1967

All the songs listed in the Official Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these alphabetical pages.
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F-J

K-O

P-S

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This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! Because of the large number of entries, releases of "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" with the UK tracklist are now here. Mono 7" Singles & EPs (up to 1976) are now here, and Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.

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Tom Rush - "On The Road Again"/"Love's Made A Fool Of You" - 7" mono single, Elektra EKSN 45015 (USA), 1967:

"Greatest Hits" - mono vinyl LP, CBS BPG 62847 (UK), Mar 1967; CBS BP-473391 (New Zealand), 1967:
This album has a different sleeve and tracklist from the US release of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits with twelve tracks instead of ten. The front photo is by Jerry Schatzberg from the Blonde On Blonde photo shoot and the rear sleeve shows six Dylan albums omitting Another Side. Full details of the three UK releases and the New Zealand release are in International Mono Releases - Dylan-Only Compilations 1960s.

As can be seen, Positively 4th Street is left off the UK album, replaced by She Belongs To Me; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later). This substitution meant that the tracklist of the Nov 1971 UK 2LP release of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, retitled More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits, also had to be changed (see International Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 1970s). Positively 4th Street, missing from here, was added to that album, replacing She Belongs To Me which appears here, while It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, which also appears here, was replaced on the 1971 UK set by New Morning.

Roger Ford informs me that this album is not in true mono, but a mono reduction of the stereo album. (The mono version of the US release of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits was compiled separately from the mono tracks.) For the stereo version of the album, see below.

R-0251M Blowin' In The Wind - first guitar note missing (mono version - mono reduction of R-0251, see below)

R-0537M One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - not R-0050 (see 1966 and 1966 Blonde On Blonde Rarities), but a mono reduction of R-0537 (see below)

R-0656M Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - shorter single edit (2:06)
Not the 2:26 edit from 1966 mono 7" singles (R-0051 , see 1966), but a mono reduction of R-0656 (see below)

Whether the 1960s UK pressings actually contain R-0656M is now in doubt since on my stereo copy listed below Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is the full album version at 4:35, despite being listed as 2:06 on the sleeve. More information will be added when available. Non-UK stereo pressings such as the Greek ones listed do actually have R-0656.

Thanks to Hans Seegers and Gerd Rundel for information and scans (I have only ever owned this album in stereo.)

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl LP, CBS SBPG 62847 (UK), Mar 1967, re-released 1968, 1969 and 1975; CBS 460907 1 (UK), 1988:
For the UK tracklist, see the mono entry above. For the mono version of the album, see above and Mono Album Releases.

R-0251 Blowin' In The Wind - first guitar note missing (stereo version), no longer available on CD

R-0537 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - unfaded stereo version (still available on this album's CD releases, see below), also on the gold CD release of Blonde On Blonde, 1990s (now deleted, see 1966 Blonde On Blonde Rarities)

R-0656 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - shorter single edit (2:06), no longer available on CD
This is even shorter than the standard 7" single edit, R-0052 (see 1966). It only has the first two verses and unlike the single edit it fades out in the final instrumental section. Although the rear sleeve shows the time as 2.06 it actually plays as 2.02.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for the information that this vinyl album was reissued in 1975 with orange/yellow labels (same catalogue number), in 1985 with red labels and in 1988 with red labels and a new catalogue number - CBS 460907 1 (first six digits same as the current CD, see below). Thanks to Patrick Helfrich for the alternate label scan from the 1970s release. These later releases do not contain R-0656 - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is now the album length of 4:35. There are many more variants of what are essentially seven different UK stereo releases, for all of them see here.

Whether the 1960s UK pressings actually contain R-0656 is now in doubt since on my copy listed below Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is the full album version at 4:35, despite being listed as 2:06 on the sleeve. Hans Seegers believes that only the non-UK pressings of this album such as the Greek releases listed below had the 2:06 edit!

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl compilation LP, CBS SBPG 62847 (Kenya), 1968:

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl compilation LPs, CBS S 62847 (NL), 1969; CBS 62847 (NL), 1976, re-released 1985; CBS 463088 1 (NL), 1989:

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl compilation LP, CBS S 62847 (Spain), 1970, re-released 1973, 1975, 1978, 1981 and mid-1980s:

"Greatest Hits" - stereo 8-track cartridge, CBS 42-62847 (NL), 1973:
This 1973 Dutch release uses the UK track list. It has some unique rarities in that three tracks are split between programmes! It has a light grey tape cartridge with two printed labels.

Phil Beale has a UK cassette copy of this album, CBS 40-62847, which has the same track listing as above, although She Belongs To Me on Side 1 and Just Like A Woman on Side 2 are reversed. The surprise is that Like A Rolling Stone on Side 2 is the live version from the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival from Self Portrait, not the expected studio version from Highway 61 Revisited. There's no indication on the cassette insert. Hans Seegers informs me that this variant, obviously a CBS mistake, is known to collectors.

These cassettes have the three rarities listed above including the unique edit of Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (2:06).

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl compilation LP, CBS S 62847 (NL for France), 1975, re-released 1985:

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl compilation LP, CBS 62847 (Greece), 1975, re-released 1978; CBS 4630881 (Greece), 1988:
This Greek LP has the 1967 UK sleeve, orange/yellow CBS labels and the UK 12-song tracklist. Like the UK release, it contains the rarities including the unique edit of Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (R-0656, see above). This album was re-released in 1988.

Hans Seegers reports the front sleeve is "a bad copy of the 'Leonardo Da Vinci' sleeve"!

The rear sleeve shows two contemporary Dylan albums - The Basement Tapes and Desire. This was the same on the 1988 release - the sleeve was not changed. One of the producer credits on sleeve and Side 2 label is incorrectly shown as "Bob Johnson" instead of Bob Johnston.

The 1976 record has orange/yellow CBS labels with matrix numbers: Side 1- 62.847-A (written), Side 2 - 01-62847-1B-1 HP-GRIEKENLAND (stamped). "Griekenland" is Dutch for Greece, and shows the album was sourced from Holland.

The 1988 record has red labels with a white CBS logo and the same matrix numbers: Side 1 - 62.847-A (written), Side 2 - 01-62847-1B-1 HP-GRIEKENLAND (stamped). The "Bob Johnson" error is repeated on the new Side 2 label.

"Historia De La Musica Rock [History Of Rock Music]" - album released with Issue 31, Orbis Publications, stereo vinyl album: CBS LSP 15264 (Spain)/stereo cassette: CBS CSP 40-15264 (Spain), Aug 1980:

Side 1: Blowin' In The Wind; It Ain't Me, Babe; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Mr. Tambourine Man; She Belongs To Me; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.

Side 2: Subterranean Homesick Blues; One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later); Like A Rolling Stone; Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; I Want You.

Thanks to Pachi Becerril, Manuel Garcia Jara and Hans Seegers for information and pictures.

"Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl compilation LP, CBS 10080/UK AL 62847 (India), 1983:

"Greatest Hits" - CD re-release, Columbia CDCOL 5421 H (South Africa), 1997:

"Greatest Hits" - digitally remastered 30th Anniversary CD re-release, Columbia 460907 9 (UK), 1997:

"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" - CD in digipak with newspaper, Nova Music/Sony Music NM 408-2/4609072 (Romania), 2010:

"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" - stereo/mono vinyl LP, CBS S 62847 (France), Mar 1967:

This album has the US sleeve with a yellow circle (not a sticker but part of the sleeve design) in the top right hand corner advertising a "Giant Poster" (see Part 1). The poster included is the Milton Glaser poster as with the US release. The tracklist is also the same as the US release. The rear sleeve has two fold-over flaps and is not laminated. It has sleeve notes in French.

Arie de Reus has a test pressing of this album on two discs with classical music on the reverse of each disc. This test pressing has blank labels, so a scan would be pointless.

R-0893 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - longer edit (2:58) of track from Blonde On Blonde (album version is 4:38)
For R-0056, the 2:26 edit on Columbia/CBS 7" singles, see 1966. For R-0656, the 2:06 edit on the CBS UK release of the 14-track version of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, see above.

R-0894 Mr. Tambourine Man - edit (4:58) of track from Bringing It All Back Home (album version is 5:30)

R-0895 Like A Rolling Stone - slight edit (5:52) of track from Highway 61 Revisited (album version is 6:00)

The record has orange CBS labels and the copy shown has matrix numbers: Side 1 - XSM 17277-1C YPARTX 60441, Side 2 - XSM 17278-1G YPARTX 60442.

Thanks to Franck Faugere for information and to Manuel Garcia Jara for further information and scans.

"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. III" - stereo vinyl LP: CBS S 63111 (Holland), 1967; CBS SBP 234735 (Australia), 1970s; CBS SBP 474357 (New Zealand), 1970s; CD: CBS 465034 2 (Australia), 1989, re-released mid-1990s and early 2000s:

R-0062-2 Pledging My Time - alternate stereo mix to the one used on the first 1966 US stereo pressing of Blonde On Blonde, that first appeared on the Columbia Special Products compilation Zenith Salutes... The Teen Sound, see 1966
This mix was used on the remixed 1968 US stereo pressing of the album, see 1966 Blonde On Blonde Rarities

R-0063 4th Time Around - alternate stereo mix to the one used on the first 1966 US stereo pressing of Blonde On Blonde
This mix was used on the remixed 1968 US stereo pressing of the album, see 1966 Blonde On Blonde Rarities

Thanks to Roger Ford for the correction of this entry, who adds: "These were alternate mixes to the ones released on copies of the Blonde On Blonde album at that time (1967), but these mixes then appeared on the 1968 remixed US version of Blonde On Blonde, and became the "standard" stero vinyl mix."

Richard McDonald also informs me: "I have a official release cassette version of Blonde on Blonde dating from the late 1970s which features a completely different (and far better) mix of 4th Time Around, featuring an accordion-ish sounding instrument." This is in fact the mix used in R-0063, which features a harmonium-sounding keyboard instrument not present in the 1966 mix.

Thanks to Wim van der Mark, Stuart Moore and Gerd Rundel for information and scans. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for the copy of the CD on sale in Ireland. It has a single card front insert with the song titles on the reverse and a plain blue/black rear insert, again with just the song titles. Thanks to Stuart Moore for scans of the Australian LP - the record has orange/yellow CBS labels and is housed in a paper inner sleeve (unusual for Australia where clear plastic sleeves were most common at the time). Thanks to Fred Muller for scans of the New Zealand LP, this also has CBS orange/yellow labels.

Thanks to Bill Hester and Stuart Moore for the scan of earlier Australian CD releases than of my copy. The first and third sets of jewel case inserts are identical, the second release has "Select" on both the front and rear inserts. The first two CDs were made by Distronics and are silver with black and red text, the current CD is red with silver text.

"If You Gotta Go, Go Now"/"To Ramona" - 7" mono single, CBS 2921 (NL), Aug 1967:

CBS 2921 (NL) - front scan by Hans Seegers

R-0055 If You Gotta Go, Go Now - out-take from Bringing It All Back Home recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 15 Jan 1965, overdubbed 21 May 1965
The A-side of this single manufactured in Holland, and also released in Belgium and Luxemburg.

This is an alternate version to the one released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, with backup vocals on the choruses overdubbed by a female vocal group called The Poppies. The Poppies were from Jackson, MS, and had hits for the Columbia Records label Epic in 1966 with Lullaby of Love (also the title of their album) and He's Ready. Their lead singer Dorothy Moore had an international solo hit in 1975 with Misty Blue and Fern Kinney had a UK No. 1 hit in 1980 with Together We Are Beautiful. Two composite versions of If You Gotta Go, Go Now were produced from an overdub session at Columbia Studios, New York, on 21 May 1965. Composite 1 (from takes 1-5) was released as this single, Composite 2 (from takes 6-7) was released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3. The musicians who took part on 21 May 1965 aren't named, and although there's no mention of singers Michael Krogsgaard thinks the vocal overdubbing may have taken place then. However, The Poppies' recording career for Epic as a group occurred only from 1966, so the vocal overdubbing may actually have been recorded later. No such session for 1966 is listed in Michael Krogsgaard's series on Bob Dylan's recording sessions in "The Telegraph" and "The Bridge".

The B-side was the album version of To Ramona. There are two label variations: the first has "P 1967" to the left of the centre hole on two lines; the second has "è 1967" ("P" in a circle) to the left of the centre hole on one line.

CBS 2921 (NL) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 2921 (NL) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (R-0055, first variant)

CBS 2921 (NL) - detail from A-side, scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)

CBS 2921 (NL) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)

CBS 2921 (NL) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (R-0055, second variant)

CBS 2921 (NL) - detail from A-side, scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

CBS 2921 (NL) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Hans Seegers adds: "Some collectors claim that this single was mistakenly released by CBS Holland. Research at CBS showed, however, that this was not true. As with all Dutch Dylan releases of those days, the release itself and the compilation of its A- and B-sides were determined by Columbia USA, who also supplied the master tapes for this single. So for CBS Holland this was a normal release as any other Dylan single. It may be possible, as other collectors claim, that Dylan objected to the release of If You Gotta Go, Go Now, but no proof whatsoever at CBS was found that this led to the withdrawal of it from record shops. Actually there was even a second run at the pressing plant causing the two label variations known so far. This being the most sought after Dutch single has more to do with the fact that Holland was the only country where If You Gotta Go, Go Now was released legitimately and less with its rarity amongst Dutch singles. There are other Dutch singles that are much harder to get!"

"Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler" 12" single-sided mono vinyl LP, Warner Bros./7 Arts Music Inc. XTV 221567 (USA), 1967:
These are all Witmark & Sons demos recorded in the Witmark offices, New York, in 1962-63 except R-0037, which is an alternate Columbia studio take from 1964 used as a demo. The record is single-sided so there is no label on Side 2. For an acetate with two of these and other Witmark demos, see 1963. Thanks to John R. Overall for information that this is really badly pressed and appears not to have been equalised for LP.

R-0032 John Brown - demo recorded Aug 1963, for the Jan/Feb 1963 Broadside recording (R-0026), see 1963

R-0033 I Shall Be Free - demo recorded Apr 1963, different performance from the one released on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

R-0034 Only A Hobo - demo recorded Aug 1963, for a Witmark acetate with this performance see 1963
The version released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 is an out-take from The Times They Are A-Changin', recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 12 Aug 1963 (CO78982, 3:28). For the Jan/Feb 1963 Broadside recording (R-0027) and a May 1963 radio broadcast on The World Of Folk Music (Starring Oscar Brand) (R-0317), see 1963

R-0035 The Death Of Emmett Till - demo recorded Dec 1962. For the May 1962 Broadside recording (R-0082), not released until the 1970s, see 1972
Lyrics on bobdylan.com

R-0036-2 (I'd Hate To Be You On That) Dreadful Day - demo recorded Mar 1963. For a 1963 acetate with this track, see 1963. For the Nov 1962 Broadside recording (R-0081), not released until the 1970s, see 1972
The lyrics of this song have now disappeared from bobdylan.com!

R-0037 I'll Keep It With Mine - recorded Jun 1964, different version from the one released on Biograph, see 1985

All nine of these songs have now been released officially in 2010 on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music set The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 so will be moved to Released Rarities.

CBS S 62847 (France) - front scan by Manuel Garcia Jara	CBS S 62847 (France) - detail of front, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara		CBS S 62847 (France) - detail of rear, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara	CBS S 62847 (France) - rear scan by Manuel Garcia Jara
CBS S 62847 (France) - detail of front, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara	CBS S 62847 (France) - detail of rear, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara	CBS S 62847 (France) - Side 1 scan by Manuel Garcia Jara	CBS S 62847 (France) - detail of Side 1, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara	CBS S 62847 (France) - Side 2 scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

Audio: 1967

"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" - stereo/mono vinyl LP, CBS S 62847 (France), Mar 1967: