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
Sally Grossman, widow of Bob's former manager Albert Grossman and the woman
in red on the front sleeve of Bringing It All Back Home, pictured at the
Bob Dylan exhibition at the Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA, with a
picture by Bob that has hung in her living room for 40 years. Photograph from
"Isis" #118, courtesy of Ida and Arie de Reus. Sally sadly died on 12 Mar 2021,
aged 81.
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)
Audience recordings are indicated by (A).
"Introducing Bob Dylan" - 3-track CD-R single, Pacifica Radio Archives IZ 0940 (USA), 16 Feb 2005:
This 17 min CD-R contains Bob's contribution to this 1962 radio show hosted by Izzy Young of the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street in New York, which also included Pete Seeger and Sis Cunningham. The CD-R is in a plain white sleeve but has the (anachronous) photo of Bob by Jerry Schatzberg used on many editions of "Tarantula".
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R-0886
Blowin' In The Wind
 - from "The Broadside
Show" radio broadcast, WBAI-FM, New York, May 1962, previously unreleasedListed as "The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowin' In The Wind", this was the first radio broadcast of Bob's new song!
R-0082-2 The Death Of Emmett Till
R-0083-4 The Ballad Of Donald White
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It is also available on cassette with the same catalogue number.
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information.
Various Artists - "Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004" - 2CD set, Sanctuary Records 06076-84736-2 (USA), 5 Apr 2005; Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan), 25 May 2005:
Sanctuary Records 06076-84736-2 (USA):
 Sanctuary Records 06076-84736-2 (USA) - jewel case with sticker (my copy) |
R-0697 Down Along The Cove
- live, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, 11 Jun
2004 Thanks to the late Artur Jarosiński for the information that this performance is from a soundboard recording, not audience as previously stated. Four further live performances from this show were added to the bobdylan.com Performances page in Jun 2004, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com). |
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 Columbia 38-750225/88697502257 (USA/Europe, 2009) - B-side scan by Paul S. Levine (R-0697) |
Cold Irons Bound from this show appeared in Oct 2007 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here and also on a bonus single with the 20th Anniversary Edition of Time Out Of Mind in 2017, see International Singles: All Formats 2010s.
Bob's contribution is on track 1 of CD1. This live performance also appeared on CD singles in 2007 and limited edition 7" singles in 2009. Other artists include The Dead, Dave Matthews & Friends, David Byrne, Steve Winwood, Gillian Welch and Beth Orton. For a 2004 2CD promo compilation album advertising this festival including a Dylan album track, see International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2004.
Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan):
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Jack from Canada |
The Japanese release has a white obi with price ¥3,360 (¥3,200 plus sales tax). |
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - rear with obi, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - outside of front booklet, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - obi scan by Jack from Canada |
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 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - outside of Japanese language booklet, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - CD1 scan by Jack from Canada (includes R-0697) |
 Sanctuary/BMG Funhouse BVCM-47044/5 (Japan) - CD2 scan by Jack from Canada (no Dylan) |
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As well as the front insert booklet, there is also a second Japanese language booklet.
Thanks to Tim Dunn, Jim Paboucek and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoia Blues [Talkin' John Birch Society Blues]" - 10" stereo acetate, Columbia 70090-2 (USA), 1963 (surfaced April 2005):
 Columbia 70090-2 (USA) - label photo by Karen Fredericks |
This stereo acetate came from the estate of John
Hammond. It is housed in a generic "audiodiscs" sleeve and has a Columbia
Recording Studios black label with handwritten text. The title is given as
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoia Blues". R-0018-3 Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - still unreleased studio version, the one released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991 is a live performance from Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963 (see below) For the original release of this performance on the withdrawn version of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963. Thanks to Karen Fredericks for information and photos. |
 Columbia 70090-2 (USA) - "audiodiscs" sleeve photo by Karen Fredericks |
Various Artists - "Is It Rolling, Bob? Dub Versions: Visions Of Jamaica" - compilation CD, RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA); RAS/Sanctuary RZACD024 (UK), 19 Apr 2005:
 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA) - front with sticker, scan by Hans Seegers |
This is the separate release of the bonus "dub" disc originally given away with the RAS Records limited edition of Is It Rolling, Bob? in Aug 2004, see 2004. |
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 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA) - front insert scan by David Plentus |
 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA) - reverse of front insert, scan by David Plentus |
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 RAS/Sanctuary RZACD024 (UK) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
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 RAS/Sanctuary RZACD024 (UK) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
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R-0665-2 I And I
- dub remix by Doctor Dread of R-0664, reggae remix by Sly
and Robbie of track from Infidels
R-0665 was re-released by Doctor Dread with a Theremin remix as "I For An
Eye" (R-1093) on his 2013 Tsosume Records Hungary album Theremin In Dub,
see
2013.
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 R-0665. The 12" features new reggae and dub remixes of Jokerman by Doctor Dread. For more information see 2021.
Thanks to David Plentus, Hans Seegers and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Pete Seeger - "The Essential Pete Seeger" - compilation CD release, Columbia/Legacy CK 92835 (USA); Sony Music 77623 (UK), 19 Apr 2005:
 Columbia CK 92835 (USA) -picture from www.amazon.com |
I was told this CD contained the performance below,
but the live performance here is actually from New York, 28 Apr 1962, not
the Newport Folk Festival, 1963!
R-0607-2
This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
A previous Vanguard 2LP set called The Essential Pete Seeger was released in 1978, single CD release (shown), 1990. That set definitely has no Dylan content. Thanks to Anthony Bush and Harold Lepidus for information. |
 Vanguard 97/98 (USA) - 1990 CD release of 1978 2LP set |
Various Artists - "Chroniques: Volume 1 [Chronicles: Volume 1]" - 2CD set, Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France), 11 May 2005:
 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
This 2CD set features 41 tracks by artists mentioned in
Bob's book
Chronicles: Volume 1 and is exclusive to France, released to tie in
with the French translation. The notes in French inside the booklet are by
British rock journalist Nick Kent. The description of each track in the
booklet includes an excerpt from the French translation of Bob's book
referring to it.
R-0002-8 I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley)
R-0680-2 Dignity
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 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - front with stickers (my copy) |
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 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - front of booklet scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - CD1 (no Dylan) |
 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - CD2 with R-0002, R-0680 and five Dylan album tracks |
There are also five other tracks by Bob: Song To Woody from Bob Dylan; Let Me Die In My Footsteps from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3; Positively 4th Street, the single released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits; If Dogs Run Free from New Morning and Man In The Long Black Coat from Oh Mercy. Other artists include Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Pete Seeger, Irma Thomas, Nina Simone and Johnny Cash. There are seven Dylan covers, including Blowin In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary, Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds, and the performance by Al Kooper of Went To See The Gypsy included in his 2001 compilation Rare & Well Done listed in Honourable Mentions.
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier for information and scans.
Various Artists - "House Of Blues Radio Hour - Show # 05-20: Blues Brothers Tribute" - radio station CD, United Stations Radio Networks/House Of Blues 05-20 (USA), 14-15 May 2005:
 United Stations Radio Networks/House Of Blues 05-20 (USA) - CD in white paper sleeve, scan by Jack from Canada |
This program includes a Dylan rarity, the live
version of Tombstone Blues first released on the Live '96
promo CD EP in 1997. R-0260-3 Tombstone Blues - live, House of Blues, Atlanta, Aug 1996, from the Columbia US promo CD single Live '96 (see 1997) and the Columbia Europe Not Dark Yet CD EP (see 1998). The CD comes in a white paper sleeve with a front cut-out. |
 United Stations Radio Networks/House Of Blues 05-20 (USA) - Cue sheet scan by Jack from Canada |
 United Stations Radio Networks/House Of Blues 05-20 (USA) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Alabama 3 - "Outlaw" - One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK), 5 Jun 2005:
 One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
R-0236 The
Gospel Train (Bob Dylan/Robert Spragg/Jon Delafons/Piers Marsh)
- song with loop of
Lay, Lady, Lay from Nashville Skyline Tom Willems has found an advert for the UK tour in "Uncut" magazine #97, Jun 2005. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information and Jack from Canada and Tom Willems for scans. |
 One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
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 Advert from "Uncut2 #97, June 2005, scan by Tom Willems |
Various Artists - "Live!
3 Rock - I Grandi Miti [The Great Legends*]"
- compilation CD,
Panorama
PAM 05123
(Italy), 2005:
*"Miti" means both "myths" and
"legends". Bob is a legend but he's certainly not a myth!
 Panorama PAM 05123 (Italy) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
"Panorama" is a weekly Italian news and current affairs magazine. This CD is part of a series called "La Musica di Panorama [The Music of Panorama]". The rear insert has text "Edizione speciale riservata ai lettori di "Panorama" del numero di questa settimana [Special edition reserved for readers of this week's issue of "Panorama"]". The magazine itself is missing but a recent issue is shown for information. |
 Panorama PAM 05123 (Italy) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans |
 Panorama PAM 05123 (Italy) - CD scan by Peter Oudejans |
 "Panorama" magazine (Italy), 23 Feb 2022 - picture from www.newsstand.co.uk |
This CD contains a live rarity:
R-0221-5 Blowin' In The Wind -
live duet with Joan Baez in the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23
May 1976, from her 1993 Vanguard boxed set Rare,
Live & Classic,
see 1993
This also appeared on video in the Hard Rain TV
special, see
VHS & DVD 1970s.
The CD also contains Chime Of Freedom by The Byrds. For two other CDs in this series with Dylan album tracks, see International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2005.
Thanks to Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
"Democracy Now!" - radio broadcast CD-R and CD: Pacifica Radio Archives BB2439 (USA), 26 Aug 2005:
 CD-R insert scan by Jack from Canada |
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 CD front scan by Jack from Canada |
 CD rear scan by Jack from Canada |
 CD scan by Jack from Canada |
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The programme is partly about the murder of Emmett Till and includes Bob's song, in the video played over a series of still photographs. The CD-R comes in a jewel case with a single-sided front insert only and just the handwritten date "8-26-05" on the disc. The CD version comes in a card sleeve with cut-out to show the disc. For the video version of this programme, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.
R-0082-3 The Death Of Emmett Till
- lyrics on bobdylan.com
here, from
"The Broadside Show" radio broadcast, WBAI-FM, New York, May 1962
Originally released on the Smithsonian/Folkways album Broadside
Ballads Vol. 6: Broadside Reunion with Bob performing as "Blind Boy
Grunt", see 1972.
R-0082 is also on Introducing Bob Dylan, Pacifica Radio Archives
(USA), see above
This is a different performance from Witmark demo R-0035, found on the Warner Brothers sampler Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler, see 1967, now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964, 2010.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"Live At The Gaslight 1962" - Columbia/Legacy A 96016 (USA), 30 Aug 2005; Columbia/Legacy COL 82876728622 (Belgium), 7 Oct 2005:
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 Columbia/Legacy COL 82876728622 (Belgium) - front of Humo slipcase, scan by Bernard Reynaert |
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R-0701 A Hard Rain's
A-Gonna Fall
A 0:28 excerpt of this performance appears in
Bob Dylan In America, audiobook read by Sean Wilentz, Random House (USA),
see 2010.
R-0702
Rocks And Gravel (Brownie McGhee/Leroy Carr, wrongly credited to "Bob
Dylan")
Lyrics on bobdylan.com
here (where
it's copyrighted by Bob Dylan, although other authorities list the song writers
as Brownie McGhee and Leroy Carr - Glen Dundas and Michael Gray list it as
"Traditional")
A studio version appeared on the withdrawn US Columbia version of The
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963, and an
alternate take appeared on the limited edition 4CD-R set The 50th Anniversary
Collection (R-0964, see
2012). Thanks to Harold Lepidus for
news that the latest TV ad for the 2014 Jeep Cherokee SUV currently being
screened in the USA (see 30 Oct 2013 and 12 Nov 2013 below) includes this 1962
live performance.
R-0703 Don't Think
Twice, It's All Right
R-0679-2 The
Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird (Traditional)
- previously released on the promo CD
Chronicles Volume One 6 Song Sampler, Oct 2004 see
2004
R-0704 Moonshiner
(Traditional)
A studio version appeared on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991, see
International Albums (Regular). R-0704 was released in 2011 on the Sony
Music Germany compilation
Pure Dylan: An Intimate Look At Bob
Dylan, see 2011.
R-0467-3
Handsome Molly (Traditional) - previously released on the Japan only CD
Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances,
Feb 2001 see 2001. It was also one of the 42 rarities
included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection,
see Online Performances (Other).
R-0705
Cocaine (Traditional)
A version with Bob backing Richard Fariña and
Eric von Schmidt can be found on a UK-only Topic LP, see
1964.
A live version by Bob from the El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, 16 Dec
1997, was released on Columbia CD singles and on a bonus CD with the Australian
release of
Time Out Of Mind, see 1998.
R-0706 John Brown
(wrongly credited as "Traditional")
A "studio version" of this song recorded at the Broadside magazine offices in
New York, Feb 1963, was released by Bob under the pseudonym of "Blind Boy Grunt"
on Broadside Records, see 1963. It was not
included on a Columbia album until a 1994 version on MTV Unplugged in
1995, see International Albums
(Regular).
R-0707
Barbara Allen (Traditional)
R-0708
West Texas (Traditional)
Thanks to Ian Woodward for the tracklisting and scans of a promo CD-R copy called "Gaslight Lounge - 1962" in a clear plastic wallet with a white paper insert.
Thanks to Jim Paboucek for scans and especially to Tim Dunn for the copy of the album. Thanks to Bernard Reynaert from Belgium for information that a European version of this album exists! He says: "The Live at the Gaslight 1962 CD is now available for a limited time in Belgium through "Humo", a popular weekly magazine. It can be acquired in exchange of a voucher which was in today’s edition (4 Oct 2005) plus 12 Euros only in the “Standaard Boekhandel” (Boekhandel = bookstore) chain stores. I bought my copy in Brussels. The catalogue number of the CD (also a digipak) is COL 82876728622 and is housed in a exclusive brown slipcase which says “Humo presenteert Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962” (“Humo presents…). There is also a booklet (same as the US release I suppose) but the FBI warning is missing of course. The disc is “Made in the EU” which is on the label."
Hans Seegers confirms the disc is made in Austria for distribution in Belgium only at this time. The voucher was also included with the 11 Oct 2005 issue of "Humo". The magazine is on sale throughout the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. but the vouchers are redeemable only at Standaard Boekhandel stores. Jean-Pol Hiernaux adds that the Belgian release uses much better quality paper for both the digipak and the booklet than the US release - this is in contrast to the US and European releases of The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, where the US booklet is printed on considerably better paper, and needs a wider slipcase as a result!
Three songs, all traditional, from this tape of an Oct 1962 show or shows at the Gaslight Café, New York, have already been officially released:
The six still unreleased tracks from the tape up to Dec 2012 were: Black Cross (Joseph S. Newman) - a monologue written by the uncle of actor Paul Newman made famous by Lord Buckley and one of the highlights of the Gaslight tape; an early version of Ballad Of Hollis Brown; Motherless Children (Traditional); Kind-Hearted Woman Blues (Robert Johnson); See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson) - studio version released on Bob Dylan; Ain't No More Cane On The Brazo (James "Iron Head" Baker) - performed on The Basement Tapes by The Band. All seventeen songs circulate amongst Dylan collectors and it is a shame the full seventeen could not be officially released on a single title! The six missing tracks (plus No More Auction Block), dated 15 Oct 1962, are now available on CD4 of The 50th Anniversary Collection (Sony Music Europe, Dec 2012), which is a very limited release.
Thanks to David Goldsmith for correcting this list.
Thanks to Harold Lepidus' blog for information that Richard Alderson, Dylan’s former sound engineer, who recorded most of the 1966 tour, also recorded Bob's performances at the Gaslight Café in New York in Oct 1962. Richard Alderson commented about these tapes in a recent Facebook post. According to Alderson, “My original recordings of Bob from the Gaslight in October 1962 will be released on Sony in the near future… very, very few have heard them in their pristine sonic glory. Soon (to) come with the correct provenance and my story about recording them.”
"Live At The Gaslight 1962" - Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL), 2009:
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL) - front of card sleeve, scan by Tom Willems |
This album was released in 2009 in Holland as part of a 10CD set The Bob Dylan 60s Collection, released in association with the Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant", see 2009. The box contains 10 CDs in card sleeves and a 16-page booklet by Dutch author Martin Bril called "Een man uit de verte [A man from afar]". For scans of the regular albums in this set, see International Album Releases (Regular) - 2000s Multi-Packs. |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL) - rear of card sleeve, scan by Tom Willems |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL) - CD scan by Tom Willems |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2 (NL) - box front scan by Tom Willems |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2 (NL) - box rear scan by Tom Willems |
Thanks to Tom Willems for information and scans.
"No Direction Home: Bootleg Series Volume 7 - Exclusive Radio Sampler" - radio station CD, Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA), Sep 2005:
 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
Apparently this seven
track CD
went out to
non-profit and adult alternative radio stations. For a
Two Hour Radio Special promo radio station set on 2CD-Rs without bonus
material, see
International Album
Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. It is a glass-mastered CD, not
a CD-R, in a jewel case with front and back inserts. The catalogue number is
not printed on the artwork or the CD, just in the matrix information at the
centre of the disc. Keith Venturoni says: "After track 3, they insert the intro for Dylan at Newport '65 just before track 4 to make it sound as if that intro leads into that outtake". Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for the information that this is because the track She Belongs To Me is exactly as on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home - it has the intro to Maggie's Farm at Newport on the end of the track instead of at the start of Maggie's Farm! R-0728 Masters Of War
R-0729 Highway 61 Revisited banter
R-0730 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The
Memphis Blues Again (5:08)
R-0731 Highway 61 Revisited intro
Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux, Åsa Källén-Lindh, Ian Woodward, Keith Venturoni and Hans Seegers for information. Thanks also to Hans Seegers for scans (a huge improvement on the eBay photographs!). |
 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - CD scan by Hans Seegers |
 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - detail of CD, scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux showing matrix information with catalogue number |
"Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963" - CD releases: Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA); Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe), 15 Nov 2005:
 Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA) - front of card sleeve, scan by Gil Lamont |
If you buy No Direction Home: The
Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 and "The Bob Dylan Scrapbook"
together from bobdylan.com in the USA, you will get this free six
track CD in a card sleeve which opens at the top (the European version opens
at the side). Thanks to Lee Griffin for news that this CD is also available
at Borders in the USA, with selected Dylan purchases such as "The Bob Dylan
Scrapbook", the paperback edition of "Chronicles Vol. 1",
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, and several other
remastered Dylan CDs. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information that this CD
was included as a bonus disc in a limited edition "long box" release of
The Best Of Bob Dylan (US release). Thanks to Ian Woodward for scans of a European CD-R promo release, which came in a clear plastic wallet with a white paper insert. The title is misspelled as "Carnagie" on the insert. This mistake was repeated on the Apple iTunes online store in Sep 2005, see Online Performances (Other). Because they were never on sale directly, the CD releases look like promos, with promo text on the rear of the card sleeves and CDs. The European CD was made in Austria, as stated in the circumference text. |
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 Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA) - detail of CD with promo text, scan by Gil Lamont |
 Columbia 130C 675013LB (USA) - "long box" front scan by Hans Seegers (includes bonus CD of Carnegie Hall) |
 Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - front of card sleeve with Virgin UK sticker, scan by Neil Burling |
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 Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - detail of rear of card sleeve with promo text, scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
 Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - CD scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
 Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - detail of CD with promo text, scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
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 Columbia SAMPCD 15043 2 (Europe) - front scan of card sleeve by Tom Willems |
 Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA) and Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - side-by-side comparison showing different sleeve openings (my copies) |
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This album uses a pastiche of the front of the cancelled US Columbia Bob Dylan In Concert album, including the "STEREO"/arrows logo, see 1964. Thanks to Bob Stacy for pointing out that this is a slightly different photograph from the one due to be used in 1964, both taken by Don Hunstein. Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier and Franck Faugere for details of the European release, Columbia SAMPCM 15009 2. This was initially available only in France, at stores like Virgin with purchases of No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7, but Tim Hayter tells me it is now available at Virgin stores in the UK with any two Dylan CDs.
All tracks were recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963. Thanks to Bob Stacy for the information that they have been remixed by Michael Brauer.
R-0709
The Times They Are A-Changin' -
previously unreleased and uncirculating
R-0710
Ballad Of Hollis Brown -
previously unreleased and uncirculating
This track also appears on Serve 2, a charity album released in Nov 2007
to benefit World Hunger Year, see 2007.
R-0711
Boots Of Spanish Leather -
previously unreleased and uncirculating
R-0370-3 Lay Down Your Weary Tune
- included on the unreleased US Columbia Bob Dylan
In Concert album, see 1964, and also
appeared on the "Goldmine" acetates, see 1980,
and released on bobdylan.com (BDC5, see
Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )
R-0712
North Country Blues
- previously unreleased and
uncirculating
R-0713
With God On Our Side
- previously unreleased and
uncirculating
These six tracks are also part of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see Online Performances (Other).
Other tracks from this concert released on the unreleased US Columbia Bob Dylan In Concert album, see 1964:
When The Ship Comes In (R-0373) - now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, Sep 2005
Percy's Song (R-0374) - also released on
bobdylan.com (BDC11, see
Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )
This has now been released on the Columbia/Legacy Europe 6LP limited edition
50th Anniversary Collection 1963, Dec
2013.
Seven Curses (R-0376/R-0794) - also
released on bobdylan.com (BDC13, see
Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )
This has also now been released on the Columbia/Legacy Europe 6LP limited
edition 50th Anniversary Collection 1963, Dec
2013.
There are also three tracks that have never had R-numbers:
Who Killed Davey Moore? - released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991
Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - previously unreleased and uncirculating, now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, Sep 2005
Thanks to Pachi Becerril for reminding me of the two Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 tracks. The remaining seven songs from the nineteen song show have now been released on the Columbia/Legacy Europe 6LP limited edition 50th Anniversary Collection 1963, Dec 2013, all remixed by Michael Brauer. Yet again one wishes Columbia would stop this accursed fragmentation and release the whole concert on a single title!
Purchases of No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 in Holland and at HMV in the UK (unlike Virgin, see above) have included a new release of the promo CD Chronicles Volume One 6 Song Sampler, see 2004, and sadly not the Carnegie Hall CD. Note that both CDs shown above have the "joke" logo "363º SOUND" round the bottom edge. This is not a mistake, as the 2004 Chronicles CD had ""361º SOUND"!
Thanks to Gil Lamont, Neil Burling, Jean-Pierre Mercier, Tom Willems and Gerd Rundel for information and scans and especially to Tim Dunn for the copy of the US album. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan of the "long box" release of The Best Of Bob Dylan, which includes this as a bonus CD.
"Bob Dylan Live At
Carnegie Hall 1963" - Sony Music
Direct MBCH 80002 (Japan), 15 Nov 2005:
In Japan this CD was only available in exchange for
five vouchers, one from each of the following albums:
The second and third albums are of course the 2005 remasters, released in Japan in card sleeves, as are the two Greatest Hits albums (I've now bought the last four in card sleeves from Japan and have added them to the International Albums (Regular) section.)
 Sony Music Direct MBCH 80002 (Japan) - front of card sleeve, scan by Michio Kinoshita |
Like the US and European releases, the Japanese CD release looks like a promo (because it was never on sale directly) and came in a card sleeve with a promo letter and a folded insert in Japanese. There is promo text on the rear of the card sleeve and the CD has "ADVANCE SAMPLER COPY" left of the centre hole and "NOT FOR SALE" in the circumference text. Thanks to Peter Good for finding the Japanese promo CD-R on eBay. Thanks to Wil Gielen for scans of a very rare test pressing with the title Carnegie Hall 6 Song Sampler produced by Sony Music Studios, Tokyo, for in-house distribution only. It is in a standard CD jewel case with a single card front insert and no rear insert. The CD-R itself is blank. Also shown is a promo CD-R found on eBay. |
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The Band - "A Musical History" - book with 5CD+DVD set, Capitol 72435-77409-6 (USA); Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe), 26 Sep 2005:
 Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe) - front of sealed book with stickers (my copy), note the name "THE BAND" is actually on a transparent sticker and not on the book cover itself! |
Thanks to Tim Dunn for the US catalogue number. This 112-page book measuring 11½" x 9½" has three pages at the back with pockets containing 5CDs plus a DVD. When sealed, the copy has two transparent stickers on the shrink-wrap, one with the name "THE BAND", and one describing the content (shown below). There are several photos of Bob in the book and four Dylan rarities on the CDs, two of which are previously unreleased, plus five other Dylan tracks. CDs 3 and 4 plus the DVD have no Dylan content. |
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 Capitol 72435-77409-6 (USA) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol 72435-77409-6 (USA) - detail of rear insert with US catalogue number, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe) - CD1 with R-0650 and R-0054 |
 Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe) - CD2 with R-0064 |
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CD1:
R-0650-2 Tell Me, Momma
- recorded live with The Hawks at the Odeon Theatre,
Liverpool, England, 14 May 1966 (4:05)
Thanks to Larry Crum for spotting that this performance
previously appeared in The Band video The Authorised Biography,
released on VHS in 1995 and DVD in 2000, see
VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2. Now also on
the Columbia/Legacy USA/Europe 36CD set
The 1966 Live Recordings, Nov
2016.
Both versions are still in mono as originally recorded. The 2016 version is 4:35
instead of 4:05 here, with a longer intro.
Reports that this performance is incomplete with a drop-out are incorrect to my
ears.
R-0054-9 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- recorded live with the Hawks at The Odeon Theatre,
Liverpool, England, 14 May 1966 (5:41), B-side of US 7" single I Want You,
(see 1966)
This live version, never released on a regular Columbia album, is also on
the Japanese promo LP Mr. D's Collection #1 (see
1974), the Japanese promo EP
Mr. D's Collection #2 (see
1976), the
1978 Australian set Masterpieces (see
1978), and the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3 promo CD
(see 1993).
It's also on the Japanese set Dylan Ga Rock (see
1993 and
2010). Sadly, it does not appear on the B-side of a withdrawn CBS
Spanish EP (see 1972), because the record
was mispressed with It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from
Highway 61 Revisited instead! This track is now one
of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes
Bob Dylan Collection, see
Online Performances (Other), and is also on
the Columbia/Legacy USA/Europe 36CD set
The 1966 Live Recordings,
Nov
2016.
All versions are still in mono as originally recorded.
Fred Muller says the version
on the Columbia/Legacy USA/Europe 36CD set
The 1966 Live Recordings
is not only longer at 6:51, but slightly clipped at the beginning when
compared with the versions on Masterpieces and The Band: A Musical
History. This is confirmed by Peter Coulthard and Roger Ford, who say
that the first two bars of the performance on the 1966 mono single and
subsequent releases of R-0054 up to 2016 were spliced in from the
performance of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues from the ABC Theatre, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, 6 May 1966!
This was however not
done by Richard Alderson who recorded both shows.
In a Jan 2017 email conversation between Richard and Peter Coulthard,
Richard said that he handed all his 7" Nagra reels over to Howard Alk at the
end of the tour and never saw them again. It's possible that the splice was
done by Mike Claydon of I.B.C. Recording Studios, London, who was
contracted by Columbia to make four recordings from
Sheffield, 16 May 1966,onwards, or maybe by
Columbia engineers in the USA, although the time scale is unbelievably
short. This means that track 8 on CD14 of
The 1966 Live Recordings
is not the same as R-0054, and now has a new R-number, R-1906.
This CD also contains Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - single version, again in mono, but indicated so here; Odds And Ends from The Basement Tapes. Thanks to David Burgess for news that the early version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? that appeared by mistake on the first Columbia US promo 7" mono single release of Positively 4th Street (R-0044, see 1965) has again appeared by mistake in 2014 in the Spotify online version of A Musical History! This version has now been released in stereo on The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (6CD Deluxe Edition) CD4, track 2, and The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (18 CD Collector's Edition) CD6, track 19. Because R-0044 is in mono, it remains a rarity.
CD2:
R-0064-4 I Ain't Got No Home
- recorded live with The Band at the Tribute to Woody
Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, New York, 20 Jan 1968 (afternoon show), from the
Tribute to Woody Guthrie Part 1 album (see
1972)
This performance also appears on the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3
promo CD (see 1993).
This CD also contains Don't Ya Tell Henry plus several other songs from The Basement Tapes featuring The Band alone. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for pointing out that the version of Long Distance Operator (4:32) is listed as previously unreleased and recorded at Goldstar Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 21 Feb 1968. The so-called Basement Tapes version is 3:40, but the new performance is in fact the same recording with an edited verse restored. (It is actually well known that not all the Band tracks included on The Basement Tapes album were the versions that were actually recorded there!)
CDs 3-4 have no Dylan content.
CD5:
R-0651 Highway 61 Revisited
- recorded live with The Band at Madison Square
Garden, New York, 31 Jan 1974 (evening show), previously unreleased
The version on Before The Flood was recorded live with The Band at The
Forum, Inglewood, CA, 14 Feb 1974 (evening show).
This CD also contains Forever Young (slow version) from Planet Waves and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, live from The Forum, Inglewood, CA, 13 Feb 1974, from Before The Flood.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information that a
19-track CD The Best Of "A Musical History" was released by Capitol in
the USA and Canada on 17 Apr 2007. This contains two tracks with Bob, Can You
Please Crawl Out Your Window? and Forever Young. There are no rarities.
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Capitol 09463-88713-2-2 (USA) - Standard Edition front scan by Jack from Canada |
19 Song Tracklist: 1 Who Do You Love; 2
He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart); 3 Can You Please
Crawl Out Your Window?; 4 Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos; 5
The Weight; 6 Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast); 7
King Harvest (Has Surely Come); 8 All La Glory; 9 Stage Fright;
10 I Shall Be Released; 11
4% Pantomime; 12 Don't Do It; 13
Life Is A Carnival; 14 Slippin' And Slidin';
15 Endless Highway; 16 Share Your
Love With Me; 17 Forever Young; 18 Twilight; 19 Home Cookin'. Song titles in blue are not on the 18-track CD below. |
 Capitol 09463-88713-2-2 (USA) - Deluxe Edition slipcase front with sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
The CD is also available as a Deluxe Edition with a bonus DVD of six live Band performances from the DVD in this set. For details of both these editions, see International Compilations (Other Artists' Albums with Dylan Album Tracks).
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
The Band - "A Musical History: Selections from The Box Set" - promo CD, Capitol 09463-32310-2-3 (USA), Sep 2005:
 Capitol 09463-32310-2-3 (USA) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
This 18-song promo CD has a different tracklist from the commercial 19-song single CD above above. |
 Capitol 09463-32310-2-3 (USA) - reverse of front insert, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol 09463-32310-2-3 (USA) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol 09463-32310-2-3 (USA) - reverse of rear insert, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol 09463-32310-2-3 (USA) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
This CD comes in a clear jewel case with a single card as the front insert. It has "Licensed for Promotional use only" on the rear insert and the disc.
18 Song Tracklist: 1 Who Do You Love; 2 He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart); 3 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?; 4 Caledonia Mission; 5 Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos; 6 In A Station; 7 The Weight; 8 Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast); 9 King Harvest (Has Surely Come); 10 All La Glory; 11 Don't Do It; 12 Life Is A Carnival; 13 Loving You (Is Sweeter Than Ever); 14 Move Me; 15 Share Your Love With Me; 16 Forever Young; 17 Twilight; 18 Home Cookin'.
Song titles in green are not on the 19-track CD above.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
The Band - "A Musical History: Box Set Radio Special"
- radio station CD-R, Capitol (no catalogue number) (USA), Sep 2005:
This one-hour radio show promoting The Band's boxed set includes two Dylan
rarities. The CD-R is in a standard jewel case without a front insert.
 Rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
R-0650-2 Tell Me, Momma
- recorded live with The Hawks at the Odeon
Theatre, Liverpool, England, 14 May 1966
R-0651-2 Highway 61 Revisited
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans. |
 CD-R scan by Jack from Canada |
Harry Belafonte - "The Essential Harry Belafonte" - compilation 2CD sets, RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (USA/Europe)/ RCA/Legacy 82876692422 (Australia), 10 Oct 2005; "Gold series" compilation 2CD set, RCA/Legacy/Sony Music 190759890523 (Australia), 6 Sep 2019:
RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (USA/Europe)/ RCA/Legacy 82876692422 (Australia), 10 Oct 2005:
 RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (Europe) - front with sticker (my copy) |
R-0001-38
Midnight Special (Huddie Ledbetter "Lead Belly")
For details of the original album, see 1962. The US release shown has the FBI Anti-Piracy logo on the rear insert. The European release has a folded front insert with six pages per side.
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 RCA/Legacy 82876692422 (Australia) - rear insert scan by Peter Oudejans |
 RCA/Legacy 82876692422 (Australia) - CD1 scan by Peter Oudejans (includes R-0001) |
 RCA/Legacy 82876692422 (Australia) - CD2 scan by Peter Oudejans (no Dylan) |
 RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (USA) - front picture from www.amazon.com |
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RCA/Legacy
82876 69242 2
(Europe) - outside of unfolded front insert
RCA/Legacy
82876 69242 2
(Europe) - inside of unfolded front insert
RCA/Legacy
82876 69242 2
(Europe) - detail of rear ("Made in the EU")
 RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (Europe) - detail of inside of front insert |
This excerpt from the front insert gets the facts for Midnight Special almost entirely wrong. The recording date is given as 23 Mar 1962, much later than when it actually took place on 2 Feb 1962 (as confirmed by the tape boxes), although the original release date of Apr 1962 is probably right. The album is said to have been produced by Bob Bollard, but he just wrote the liner notes, it was actually produced by Hugo Montenegro, who is not even credited in the list of producers on the rear insert. (Bob Bollard received a Grammy award – his only one - in 1963 for the liner notes to the RCA album The Amazing Amanda Ambrose, which he also produced.) Also, only Harry Belafonte and Bob Dylan are named in the musicians' credits, the others are all "unknown", whereas the original Midnight Special album clearly names them. They do get right that the orchestra was conducted by Jimmy Jones! |
 The Amazing Amanda Ambrose, RCA Victor LPM-2742 (USA, 1963) - picture from www.shugarecords.com (actually produced by Bob Bollard) |
 RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (Europe) - detail of outside of front insert |
The liner notes for this 2005 compilation include a quote from Harry Belafonte in which he says Bob played harmonica on Old Top Of Old Smokey, another track from The Midnight Special. Like Midnight Special, the recording details for this song here are incomplete. However, there is no harmonica on the track and this is not an unsuspected Dylan rarity. |
 RCA/Legacy 82876 69242 2 (Europe) - detail of inside of front insert |
RCA/Legacy/Sony Music 190759890523 (Australia), 6 Sep 2019:
 RCA/Legacy/Sony Music 190759890523 (Australia) - front with "Gold Series" sticker, scan by Stuart Moore |
This set was re-released in Australia in 2019 as part of the "Gold Series" with gold discs. The packaging is otherwise identical to that of the Australian 2005 release above. |
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RCA/Legacy/Sony Music
190759890523
(Australia) - detail of rear insert, scan by Stuart Moore
("Distributed in Australia...")
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Hanns Peter Bushoff, Stuart Moore and Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Music From The Motion Picture
'North Country'" - film soundtrack album releases, Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax
CK 97777 (USA/Europe/New Zealand), 11 Oct 2005; Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021
(Japan), 25 Jan 2006:
The picture on the front of the album sleeve is of Charlize Theron, who
stars as a woman working in a Northern Minnesota mine who takes a stand against
sexual harassment. As Bob was raised in Hibbing, a mining town in Northern
Minnesota, it's easy to see why he supported this film. For the film DVD
release, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.
Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (USA):
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (USA) - front of sealed copy with sticker (my copy) |
R-0649 Tell Ol' Bill
- previously unreleased song, recorded mid-2005 This track was one of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see Online Performances (Other). It was listed as an alternate take, but turned out to be R-0649. The real alternate take of Tell Ol' Bill was released in Oct 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. This means R-0649 remains a rarity. |
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Speculation at first was that this was the previously uncirculating out-take from Self Portrait recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 4 Mar 1970, now released in Aug 2013 on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971). Clinton Heylin lists it as "Tell Old Bill", while Michael Krogsgaard lists it as "This Evening So Soon" as written on the studio session recording sheet, which is the Bootleg Series Vol. 10 title. However, R-0649 is in fact a new recording, made earlier this year with musicians including Elana Fremerman on violin. Thanks to Tim Dunn and Michael Mets for the information that the song is credited to "Bob Dylan" and is not the same as the traditional song, now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) as This Evening So Soon, 2013.
The North Country soundtrack album also includes Lay, Lady, Lay from Nashville Skyline, Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) from Slow Train Coming, and Sweetheart Like You from Infidels. There are also covers of Girl From The North Country by Leo Kottke and Paths Of Victory by Cat Power. Paul S. Levine thinks that Lay, Lady, Lay and Sweetheart Like You are remixes, but my ears can't hear any significant differences from the tracks released in the 2003 series of hybrid SA-CDs. There is a pale blue information sticker with white text on the outside of the jewel case. The front insert is a single sheet with three folds. The CD tray is clear to show the picture on the reverse of the rear insert.
Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe):
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - front scan by Gerd Rundel |
Unusually the European release has the same "CK" catalogue number as the US release. The front insert looks the same except for an additional Sony BMG logo on the right of the inside. The rear insert has a different layout with "MADE IN THE EU" in the copyright line. The CD also has "MADE IN THE EU" in the circumference text. |
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 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - reverse of front insert, scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - detail of reverse of front insert, scan by Gerd Rundel ("CK 97777") |
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - inside of unfolded front insert, scan by Gerd Rundel (with Sony BMG logo) |
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - rear insert scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - CD scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (Europe) - detail of CD, scan by Gerd Rundel ("MADE IN THE EU") |
Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan):
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - front of sealed copy with obi (my copy) |
Thanks to Michio Kinoshita for
information about the Japanese release. The three fold front insert and
the reverse of the rear insert are identical to the US release, with
English text. There is a black, blue and white obi with price ¥2,520 and a
Japanese language lyrics booklet inside the front insert. There is no
information sticker as on the US release. For a Sony Japan Jan 2006
promotional album with R-0649, see
2006. Thanks to Hervé from France for the photo of a Japanese promo CD - it is in a standard jewel case with no inserts. The title is in Japanese but the song titles are in English. |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - rear insert |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - lyrics booklet |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - CD |
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Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (New
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 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (New Zealand) - front scan by Bill Hester |
Thanks to Bill Hester for scans of the New Zealand release and for the information that Niki Caro, the director of this film and the acclaimed "Whale Rider", is a New Zealander, and it was her who persuaded Bob to provide a song for the film! |
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Columbia/Sony
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Hester
This New Zealand connection is probably why there was a separate New Zealand release for the album. Thanks also to Bill for this excerpt from an interview with Niki Caro:
NC: (happily) Oh, I'm the producer of that. It thrills me to the core.
Q: There’s Bob Dylan from Minnesota, but is there another aspect of him that made him appropriate for this film?
NC: Good question. When you're cutting the film, you put a lot of music in the picture to see what works. I'm a big Dylan fan, but I'm an equally big Springsteen fan. I tried some of Springsteen's stuff in the movie and it just wouldn't work. When I thought about it, when I really stopped to think about his music: It's very narrative, but it's almost exclusively from the point of view of the young American male and the working class world. Then everything of Dylan's I put in the picture worked just like a charm. So we went to him to see if he'd write an original song for us. I went to meet him. I went from Auckland, New Zealand, to Camden, New Jersey, which is a long trip just for a day to join him briefly on his tour and discuss the movie with him. It was great. And then I just put more and more Dylan songs.
Thanks to David Plentus, Ole Lien, Gino Galvez, Gil Walker, Paul S. Levine, Gerd Rundel, Michio Kinoshita, Hervé from France and Bill Hester for information and pictures.
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For
Bangladesh: Remixed Edition" - 2CD sets, Apple/Capitol
09463-35880-2-8 (USA), 22
Oct 2005;
Epic 82876729862 (Europe), 21 Oct 2005; Epic
MHCP 896-7 (Japan), 2 Nov 2005:
For the original 1972 Apple 3LP set and the original 1991 Epic 2CD set
release, see
1972. This release warrants a separate
entry as it has new material. As with previous releases, this release is shared
between EMI (Apple/Capitol) and Sony (Epic). It comes in a hinged orange
CD-sized box.
 Apple/Capitol US 4-track sampler CD with R-0079, picture from eBay |
Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding the US Apple/Capitol
4-track sampler CD on eBay - this promo CD includes R-0079. Apparently it
has no catalogue number. This set comes in a box with a 40-page stapled booklet with several pictures of Bob, some of which were used for the cover of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 in Nov 1971, see International Albums (Regular). All tracks recorded live with George Harrison, Leon Russell and Ringo Starr, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 Aug 1971 (evening show). For information on VHS video and DVD releases of the feature film, omitting Mr. Tambourine Man (R-0078), see VHS & DVD 1970s. For the expanded edition released in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, which includes new Dylan material, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. |
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 Apple/Capitol 09463-35880-2-8 (USA) - CD1 scan by Jack from Canada (no Dylan) |
 Apple/Capitol 09463-35880-2-8 (USA) - CD2 scan by Jack from Canada (includes Bob) |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - rear of box with promo panel, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic MHCP 896 (Japan) - promo CD2 scan by Hans Seegers (includes Bob) |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - obi scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - front with obi, picture from Rob Cole |
 Sony Music MHCP 896 (Japan) - test pressing CD-R Disc 1, picture found on eBay by Sam Plessers (no Dylan) |
 Sony Music MHCP 897 (Japan) - test pressing CD-R Disc 2, picture found on eBay by Sam Plessers (includes Bob) |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - rear promo panel, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic MHCP 896 (Japan) - detail of promo CD2, scan by Hans Seegers |
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R-0075-4 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
This performance also appeared on a 1983 compilation from Columbia Brazil,
The Legend, see 1983.
R-0076-4 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It
Takes A Train To Cry
This performance also appeared on a 1995 Westwood One US radio station broadcast
about Dylan and the Beatles, see 1995.
R-0077-7 Blowin' In The Wind
This performance also appeared on an Epic promo CD single for The Concert For
Bangladesh, see 1991.
R-0078-3 Mr. Tambourine Man
This performance, which is not in the film, also appeared in a 1981 US radio
broadcast
Guitar - A Rock Episode: The Guitars Of Bob Dylan (see
1981), and on a 1990 US radio broadcast in Radio Today/ABC Radio
Networks series "The Live Show" (see 1990).
R-0079-3 Just Like A Woman
This deluxe edition, which is being released to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, comes with a bonus track:
R-0722 Love Minus Zero/No Limit
(afternoon show)
The rear of the box has the FBI anti-piracy notice and logo, while the discs have the notice only. The Japanese test pressing CD-Rs are dated "2005/11/2" (2 Nov 2005). The promo and commercial releases have a bigger box than the US and European releases, with two booklets and an orange, white and black obi with white and black text and price ¥4,200. The Epic Japan promo CDs have the correct catalogue numbers, but each has text from the discs in the 2005 DVD release, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - front scan by Stuart Moore |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - front of booklet, scan by Stuart Moore |
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - inside pages of booklet with Bob, scan by Stuart Moore |
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - detail of inside page of booklet, scan by Stuart Moore |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - inside page of booklet with Bob, scan by Stuart Moore |
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - inside pages of booklet with Bob, scan by Stuart Moore |
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - rear insert scan by Stuart Moore |
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - CD1 scan by Stuart Moore |
 Epic 82876729862 (Argentina) - CD2 scan by Stuart Moore |
Thanks to Harold Lepidus and other contributors who told me about this release. Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the US release. Thanks to Rob Cole and Sam Plessers for finding the Sony Music Japan Epic test pressing and Epic commercial releases. Thanks to Hans Seegers and Stuart Moore for further information and scans.
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh: 40th Anniversary Edition" - iTunes download, Apple iTunes Store (Worldwide), 27 Jul 2011:
 Screenshot from iTunes UK |
This concert recorded 1 Aug 1971 is now available as a 40th Anniversary release from iTunes stores. |
Various Artists - "Putumayo Presents American Folk" - compilation CD, Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA), 2005:
 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
This
CD is in a digipak with a Japanese-style top obi.
R-0215-5 Boots Of Spanish Leather
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Jack from Canada for information and scans. |
 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - rear with promo sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
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 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
"Exclusive Out-takes From 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack'"- Three Track Download Only Single (USA), 5 Nov 2005/(UK), 14 Nov 2005:
 Picture from iTunes web-site |
These three rarities can now be found in Online Performances (Other). |
Promotional/Regular Items for 2005
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Stereo promo albums and singles for 2005 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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