Up Front album by the Delta Cross Band (Medley MdLP 6065, Denmark, 1981) with their cover of the unreleased LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE (my copy)
"Starlight
In The East"
Directory
of Bob Dylan’s Unreleased Songs: L
| Compiled by Alan Fraser |
Up
Front album by the Delta Cross Band (Medley MdLP 6065, Denmark, 1981)
with their cover of the unreleased LEGIONNAIRE'S
DISEASE (my copy)
Revised:
06 January, 2024
For the meanings of the song title colours and the circulation codes used in this directory, please see the header page for this section (click on "Up" below).
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(Indefinite and definite articles at the beginning of song titles are ignored, so A WOMAN LIKE YOU is on the "W" page, and THE KING IS ON THE THRONE is on the "K" page.)
| LA LA LA | Ray Price/Leonard McRight, 1989 | L |
| This is probably HEY LA LA, a cover performed in May-July 1989 | ||
| LAS VEGAS BLUES | 1970 | S |
| Spontaneous song recorded with George Harrison during the "New Morning" sessions at Columbia Studios, New York, 01 Jun 1970 (no CO no.), also known as WONDER WHEN MY SWAMP’S GONNA CATCH ON FIRE and TELEPHONE WIRE - frequently misidentified as an out-take from "Self Portrait" recorded Columbia Studios, Nashville, May 1969 | ||
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| LAST THOUGHTS ON WOODY GUTHRIE | 1963 | O |
| Bob's poem recorded at the New York Town Hall, 12 Apr 1963, released on "The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 [Rare And Unreleased] 1961-1991" in 1991, was set to music and recorded by P.P, Arnold on her 2019 Ear Music album "The New Adventures Of P. P. Arnold". The song is credited to Bob Dylan and Special Rider Music but there is no credit for the added music | ||
| LAUGHING WHEN YOU WANT TO CRY | Bob Dylan/Gene Simmons, 1991 | D |
| Song co-written with Gene Simmons of Kiss, who said when interviewed in 1996: "Bob Dylan and I wrote a tune together, which has yet to come out, which we have yet to completely finish, although it's been demoed already. I wrote a lyric for it called LAUGHING WHEN YOU WANT TO CRY. But certainly when I sat in the same room with him in my guest house, 'cause he came to my house to write this tune, you're aware of people that have been here before you, who have made their mark while I was still in diapers. This is the king of lyrics. For me to sit in the same room and be treated as an equal is the highest honor. Then to find out one of the girls in his band, Scarlet Rivera, who I used to see for awhile, she knew nothing about the band when we first started out. I told her we wear makeup and she went back and told Bob and for a while he started wearing whiteface. KISS! Been there, done it, bought the T-shirt." Other sources date this collaboration as being from just before the time Kiss released their "Revenge" album in 1992. There's no other information about who actually recorded the demo mentioned. Thanks to Gil Walker for the information. Thanks to Alex Filosa for news that in Jan 2018 Gene Simmons released "The Vault 1966-2016", a collectable model safe full of Simmons memorabilia including 10CDs plus a bonus CD, including three co-compositions with Bob Dylan on CDs 5 and 6 - EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY, NA, NA, NA, NA and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT, the last of which was previously released in a shorter version in 2004 on Gene's solo Sanctuary Records album entitled "A**hole". CD5 also contains a 15:40 track called "BOB DYLAN WRITING SESSION". Each safe costs $2000 and will be hand-delivered to the buyer by Gene Simmons himself! (Presumably just in the continental USA.) LAUGHING WHEN YOU WANT TO CRY is not included! | ||
| LEAVING IT ALL UP TO YOU | 1981 | N? |
| Recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, May-June 1981, no other details known | ||
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| LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE | 1978 | C |
| Soundchecked by Bob in Detroit, MI, 13 Oct 1978, but never performed
in front of an audience and no
known studio version - available officially only as a cover by
Billy Cross' Delta Cross Band on their 1981 album "Up
Front" (Medley MdLP 6065, Denmark) and also as the B-side of their single BACK
ON THE ROAD AGAIN (Medley MdS 176, Denmark, 1981),
and on their compilation album "Dirty Trax:
The Best Of Delta Cross Band" (Capitol
0724383384525, Denmark, 1995). Billy Cross was the lead guitarist on Bob's 1978 world tour and appears on "Bob Dylan At Budokan" and "Street-Legal" - he subsequently moved to Denmark to live and work. Lyrics of the song on bobdylan.com are here. Thanks to Karl Erik Andersen, Olav Langum and Jack from Canada for information about these releases, and to Peter Gilmer for the copy of the 7" single! Thanks to Anders Lindh for news his band Born 53 have recorded LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE for their latest album "Thieving In The Alley: Songs Of Bob Dylan" (Big Note Records, Sweden, 2012), and for a copy of the album! Billy Cross has also recorded another 1978 unreleased song, MORE THAN FLESH AND BLOOD CAN BEAR as well as a new version of LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE on the Nov 2022 Danish Bessie Productions album "Copenhagen Skyline" by Dissing Las & Cross |
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| LET ME BEGIN TO LOVE | 1980-81 | N? |
| Song from the "Shot Of Love" period that is known to exist only as a handwritten song lyric which came up for auction in the late 1980s - information from Clinton Heylin's book "Still On The Road - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2: 1974-2008" (Constable, 2010) | ||
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Bob Dylan?, 1985 | S |
| Previously unknown song possibly recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, May-Oct 1985. | ||
| LET ME SEE | 1981 or 1982 | S |
| Recorded at unknown location, probably Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, copyrighted 1985 | ||
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| LET’S KEEP IT BETWEEN US | 1980 | O |
| Performed live November-December 1980, no known Dylan studio version - originally available officially only as a cover by Bonnie Raitt on her 1982 Warner Bros album "Green Light". This performance is also compiled on "The Songs Of Bob Dylan", Start Records, UK, 1989. Lyrics on bobdylan.com are here. The 2CD Standard Edition of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 - Springtime In New York 1980-1985", released in Sep 2021, contains a rehearsal version of LET’S KEEP IT BETWEEN US, recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 26 Sep 1980 | ||
The People Versus Vanlustbäder
- 2006 Nomadic Music album featuring "co-composition" LET'S ROLL 'EM
| LET’S ROLL 'EM | Bob Dylan/Shane Bruun, 2005 | N? |
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information about
this apparent co-composition between Bob and a member of the Australian
group Vanlustbäder. The song actually just
quotes a few lines of SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES, almost
certainly done without Bob's involvement.
The band are releasing this on a Nomadic Music album called "The People Versus
Vanlustbäder"
on 3 Apr 2006. For more details, see
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| LETTER IN THE MAIL | 1967-68 | Y |
| Lyrics from the "John Wesley Harding" period held at the Bob Dylan Archive, University of Tulsa, OK. Thanks to Derek Barker and "Isis" magazine for information | ||
LEVEN NA DE DOOD - Dutch EMI CD single of Freek de Jonge's Dutch version of DEATH IS NOT THE END, scan by Hans Seegers (Bob's name is
shown as composer with Freek de Jonge)
| LEVEN NA DE DOOD | 1983 | O |
| Alternate Dutch title for DEATH IS NOT THE END, recorded in 1983 for the "Infidels" sessions, but not released until 1988 on "Down In The Groove". Hans Seegers says: "This is a free translation in Dutch of DEATH IS NOT THE END as "LIFE AFTER DEATH". This song was very famous in Holland some years ago performed by a cabaret performer called Freek de Jonge, and is available on CD." Thanks to Jack from Canada, Hans Seegers, Tim Dunn and Hilda Fernhout for information | ||
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| L'HOMME ORCHESTRE | Bob Dylan/Hugues Aufray/Pierre Delanoë, 1965 | O |
| Song copyrighted by Bob at SESAC - thanks
to Dag Braathen for information. Thanks to Tim Dunn for identifying this as a
French translation of MR. TAMBOURINE MAN from "Bringing It All
Back Home". Thanks to David Plentus for pointing out that this
version was recorded by Hugues Aufray for an EP in 1965
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then live in 1966. The original version was available on CD as a bonus
track on the 1992 reissue of the 1965 album "Hugues Aufray Chante
Dylan" (Barclay 519 308-2, France, 1993), although the latest
Barclay/PolyGram remastered reissue of the album has no bonus tracks.
Hugues has also since re-recorded it in 1995
and released a 1996 live version! (Hugues' co-writer Pierre
Delanoë also co-wrote with Gilbert Bécaud the original French
version of LET IT BE ME, recorded by Bob in 1969 for "Self
Portrait" and in 1981 for the B-side of HEART OF MINE).
Thanks to Ronald Born for a scan of the A-side of a test pressing of
Barclay 70.854, dated 30 Sep 1965 |
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Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes
[Various Artists],
Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records 2537950140 (USA/Europe) containing
the "lost" Dylan song
LIBERTY STREET completed by Taylor Goldsmith
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LIBERTY STREET |
Bob Dylan/Taylor Goldsmith, 1967/2014 | Y |
| T-Bone Burnett has produced an album called "Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes", released in Nov 2014, consisting of unreleased Bob songs from lyrics unused during the Basement Tapes sessions with The Band in Woodstock, New York in 1967, completed by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford. LIBERTY STREET has been completed by Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes. Another version, entitled SIX MONTHS IN KANSAS CITY (LIBERTY STREET), has been completed by Elvis Costello | ||
| LIFE AND DEATH OF DON WHITE | 1962 | O |
| Alternate title mentioned in Izzy Young's diary "Other Scenes", published 1968, for THE BALLAD OF DONALD WHITE, recorded 1962 and released on the "Broadside Reunion" album in 1971 under the pseudonym of "Blind Boy Grunt" | ||
Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued
[Various Artists],
Eagle Vision EVB 355079 (USA) - front of Blu-ray release (my
copy)
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LIGHT HOUSE WOMAN |
Bob Dylan/Elvis Costello, 1967/2014 | R |
| Thanks to Tim Dunn for information that a new song LIGHT HOUSE WOMAN which may have been completed by Elvis Costello is mentioned in the Showtime documentary "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued", although it's not listed on the DVD insert. At about 55:57, Elvis Costello and T-Bone Burnett Burnett are talking and Costello says "we've done LIGHT HOUSE WOMAN...there is a version...." | ||
| LIKE A RICH MAN'S SON | 1966 | N |
| Song idea developed during the "Blonde On Blonde" sessions, 1966 - typed lyrics published in "Isis" #46 and "Isis" #120. Information from Clinton Heylin's book "Revolution In The Air - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957-73" (Constable, 2009) | ||
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| LIKE A ROLLING PIN | Bob Dylan/Paul Westerberg, 1990 | N |
| Spoof version of LIKE A ROLLING STONE from "Highway 61 Revisited" with new lyrics by Paul Westerberg of Minneapolis group The Replacements from a Sire 5-track promo 12" single (late 1990) and CD (early 1991) "Don't Sell or Buy, It's Crap". It can now be found on their 1997 Reprise 2CD compilation "All For Nothing/Nothing For All". Thanks to Tim Dunn for information. Paul Westerberg has also recorded IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY for the 2005 UK Dylan tribute album "Highway 61 Revisited Revisited" which recreates the 1965 album track for track with covers by indie artists | ||
The Traveling Wilburys Collection - 2007 Rhino boxed set containing the previously
unreleased LIKE A SHIP
| LIKE A SHIP | Bob Dylan/George Harrison/Jeff Lynne/Tom Petty, 1990 | S |
| Out-take from "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3", recorded at Wilbury Mountain Studio, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 1990, finally released on the 2007 Rhino boxed set, "The Traveling Wilburys Collection", see 2007 Wilburys | ||
 Lyrics of LISTEN, ROBERT MOSES published by "The Gothamist", 26 Jun 2015 |
 "Jane Jacobs" by Phil Stanziola - New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress |
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 Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs |
| LISTEN, ROBERT MOSES | 1961 | N? |
| Thanks to "Isis" 181 for information that a Harvard Graduate School of Design essay published in 2010 stated that Bob wrote this song for activist Jane Jacobs in the early 1960s to support her campaign to get Robert Moses, designer of the planned Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX), to drop the project, which would have levelled fourteen city blocks in Little Italy and displaced almost 2,000 families and 800 businesses. A plan to build the roadway, originally conceived in 1941, was set in motion in 1961, and again in 1965 and 1968, but has so far been blocked successfully. The lyrics are said to be in the Tuli Kupferberg collection of the Fales Library of New York University, and were published by the New York web-site "The Gothamist" on 26 Jun 2015. Thanks to Ben Ross for information that John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers says that this was probably sung to the tune of LISTEN MISTER BILBO, the song written in 1946 by Bob and Adrienne Claiborne satirising Mississippi Democrat US Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947), an man of outspoken racist views. The song has been recorded by Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary, etc. John Cohen says: Although I never heard of this song before, it seems totally possible that Bob wrote it .He was living in the middle of the Village back then.. and responding to what was around him... And his girlfriend Suze Rotolo was an activist, and eventually a great advocate of the Village. The first line is the clue to the form, structure and possible melody of the song. Look in the "Peoples Songbook" for the song LISTEN MISTER BILBO. The opening line goes "Listen Mister Bilbo, Listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history, listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate, are the very same people made America great." The story of Jane Jacob's fight against LOMEX is told in a 2010 book by Roberta Brandes Gratz: "The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs" (Nation Books, USA) | ||
 Theodore G Bilbo (1877-1947) - picture from Wikipedia |
 Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection Of Topical Songs (Smithsonian Folkways, 1999) by Pete Seeger with LISTEN MISTER BILBO |
| LITTLE BABY | 1966 | N? |
| Possible song title listed on the manuscript page of PLEDGING MY TIME, included in "Rough Songs" by Stephen Bishop - for more details see CROSS FIRE | ||
| LITTLE BIT OF RAIN | 1974 | N? Y |
| Lyrics of this song are reported by Clinton Heylin to have been found in a notebook containing lyrics of the "Blood On The Tracks" songs, but no studio or live version is known | ||
Handwritten lyrics by Bob for LITTLE BUDDY from
Reuters
| LITTLE BUDDY | 1957 | N Y |
| Song lyrics written by Bob for his summer
camp newspaper, the "Hertzl Herald" about a boy and his dog, credited to
"Bobby Zimmerman". It's actually a slightly revised version of the 1948
song with the same title by Hank Snow, lyrics here
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| LITTLE RICHARD | 1959 | H |
| Song heard in part in the 2005 Martin Scorsese documentary "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home". Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information it is copyrighted by Bob Dylan | ||
| LIVERPOOL GAL | 1963 | H |
| Recorded at Tony Glover's home, New York, Jul 1963. Performed on radio in the UK in 1992 on BBC Radio Merseyside by Ormskirk duo Lennon and Hyam, introduced by John Bauldie. Thanks to Gil Walker for information. Thanks also to Aaron Galbraith for information about this fan performance: | ||
| LOCK YOUR DOOR | 1967 | H |
| Basement Tapes song
recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY,
Jul-Oct 1967 Now released on CD2 of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - Bob Dylan And The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete", Nov 2014 |
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| LONELY DREAMER | Bob Dylan/Clydie King?, 1984 | N? |
| Reported to have been recorded at Bob's home studio, Malibu, CA, March 1984 | ||
| LONELY FOR YOU | 1969-71 | Y |
| Lyrics from a blue pocket memo book held at the Bob Dylan Archive, University of Tulsa, OK. Thanks to Derek Barker and "Isis" magazine for information | ||
| LONESOME RIVER’S EDGE | Bob Dylan?, 1963 | R |
| From the "Banjo Tape" rehearsal with Gil Turner and Happy Traum, Gerdes Folk City, New York, 08 Feb 1963 (see comments for ALL OVER YOU) | ||
| LONESOME WOULD BE NOTHING AT ALL | 1970 | O |
| Recording session sheet title of studio version of TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 04 Jun 1970, during "New Morning" sessions (a 1963 live version of this song was released on "More Greatest Hits"/"Greatest Hits Vol. 2") | ||
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| LONG AGO, FAR AWAY | 1962 | D |
| Witmark demo, recorded at Witmark offices, New York, November 1962, short-listed for "The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3". Like LONG TIME GONE below this song appeared on the Warner Bros Publisher's Sampler LP XTD 221567 - see "Searching For A Gem", 1967. Then available officially only in cover versions by Odetta on her album "Odetta Sings Dylan" (see LONG TIME GONE below), by the Brothers Four (Collector's Choice CCM-397-2 (USA), 2003, see above), and by the Black Country Three on their 1966 UK debut album on Transatlantic TRA-140, collected on the May 2001 various artist compilation "It Ain't Me, Babe/Zimmerman Framed: The Songs Of Bob Dylan" (Castle Music CMRCD 261, UK). Thanks to David Plentus and Jack from Canada for information and scans. Now officially released on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964" in Oct 2010 | ||
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 50th Anniversary Collection 1965 (Columbia/Legacy, 2015) with the live performance of LONG DISTANCE OPERATOR from 4 Dec 1965 |
| LONG DISTANCE OPERATOR | 1965 | L |
| Performed live by Bob and The Hawks (later The Band) in late 1965. There is only one confirmed performance, at Berkeley, CA, on 04 Dec 1965, but it may have been played at other shows in this tour, notably Chicago, IL, 26 Nov 1965 (perhaps its live debut). Thanks to Bob Stacy who writes: "In the "Chicago Tribune", 27 Nov 65 (the day following the show at Aire Crown Theater, 26 Nov 65), the reviewer Bruce Plowman noted, "Dylan introduced a new song last night, one which he wrote, called 'Long Distance Operator'." Also, someone who attended the show at San José, CA, 12 Dec 1965, remembers hearing the song. No studio version is known. The song is on the Columbia "Basement Tapes" album, but in a cover version by The Band. The lyrics are still on bobdylan.com here. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information that the song first appeared on the album by the James Cotton Blues Band "Taking Care Of Business" (Capitol SM-814, USA, 1970) and to David Plentus for telling me that it can also be found on the 2CD compilation "Chicago Blues Masters Vol. 3" (Capitol 36288, USA, 1997). Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for pointing out that the version of Long Distance Operator (4:32) on the 2005 boxed set "The Band - A Musical History" (Capitol 72435-77409-6, USA, 2005) 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 tracks by The Band included on The Basement Tapes album were versions that were actually recorded there!) The live performance from Berkeley is now officially released on the 208 track download set 50th Anniversary Collection 1965, Columbia/Legacy (USA), 4 Dec 2015 (R-1645, see 2015) | ||
| A LONG HAIRED MULE AND A PORKEPINE | 1966 | O |
| Recording session sheet title for RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35, released on "Blonde On Blonde" (spelling as shown!) | ||
 The original 1965 RCA Victor album Odetta Sings Dylan, which contains her version of LONG TIME GONE (RCA Victor LSP-3324, stereo shown, also LPM-3324, mono) |
 Odetta Sings Dylan, BMG Camden Deluxe Germany, 2000, CD release, with her version of LONG TIME GONE |
 Trails And Bridges (Rockduster), Rich Lerner's 1995 album of traditional songs performed by Bob, which has LONG TIME GONE as the one Dylan cover |
| LONG TIME GONE | 1962 | O |
| Performed for home recordings in Minnesota and New York from August 1962, and later as a Witmark demo at Witmark offices, New York, March 1963. This song was included on the Warner Bros Publisher's Sampler LP XTD 221567 (see "Searching For A Gem", 1967). Available as a cover by Odetta on her album "Odetta Sings Dylan" (RCA Victor LSP-3324/LSM-3324, US, 1963, stereo/mono) along with LONG AGO, FAR AWAY above, and by Hamilton Camp on his "Paths Of Victory" album along with GUESS I'M DOIN' FINE (see the "G" page for a picture of the album). Thanks to Dr Hanns Peter Bushoff for masterminding the 2000 German CD release and for the copy of the album. Thanks also to Tim Dunn for pointing out that on the latest CD release of this album the song title is incorrectly shown as "LONG TIME AGO" on the rear insert and the CD itself. It's correctly titled in the historical notes and reproduction of the LP back cover in the CD booklet. Thanks also to Rich Lerner for the copy of his album. LONG TIME GONE was officially released on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964" in Oct 2010 | ||
| LONG TIME MAN | ||
| Hoax title of a song supposedly rehearsed at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1995, included with a fake track listing of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 17" circulated 2022. LONG TIME MAN is actually a song by Tim Rose, who also wrote MORNING DEW | ||
| LOOK AT BARRY RUN | 1965 | O |
| Recording session sheet title of CAN YOU PLEASE CRAWL OUT YOUR WINDOW, released as a single in December 1965, and on album on "Biograph" | ||
| LOOK YONDER | Bob Dylan?, 1984 | N? |
| Song recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 6 & 7 Dec 1984, during the "Empire Burlesque" sessions. It's possible it could be Elmore James' LOOK ON YONDER WALL, although Clinton Heylin in his book "Still On The Road - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2: 1974-2008" (Constable, 2010) thinks not | ||
| LOOKING THRU MY BACK DOOR | ? | ? |
| Otherwise unknown song copyrighted by Bob at ASCAP before he left for SESAC in 1997. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information | ||
| LOST IN A DREAM | 1969 | O |
| Recording session sheet title of TIME PASSES SLOWLY, released on "New Morning" | ||
Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes
[Various Artists], Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records 2537950140 (USA/Europe) containing
the "lost" Dylan songs
LOST ON THE RIVER #12
completed by Elvis Costello and
LOST ON THE RIVER #20
completed by Rhiannon Giddens and Marcus Mumford
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LOST ON THE RIVER #12/LOST ON THE RIVER #20 |
#12 - Bob Dylan/Elvis
Costello,
1967/2014 #20 - Bob Dylan/Rhiannon Giddens/Marcus Mumford, 1967/2014 |
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| T-Bone Burnett has produced an album called "Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes", released in Nov 2014, consisting of unreleased Bob songs from lyrics unused during the Basement Tapes sessions with The Band in Woodstock, New York in 1967, completed by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford. LOST ON THE RIVER #12 has been completed by Elvis Costello, LOST ON THE RIVER #20 has been completed by Rhiannon Giddens, formerly of the group Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information that a new version of LOST ON THE RIVER completed by Jim James is included in the Showtime documentary "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued" | ||
| LOUISA or LUISA | 1967 | H |
| This song, listed as THE SPANISH SONG on "The Genuine Basement Tapes", is actually traditional, although two takes have now been released on CD6 of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - Bob Dylan And The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete", Nov 2014, where it's copyrighted by Bob! | ||
| LOVE COPY | 1975 | O |
| Reported by Larry Sloman as recorded during the "Desire" sessions. The Dylan Recording Sessions series of articles by Michael Krogsgaard in "The Telegraph" reveals this to have been the recording session sheet title of ABANDONED LOVE, released on "Biograph" | ||
| LOVE CRAZY | ? | ? |
| Song copyrighted by Bob at ASCAP before he left for SESAC in 1997. This may be Bob's copyrighting of his version of Tampa Red's SHE'S LOVE CRAZY, performed live many times in 1978. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information | ||
Four albums on which Joan Baez sings LOVE IS
JUST A FOUR LETTER WORD, the 1968 Vanguard double LP Any
Day Now , the 1973 Vanguard album Hits/Greatest & Others, the 1998 Vanguard CD Baez Sings
Dylan (scan by Jack from Canada), and the 1991 Rhino various artists
compilation I Shall Be Unreleased
| LOVE IS JUST A FOUR LETTER WORD | 1964 | H? |
| Written at Joan Baez's house in Carmel, CA, in March 1964, available only as a cover by Joan Baez on her 1968 "Any Day Now" album, and also included on her "Hits/Greatest and Others" and "Baez Sings Dylan" compilations. Thanks to Michael Poole for reminding me she also sings it in the D.A. Pennebaker film "Don't Look Back". Lyrics on bobdylan.com are here. No Dylan version circulates, although it was reported on the Internet that copies of a home recording/demo are in the possession of a few select Dylan collectors - Clinton Heylin denies having a copy in his book "Revolution In The Air - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957-73" (Constable, 2009) | ||
| LOVE WILL ENDURE | 1966 | N? |
| Possible song title listed on the manuscript page of PLEDGING MY TIME, included in "Rough Songs" by Stephen Bishop - for more details see CROSS FIRE | ||
| LOVE YA EASY | 1989 | Y |
| Lyrics of a previously unknown song from the "Oh Mercy" sessions held at the Bob Dylan Archive, University of Tulsa, OK. Thanks to Derek Barker and "Isis" magazine for information | ||
 Greg Lake's solo album Greg (Chrysalis CHR 1357, UK, 1981) with his version of the unreleased Dylan/Springs song LOVE YOU TOO MUCH - the song was also released as a single (Chrysalis CHS 2553, UK, 1981) - scans by David Plentus |
 The Greg Lake Retrospective: From The Beginning - 1997 WEA/Atlantic/Rhino US CD compilation which also contains LOVE YOU TOO MUCH |
 High On The Hog - 1996 Pyramid/Rhino US album by The Band which also contains LOVE YOU TOO MUCH, scan by Jack from Canada |
| LOVE YOU TOO MUCH | Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1978 | C L |
| No known Dylan studio version - performed live on two occasions only, at Binghamton, NY, 24 Sep 1978, and at Madison Square Garden, New York, 29 Sep 1978. Also soundchecked but not performed at New Haven, CT, 17 Sep 1978. Greg Lake released a cover with amended lyrics on his 1981 UK "Greg" album, now available on CD on his compilation album "From The Beginning" (WEA/Atlantic/Rhino, USA, 1997). Another version by The Band is on their "High On The Hog" album (Pyramid/Rhino 72404, USA, 1996, reissued in 2006 as Titan/Pyramid 501042, USA). Lyrics of this song are in the book "Lyrics 1962-1985" although not on bobdylan.com. Also known as I MUST LOVE YOU TOO MUCH. Thanks to David Plentus and Jack from Canada for information and scans | ||
"Spirit Of Woodstock 2000 Vol. 1" album by Michel Montecrossa from
Mira Sound Germany, part of a 6CD set containing his version of the then unreleased Dylan
song LUNATIC PRINCESS REVISITED
| LUNATIC PRINCESS REVISITED | 1965 | O |
| Early working title of FROM A BUICK 6, released on "Highway 61 Revisited" - an incomplete take recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 30 Jul 1965, circulates as LUNATIC PRINCESS No. 3 or LUNATIC PRINCESS REVISITED, and an alternate take with harmonica intro was released on the Japanese (vinyl) version of the album. Available as a cover by Michel Montecrossa on Volume 1 of his 6CD set "Spirit Of Woodstock 2000" (Mira Sound Germany, 2000). All the takes of the song from 30 Jul 1965 (CO86843) were released in Nov 2015 on the 18CD set "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Collector's Edition)". A song called LUNATIC PRINCESS was also released in Nov 2015 on "The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12". This is the song listed as "Unknown" on the recording session sheet for 27 Jan 1966 (CO89218) that Krogsgaard identified as I'LL KEEP IT WITH MINE. It starts "Why do you have to be so frantic..." Thanks to Arie de Reus for information | ||
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