
These 7" Positively 4th Street singles are listed separately because of the length of the Mono Singles 1965 page. The 7" mono single version of Positively 4th Street was released on CD on The Best Of The Original Mono Recordings in Oct 2010. For the other 1965 Mono Singles & EPs pages, see here:
For 1965 Dylan mono 7" singles and EPs with rarities see 1965. For illustrations of all the generic 7" single sleeves used by Bob's record companies from the 1960s onwards, see the 7" Single Sleeves page. (A single has much less value to a collector if it doesn't have its correct original sleeve.)
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"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" promo and commercial mono singles, Columbia 4-43389 (USA), Jul 1965:
![]() Columbia 4-43389 (USA) - A-side scan by Arie de Reus (promo single) |
This contained an early, slower, version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? released on a 7" single as Positively 4th Street by mistake and withdrawn very quickly. For full details see the rarities list for 1965. The commercial single looks exactly the same as the first correct release of Columbia 4-43389. See below for the regular single of Positively 4th Street and 1966 for the regular single of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?, which has an unedited mono version of Highway 61 Revisited on the B-side. Thanks to Arie de Reus and Yan Friis for scans. |
![]() Columbia 4-43389 (USA) - A-side scan by Yan Friis (commercial single) |
"Positively 4th Street"" - 10" mono acetates, Columbia 4-43389 (USA), Sep 1965:
![]() Columbia 4-43389 (USA) - acetate of A-side, scan by Hans Seegers (first example) |
Both these rare US mono acetates of Positively 4th Street are on 10"
single-sided metal discs and have white Columbia Recording Studios labels
with handwritten text (by the same person). The first example is from Hans Seegers and shows the 3:47 timing but has no catalogue number. The second example was found by Arie de Reus on eBay and has the catalogue number 4-43389 plus a pressing number ZSP 11386. This has a timing of 3:50. This copy is in a generic "audiodisc" sleeve from Audio Devices Inc. (manufacturers of the blank acetates). This version has a "one, two, three, four" countdown in a male voice, probably Bob Johnston's, which is unique to this one acetate. For full details see the rarities list for 1965. Thanks to Hans Seegers and Arie de Reus for information and scan. |
![]() Columbia 4-43389 (USA) - acetate of A-side, picture from eBay (second example) |
![]() Columbia 4-43389 (USA) - acetate of A-side, picture from eBay in "audiodisc" sleeve (second example) |
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, Columbia 4-43389 (USA/Canada), Sep 1965:
Thanks to Howard Bender for the scan of the commercial release with a solid centre. For 1973 Columbia US "Hall of Fame" mono singles with Positively 4th Street backed by Subterranean Homesick Blues, Columbia 4-33221/13-33221, see Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1970-76.
This single was re-released in Nov 2011 in a boxed set of four 7" mono vinyl singles. It uses the 1965 US sleeve but this was poorly reproduced - both the 2011 and 1965 scans are by Augie Krater and you can see the 1965 sleeve is cleaner and brighter, while the labels had a similar design to that of the CDs in the 9CD mono set The Original Mono Recordings released in Oct 2010 with a "365 SOUND"/MONO/arrows logo.
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Augie Krater and Howard Bender for information and scans.
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 201824 (UK), Sep 1965, re-released 1967:
![]() CBS 201824 (UK) - white label promo A-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant) |
The CBS UK single had no picture sleeve and the commercial single came in two slightly different label designs. The differences are on the right side of the centre hole - "Blossom Music Ltd." is replaced by just "Blossom Music" and "Side A" or "Side B" is added just below the catalogue number. Ronald Born thinks the second variant dates from Spring 1967, when CBS started added "Side A" and "Side B" to record labels. Rene Kejlskov Jørgensen's copy of the first variant has stamped matrix numbers: Side 1 - A-5202-4, Side 2 - A-5203-2 and comes in the 1965 CBS UK deeper orange generic sleeve with the wavy top (see 7" Singles Sleeves). Thanks to Hans Seegers, Éamonn Ó Catháin, Georg Hansson, Rene Kejlskov Jørgensen and Ronald Born for information and scans. |
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![]() CBS 201824 (UK) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant in generic sleeve) |
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![]() CBS 201824 (UK) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant) |
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![]() CBS 201824 (UK) - A-side scan by Georg Hansson (second variant) |
![]() CBS 201824 (UK) - detail of A-side, scan by Georg Hansson (second variant - "Blossom Music" plus "Side A") |
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"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 1.893 (NL/Norway/Sweden), Sep 1965:
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 1893 (West Germany), Sep 1965:
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 201 824 (Denmark), Sep 1965:
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS BA-221222 (Australia), Sep 1965:
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS BA-461074 (New Zealand), Sep 1965:
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS SSC.619 (South Africa/Southern Rhodesia), Sep 1965:
Various Artists - "The Lively Ones: Five Swingin' 45s From
Masterwork!" - 7" mono singles boxed set, Columbia
Special Products (no catalogue number) (USA), 1965:
Another box containing five current Columbia US 7" singles.
"Positively 4th Street"/"On The Road Again" - 7" mono jukebox single, CBS 2144 (France), Nov 1965:
"Like A Rolling Stone"/"Positively 4th Street" - 7" mono jukebox and commercial singles, CBS 1896 (Italy), 12 Nov 1965/CBS BA 301089 (Greece), Nov 1965:
The Italian single was released in two jukebox editions with generic sleeves. The first has "J.B.S." (Juke Box Service) below "45" on the left hand side, the second has "S.A.P.A.R.".
The Italian commercial single was released in two sleeve designs and three label designs! On the withdrawn sleeve the catalogue number was given incorrectly as "1869" and overprinted with a black bar and the correct number underneath. The regular release was issued twice - see variations above. The second version of the Italian regular release had the same front sleeve as the first version, but a slightly different back cover and record label.
The Greek single, which did not have a picture sleeve, is one of the very few Dylan releases in Greece from this time period, most of Bob's albums and singles were not released there during the rule of "the colonels".
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS/Sony LL-847-C (Japan), Dec 1965:
These singles are very rare and expensive, especially in the condition shown. The sleeve is a folded sheet. The promo record has white labels and the commercial record has orange CBS/Sony labels. For the US release, Columbia 4-43389, and other international single with these two tracks, see above.
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"Positively 4th Street"- 7" mono EP, CBS 6198 (Portugal), 1965:
Various Artists - "Step Lively" - 7" mono EP, Columbia Special Products CSP 319 (USA), 1965:
This Limited Edition EP was released in association with Hot Potatoes by Keds
(shoes) and Uni Royal US Rubber (who presumably made the soles of the shoes).
"Como Una Piedra Que Rueda" [Like A Rolling Stone] - 7"
mono EP, CBS EPC 496 (Mexico), 1965:
This EP exclusive to Mexico had a
unique picture of Bob at the piano by Daniel Kramer. For the Mexican 7" single
of Like A Rolling Stone, see the 1965 Like A Rolling Stone page, link below.
Hans Seegers adds: "There are 8 variations of the Mexican Like A Rolling Stone EP. The first one came in a bag type cardboard sleeve with folded over flaps, orange labels and was released in 1965 in two label and two sleeve variations. In 1966 CBS Mexico started using folded out paper sleeves and "1966" on the labels. This one came in many label and cover variations. Catalogue number and release date remain the same until into the 1980s, e.g. orange labels for half the 1970's, yellow/red labels afterwards. Front sleeve: CBS logo and catalogue number in blue, but also in red. Many “collectors” don't believe it until they've seen it!"
The copy shown (mine) is a later release with a folded card sleeve and "è 1966" on the orange labels. On the rear of the sleeve is an advert for a contemporary CBS jazz EP by pianist Ray Bryant.
"Positively 4th Street" - 7" mono EP releases, CBS EP 6210 (France), Nov 1965; CBS EP 6.210 (Spain), Sep 1966:
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These EPs contained an edited version of Mr. Tambourine Man. For full
details see the rarities list for
1965. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
"Bob Dylan" - 7" mono EP, CBS EP 6020 (West Germany), end 1965:
For the other 1965 Mono Singles & EPs pages, see here:
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Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1969 |
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