
These 7" Positively 4th Street singles don't contain rare tracks, but they're included because it is no longer possible to buy mono versions of album tracks. Mono LPs have their own pages, see Mono Album Releases. 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 released on a 7" single as Positively 4th Street by mistake and withdrawn very quickly.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 for the scan. |
"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:
The US single Columbia 4-43389 was originally released with red labels but was reissued (still in mono) in 1972 with grey labels. Viktor Ericsson has a copy in a generic Columbia sleeve with matrix numbers: A-side - ZSP 111386 - 2C, B-side - ZSP 111387 - 1G. The Canadian single had orange Columbia labels.
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.
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Augie Krater for information and scans.
"Positively 4th Street"/"From A Buick 6" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 201824 (UK), Sep 1965:
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. Rene 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 and Rene Jørgensen for information and scans.
"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:
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
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 cover 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.
"Positively 4th Street" - 7" mono EP, CBS EP 6210 (France), Nov 1965/CBS EP 6210 (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:
![]() Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1962-64 |
![]() Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1966-68 |
Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1969 |
![]() Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1970-76 |
![]() International 7" Single Sleeves |

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