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.
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F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z
This first part of the list collects non-album song performances and interviews by Bob Dylan on VHS video and DVD (and laserdisc where I have information) up to 1969. I would be grateful for any additional information on these items and other material to place here. Video material included on CD-ROMs or CD Plus discs is still in the main directory in the appropriate part. I don't yet know of any films in the 1960s that used Dylan album tracks.
Films are listed by date of original appearance (in theatres or on TV), not when the VHS video or
DVD came out, often some years later. This page does not include songs from regular albums that appear in films or
videos without performance footage, nor do I include music videos
of standard album tracks - for a full Dylan filmography, see "Expecting Rain"
or "TV Talkin'"
For informed discussion of all Bob's screen appearances, see C.P. Lee's well-received book "Like A Bullet Of Light ".
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Jean-Pierre Mercier for laserdisc details and catalogue numbers and Michel Pomarede for scans. Thanks also to Larry Crum for checking these entries against his own collection, "Positively Bob Dylan" by Michael Krogsgaard, "Bob Dylan on Video" (article in "Record Collector" magazine, Sep 1992), and several other sources. All scans that aren't credited are from my own collection or amazon.com
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!
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Revised: 10 March, 2010.
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)
1967
"Don't Look Back" - feature film directed by D.A. Pennebaker,
released in theatres 1967, VHS video and Laserdisc 1985 onwards (USA/UK):
All occurrences of the film title omit the apostrophe, but my spell
checker won't let me! This film was recorded during Bob's May 1965 tour of the
UK. See 1981
for songs broadcast in "Retro Rock" radio programmes in 1981 about
D.A. Pennebaker.
D. A. Pennebaker also assisted Bob in making a TV documentary for ABC called
"Eat The Document" about the May 1966 tour of the UK with the
Hawks (see below).
This entry lists releases of the film in its original form on VHS and laserdisc. See VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1 for the 2000 DVD release which contains additional complete audio performances, and therefore warrants a separate entry. Thanks to Jack from Canada for suggesting changes to this entry. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for news that a 2DVD "Collector's Edition" was released by Docurama in the USA on 27 Feb 2007 - this contains the original film, a new hour-long documentary called "Bob Dylan 1965 Revisited" and two books - the first a reprint of the original 1960s 168-page companion book to the film, and the second the "Subterranean Homesick Blues Flipbook", a frame-by-frame still photo presentation of the famous card sequence that starts the film. For more details, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4. For a 2007 unauthorised DVD release containing out-takes from this documentary, see Questionable Video.
R-0666 Only
A Pawn In Their Game - recorded live, Civil Rights Rally, Silas Magee's Farm,
Greenwood, MS, 6 Jul 1963 (excerpt)
Thanks to Larry Crum for information about R-0666 -
Silas Magee's Farm is thought by some to have been the inspiration for the title
of Bob's 1965 song Maggie's Farm. I've included this separately from R-0043 because it
doesn't belong to 1965.
R-0402 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - live, City Hall, Newcastle, England, 6 May 1965
R-0403 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - sung to Donovan in a hotel room, Savoy Hotel, London, England, 8 May 1965
R-0404 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - live, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 9 May 1965
R-0405 Talking World War III Blues - live, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 9 May 1965
R-0043 Other performances - live footage from the May 1965 England tour, but only fragments of songs.
Laserdisc releases
USA/UK releases
Don't Look Back was not released on video until Aug 1986. Before the 2000 DVD/VHS reissue on NewVideo it was available on Paramount and Warner Reprise in the USA and Virgin in Europe.
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Harold Lepidus has a US promo VHS tape from Warner Bros from the early 1990s promoting both Don't Look Back and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is in a black box with a generic label:
Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for the scan of the UK VHS video - it has no date except 1967. Thanks to Hans Seegers, Gil Lamont and Wil Gielen for other information and scans. |
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 Virgin Music Video VVD 251 (UK, date?) - cover scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
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 Photo from original 1967 press pack, scan by Yan Friis |
"Don't Look Back" - feature film directed by D.A. Pennebaker, released in theatres 1967, VHS video and Laserdisc 1985 onwards (USA/UK/Japan):
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 Pioneer Electronic SM078-3063 laserdisc (Japan, 1983), front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Pack-In-Video RVM-1 (Japan, 1983) - tape scan by Wil Gielen |
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 Pack-In-Video RST-1017 (Japan, 1991) - unfolded case insert, scan by Wil Gielen |
 Pack-In-Video RST-1017 (Japan, 1991) - tape scan by Wil Gielen |
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 Pack-In-Video RST-1017 (Japan, 1991) - insert outside scan by Wil Gielen |
 Pack-In-Video RST-1017 (Japan, 1991) - insert inside scan by Wil Gielen |
 Sony Records SRVM-1536 (Japan, 1998) - front of sealed promo copy, scan by Wil Gielen |
 Sony Records SRVM-1536 (Japan, 1998) - rear of sealed promo copy, scan by Wil Gielen |
 Sony Records SRVM-1536 (Japan, 1998) - front promo sticker, scan by Wil Gielen |
 Sony Records SRVM-1536 (Japan, 1998) - rear promo sticker, scan by Wil Gielen |
 Sony Records SRVM-1536 (Japan, 1998) - promo tape scan by Wil Gielen |
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"Eat The Document" - one-hour ABC TV documentary shot by D.A. Pennebaker,
edited by Bob Dylan and Howard Alk, unreleased (USA):
This film was recorded by D. A. Pennebaker during Bob's May 1966 tour with The Hawks of the
UK and France. Thanks to Juan B. Heinink for the information that amazon.com were
advertising a DVD release in the USA for 31 Dec 2005!
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This was edited by Bob and Howard Alk, but was never shown on TV as intended. It has had a couple of cinema showings, and excerpts have been included in many videos, both about Bob and about the Band and Robbie Robertson (see below and all other VHS & DVD pages). Excerpts also appear in the 2005 Martin Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan", see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. Pennebaker also made his own film of the tour called "Something Is Happening", which reportedly contains more performance footage than "Eat the Document", but this too remains unseen. For a 2007 unauthorised DVD release containing the out-take with Bob and John Lennon in a London taxi, see Questionable Video. |
Excerpts which have appeared in other videos are:
R-0319 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966
R-0472 I Can't Leave Her Behind [On A Rainy Afternoon] - song worked on by Robbie Robertson and Bob Dylan in a Glasgow hotel room in May 1966 (see also R-0654 below)
R-0485 Baby, Let Me Follow You Down - performed live with the Hawks in the UK in May 1966
R-0654 On A Rainy Afternoon [I Can't Leave Her Behind]
- work in progress in hotel room, Glasgow Scotland, 19 May 1966 (see also R-0472
above)
Both songs were copyrighted separately by Dwarf Music in 1978, but are really
part of the same work-in-progress, and the titles are used misleadingly. The
song identified as I Can't Leave Her Behind on the
bonus disc with the DVD release of Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary "No
Direction Home: Bob Dylan" (see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3 is actually the song copyrighted as
On A Rainy Afternoon!
R-0668 Ballad Of A Thin Man - recorded in Glasgow, Scotland, May 1966, with the Hawks
I haven't allocated R- numbers to the other song fragments. For full contents
of this film and out-takes which circulate, see "Expecting Rain"
or "TV Talkin'"
. Thanks to Moise Potie for reminding me
that the Dec 2006 Thunder On The Mountain video on Sony Music Box contains
an out-take of "Eat The Document" showing Bob with John Lennon in a London
taxi, see Online Performances (Other).
Various Artists - "Festival!" - feature film directed by Murray
Lerner first released 1967, DVD release:
Eagle Eye Media EE 39101-9 (USA), 18 Oct 2005/Eagle
Rock Entertainment
EREDV499 (Europe), 24 Oct 2005/RajonVision RV0536
(Australia), 2005/Videoarts Music VABG-1191 (Japan), Nov 2005//Videoarts Music
VABZ-1271 (Japan), 21 May 2008:
Thanks to Larry Crum and Tim Dunn for news that the Sep 2005 issue of
"Ice" magazine in the USA said that this film of the Newport Folk Festival
1963-66 would be released on DVD by Eagle Rock in the USA on 18 Oct 2005. As far
as I know there was never an earlier commercial release on VHS or other video
media. Other
artists included are Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, the
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Peter, Paul & Mary, Mississippi John Hurt, Pete
Seeger, Donovan and Son House. There are no extras of any kind on the DVD. For
more Dylan Newport footage see the 2007 US Columbia/Legacy DVD The Other Side Of The
Mirror: Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival
1963-1965, VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4.
 Poster from the Richard & Mimi Fariña web-site |
R-0041 All I Really Want To Do - recorded
live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1964 (part of the
afternoon workshop performance on 24
Jul 1965 is also shown) R-0825 Daytime rehearsal with the Paul
Butterfield Blues Band - live, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 25 Jul 1965 R-0300 Maggie's Farm - recorded live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 25 Jul 1965, now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, Sep 2005 R-0304 Mr. Tambourine Man - recorded live (solo acoustic) at the Newport Folk Festival,
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 Eagle Eye Media EE 39101-9 (USA) - Oct 2005 US DVD, disc scan by Jack from Canada |
 RajonVision RV0536 (Australia) - DVD scan by Rob Cole |
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 Videoarts Music VABG-1191 (Japan) - front sticker scan by Hans Seegers (commercial release) |
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 Videoarts Music VABG-1191 (Japan) - promo DVD scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Videoarts Music VABZ-1271 (Japan) - obi scan by Wil Gielen |
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The film also has fragments from the 1965 band soundcheck: organ riffs, Maggie's Farm and Like A Rolling Stone.
Information from Rob van Estrik: "The Festival! film, directed by Murray Lerner (from the generation of direct cinema directors to which D.A. Pennebaker also belongs) exists as 16mm prints only (2 reels) with a magnetic (mono) sound strip attached to the film. The film, shot in b&w, was first distributed in 1966 and is very rarely seen today, all surviving copies stored away at various local film archives. It is a very remarkable film as it very obviously serves as a forerunner to the festival films Monterey Pop and Woodstock in the same way these later bigger festivals followed the annual Newport Jazz and Folk festivals.
The film gives a very good impression of the folk music scene to which Dylan came and went and to which he belonged for several years. The editing is perfect, especially the build-up of the now historic scenes featuring Dylan’s 1965 electric appearance alternated with performances by traditional folk acts. Only from this footage and how it was edited for the film you can understand that Dylan had to force his way out of the scene by playing loud electric music."
Gil Walker adds "There is (or at least was) a longer version of the Festival! film which has been shown on at least a few occasions. I saw it at a special screening at the Yale Law School Film Society in, if I remember right, the fall of 1970. I'm as certain as I can be that it included "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"; and I'm pretty sure it included at least part of a second electric song -- probably "Phantom Engineer", since I'd have remembered "Like A Rolling Stone". Lerner is at least modestly prominent these days for his documentary Message To Love, about the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, finally released in 1993." (see VHS & DVD Part 3)
Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the US DVD. Thanks to Rob Cole for scans of the Australian DVD release. It has the same front sticker as my UK release. Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans of the 2005 Japanese release from Videoarts Music. The promo copy shown has a "SAMPLE" sticker on the rear of the case insert stuck over the barcode and "SAMPLE LOANED" in the centre of the DVD itself. It has a two fold insert. Thanks to Wil Gielen for scans of the second VideoArts Japan release, dated 21 May 2008. It has a yellow and black obi with black, white and yellow text and price ¥2,625, but did not have an inside insert.
1969
Johnny Cash - "The Man Ÿ His World Ÿ His Music" - documentary film released 15 Oct 1969, VHS video: Intervision Video (catalogue number?) (USA), 1980/Goodtimes Home Video 8295 (USA), 1992; DVD: Cherry Red Records CRDVD 002 (USA - Region 0), Jun 2000; Sanctuary 06076-88336-9 (USA - Region 1)/Sanctuary SDE 3008 (UK - Region 2), May 2002; Cherry Red Records CRDVD 002N (UK - Region 2), 24 Feb 2003/BMG (catalogue number?) (USA - Region 1), 8 Mar 2005:
 Original 1969 film poster, scan by Michael Merchant |
R-0069 A Thousand Miles Behind [One Too Many Mornings] -
Bob duets with Johnny Cash on this out-take from the
Nashville Skyline sessions, 1969 Information from Rob van Estrik: This film has been issued on video several times by different labels, first in 1979 (in UK only, deleted in 1981), and most recently by Visionary, again within UK only." More scans required! Thanks to Michael Merchant for the original film poster scan. This poster was given to him by Bruce Elfstrom, son of the film's director Robert Elfstrom. It is about 22" x 14" and is numbered 69/347. The 1980 VHS video was deleted in 1981 (thanks to Larry Crum for this information). Larry Crum informs me his later VHS video, Goodtimes Home Video 8295, released 1992, has the title Johnny Cash: The Man And His Music - scans required! The UK DVD was originally released by Sanctuary in 2002, but then the Cherry Red Records version was released in the UK in 2003 with the same catalogue number as the US release, but yet another different cover (this is still available). The 2005 US DVD release again uses new artwork, this time in black-and-white. |
 1980 US Intervision VHS release - picture from Ole Lien |
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Part of this film, including the Dylan footage, appeared in the 1984 documentary The Other Side Of Nashville (see VHS & DVD 1980s). It was reported in 2001 that an audio soundtrack of this film would be released in the UK by Castle Communications (Castle CMRCD 259), but it has never appeared.
Thanks to Peter Gilmer, Freddy Ordoñez Araque and Fred Muller for information. Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the 2005 Sanctuary US DVD release. This was reportedly a remastered edition with bonus material, but the Dylan material appears to be unchanged.
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