Audio: 1975

All the songs listed in the Official Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these alphabetical pages.
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This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List (this year excluding Hurricane items - 1975 items with the split versions of Hurricane are now here). Mono 7" Singles & EPs (up to 1976) are now here, and Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.

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: 22 April, 2008


Titles in red are not available on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com )

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"Tangled Up In Blue" - 7" promo single with mono/stereo regular versions, Columbia 3-10106 (USA), 25 Feb 1975:

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Columbia 3-10106 7" promo single (USA) - mono side scan by Hans Seegers
R-0313 Tangled Up In Blue - mono version of Blood On The Tapes album track (5:31)

This promo single had the regular stereo album version on the other side. For a different version of this promo single with the same catalogue number, but with an edited version of Tangled Up In Blue, see below.

For the promo and commercial versions of the regular stereo single with the same catalogue number and with the full length version of Tangled Up In Blue as the A-side and If You See Her, Say Hello as the B-side, see US & International 7" Stereo Singles & EPs 1974-76.

Thanks to Ole Lien for referring this item to me, and Hans Seegers for further information and scans.


Columbia 3-10106 7" promo single (USA) - stereo side scan by Hans Seegers

"Tangled Up In Blue" - 7" promo stereo single with edited/regular versions, Columbia 3-10106 (USA), 25 Feb 1975:


Columbia 3-10106 (USA) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers (R-0383)
R-0383    Tangled Up In Blue - edited version for radio broadcasts and DJs (3:27)

This promo single had the regular stereo album version on the other side. For a different version of this single with the same catalogue number and with the full version of Tangled Up In Blue in stereo/mono, see above.

This record has white promo labels with "DJ RE-SERVICE" printed on the right-hand side above "45rpm" and "DEMONSTRATION NOT FOR SALE" below. "Columbia" is printed in very dark red.

For the promo and commercial versions of the regular stereo single with the same catalogue number and with the full length version of Tangled Up In Blue as the A-side and If You See Her, Say Hello as the B-side, see US & International 7" Stereo Singles & EPs 1974-76.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.


Columbia 3-10106 (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (full version)

"Tangled Up In Blue"/"If You See Her, Say Hello" - promo stereo 7" single, CBS S 3160 (West Germany), Jun 1975:

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CBS S 3160 (West Germany) - promo single front sleeve scan by Hans Seegers

The West German promo single comes in the "CBS-Blitzinformation" sleeve with white labels.

R-0383-2 Tangled Up In Blue - edited version for radio broadcasts and DJs (3:27)

The B-side is the regular album version of If You See Her, Say Hello.

There is a variant of this promo single with the same catalogue number with the full length performance of Tangled Up In Blue, see US & International 7" Stereo Singles & EPs 1974-76.

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CBS S 3160 (West Germany) - promo single A-side scan by Hans Seegers

Various Artists - "The Greatest Of Folk-Rock" - vinyl 2LP set, HRB Music Co. C-205 (USA), 1975:

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HRB Music Co. C-205 (USA) - front scan by Mahmoud Sadrai

R-0020-4 Ye Playboys & Playgirls  - with Pete Seeger, recorded at the afternoon workshop, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 27 Jul 1963, from the Vanguard album Newport Broadside (Topical Songs), see 1964 (stereo version)

R-0311-3 With God On Our Side -  with Joan Baez, recorded during Joan's set at the evening concert on 28 Jul 1963 Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 28 Jul 1963, from the Vanguard album Newport Broadside (Topical Songs), see 1964 (stereo version)
This is now known not to be the performance from Joan's set at the evening concert on 28 Jul 1963 (stereo version, R-0021)

R-0022-3 Blowin' In The Wind - recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport,  RI, 26 Jul 1963, from the Vanguard album Evening Concerts At Newport Vol. 1, see 1964 (stereo version)

R-0607-2 This Land is Your Land [as This Land is My Land] (Woody Guthrie) - with Pete Seeger and ensemble, recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 28 Jul 1963, from The Newport Folk Festival - 1963: The Evening Concerts Vol. 2, see 1964 (stereo version)

All songs recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, Jul 1963

Thanks to Tracy Zank for information on this item, which is virtually identical to a 2LP set called The Natural Sound from Double R Records, see 1976.

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HRB Music Co. C-205 (USA) - rear scan by Mahmoud Sadrai

David Blue - "Com'n Back For More" - vinyl LP: Asylum 7E 1043 (USA)/Asylum SYL 9025 (UK), 1975; CD: Wounded Bird WOU 1043 (USA), 21 May 2007:
Thanks to Peter Gilmer and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for news this album was re-released on CD by Wounded Bird Records in the USA on 21 May 2007.


Asylum SYL 9025 (UK) - front scan by Kenneth Robson

R-0121 Who Love (If Not You Love) (David Blue) - Bob plays harmonica

I've seen a Dylan article saying that this song also appeared on an album called A Story By David Blue, but Donald J. Senno reminds me that this is the sub-title of this album (see rear sleeve).

Thanks to Kenneth Robson for scans of the UK release - scans of the US release required! Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for scans of the 2007 US CD release.


Asylum SYL 9025 (UK) - rear scan by Kenneth Robson

Asylum SYL 9025 (UK) - Side 1 scan by Kenneth Robson (R-0121 is track 4)

Asylum SYL 9025 (UK) - Side 2 scan by Kenneth Robson (non-Dylan)

Wounded Bird WOU 1043 (USA) - rear scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux
 

Wounded Bird WOU 1043 (USA) - CD scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux

Wounded Bird WOU 1043 (USA) - outside of front insert unfolded, scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux

Wounded Bird WOU 1043 (USA) - inside of front insert unfolded, scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux

"Bob Dylan - New Gift Pack"- deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan), 1975?:
This set, Vol. 8 in the New Gift Pack series, has a four page lyrics booklet and a second four page information booklet with eight monochrome photographs of Bob.

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - obi scan by Hans Seegers

R-0099-10 A Fool Such As I (Bill Trader)
See here for a note about writer credits for this song from the
1973 Dylan album, often wrongly credited by Columbia to Buford Abner, but actually written by Bill Trader.

Side 1: Like A Rolling Stone; Mr. Tambourine Man; Highway 61 Revisited; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Just Like A Woman; Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

Side 2: Knockin' On Heaven's Door; If Not For You; New Morning; Watching The River Flow; Billy 4; I Shall Be Released

Side 3: Blowin' In The Wind; Song To Woody; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; North Country Blues; My Back Pages; The Times They Are A-Changin'

Side 4: Lay, Lady, Lay; I'll be Your Baby Tonight; John Wesley Harding; I Threw It All Away; The Boxer; A Fool Such As I

As well as A Fool Such As I, this set contains other rarely-compiled tracks such as North Country Blues, John Wesley Harding and Billy 4.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.


CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - back scan by Hans Seegers

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CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - booklet scan by Hans Seegers

"Million Dollar Bash" - stereo/mono 7" promo single, Columbia 3-10217 (USA), 16 Sep 1975:

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Columbia 3-10217 7" promo single (USA) - mono side scan by Hans Seegers
R-0449 Million Dollar Bash - mono version with The Band

This promo single had the regular stereo album version on the other side.

Hans Seegers also has a Spanish promo release of this single, with a one page promo info sheet - catalogue number/scans required.


Columbia 3-10217 (USA) - stereo side, scan by Hans Seegers

Mono Singles & EPs for 1975

These are now here: Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1970-76. There were no mono Dylan LPs released in 1975.


Promotional Items for 1975

Stereo promo items for 1975 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now here: International Promotional Releases. Promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles are now located on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases.

For the US and West German promo singles of Tangled Up In Blue/If You See Her, Say Hello previously listed here, go to US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1974-76.


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