Incidentally, the well-known line from Lay, Lady, Lay - "lay across my big brass bed", comes from Rough Alley Blues by Blind Willie McTell with Ruth Willis, and is actually sung by Ruth Willis. Rough Alley Blues is included on the 2005 Document Records 3CD set Statesboro Blues: The Early Years 1927-1935.

The promo single was released in three variants - two mono singles with white labels and one stereo single with blue/yellow labels. For the stereo promo single, see International 7" Stereo Singles & EPs 1960s. You'll see the first variant has the LP title "NASHVILLE SKYLINE" on one line, while the second splits it over two lines.

The commercial US single also has the same two variants. The Canadian single was released with one version only - the one with the album title on one line.

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - promo B-side scan by Hans Seegers (first variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - promo A-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - promo B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - commercial A-side scan by Peter Denzler (first variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - commercial B-side scan by Peter Denzler (first variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - commercial A-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (USA) - commercial B-side scan by Hans Seegers (second variant)

Columbia 4-44926 (Canada) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia 4-44926 (Canada) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers

For a US mono single with this catalogue number, see above.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

For a US mono single with this catalogue number, see above. For the corresponding 1969 Indian mono release of Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You, see the appropriate sub-page. For the very rare 1970 Indian stereo release of Wigwam with this label style, see International 7" Stereo Singles & EPs 1970-73. This label style was also used for the equally rare Indian release of George Jackson, see 1971.

Information and scans from Peter Denzler.

The UK and Irish singles did not have picture sleeves. The UK single has three 1969 variants with plain orange labels and was reissued in 1975 with orange/yellow "new design" labels, and then again in mid 1979 with red/yellow labels. All label variations are shown.

CBS 4434 (UK) - promo B-side scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (1969 commercial release, first variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (1969 commercial release, first variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - detail of B-side, scan by Hans Seegers (1969 commercial release, first variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Dag Braathen (1969 commercial release, second variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - detail of B-side, scan by Dag Braathen (1969 commercial release, second variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Dag Braathen (1969 commercial release, second variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (1969 commercial release, third variant - larger titles)

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (1969 commercial release, third variant - larger titles)

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Peter Denzler (1969 commercial release, third variant - larger titles, also push-out centre)

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Peter Denzler (1969 commercial release, third variant - larger titles, also push-out centre)

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (1975 commercial release, first variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (1975 commercial release, first variant)

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (1975 commercial release, second variant - larger "BOB DYLAN")

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (1975 commercial release, second variant - larger "BOB DYLAN")

CBS 4434 (UK) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (1979 commercial release, first variant with solid centre)

CBS 4434 (UK) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (1979 commercial release, first variant)

CBS 4434 (Ireland) - A-side scan by Éamonn Ó Catháin

CBS 4434 (Ireland) - B-side scan by Éamonn Ó Catháin

CBS 4434 (NL) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (West Germany), promo single - front scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (West Germany) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (West Germany) - A-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

CBS 4434 (West Germany) - B-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

CBS 4434 (Italy) - front scan of sleeve with hole by Hans Seegers (this version of the Dutch/German sleeve was also used for juke box singles)

CBS 4434 (Italy) - rear scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

CBS 4434 (Italy) - A-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

CBS 4434 (Italy) - B-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

CBS 4434 (NL) - A-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

CBS 4434 (France)- original release (Série Gemini) - version with "languette", front scan by Hans Seegers

For more information about the unique French index tabs or "languettes", see 1965. The second French release (my copy) has no languette. The third copy from Hans Seegers also has no languette, but it does have a 57mm cut-away strip on the back edge. The record in this copy has brown injection labels. For an injection label a thin coloured plastic ring-shaped layer is injected into the record itself, and the text/graphics cut out using a stamp so that the black vinyl underneath shows through, there is no paper label.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS 4434 (France) - later release (Série Gemini), version without "languette", front (my copy)

CBS 4434 (France ) - version without "languette", back without cut-away

CBS 4434 (France) - A-side (my copy, paper labels

CBS 4434 (France) - third release (Série Gemini), version without "languette", front scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (France) - third release (Série Gemini), version without "languette", back scan by Hans Seegers with cut-away

CBS 4434 (France) - third release (Série Gemini), A-side scan by Hans Seegers (injection labels)

CBS 4434 (France) - third release (Série Gemini), B-side scan by Hans Seegers (injection labels)

CBS 4434 (Spain) - front scan by Hans Seegers

Ronald Born's copy of the Spanish release has a minor variation on the rear sleeve from that of Hans Seegers, in that the words "CARA A" and "CARA B" are missing from over the song titles. The front of the sleeve and the record labels are identical.

Thanks to Hans Seegers and Ronald Born for information and scans.

CBS 4434 (Spain) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (Spain) - alternate rear scan by Ronald Born

CBS 4434 (Spain) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - front scan by Hans Seegers (variant 1)

The Portuguese releases of this single are very complicated! There are three sleeve variants:

1 CBS logo on front and back is 15x15 mm, "GRAFICOS REUNIDOS-PORTO" in capital letters on the back, "Fabricado em Portugal" printed on the back.

2 CBS logo on front is 20x20 mm, on the back 19x19 mm, "gráficos reunidos-porto" in small letters on the back, "Fabricado em Portugal" not printed on the back. There are two sub-variants of this sleeve:

2A Overall length of "CBS é uma marca registrada da Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., E.U.A." on back cover is 83 mm.
2B Overall length of "CBS é uma marca registrada da Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., E.U.A." on back cover is 99 mm.

3 CBS logo on front and back is 20x20 mm, "gráficos reunidos-porto" in small letters on the back, "Fabricado em Portugal" not printed on the back. (the front of Sleeve 3 is therefore the same as Sleeve 2).

Added to this, the record labels have two main variants, each of which has two sub-variants:

1 "(B. Dylan)" next to song titles, no date above "FACE 1/2":

1A No space between “prod. por Bob Johnston” and "<<Nashville Skyline>>"
1B “prod. por Bob Johnston” 2mm below "<<Nashville Skyline>>"

2 "(B. Dylan)" below song titles:

2A "è 1969" above "FACE 1/2".
2B No date above "FACE 1/2" as variants 1A and 1B. This exists in two variants, with and without a spelling mistake!

2B1- LP reference incorrectly spelled "Nasheville Skyline" on A-side only (B-side was correct).
2B2 - LP reference spelled correctly "Nashville Skyline" on A-side.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for (detailed!) information and scans.

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - front scan by Hans Seegers (variants 2 and 3 - larger CBS logo)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - rear scan by Hans Seegers (variant 1)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - rear scan by Hans Seegers (variant 2A)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - rear scan by Hans Seegers (variant 2B)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - rear scan by Hans Seegers (variant 3)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (variant 2A)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (variant 2A)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (variant 2B1 with misprint "Nasheville Skyline)

CBS 4434 (Portugal) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (variant 2B2 with misprint corrected)

CBS 4434 (Norway) - front scan by Peter Denzler

The rear sleeve of the Norwegian single was plain white. It had orange CBS labels.

Thanks to Peter Denzler for information and scans.

CBS 4434 (Norway) - A-side scan by Peter Denzler

CBS 4434 (Norway) - B-side scan by Peter Denzler

This single was released with three sleeve and two label variants. The first sleeve exists in a promo version with a Hebrew language sticker on the front sleeve. It has two generic rear sleeve variants, each showing six different singles by other CBS artists. The second release sleeve has a differently printed front while the generic rear has six new other artist singles printed in purple. Both records have orange CBS labels, but the second label text style is completely different from the first. This was the second and last Dylan 7" single in Israel, the first was Like A Rolling Stone/Gates Of Eden, see Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1965.

Thanks to Francisco Lima for information and to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

Thanks to Bill Hester for information about the New Zealand release, CBS BA 461244. Thanks to Hans Seegers and Stuart Moore for information and scans.

CBS BA 461244 (New Zealand) - A-side can by Stuart Moore

Thanks to Hans Seegers, Hans-Juergen Zollerg and Stefan Haras for information and pictures.

Dylan releases were very rare during the Greek "colonels" regime, and this must have been regarded as non-political. CBS records were distributed by a company called "Music Box" in Athens. This single contained the album tracks from Nashville Skyline, and had orange CBS labels. There are two label variations: the first (not shown) has no space between "Produced by Bob Johnston" and the CBS logo, the second (shown) has 4mm space. For details of the same single released in stereo in the UK in 1976 in the "Hall Of Fame" series, see US & International 7" & 12" Singles & EPs 1974-76.

For the CBS Greece "Music Box" sleeve for this record, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

The record has orange CBS labels with text that looks as if it has been added with a rubber stamp, as it's become smudged, especially on the B-side.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans and confirming this EP is definitely mono.

CBS EPC 978 (Mexico) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers