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
Alan Fraser's Manchester flat in 1968 including a state-of-the-art
"stereogram" - his entire album collection including all the Dylan albums up to
John Wesley Harding was stolen in May 1968!
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! 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.
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: 17 January, 2012.
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 -
Links to bobdylan.com for song lyrics -
Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
Bob Dylan/The Band - "Basement Tapes"
acetates, Sunset Sound Recorders (USA); Feldmans/Dwarf
Music (UK), 1968:
The Emidisc UK acetate is reputedly the source of the songs made available to UK groups such as Manfred Mann (The
Mighty Quinn), The Brian Auger Trinity/Julie Driscoll (This Wheel's On Fire),
Fairport Convention (Million Dollar Bash), etc. Apparently only about ten copies
were pressed. John Bauldie describes this 14 track acetate in detail in his
article "The Basement Tapes" in "Record Collector", Jul
1987, but Hans Seegers disputes its legality. Hans says the songs were only
legally distributed on tape, which is confirmed by Dean Chambers, who has
information the songs were supplied to the music publishing company Feldmans in
London on a 7" reel by Albert Grossman. However, several acetates were indeed
made from this tape for private distribution, and these were the source of the
much poorer quality bootleg LPs that surfaced. The US acetate from Arie de Reus
has exactly the same track list and appears official. ("Emidisc" was EMI's brand of blank acetate,
made at Hayes, Middlesex, which could be used by anyone
in the recording industry - exactly like a CD-R today - and the name does not mean this
recording was produced by
EMI itself. I
have other 1960s acetates pressed using Emidisc blanks.)
 US acetate side 1, scan by Arie de Reus |
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 UK single acetate - picture from eBay (single-sided) |
 UK single acetate - picture from eBay (A-side of double-sided acetate) |
 UK single acetate - picture from eBay (B-side of double-sided acetate) |
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 UK single acetate - scan by Gerd Rundel (single-sided) |
 Card sleeve for UK single acetate - scan by Gerd Rundel |
 UK single acetate - picture from eBay (single-sided) |
 UK single acetate - picture from eBay (single-sided) |
R-0545 Too Much Of Nothing - alternate take to the officially released track, recorded at Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, Jul-Oct 1967
R-0546 Tears Of Rage - alternate take to the officially released track, recorded at Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, Jul-Oct 1967
All other tracks on this acetate (shown on the label listings) were released on The Basement Tapes in 1975, on Biograph in 1985, or on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991, although these are mono versions.
The single Emidisc acetate of "I Shall Be Released" is of the track from The Basement Tapes sessions eventually released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991, not the later version released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II in 1971. The title is misspelled "Realeased"! The three other single Emidisc acetates are all of tracks from the UK LP and later released on The Basement Tapes in 1975. Gerd Rundel's copy of Please Mrs. Henry is blank on the reverse and comes in a grey card sleeve with blue edges.
Thanks to Arie de Reus, Andrew Codd and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
Bob Dylan/The Band - "This Wheel's On Fire"/"Tears Of Rage" - mono 7" acetate single, CBS (no catalogue number) (UK), 1968(?):
 A-side picture from eBay found by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
Both songs were eventually released in 1975 on The
Basement Tapes, although these are mono versions. This "Emidisc" acetate is in a brown paper sleeve which is inside a plain white sleeve. It came from the collection of Denise Mills, PA to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding this on eBay. |
 B-side picture from eBay found by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
Mono Singles & EPs for 1968
 Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1966-68 |
These are now here: Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1966-68. Mono LPs have their own pages, see International Mono Releases. |
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Promotional/Regular Items for 1968
| Stereo promo items for 1968 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. |
 John Wesley Harding (1968, stereo) |
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