A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-ZAll the songs listed in the Official
Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.
A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z
Lovesick, 2004 US album produced for Victoria's Secret with an
exclusive remix of the title track
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.
If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to
existing entries, please let me know!
Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities -
see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the
dealers on my Trading page for assistance!
Revised: 07 January, 2024.
Titles in red are not available
on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com
)
Key to symbols used:
Links to other World Wide Web pages -
Links to email addresses - 
Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall" - 2CD promo set, Columbia AC2K 86882 (USA), Jan 2004:
 Columbia AC2K 86882 (USA) - booklet front scan by Jens Winter |
R-0694 The Times They Are
A-Changin'
- recorded live, Philharmonic Hall, New York City, 31 Oct 1964,
version preceded by stage announcement on early US Columbia promo copies of
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, Jan 2004 These early copies (which may have no artwork and be on CD-Rs) are rarities - scans required! Later promo copies of the set and the commercial release omit the stage announcement. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for the information and Jens Winter for the scan of a later version with artwork but without the stage announcement. |
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall" - 2 SA-CD set, Audio Fidelity AFZ5 230 (USA), Mar 2016:
 Audio Fidelity AFZ5 230 (USA) - picture from Steve Hoffman forum |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and Gerd Rundel for information that The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Bob Dylan Live 1964: Concert At Philharmonic Hall from 2004 was released on SA-CD in stereo and 5.0 surround sound remastered by Steve Hoffman in Mar 2016. As this is a numbered limited edition, the 5.0 surround sound tracks are rarities. |
 Audio Fidelity AFZ5 230 (USA) - front scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Audio Fidelity AFZ5 230 (USA) - rear scan by Gerd Rundel |
R-2230 The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall - enhanced stereo version of 2004 live album on Audio Fidelity/Columbia SA-CD release, 2016
R-2231 The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall - 5.0 surround sound version of 2004 live album on Audio Fidelity/Columbia SA-CD release, 2016
Thanks to Keith Venturoni for information that this release also includes the stage announcement preceding The Times They Are A-Changin' which was previously found only on early promo copies of this set in 2004. Because this is a rarity, this release is also listed here. However, Bowie Hurde informs me that some banter from Bob Dylan included on the original Columbia/Legacy release has been deleted. Dylan's introduction to Gates Of Eden “This is called a sacrilegious lullaby in D minor. That is the D minor. No in all seriousness….” has been completely removed. This is apparently missing from the regular stereo and the stereo SA-CD layers, but it is included on the 5.0 surround sound mix. This appears to have been an error on behalf of the Sony Music team that supplied Audio Fidelity with the original tapes, but it is unlikely to be corrected.
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin, Gerd Rundel and André Wilbers for information and scans.
"Victoria's Secret Exclusive: Lovesick" - 9 track promo CD for Victoria's Secret, Sony A72812 (USA), Mar 2004:
 Sony A72812 (USA) - CD in shrink-wrap with Victoria's Secret barcode (my copy) |
 Sony A72812 (USA) - outside of front insert |
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This album was produced exclusively by the Sony Music Custom Marketing Group for the lingerie manufacturer Victoria's Secret. Not was Bob's song Love Sick used in their US TV ads, but also Bob himself appeared in the Apr 2004 ad with Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima in scenes shot in Venice, Italy! The three pictures used in the artwork are previously unpublished - the one on the inside of the front insert shows Bob playing piano on stage in 2003. The Limited Edition CD could be purchased for $10 with a Victoria's Secret purchase, in any store, by phone or on their web-site, up to 11 Apr 2004. Note that "Lovesick" in the album title is one word.
R-0658 Love Sick
(5:24) - exclusive remix,
slightly longer than Time Out Of Mind version
This track was one of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug
2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan
Collection, see Online Performances
(Other).
R-0299 Things Have
Changed from the Wonder Boys
soundtrack album as well as Columbia compilations and singles, lyrics on
bobdylan.com
here
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan
(2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.
Tracklisting:
She Belongs To Me
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
To Ramona
Boots Of Spanish Leather
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Love Sick (remix) (R-0658)
Make You Feel My Love
Things Have Changed (R-0299)
Sugar Baby
 Columbia/Legacy 88985450607 (Europe) - 2017 7" single front (my copy) |
The remix of Love Sick has a much cleaner sound than on the original Time Out Of Mind album, and it was thought it may have come from the as yet unreleased remixed/remastered album that was scheduled to be included as one of the 15 Dylan albums released on hybrid SA-CD in Sep 2003, see International Albums (Regular). I'm told by Sonny Boy McFitzson that Make You Feel My Love is also possibly a remix, with the vocals and piano stronger than on the original on Time Out Of Mind, so may be from the same source.This version of Love Sick was released in 2017 as a bonus 7" stereo single with the "20th Anniversary Edition" 2LP stereo vinyl release of Time Out Of Mind, see 2017. |
There is a folded front
insert, inside which is a folded leaflet advertising the latest
Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964
release and other Dylan albums.
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Thanks to Dag Braathen and Keith Venturoni for finding this item and to Ian Woodward for further information. Thanks especially to Jim and Gail Paboucek for the CD.
Various Artists - "The Very Best Of New Woman" - 2CD compilation, Virgin TV VTVCD 599 (UK), 8 Mar 2004:
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R-0359-18 Rise (Bob Dylan/Gabrielle/F.
Unger-Hamilton/Ollie Dagois)
- a looped sample from the start of the version of Knockin' On Heaven's
Door from the Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid soundtrack is used
throughout this song performed by UK soul singer Gabrielle This is a "Best Of" compilation from a series of "New Woman" compilations of songs by (mostly) female artists that started in 1999. This implies that R-0359 appeared previously on a "New Woman" CD, but I can't find it (several of the albums have other songs by Gabrielle). For the original single and album by Gabrielle, see 2000. |
Harry Belafonte - "Nür Das Beste: Die Schönsten Songs [Only The Best: The Most Beautiful Songs]" - compilation CD, RCA/BMG 82876 57843 2 (Germany), 2004:
 RCA/BMG 82876 57843 2 (Germany) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
The main title Nür Das Beste [Only The Best]
is missing from the front design but is on the rear insert and the CD. R-0001-36 Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly") For details of the original album, see 1962. |
 RCA/BMG 82876 57843 2 (Germany) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans |
 RCA/BMG 82876 57843 2 (Germany) - CD scan by Peter Oudejans |
Thanks to Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
Harry Belafonte - "Platinum & Gold Collection" - compilation CDs, RCA/BMG Heritage 82876-59069-2 (USA/Canada), 2004:
 RCA/BMG Heritage 82876-59069-2 (USA) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
R-0001-37 Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly") - Bob plays harmonica on the
title track of Harry Belafonte's 1962 The Midnight Special album (stereo
version) The Canadian release had inserts and CD made in Canada. For details of the original album, see 1962. |
 RCA/BMG Heritage 82876-59069-2 (USA) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans |
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 RCA/BMG Heritage 82876-59069-2 (Canada) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
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Thanks to Jack from Canada and Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
"Les Indispensables De Bob Dylan" - compilation CD, Sony Music Media
SMM 516344-2
(France), 13 Apr 2004; Sony BMG Music Entertainment
82876860922 (France), 11
Sep 2006::
This set is a repackaging of the earlier European compilation The Best Of
Bob Dylan, see 1997 (also released in Japan and
Australia and as part of the set The Best Of Bob Dylan Vols. 1 & 2, see
2001).
 Sony Music Media SMM 516344-2 (France) - 2004 release front (my copy) |
 Sony Music Media SMM 516344-2 (France) - 2004 release, outside of digipak |
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 Sony Music Media SMM 516344-2 (France) - 2004 release, detail of CD |
 Sony BMG Music Entertainment 82876860922 (France) - 2006 release, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Sony BMG Music Entertainment 82876860922 (France) - 2006 release, outside of digipak, scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Sony BMG Music Entertainment 82876860922 (France) - 2006 release, detail of CD, scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0250-6 Shelter From The Storm
- alternate version
from Jerry Maguire film soundtrack (see 1996)
Now also released on the limited 6CD Deluxe Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 -
More Blood, More Tracks,
2018.
The 2004 set is in a purple digipak with no information except a tracklisting. R-0250 is not listed as the alternate version.
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information about this set. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding this was re-released in France on 11 Sep 2006 with a redesigned cover (same front photo) and to Hans Seegers for scans.
Various Artists - "Dylan Country" - compilation CD, Shout! Factory DK 37487 (USA/Canada), 18 May 2004:
 Shout! Factory DK 37487 (USA) - front of digipak, scan by David Plentus |
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 Shout! Factory DK 37487 (USA) - outside of booklet, scan by David Plentus |
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 Shout! Factory DK 37487 (USA) - page 2 of booklet, scan by David Plentus |
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 Shout! Factory DK 37487 (Canada) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
 Shout! Factory DK 37487 (Canada) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans |
 Shout! Factory DK 37487 (Canada) - CD scan by Peter Oudejans |
This album of Dylan covers contains three tracks with Bob participating! There is an 8-page booklet. Bob's presence is only credited on Nashville Skyline Rag. The only song writing credit is "all songs written by Bob Dylan", there is no credit to Willie Nelson for co-writing Heartland. The US release comes in a digipak but the Canadian release is in a jewel case.
R-0074-5 Nashville Skyline Rag
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version with Earl Scruggs on
banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, Dec 1970
For the original 1971 Columbia release of Earl Scruggs
Performing With His Family and Friends, see 1971.
R-0216-6 Heartland
(Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson) - Bob duets with Willie on this co-written song from his 1993 album
Across The Borderline, lyrics on bobdylan.com
here
Heartland also appeared on the Norwegian Polydor compilation CD The Country Collection (see 1993), on the US Columbia Legacy 1995 Willie Nelson boxed set Revolutions Of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 (see 1995), on the 2CD Universal Holland compilation That's Country (see 1998) and on the Sony Music/Reclam Music Edition Germany compilation CD All About Americana (see 2015). There is also an edit of the song on the VHS promo video of this album featuring Bob, see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1.
R-0215-4 Boots Of Spanish Leather
- Bob plays
harmonica on Nanci Griffith's cover version, from her 1993 Elektra album Other Voices, Other Rooms, see 1993
This track also appears on the Columbia Australia compilation Doin' Dylan (see 1995) and the US Putumayo compilation American Folk (see 2005).
Other artists featured are Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, The Byrds and Emmylou Harris.
Thanks to Tim Dunn for this information about a promo copy of this album: "If there are other promos, I don’t know, but this one merely had the UPC (Universal Price Code) on the rear sleeve blacked out by a marker. The catalog number is Shout! Factory DK 37487. The disc reads ‘Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Inc.” It is a gatefold package, with a sticker on the shrink-wrap listing five artists, with a six-page booklet tucked in a sleeve on the left inside. The notes are by Eddie Gorodetsky, he of "Christmas with Eddie G." and “Dharma & Greg.” Oddly, only “Nashville Skyline Rag” mentions Dylan as a guest although “Heartland’ is from Willie Nelson’s Across The Borderline and “Boots of Spanish Leather” is from Nanci Griffith’s Other Voices, Other Rooms. There is even an ISBN (something I’ve never understood for music recordings): 0-7389-2812-7."
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Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about the Columbia 2CD set The Essential Earl Scruggs, released 2 Mar 2004. This compilation has a version of Nashville Skyline Rag on CD2, but it's a version by Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, and the Foggy Mountain Boys, not R-0074. The original release of this version was on a 1970 Flatt & Scruggs album called Final Fling. |
Thanks to David Plentus, Jean-Pol Hiernaux and Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - "Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs" - 4CD boxed set, Collectables Records COL 0236, 8 Jun 2004:
 Collectables Records COL 0236 - front of box |
R-0074-5 Nashville Skyline Rag
This track is on CD1, which also contains Love Is Just A Four Letter Word with Joan Baez and You Ain't Goin' Nowhere with The Byrds, both also from the 1971 album. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for information about this set. |
"Bob Dylan In Concert" - stereo acetate LP, Fantasy 77182 (USA), tracks recorded 1963-64, acetate mastered 1972-80, surfaced Jul 2004:
 Fantasy 77182 (USA) - Side 1 picture from Keith Venturoni |
This is now revealed to be the second version of the cancelled 1964
Columbia US Bob Dylan In Concert album! To present the material more effectively it's been moved to 1964. Thanks to Keith Venturoni and Jeff Gold for information and scans. |
 Fantasy 77182 (USA) - Side 2 picture from Keith Venturoni |
Various Artists - "Is It Rolling, Bob? A Reggae
Tribute To Bob Dylan Vol. 1" - compilation 2CD set, RAS/Sanctuary Records
06076-89914-2 (USA/Canada)/ RAS/Sanctuary Records RZDDD008 (UK); 2LP set:
RAS/Sanctuary Records
06076-89914-1 (USA); RAS/Sanctuary
RZDLP008 (UK), 10 Aug 2004:
The limited edition of this album (the first manufacturing run) also
includes a bonus 8 track "dub" disc with R-0665, R-0664 with dub remix by Doctor
Dread. The USA edition has "Vol. 1" beneath the front sleeve picture, the UK
release does not. The "dub" disc was released separately by RAS/Sanctuary
Records as
Is It Rolling, Bob? Dub Versions: Visions Of Jamaica in Apr 2005, see
2005.
R-0664 I And I
- reggae remix of track from Infidels
This track was also one of the 42 rarities included for download with
the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see
Online Performances (Other).
The reggae remix features legendary drum and bass duo Sly & Robbie (Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare).
R-0665 I And I
- dub remix by Doctor Dread of R-0664
R-0665 was re-released by Doctor Dread with a Theremin remix as "I For
An Eye" (R-1093) on his 2013 Tsosume Records USA album Theremin In Dub,
see
2013.
RAS/Sanctuary Records RASSP 89914-2 (USA)/RAS/Sanctuary RZDPR008 (UK) - promo CD releases:
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These promo CDs came in card sleeves and contain CD1 only, so they only have R-0664. The UK promo CD is black with white text.
RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89914-2 (USA/Canada)/ RAS/Sanctuary Records RZDDD008 (UK): 2CD sets:
 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89914-2 (USA) - picture from Clayton Bushong of Gigante Media ("Vol. 1") |
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 RAS/Sanctuary RZDDD008 (UK) - front of 2CD set with sticker (my copy, no "Vol. 1") |
 RAS/Sanctuary RZDDD008 (UK) - front sticker |
 RAS/Sanctuary RZDDD008 (UK) - rear insert |
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These 2CD sets have R-0664 and R-0665. The front insert is a 16 page booklet and both CDs mimic Columbia vinyl releases with "365° SOUND"/"STEREO" logos. The US CDs are of slightly different design from the UK CDs, with CD1 being white/black on red instead of black on red, and CD2 being green/red on black instead of black on green.
The other songs on the set are The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Michael Rose); Maggie's Farm (Toots Hibbert); Blowin' In The Wind (Don Carlos); Mr Tambourine Man (Gregory Isaacs); One Too Many Mornings (Abijah); The Times They Are A-Changin' (Apple Gabriel); Gotta Serve Somebody (Nazio with Drummie Zeb & the Razor Posse featuring Incline); A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Billy Mystic/Mystic Revealers); Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (J C Lodge); Lay, Lady, Lay (The Mighty Diamonds); Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Luciano); Subterranean Homesick Blues (Sizzla) and Just Like A Woman (Beres Hammond). The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (Yellowman) was originally included in the tracklist but has not made it on to the final album.
For more information about the album, here is the link
to its web-site
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 RAS/Sanctuary Records/Silverline 284603-2 (USA) - front with sticker in clear plastic slipcase, scan by Jack from Canada |
This set was released by Silverline in the USA on 25 Jan 2005 in a "DualDisc" format - this is a double-sided disc with a CD layer on one side and a DVD layer on the other. The DVD layer includes the album in 5.1 surround sound plus videos for Subterranean Homesick Blues, "making the album", seven dub remixes and additional content. However, this "DualDisc" release omits both versions of I And I and therefore does not contain the Dylan rarities. The jewel case comes in a clear plastic "DualDisc" slipcase. For full details, see Honourable Mentions - Covers (Various Artists). |
RAS/Sanctuary Records
06076-89914-1 (USA)/ RAS/Sanctuary Records
RZDLP 008 (UK for Europe) - 2LP stereo
vinyl releases:
 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89914-1 (USA) - LP front scan by Hans Seegers |
There is also a limited edition vinyl 2LP set released both in the USA and in the UK for Europe. David Plentus tells me it contains only five of the eight tracks on the bonus "dub" CD, but it does include R-0665 as well as R-0664. Sides 1 and 2 (not shown) have no Dylan participation. |
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 RAS/Sanctuary Records RZDLP 008 (UK for Europe) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
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Thanks to Badlands for news that Record Store Day 2021 will include a 12" vinyl single of Jokerman/I & I (The Reggae Remix EP), which includes both R-0664 and R-0665. The 12" features new reggae and dub remixes of Jokerman by Doctor Dread. For more information see 2021.
Thanks to Clayton Bushong of Gigante Media, Larry Crum, Stefan Haras, Jack from Canada, Harold Lepidus, Ole Lien, David Plentus and Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"Chronicles Volume One 6 Song Sampler" - 6-track CD promoting Bob Dylan's autobiography "Chronicles Volume One", Columbia CSK 54798 (USA), 5 Oct 2004/Columbia SAMPCM 14513 2 (Europe), May 2005/Columbia SAMPCM 15043 2 (Europe), Sep 2005:
Columbia CSK 54798 (USA), 5 Oct 2004:
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 Audioworks 0-7435-4309-2 (USA) - audiobook CD1 scan by Jack from Canada |
 Audioworks 0-7435-4309-4 (USA) - front of audiobook cassette box, picture from eBay |
This promo CD has been released by Columbia Records to promote the publication of the first part of Bob's autobiography "Chronicles Volume One" by Simon & Schuster in the USA. It has two previously unreleased tracks, plus a previously released rarity:
R-0679 The Cuckoo Is A Pretty
Bird (Traditional)
- recorded live at the Gaslight Café, New York,
Oct 1962
This performance has since been released on Bob Dylan Live At The Gaslight 1962,
Starbucks/Hear Music/Sony Music Custom Marketing Group (USA), see
2005. For other 1962 Gaslight Café performances see
Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances
(Sony Music Japan, 2001) and The 50th Anniversary
Collection (Sony Music Europe, Dec 2012).
R-0680 Dignity
- original 1989 piano demo (piano
and vocal only)
This version has significantly different lyrics from the released
track.
This demo version of Dignity was released in Oct 2008
on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased
1989-2006, see here.
However, Peter Coulthard points out that the Tell Tale Signs version
has approximately five seconds of piano intro that is missing from R-0680,
so it remains a rarity.
The original Oh Mercy out-take of Dignity
produced by Daniel Lanois (R-0273) first appeared on Touched By An Angel: The Album - see 1998
and
Released Rarities. Also on The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2,
see 2000 and
the UK/French release of The Essential Bob Dylan, see 2001,
and now on the 2007 3CD compilation Dylan.
The 1994 Brendan O'Brien remixed version for Greatest Hits Vol. 3
retained only Bob's vocal and piano and added new backing. R-0680 is now
also on the 2005 Sony France
tie-in compilation Chroniques: Volume 1, see 2005.
For Greatest Hits Vol. 3 and Dylan, see
International Albums (Regular).
R-0071-2 New Morning
- early copies of the album have
Bob saying "OK, here we go" at start of title track
The other tracks on this CD are New Morning (album version); Father of Night (from New Morning); Political World (from Oh Mercy); Man In The Long Black Coat (from Oh Mercy). New Morning and Father Of Night appear to be remastered, and may be from a forthcoming remastered release of New Morning. New Morning includes the tuning/intro that was present on the original US and UK vinyl releases but has been absent from all CD releases of the album (R-0071, see 1970). This is a rarity at the moment, but if a new release of the New Morning album includes it, the track without the intro will become the rarity!
The CD is in a jewel case with a clear tray and a red sticker on the front describing the disc. The front insert is a single card. The disc itself is plain red with a spoof white "361° SOUND STEREO" logo as on 1960s stereo LPs, which had "360° SOUND STEREO". The reverse of the rear insert (under the CD tray) has an excerpt of typescript from the book. This six track CD is available at branches of outlets such as Tower Records, Borders, Newbury Comics and Bestbuy with purchase of the book plus a Dylan CD. Reports of a second CD single with only five tracks omitting R-0679 as listed on the Newbury Comics web-site are incorrect - Newbury Comics are supplying the same 6-track CD as everyone else, and their web-page originally gave information that had been wrongly supplied to them by Columbia Records!
Thanks to Peter Gilmer, Harold Lepidus, Kurt Schroeder and Tim Dunn for information. Thanks to David Plentus for scans. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the copy of "Newsweek" with Bob on the cover, and inside talking about his book. Thanks to John Lettiere for the book and disc.
Columbia
SAMPCM
14513 2 (Europe), May 2005:
 Columbia SAMPCM 14513 2 (Europe) - front insert scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier and Ian Woodward for the information that this CD was available from French booksellers in May 2005 with a new European catalogue number SAMPCM 14513 2 tied in with the publication of the French translation of Bob's book. These promo CDs are scheduled to be offered as prizes in various contests organised by various French music magazines ("Libération" "Les Inrockuptibles"). Gerd Rundel points out the CD and rear insert are dated 2004, but that is because of the original release in the USA in Oct 2004. |
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Thanks to Tom Willems for information and scans of a new European version with catalogue number SAMPCM 15043 2 being given away in Sep 2005 with copies of The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home. This CD comes in a card sleeve with Bob on the front and the New York pictures from the book cover on the rear, and was purchased in Holland from a chain called Plato. It is available also at HMV in the UK. Both this new CD SAMPCM 15043 2 and the earlier SAMPCM 14513 2 were manufactured by the Columbia plant in Austria. |
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Two further parts of this autobiography are promised. There is also an unabridged audio book on six CDs or four cassettes read by Sean Penn, thanks to Franck Faugere, Jack from Canada and Pierre van der Pol for the pictures.
Bob Dylan and his Band - "Tryin' To Get To Heaven" - promo single-track CD promoting Bob Dylan's autobiography "Chronicles Volume One", Columbia/Legacy CSK 54808 (USA), Oct 2004:
 Columbia/Legacy CSK 54808 (USA) (my copy) |
R-0681 Tryin' To Get To Heaven
- live audience
recording from
the UK in 2000 (now identified as Wembley Arena, London, England, 5 Oct
2000) (A) Thanks to Les Kokay for identifying this track. It was previously identified wrongly as from the Guildhall, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, 25 Sep 2000. It's noteworthy because of an appreciative comment from a member of the audience - "F**king lovely!". This CD single credited to "Bob Dylan and his Band" is in a plain black card sleeve with a cut-out to show the CD label. The performance is described as "Bob Dylan field recording, UK, 2000". The CD is being given away in independent record stores in the USA to promote the release of "Chronicles Volume One" as is the CD above. Thanks to Hervé from France for information and to Éamonn Ó Catháin for the disc. |
This performance is now included on the third CD of the 3CD set of The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006 (see 2008). As this set is a Limited Edition of 5000 copies, R-0681 remains a rarity. Thanks to Evan Marshall for confirming that this performances are in fact the same and to Les Kokay for listening to a variety of circulating recordings for Portsmouth and Wembley and confirming the released performance is Wembley!
"Went To See The Gypsy'"- Download Only Single, Columbia (no catalogue number) (USA), Oct 2004:
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This track was available for download from sites such as the Apple
iTunes Music Store, see Online Performances (Other). R-0683 Went To See The Gypsy - unreleased demo version of track from New Morning, with Bob on piano |
Various Artists - "Enjoy Every
Sandwich: The Songs Of Warren Zevon" - promo CD release: Artemis Records
ARTCD-245 (USA), Oct 2004; commercial CD releases: Artemis Records/Rykodisc
ATM-CD-51581 (USA), 19 Oct 2004; Artemis Records/Rykodisc
ATMK 751581 (Canada), 19 Oct 2004; Artemis Records/Rykodisc RCD 17304 (UK), 2004:
This album is a tribute to Warren Zevon, who died in 2003 aged 56.
 Artemis Records ATM-CD-51581 (USA) - front scan by Moise Potié (commercial release) |
R-0682 Mutineer (Warren
Zevon)
On the insert for this album this performance is identified as "live in Australia", which is incorrect as Bob has never performed this song in Australia! There was speculation it was the live performance of Mutineer from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, 11 Oct 2002, that was up on bobdylan.com that month, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com), but it's now confirmed it comes from Red Bluff, CA, 7 Oct 2002. |
 Artemis Records ARTCD-245 (USA) - front scan by Peter Oudejans (promo release) |
 Artemis Records ARTCD-245 (USA) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans (promo release) |
 Artemis Records ARTCD-245 (USA) - CD scan by Peter Oudejans (promo release) |
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 Artemis Records ATM-CD-51581 (USA) - rear insert scan by Moise Potié |
 Artemis Records ATM-CD-51581 (USA) - detail of rear insert, scan by Moise Potié ("Printed in the USA") |
 Artemis Records ATM-CD-51581 (USA) - CD scan by Moise Potié |
 Artemis Records ATMK-751581 (Canada) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
 Artemis Records ATMK-751581 (Canada) - reverse of front insert, scan by Jack from Canada (US release is the same) |
 Artemis Records ATMK-751581 (Canada) - rear scan by Jack from Canada |
 Artemis Records/Rykodisc RCD 17304 (UK) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
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 Artemis Records/Rykodisc RCD 17304 (UK) - detail of rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans ("Manufactured in the EU") |
 Artemis Records/Rykodisc RCD 17304 (UK) - CD scan by Peter Oudejans |
 Artemis Records ATMK-751581 (Canada) - detail of rear, scan by Jack from Canada ("Made in Canada") |
 Artemis Records ATMK-751581 (Canada) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
Bob's son Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers perform Lawyers, Guns And Money, a song also performed live by Bob in 2002.
Thanks to Jim Paboucek, Michael G Smith, Hervé from France, Jack from Canada, Moise Potié and Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs Of Warren Zevon" - tribute CD, Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan), 22 Dec 2004:
 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Wil Gielen |
The copy of the
Japanese release shown is a promo, with a light-green obi with black, white
and orange
text and a numbered promo sticker over the barcode. It also has Japanese
characters indicating a promo in
black round the centre of the CD itself. The obi has price ¥2,520 (¥2,400
before tax) and release date
"04-12-22" (22 Dec 2004). The original release date is shown as "04-10-19" (19
Oct 2004) and the withdrawal date as "05-12-21" (21 Dec 2005). The front insert is a
12-page stapled booklet in English
and there is also a 12-page stapled booklet in English and Japanese. Artemis
Records does not have a pressing plant in Japan and the CD was made by
Columbia Music Entertainment. Also shown is a promo CD-R which came in a CD single thin jewel case without inserts. Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans. |
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 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - obi scan by Wil Gielen (promo copy) |
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 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - rear insert scan by Wil Gielen |
 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - CD scan by Wil Gielen (promo copy) |
 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - detail of CD, scan by Wil Gielen (promo copy) |
 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - detail of CD, scan by Wil Gielen (promo copy) |
 Artemis Records COCB 53285 (Japan) - detail of obi, scan by Wil Gielen (promo copy) |
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"Gaumont Theatre Sheffield/Free Trade Hall Manchester" - two single-sided acetates, Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, TN (USA), 1966, surfaced in Ireland, Oct 2004:
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R-0685 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - live from
Gaumont Theatre, Sheffield, England, 16 May 1966, from acetates made by
Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville TN R-0686 Desolation Row - live as R-0685 R-0685 and R-0686 are now officially released on the Columbia/Legacy USA/Europe 36CD set The 1966 Live Recordings, Nov 2016. These two single-sided acetates were found by Annie West in Oct 2004. One is from Sheffield, 16 May 1966, and contains It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and Desolation Row, otherwise officially unreleased. The second is from Manchester, 17 May 1966. She says: "I'm in Sligo Ireland by the way, and the story of the acetates is that they came from Bob Johnson when he was here producing an album for the Waterboys. he gave them away (after trying to sell them) and they ended up in my house where I found them at the very bottom of a box full of albums for throwing out!" Thanks to Arie de Reus for the information that Acetate 4 has One Too Many Mornings (final part), Ballad Of A Thin Man; Like A Rolling Stone. For the long-awaited release of the Manchester 1966 concert in 1998 as The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, see International Albums (Regular). For the first two acetates of the 1966 live performance with The Hawks, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations 1965-69. For performances included in 1991 on a CD with Il Dizionario del Rock, an Italian part-work magazine, which are probably from the Manchester Free Trade Hall concert, see Questionable Releases. Thanks to Annie West, C P Lee and Arie de
Reus for
information and scans. Annie is a renowned artist and illustrator, to find
her, see here
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 Acetate 4 - Manchester, 17 May 1966, scan by Annie West (no rarities) |
"MPH Acetates" - set of five 10" acetates made by Music Publishers
Holding Corporation for Warner Bros (USA), 1967 (?), surfaced in Nov 2004:
R-0031, R-0036, R-0691 and R-0692 are no longer rarities because
they were released officially in 2010 on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music set
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The
Witmark Demos 1962-1964. R-0693 remains unreleased (but see comments
re complete takes below). These yellow MPHC labels have a different style from
the early 1960s MPHC labels, although the material is from the same period.
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0691) |
These five acetates on stock labels with handwritten text contain six
unreleased Bob Dylan songs.
They are all single-sided. The publisher is identified as "W-7 Music", which
is Warner Bros/7 Arts, also publisher of a 12" acetate LP that surfaced in 1967
(illustrated below and in 1967). My tentative identification of the performances
is as follows: R-0691 All Over You - lyrics on bobdylan.com here, Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963 R-0035-2
The Death Of Emmett Till - lyrics
on bobdylan.com
here, Witmark demo,
recorded Dec 1962, surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner
Bros/7 Arts acetate LP,
see 1967 R-0031-3 Ain't Gonna Grieve No More - Witmark demo, recorded Aug 1963, also surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner Bros/7 Arts acetate LP, see 1963 and 1967 R-0692 Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, previously unreleased The version of this song released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991 is a live performance from Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963. For the studio version from the Columbia test pressing and promotional copies of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963. R-0036-2 (I'd
Hate To Be You On That) Dreadful Day -
Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner
Bros/7 Arts acetate LP,
see 1967 R-0693 Bob Dylan's
New Orleans Rag - out-take from
The Times They Are A-Changin', Aug or
Oct 1963, previously unreleased
(this is the only song here where a Witmark version is not known).
Lyrics on bobdylan.com
here For a live version recorded 12 Apr 1963, Town Hall, New York, from the unreleased 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964. This has also now been released on the Columbia/Legacy Europe 6LP limited edition 50th Anniversary Collection 1963, Dec 2013. Also shown are photos of a strange acetate of another Witmark demo, Walkin' Down The Line (R-0539, see 1963), with the same label and typewritten text as the others. However, it has Bob's name as "BOB ZIMMERMAN". This is strange because as far as I know Bob never used his real name after he came to New York in 1961, even before he changed it legally to "Dylan" in Aug 1962. Jeff Gold of Record Mecca was commissioned by Bob's business manager Jeff Rosen to appraise over 10,000 Dylan items at the Bob Dylan Archive at the University of Tulsa, OK, and did not find one with Bob's real name on! Tim Dunn says that not one of Bob's copyrights mentions the name "Zimmerman", not even the earliest Leeds/Duchess Music contracts, and Bob's contract with Witmark was in the name of "Bob Dylan". Thanks to A J LaRue, John Rush, Jeff Gold and Damien Napoli for information and scans. |
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0035) |
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0031) |
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0692) |
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 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0036, R-0693) |
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 Acetate photo by Damien Napoli (R-0539) |
 Acetate in yellow sleeve, photo by Damien Napoli (R-0539) |
Promotional/Regular Items for 2004
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Stereo promo albums and singles for 2004 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now included with promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases. |
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