This new page lists mono Bob Dylan compilation LPs that do not contain rare tracks. 1970 is the latest date for an entry on this page so far. These albums do not contain rarities or obscurities and are not eligible for the Searching For A Gem list. Nevertheless, the interest value or scarcity of these items means they're worth listing here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans of many of these elusive albums. Mono singles up to 1976 have their own pages, see the links above.
This page is still incomplete - more information on Dylan mono compilation LPs is required!
These pages are still incomplete. 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: 09 January, 2012.
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (non-US tracklists)
 CBS 62624 (NL) - scan by Wim van der Mark |
This album had a different front sleeve picture (by Jerry Schatzberg) and tracklist from the US
and UK versions
released in 1967 (see here and below).
Side 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice It's Alright; Queen Jane Approximately; Maggie's Farm; Mr. Tambourine Man; Bob Dylan's Blues Side 2: The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Subterranean Homesick Blues; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Like A Rolling Stone; Highway 61 Revisited Some reports give the release date as 1967, but there are no tracks from Blonde On Blonde included, so I think the 1966 dating is more likely. See the 1967 Dutch Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 below. |
"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" - mono vinyl LP, CBS BPG 62847 (UK), Mar 1967:
 CBS BPG 62847 (UK) - front scan by Hans Seegers (all releases) |
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. This album is also included on the 1967 page because it contains three rarities! There were three UK releases with different rear sleeves and labels. |
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 CBS BPG 62847 (UK) - Side 2 scan by Gerd Rundel (first release) |
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 CBS BPG 62847 (UK) - detail of Side 1, scan by Hans Seegers (third release) |
The first and second releases sleeve has a laminated front, a matt rear and three folded over flaps. The rear sleeve has "MONO" below the CBS logo at top right, the printer name (Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.) at bottom left, and the CBS copyright information at bottom right. The third release sleeve just has "62847" below the CBS logo, a text box across the bottom and the CBS copyright information at bottom left. The printer's name is no longer shown. The first release labels have "33" as the playing speed, the second release labels have "33⅓". Also, on the first release label, the Blossom Music publishing dates are shown individually to the right of the centre hole, while on the second and third release labels they are all shown as "č 1966". The records of both Gerd Rundel's first release copy and his second release copy have stamped matrix numbers: Side 1 - 62847 A1, Side 2 - 62847 B1.
The third release labels have a "MONO"/arrows logo to the left of the centre hole and "33⅓" in a different type face. Gerd Rundel's first release copy has the same printed inner sleeve as shown on this site for the second UK mono release of Blonde On Blonde in 1967, but this time with cut-off corners. On the Side 2 label, producer Bob Johnston's name is misspelled as "Bob Johnson". This mistake was repeated on the labels of all three releases.
For a 1970 Bob Dylan Greatest Hits album with a different tracklist from Brazil, see here.
"Greatest Hits" - mono vinyl LP, CBS BP-473391 (New Zealand), 1967:
 CBS BP-473391 (New Zealand) - front scan by Stuart Moore |
This album is almost identical to the UK release. The record has orange
CBS labels with the Allan's logo (Allan's were music publishers in
Australia and New Zealand for Bob Dylan records between 1965 and 1969). There are no track timings, but Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is
the album length, not the 2:06 edit found on the stereo release. For some reason, Australia had mono and stereo releases of the
10-track US compilation, not the UK version, see Mono Album Releases
and
International Album
Releases (Regular). Thanks to Stuart Moore and Bill Hester for information and scans. |
 CBS BP-473391 (New Zealand) - rear scan by Stuart Moore |
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 CBS BP-473391 (New Zealand) - rear with record store stamp, scan by Bill Hester |
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 CBS BP-473391 (New Zealand) - Side 2 scan by Stuart Moore |
Other Mono Dylan-only Compilations
"Songs By Bob Dylan" - unreleased mono vinyl LP, Columbia (no catalogue number) (USA), 1963:
 Suze Rotolo's personal copy, picture from Christie's New York web-site found by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
The album was made by Sound Makers Inc. of New York and is housed in a
buff paper sleeve with a sticker giving Albert Grossman's then postal
address in New York. It has generic labels with typed title and tracklists.
As it contains rarities, full details are in 1963. Thanks to Arie de Reus and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information and scans. |
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 Side 2 scan by Arie de Reus |
"Bob Dylan In Concert" - Columbia acetates 77110 (mono), LP: Columbia CL-2302 (USA - mono), 1964:
 Columbia CS-9102 (USA) - stereo front sleeve (no mono front sleeve has yet surfaced), picture from Jeff Gold, recordmecca.com |
Detailed information about this cancelled album and its two proposed tracklists is now here. |
"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 I'll Keep It With Mine, 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.
Thanks to John R. Overall for information that this is really badly pressed and
appears not to have been equalised for LP.
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Tracklist: Long Ago, Far Away; Long Time Gone; Ain't Gonna Grieve; John Brown; I Shall Be Free; Only A Hobo; The Death Of Emmett Till; (I'd Hate To Be You On That) Dreadful Day; I'll Keep It With Mine. Because these used to be all rarities, full details are in 1967. They have now been released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964, 2010 Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
"El Trovador De Nuestro Tiempo - Bob Dylan - Poeta O Profeta? [The
Troubadour Of Our Time - Bob Dylan - Poet Or Prophet?]" - mono vinyl LP, CBS 8.703
(Argentina/Uruguay), 1967:
This album has the Bringing It All Back Home front sleeve picture,
and a unique caricature on the rear sleeve.
 CBS 8.703 (Argentina/Uruguay) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
All tracks are the mono album versions:
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 CBS 8.703 (Uruguay) - rear photograph by Manuel Garcia Jara |
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 CBS 8.703 (Uruguay) - Side 2 photograph by Manuel Garcia Jara |
Of interest are the differing Spanish translations of the song titles from the Mexican releases (see Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1965): for example, Like A Rolling Stone is translated as "Como Una Piedra Que Rueda" (Mexico) and "Como Un Vagabundo" (Argentina/Uruguay). (In Spain it was translated as "Como Una Piedra Rodante"!) Subterranean Homesick Blues is "El Blues Del Subterráneo Melancólico" (Mexico) and "Tristezas De Ausencia" (Argentina/Uruguay).
Sergio Magnacca and Ulf Gyllenspetz have copies of this album where the rear sleeve drawing is entirely in black and white without the red lips. Hans Seegers also has a copy of this album from Uruguay, again CBS 8.703, but with a different rear sleeve with the track listing in Spanish and English, and advertising twelve non-Dylan LPs. The record itself has orange CBS labels, with stamped matrix numbers: ALM 46347/8. Manuel Garcia Jara's Uruguayan copy has the titles on the rear sleeve in Spanish only.
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Ulf Gyllenspetz, Sergio Magnacca and Manuel Garcia Jara for information and scans.
Bob Dylan and The Band - "Basement Tapes" acetates, Sunset Sound Recorders (USA); Feldmans/Dwarf Music (UK), 1968:
 US acetate side 1, scan by Arie de Reus |
Because these acetates contain rarities, full details are in
1968. Thanks to Arie de Reus and Andrew Codd for information and scans. |
 UK acetate side 1, scan by Andrew Codd |
"Songy Boba Dylana [Songs Of Bob Dylan]" - mono
compilation LP (record club release), Supraphon 0 13
0434 (Czechoslovakia), 1968/"Bob Dylan" - mono compilation LP (regular
release), Supraphon SUA 15994 (Czechoslovakia), 1968:
The stereo versions Supraphon 1 13 0434 and Supraphon SUA ST 55994 are also of
great interest to collectors, but
all the tracks are regular album versions, see
International
Albums (Other Dylan-only Compilations) for details.
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