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This page contains all 1966 7" singles/EPs with Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. It has been separated from 1966 because of the length of that page. "Blonde On Blonde" album releases with rarities and the major 1966 Dylan 7" singles/EPs with rarities are now listed 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: 03 March, 2010.
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, Columbia 4-43592 (USA), Apr 1966
![]() US trade ad for Rainy Day Women 7" single, scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0051 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - single edit (2:26) For an even shorter edit (2:02) released on a Greek version of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits. see 1976. R-0052 Pledging My Time - single edit (2.06) Roger Ford adds: "These aren't just faded out versions of the album tracks. Rainy Day Women has verse 3 edited out, and then fades out in the instrumental section between verses 4 and 5. Pledging My Time has verse 2 edited out, and then fades out at the end of verse 4 (it starts to fade while Dylan is still singing!). Verse 5, of course, is missing." The US red vinyl promo 7" single shown has R-0051 on both sides. The black vinyl promo is the same as the commercial single with R-0052 on the B-side. These singles did not have picture sleeves. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
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![]() Columbia 4-43592 (USA) black vinyl promo - A-side (R-0051) scan by Hans Seegers |
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![]() Columbia 4-43592 (USA) red vinyl promo - A-side (R-0051) scan by Hans Seegers (B-side is identical) |
![]() Columbia 4-43592 (USA) red vinyl promo - close-up of label, scan by Hans Seegers (same both sides) |
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A completely different stereo single of Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 was issued in Japan in 1968 (CBS/Sony SONG 80165) - this is also very hard to find and expensive but it does not have the edited version as here and is thus placed on the International 7" Stereo Singles 1968-69 page.
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono singles, CBS 202307 (UK), May 1966:
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono singles, CBS 2307 (NL), May 1966:
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono promo singles, CBS 2307 (NL/West Germany/Denmark/Norway/Sweden), May 1966; CBS 2307 (Italy), 23 Jun 1966:
![]() CBS DP 2307 (France) - 7" promo single, A-side scan by Hans Seegers (R-0051) |
For the CBS generic sleeve used for the French white label promo single, see 7" Single Sleeves. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
![]() CBS DP 2307 (France) - 7" promo single, B-side scan by Hans Seegers (R-0052) |
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono commercial singles, CBS 2307 (West Germany/Denmark/Norway/Sweden), May 1966:
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono singles, CBS 2307 (Italy), 23 Jun 1966:
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono single, CBS/Sony LL-928-C (Japan), 23 Jun 1966:
This Japanese single in a generic sleeve with a four page folded insert is very hard to find and expensive.
Bizarrely, the record labels of Wil Gielen's copy each have a sticker over the CBS logo and a ring of tape covering the copyright information round the circumference of the label. The reason why this should have been done is obscure, it's possible it was done for a music club. Wil's copies of Just Like A Woman/Obviously 5 Believers (CBS LL-987-C, 1965, see 1966 Just Like A Woman) and Subterranean Homesick Blues/She Belongs To Me (CBS LL-764-C, 1965, see Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1965) also have the same defacing, so have come from the same source. Apparently similar taping has been found on items imported from Hong Kong, so these may have been exported from Japan to another Far East country
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans.
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"/"Pledging My Time" - 7" mono singles, CBS BA-221281 (Australia)/CBS BA-461095 (New Zealand), 23 Jun 1966:
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - 7" mono EP, CBS 5660 (France), May 1966:
All three tracks on this EP are rarities!
R-0051-2 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - single edit, 2:26 (album version is 4:38) For an even shorter edit at 2:06 on the UK version of the Greatest Hits album, see 1967.
R-0052-2 Pledging My Time - single edit, 2:06 (album version is 3:48)
R-0050-4 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - unfaded mono version, from mono release of Blonde On Blonde - see Mono Album Releases
Note the unique languette or index tab on the first two variants of the French EP sleeve - for more information about languettes, see 1965. The third and final sleeve variant is without the languette. The languette is also not present on the Spanish release of CBS 5660 below.
There is a black star stamp at lower right on the second and third rear sleeves while only the second variant has a pink stamped star at upper right. There are two record label variants with slightly different text positioning on the A-side.
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - 7" mono EP, CBS 5660 (Spain), Sep 1966:
The sleeve exists in two variants: one with "DISCOPHON - BARCELONA" at the bottom left-hand side of the rear sleeve and one with "LIM - J. CORRALES, 42 - ESPLUGAS LL." in the same position. The "DISCOPHON" copy shown has an extra stamp below the EP picture but this has been added to the sleeve, Manuel Garcia Jara also has a copy without it. The rear of the second sleeve is laminated and has a cutaway on the left-hand edge not present on the first sleeve. This also has the "J. CORRALES" text. Both the "DISCOPHON" sleeve and the cutaway sleeve come with the second label variant. The "CORRALES" sleeve without the cutaway can come with all four label variants.
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel Garcia Jara for information and scans.
"New Hits By Bob Dylan" - 7" mono EP, CBS 6288 (West Germany), 5 Jul 1966:
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R-0051-3 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - single edit, 2:26 The other tracks on this mono EP were Bob Dylan's Blues from Freewheelin', Pledging My Time (the full album version from Blonde On Blonde, not the 2:06 edit R-0052) and the single Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Label scans required! For other West German mono EPs without rarities, see the Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1966-68. Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans and information. |
![]() CBS 6288 (West Germany) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
Various Artists - "This Is Folk Rock Vol. 2" - stereo vinyl LP, CBS YS-665-C (Japan), Jul 1966:
Despite the fact that Bob always rejected claims he invented or ever played
"folk rock", CBS insisted in sticking that label on him! For the first
album in the This Is Folk Rock series, see
International
Compilations: Various Artist Albums 1962-69.
![]() CBS YS-665-C (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
Side 1 had a rarity: R-0051-4 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - single edit, 2:26 (stereo) Side 2 had One Of Must Know (Sooner Or Later) but it was the regular stereo album version, not the edited version (R-0380, 3:07) or the unfaded version (R-0050, 4:49) - for both of these see here. I also misreported that Side 2 of this album had the stereo version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - this is now confirmed to be the "standard" mono version, as found on Biograph (1985, remastered CD reissue 1997) and the 2001 Essential Bob Dylan/Ultimate Bob Dylan compilations. The only occurrence of the stereo version is on a CBS stereo acetate, see 1965. The superb stereo version is in circulation amongst collectors on several bootleg albums and should be released by Columbia. (The CBS Spanish 7" EP and singles released in 1972 are now proved to have the track in mispressed mono, not stereo.) The other tracks on the album are from the Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, Chad & Jill Stuart and Chad & Jeremy. Label scans required! Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans and information. Label scans required. |
![]() CBS YS-665-C (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
Various Artists - "Number One American Hit Parade" - mono vinyl LP, CBS 62.754 (France)/CBS 62754 (Israel), 1966:
![]() CBS 62.754 (France)/CBS 62754 (Israel) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
![]() CBS 62.754 (France) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers |
![]() CBS 62754 (Israel) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
Bob's contributions to this compilation, released in France and Israel, are Rainy Day Women #2 & 35 from Blonde On Blonde (edited) plus Tombstone Blues, Like A Rolling Stone and Highway 61 Revisited from Highway 61 Revisited. The album also includes Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds. Both records have the same front cover with some text in French. Only the front of the Israeli copy is laminated.
R-0051-5 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - single edit, 2:26
Information and scans from Hans Seegers. Thanks to Nol Grint for pointing out this is the edited version of the track.

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