"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released as a single and on his album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" in 1963.
 Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war and freedom.
 The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind".
By 1965, Bob Dylan had achieved the status of leading songwriter of the American folk music revival.
 The response to his albums "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" led to him being labelled as the "spokesman of a generation" by the media.
 In March 1965, Dylan released his fifth album, "Bringing It All Back Home".
 Side One featured Dylan backed by an electric band.
 Side Two featured Dylan accompanying himself on acoustic guitar.
 On July 20, 1965, Dylan released his single "Like a Rolling Stone", featuring a rock sound.
 On July 25, 1965, Dylan performed his first electric concert at the Newport Folk Festival, joined by guitarist Mike Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg of the Electric Flag.
 Some sections of the audience booed Dylan's performance.
 Leading members of the folk movement, including Irwin Silber and Ewan MacColl, criticized Dylan for moving away from political songwriting and for performing with an electric band.
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962.
 It was first recorded in Columbia Records' Studio A on December 6, 1962, for his second album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan".
 The lyrical structure is based on the question and answer form of traditional ballads such as Lord Randall.
 Dylan has stated that all of the lyrics were taken from the initial lines of songs that "he thought he would never have time to write."
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan.
 It was originally recorded on August 2, 1965, and released on the album "Highway 61 Revisited".
 The song was later released on the compilation album "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol.
 II" and as two separate live versions recorded at concerts in 1966: the first of which appeared on the B-side of Dylan's "I Want You" single, with the second being released on "".
 The song has been covered by many artists, including Gordon Lightfoot, Nina Simone, Barry McGuire, Judy Collins, Frankie Miller, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, The Black Crowes, and Bryan Ferry.
 Lightfoot's version was recorded only weeks after Dylan's original had been released and reached #3 on the national RPM singles chart.
 In addition, the song was sampled by the Beastie Boys for their song "Finger Lickin' Good."
"Mama, You Been on My Mind" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
 Written in 1964 during a trip to Europe, the song dealt with his recent breakup with his girlfriend, Suze Rotolo.
 Dylan first recorded the song in June of that year during a session for his album "Another Side of Bob Dylan".
 However, the song was not included on the album, and Dylan's version remained unreleased until 1991.
 In total, in the 1990s and 2000s four versions were put out on Dylan's "Bootleg Series" of releases, including two live performances with Joan Baez from 1964 and 1975.
"All I Really Want to Do" is a song written by Bob Dylan and featured on his Tom Wilson-produced 1964 album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan" ("see" 1964 in music).
 It is arguably one of the most popular songs that Dylan wrote in the period immediately after he abandoned topical songwriting.
 Within a year of its release on "Another Side of Bob Dylan", it had also become one of Dylan's most familiar songs to pop and rock audiences, due to hit cover versions by Cher and the Byrds.
"Shelter from the Storm" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 15th studio album, "Blood on the Tracks", in 1975.
 Along with "Tangled Up in Blue", "Shelter from the Storm" was one of two songs from "Blood on the Tracks" to be re-released on the 2000 compilation "The Essential Bob Dylan".
 The song also appears on two live albums by Bob Dylan — "Hard Rain" (from a May 1976 performance) and "At Budokan" (recorded in February 1978).
 A first take of the song, from the same recording session that produced the album track, is included on "The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol.
 1" (1997).
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol.
 II, also known as More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits, is the second compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on November 17, 1971 by Columbia Records.
 With Dylan not expected to release any new material for an extended period of time, CBS Records president Clive Davis proposed issuing a double LP compilation of older material.
 Dylan agreed, compiling it himself and suggesting that the package include a full side of unreleased tracks from his archives.
 After submitting a set of excerpts from "The Basement Tapes" that Davis found unsatisfactory, Dylan returned to the studio in September 1971 to recut several "Basement" songs, with Happy Traum providing backup.
The Complete Album Collection Vol.
 One is a forty-seven disc box set released on November 4, 2013 by Bob Dylan.
 It includes thirty-five studio albums released between 1962 and 2012, six live albums, and a compilation album, "", which contains previously released material unavailable on regular studio albums and makes the compilations "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits", "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol.
 II", "Biograph", "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3" and "The Essential Bob Dylan" obsolete.
 This release is the first time that the 1973 album "Dylan" has been released on CD in North America.
 Fourteen of the albums have been remastered for this release.
 Also included was a hardcover book featuring extensive new album-by-album liner notes penned by Clinton Heylin and a new introduction written by Bill Flanagan.
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records.
 Whereas his self-titled debut album "Bob Dylan" had contained only two original songs, "Freewheelin' " represented the beginning of Dylan's writing contemporary words to traditional melodies.
 Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are Dylan's original compositions.
 The album opens with "Blowin' in the Wind", which became an anthem of the 1960s, and an international hit for folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary soon after the release of "Freewheelin' ".
 The album featured several other songs which came to be regarded as among Dylan's best compositions and classics of the 1960s folk scene: "Girl from the North Country", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".

Question: When was Bob Dylan's second album released and in what year did he write the most popular song on it?
Answer: released on May 27, 1963