Audio: International Album Releases (Regular)

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid OST (1973)

This page is part of a new section of original releases by release date of international commercially-released regular stereo Dylan albums. They do not contain rarities or obscurities and are not eligible for the Searching For A Gem list. Nevertheless, their interest value or scarcity means they're worth listing here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site.

This album is of course the exception to that, as it's the only one in the Dylan catalogue that has been deleted! The album is still listed on the bobdylan.com albums page. Although I've submitted a correction, A Fool Such As I is still wrongly listed on bobdylan.com as having been written by Buford Abner - it was actually written by Bill Trader, see here. The 3CD set released in Oct 2007 is also called Dylan!

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Original US stereo LP, Columbia PC 32747, 16 Nov 1973

This album was issued by Columbia without Bob's authorisation during the period when Bob was with Asylum/Island, and consists of entirely of covers, out-takes from Self Portrait and New Morning. It has never been issued on CD in the USA or UK, although CD versions were released in Japan in 1990 and mainland Europe in 1991. A cassette version is still available in the USA, but it appears to have been deleted in the UK.

An earlier version of the album dated 5 Oct 1973, has a different track listing:

Side 1: Mr. Bojangles (R-0101); The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (R-0104); A Fool Such As I (R-0099); Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (R-0096); Mary Ann (R-0103).

Side 2: Runnin' (Floyd Tillman); Sarah Jane (R-0098); Lily Of The West (R-0097); Alligator Man (Floyd Chance/Jimmy "C" Newman). Tracks 1 and 4 are as yet unreleased. Thanks to Peter Stone Brown for identifying the likely source of Track 1 as the 1956 country song by Floyd Tillman.

The order of the released album is:

Side 1: Lily Of The West; Can't Help Falling In Love (R-0100); Sarah Jane; The Ballad Of Ira Hayes.

Side 2: Mr. Bojangles; Mary Ann; Big Yellow Taxi (R-0102); A Fool Such As I; Spanish Is The Loving Tongue.

For all versions of this album, see 1973.

Columbia PC 32747 (USA) - promo stamp on rear sleeve of 1990s LP reprint, scan by Eddie Cockrell

The acetate of the US album is a double-sided 12" disc in an "audiodisc" generic sleeve.

Gil Lamont has a later copy of PC 32747 with no red sticker on the front and matrix numbers: Side 1 - P AL 32747-2E, Side 2 - P-BL 32747-2A. The label on Side 2 is different in that R-0099 is correctly credited to "B. Trader". Bob Mazer's copy of PC 32747 is probably the same as Gil's, and the label on Side 1 is also different in that R-0098 is credited to "Arr. Bob Dylan". It has no credit at all on the label above.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux, Arie de Reus, Eddie Cockrell, Ulf Gyllenspetz and David Burgess for information and pictures.

Columbia PC 32747 (USA) - Side 1 label scan by David Burgess

Columbia PC 32747 (USA) - Side 2 label scan by David Burgess (A Fool Such As I is wrongly credited to "B. Abner")

Columbia PC 32747 (USA) - later Side 1 label, photo by Bob Mazer (Sarah Jane is credited to "Arr. Bob Dylan")

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS 69049 (UK) - note the "DYLAN" is much larger than on the US sleeve (my copy)

The inner sleeve of the UK album is generic, with a "magazine" called "THE INNER SLEEVE". Both sides of teh sleeve contain illustrations of CBS albums of the time, including Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, see International Albums (Regular), plus albums by Roger McGuinn (see below), Janis Joplin and Hammond/Bloomfield/Dr. John. The rear inner sleeve shows the then CBS postal address of CBS Records, 28/30 Theobalds Road, London WC1. This album was released three times in Britain: first in 1973 with old-style labels (my copy), then in 1975 as CBS 32286 with new-style orange/yellow labels (Mick Robinson's copy) and then in 1984 as CBS 32286 with red labels (Hans Seegers' copy).

West Germany: Thanks again to Patrick Helfrich for the scan of the rare West German "Club Sonder Auflage [Club Special Edition]" release CBS S 63476, which was made in Holland and has 1960s-style CBS orange labels.

Greece: CBS 609049: Thanks to Hans Seegers for the very rare Greek test pressing and commercial release of Dylan. Bob's releases were generally banned in Greece under the military junta regime from 1967 to 1974 - this one was allowed, presumably because they considered it contained no political material. For the Greek release of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid see International Albums (Regular). Note the Greek commercial release has dark red labels, not the usual CBS orange.

Israel: Anneke Derksen's copy has Hebrew stickers on the front and rear of the sleeve and orange labels.

Yugoslavia: the 1984 Yugoslavian release of CBS 69049 shown above was released by Suzy Records of Zagreb on behalf of CBS, and has "CBS 69049 SOKOJ (P) 1984 CBS Inc." on the labels. It has 1980s style orange/yellow CBS labels. R-0099 is incorrectly credited to "B. Abner, Le Fevre Sing Pub Corp." (this was actually the correct publishing company for the song of the same name written by Buford Abner, see authorship note here). Thanks to Grzegorz J. (Greg) from Poland for scans.

CBS 69049 (Greece), test pressing - Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers

Singapore/Malaysia: CBS/Sony PC 32747 - this album has orange on red CBS/Sony labels with "Made in Malaysia". The record has written matrix numbers: "A/BL-32747 J900/899 ***". R-0099 is correctly credited to "B. Trader". Note the distinctive black border on the rear sleeve, which lists the distributors in Singapore and Malaysia.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. Thanks to Donald Randles for details of the Australian release and Bill Hester for the New Zealand release (scans required).

CBS/Sony SOPL 236 (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

CBS/Sony SOPL 236 (Japan) - top obi scan by Hans Seegers (unfolded)

CBS/Sony SOPL 236 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers (commercial release)

Thanks to Stuart Moore for information and scans.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS 137837 (Brazil) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers

Thanks to Wayne Carr for information and scans.

CBS 40-32286 (UK) - cassette Side 1 scan by Wayne Carr

Information from Hans Seegers, photos by Ulf Gyllenspetz.

CBS/Sony 25AP 285 (Japan) - Side A photo by Ulf Gyllenspetz

This US cassette PCT 32747 was bought in the mid-1990s and has text printed directly on to the plastic cassette case.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.

Columbia COL CD 32286 (NL) - front insert unfolded (my copy)

This CD is now long out of print, so is very scarce - rumour has it that Bob himself ordered it to be deleted.  It may still be available from import sources. Dylan is available in the USA today on cassette only. The album is not available in the UK in any form as it has been deleted from the Columbia "Nice Price" catalogue. Because of its scarcity, all CD copies command high prices when they become available in places like eBay!

In "The Bridge" issue 13, Autumn 2002, Alan Hoaksey lists three CD releases of this album, the two above and one for the USA as Columbia CK 32747 from Apr 1983. I have no confirmation of such a release, although "PC 32747" was the catalogue number of the original US release. Both John Howells and Bob Stacy have told me Columbia vinyl albums were reissued in the 1980s with "CK" prefixes replacing the previous "PC" prefixes, and that Dylan CD releases did not commence until Infidels in 1984, with earlier albums being released on CD for the first time between 1984 and 1990. Therefore 1983's "CK 32747" was probably a vinyl reissue - confirmation required!

Jack from Canada's copy was bought in the UK and has a "MADE IN ENGLAND" sticker on the rear of the jewel case - thanks to Hans Seegers for confirming this is incorrect. All European copies were sourced from Heemstede, Holland.

Thanks to Ian Stewart, Raoul Verolleman, Mark Goedegebuur and Wayne Carr for information about the Japanese CD and scans. Special thanks to Christine Consolvo for the copy of the Dutch CD!

Columbia COL CD 32286 (NL) - rear insert (my copy)

CBS/Sony SRCS 6163 (Japan) - rear insert scan by Ian Stewart