshopped album artwork.

Then Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the La Jolla, Calif., firm that publishes the works of the late Theodor Geisel, heard "Dylan Hears a Who." Only two weeks after word of the site began spreading, Ryan got a cease-and-desist demand from the Seuss lawyers, who said the site and songs infringed the company's copyrights and trademarks.

Ryan--best known as the coauthor of "Recording the Beatles," a meticulous investigation of every track, take and song the group committed to vinyl--was face-to-face with a company that zealously guards its intellectual property.

-- http://www.salon.com/2007/04/13/dylan_seuss

1. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
2. Green Eggs and Ham
3. Miss Gertrude McFuzz
4. McElligot's Pool
5. Too Many Daves
6. The Zax
7. The Cat in the Hat