Grand Prix 20, compilation exclusive to Japan, 1976
Grand Prix 20, compilation exclusive to Japan, 1976
This is the second part of a separate multi-year list by release date of commercially-released stereo Dylan-only compilation albums (including Greatest Hits albums with non-standard tracklists) that have been referred to me but do not qualify for my Searching For A Gem list because they contain only performances which are all available on officially released Dylan albums. 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. Thanks to Hans Seegers for all the exclusive CBS Japanese releases, etc.! All promo-only Dylan compilation albums are now here also.
Other International Albums and Compilations are now here:
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This page is still incomplete. 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 30 January, 2012.
Bob Dylan Compilations
For the other parts of this list, see the links above. This list now includes albums with the title Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (various Volumes) with non-standard tracklists. For Greatest Hits albums with the standard US tracklists see International Albums (Regular). There are also several international Bob Dylan compilation albums such as The Essential Bob Dylan which contain rarities in the main Searching For A Gem list.
1970
"Gift Pack Series: Bob Dylan"- deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPB 55117-18
(Japan), Nov 1970:
This is the first of a large number of unique compilations released by CBS/Sony in
Japan, most as boxed sets, but all with unique packaging and extras! There is a
unique corner obi which is glued to the inner lid of the hinged box, the rear of
which is plain white.
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55117-18 (Japan) - front with corner obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
Thanks to Shawn Chambers for information: "This is Vol. 9 in the first Gift Pack Series issued in Nov 1970 to commemorate the second anniversary of CBS/Sony in Japan. It is a numbered, limited edition, 2-record box set issued with a booklet and colour poster." The number is printed on the unique corner obi (detail shown below). The booklet has twelve pages and the large poster on thick paper is the Milton Glaser picture given away with copies of the US 1967 Greatest Hits compilation. I am now positively informed that the version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? in this set is in mono, and not the stereo version unavailable on commercial CD. The version available as on Masterpieces (1978) and Biograph (1985, remastered CD release 1997) and the 2001 Essential Bob Dylan/Ultimate Bob Dylan compilations is also from the original single and still in mono! The only occurrence of the stereo version is on a CBS stereo acetate, see 1965. The superb stereo version is in circulation amongst collectors on several bootleg albums and should be released by Columbia. (The CBS Spanish 7" EP and singles released in 1972 are now proved to have the track in mispressed mono, not stereo.) Side 1: Lay, Lay, Lay; John Wesley Harding; Girl From The North Country (with Johnny Cash); I Pity The Poor Immigrant; I Threw It All Away. Side 2: Like A Rolling Stone; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?; Highway 61 Revisited. Side 3: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; I Want You; Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (mistitled as "Lowland" on the sleeve and misspelled as "Lawland" on the record label). [This is the only place this song appears on a Dylan album other than on Blonde On Blonde!] Side 4: Blowin' In The Wind; When The Ship Comes In; My Back Pages; House Of The Rising Sun; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. Thanks also to Ulf Gyllenspetz. |
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 CBS/Sony SOPB 55117-18 (Japan) - detail of rear with ends of corner obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony SOPB 55117-18 (Japan) - detail from obi with stamped number, scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony SOPB 55118 (Japan) - Side 4 scan by Hans Seegers (Record 2, Side 2) |
1971
"Gift Pack Series 12: Bob Dylan" - deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPB 55153/54 (Japan), Nov 1971:
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55153/54 (Japan) - box front with obi scan by Hans Seegers |
This limited release, part of the "Gift Pack Series", was exclusive to Japan and contained a 1972 calendar featuring CBS/Sony artists. The records come in "Gift Pack Series" paper inner sleeves. The box has a silver obi with a photo of Bob at the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh and red, black and blue text. The rear of the obi is plain white. The box was priced at ¥3.000. |
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55153/54 (Japan) - box rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony SOPB 55153/54 (Japan) - front of obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55153/54 (Japan) - rear of obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55153 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 1) |
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55153 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 2) |
 CBS/Sony SOPB 55154 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 1) |
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Side 1: Talkin' New York; Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Only A Pawn In Their Game; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Chimes Of Freedom
Side 2: Mr. Tambourine Man; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Highway 61 Revisited; Desolation Row
Side 3: Visions Of Johanna; Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; John Wesley Harding; Lay, Lady, Lay; Nashville Skyline Rag
Side 4: Like A Rolling Stone; The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo); She Belongs To Me; Wigwam; If Not For You; New Morning; Watching The River Flow
All the tracks are the regular stereo album versions - thanks to Tom Ringtved for finding this album on the Internet and to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for extra information and scans. Shawn Chambers adds; "This is Vol. 12 in the Gift Pack '71 Series issued Nov. 1971 to commemorate the third anniversary of CBS/Sony. It is a limited edition 2-record box set issued with a booklet and 1972 CBS/Sony artist calendar."
"More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl 2LP sets, CBS S 67239 (UK/Ireland), Dec 1971, re-released mid-1970s, 1980s; CBS S 67239 (NL), 1971, re-released mid-1970s, 1987; CBS S 67239 (Portugal), mid-1970s, re-released 1980s; stereo cassette release, CBS 40-67239 (UK), 1970s:
 CBS S 67239 (UK) - front of gatefold sleeve (my copy, 1971 release) |
Like the first UK Greatest Hits (see 1967), this album had a different tracklist from the US version Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (Columbia KG 31120, 17 Nov 1971) - Positively 4th Street replaced She Belongs To Me as the first track on disc 2 (Positively 4th St. was missing from the 1967 UK Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, where She Belongs To Me replaced it.) On Side 4, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, which had also appeared on the 1967 UK Greatest Hits album as one of the two extra tracks, was replaced as track 2 by New Morning. All the CD releases of this album notified to me so far have the US tracklist, see International Albums (Regular). Because of the number of releases in several countries, full details of this album are now here. |
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 CBS S 67239 (NL) - front (title in blue circle), scan by Rene Kejlskov Jørgensen (1970s releases) |
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 CBS Sugar S 67239 (Italy) - front scan by Manuel Garcia Jara |
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 CBS 66287 (Israel) - front scan by Gerd Rundel |
 CBS 40-67239 (UK) - outside of cassette insert, scan by Stuart Moore |
 CBS 42-67239 (UK) - slipcase front scan by Manuel Garcia Jara |
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"Bob Dylan: Un Poeta Un Artista [Bob Dylan: A Poet An Artist]" - stereo 2LP set, CBS Sugar S 67239 (Italy), 1971; CBS S 67239 (Italy), late 1970s; stereo cassette release, CBS 40 S 64769 (Italy), 1972:
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CBS Sugar S 67239 (Italy) - front scan by Manuel Garcia Jara |
This Italian album is another release of the 1971 UK More Bob Dylan
Greatest Hits
album with the same catalogue number (see above). On the front sleeve the
title "BOB DYLAN UN POETA UN ARTISTA [BOB DYLAN A POET AN ARTIST]" is in
white and superimposed directly over the picture like on the UK front
sleeve. Full details of this album are now
here. Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara and Nol Grint for information and scans. |
 CBS 40 S 64769 (Italy) - cassette inlay front scan by Nol Grint |
1972
"Grandes Exitos De Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan's Big Hits]" - stereo vinyl LP, CBS CS-10.18 (Venezuela), 1972:
 CBS CS-10.18 (Venezuela) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
As this set
contains George Jackson ("Big Band" version) full
details are in 1972 in the
main Rarities list. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
"Bob Dylan: Gift Pack '73"- deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPH 41-42 (Japan), Nov 1972:
 CBS/Sony SOPH 41-42 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
As this set contains George Jackson ("Big Band" version) full details are in 1972 in the main Rarities list. Side 1: Blowin' In The Wind; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Chimes Of Freedom; My Back Pages; Tomorrow Is A Long Time. Side 2: Subterranean Homesick Blues; She Belongs To Me; Mr. Tambourine Man; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35. Side 3: I Want You; Just Like A Woman; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Lay, Lady, Lay; Living The Blues; If Not For You. Side 4: Watching The River Flow; When I Paint My Masterpiece; I Shall Be Released; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; Down In The Flood; George Jackson ("Big Band" version). Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. Thanks also to Ulf Gyllenspetz. |
1973
"Bob Dylan" - deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPH 83-84 (Japan), Nov 1973:
 CBS/Sony SOPH 83-84 (Japan) - obi scan by Hans Seegers |
This boxed set, exclusive to Japan, came with a booklet (dated 21
May 1973) and a 1974 calendar with a New Morning photo. All the tracks are the
regular album versions. Side 1: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Desolation Row; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Side 2: Like A Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street; Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again; Queen Jane Approximately; One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) Side 3: I Want You; Just Like A Woman; John Wesley Harding; All Along The Watchtower; Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn); Lay, Lady, Lay Side 4: New Morning; If Not For You; Blue Moon; Take A Message To Mary; Belle Isle; Alberta #2; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; I Shall Be Released; Blowin' In the Wind Hans Seegers also has a promo copy of this with grey labels with promo stamps, and a promo card inside the box. Thanks to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans. Shawn Chambers adds: "This is part of the Gift Pack '74 Series (Vol. 10) issued Nov 1973 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of CBS/Sony. It is a limited edition 2-record box set issued with a booklet and 1974 poster calendar." |
 CBS/Sony SOPH 83-84 (Japan) - box front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony SOPH 83-84 (Japan) - box front scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony SOPH 83 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 1) |
 CBS/Sony SOPH 83 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 2) |
 CBS/Sony SOPH 84 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 1) |
 CBS/Sony SOPH 84 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 2) |
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"Eleven Years In The Life Of Bob Dylan"- 3LP set, CBS/Sony SOPI 11-13 (Japan), Dec 1973:
 CBS/Sony SOPI 11-13 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
Because it contains three rarities from the 1973 Dylan album,
full information and pictures of this set are in 1973. Side 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Talkin' New York; Song To Woody; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Masters Of War; Ballad Of Hollis Brown; North Country Blues Side 2: The Times They Are A-Changin'; The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll; I Don't Believe You; Chimes Of Freedom; It Ain't Me, Babe |
Side 3: Mr. Tambourine Man; Maggie's Farm; It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding); Ballad Of A Thin Man; Highway 61 Revisited
Side 4: Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35; Just Like A Woman; One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later); Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
Side 5: John Wesley Harding; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; I Threw It All Away; Lay, Lady, Lay; Living The Blues; New Morning; Billy 4; Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Side 6: Early Morning Rain; Blue Moon; The Boxer; A Fool Such As I; Mr. Bojangles; Can't Help Falling In Love
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan.
"Gold Disc" - vinyl album in gold foil sleeve, CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan),
1973:
I previously had this listed for 1972, but Hans Seegers believes it to be
from 1974. Confusingly John Shaw says he purchased his
copy in Japan in 1973, a date which he is sure of. Wil Gielen supports the
1973 date.
 CBS/Sony SOPN 25 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
As this set
contains George Jackson ("Big Band" version), the
full entry is in 1973. Side 1: Blowin In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; My Back Pages; Mr. Tambourine Man; Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; I Want You. Side 2: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Girl From The North Country (with Johnny Cash); Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; Watching The River Flow; George Jackson ("Big Band" version). For an extracted Gold Disc 7" EP with Blowin In The Wind; Like A Rolling Stone; The Times They Are A-Changin' and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, see International 7" Stereo Singles & EPs 1974. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
1974
"Mr. D's Collection # 1" - promo LP, CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan),
mid 1974:
This is the album that first collected Bob Dylan rarities together, and
it was only been released in Japan on vinyl as a strictly limited edition. This album was released three years before the extracted EP, Mr.
D's Collection #2, which definitely dates from 1977. Hans Seegers and
Wil Gielen have
now confirmed the above date for this. I have no information about this release
having an obi. The date "1974 12 31" (31 Dec 1974) which
appears on the obi and the insert is the closure date for the offer, not the
release date as I originally thought.
 CBS/Sony YBPC 2 (Japan) - front scan by Lars M. Banke |
Because this album is a collection of rarities, full details are found
in 1974. Side 1: I'm So Restless (Roger McGuinn); I'll Fly Away (Carolyn Hester); Mixed Up Confusion (alternate take); From A Buick 6; George Jackson (Acoustic version). Side 2: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (live 1966); Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (solo version); Nashville Skyline Rag (Earl Scruggs); George Jackson ("Big Band" version). All tracks are the regular album versions, although I previously misreported that Side 4 of this album had the stereo version of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - this is now confirmed to be the "standard" mono single version, as found on Biograph (1985, remastered CD reissue 1997) and the 2001 Essential Bob Dylan/Ultimate Bob Dylan compilations. The only occurrence of the stereo version is on a CBS stereo acetate, see 1965. The superb stereo version is in circulation amongst collectors on several bootleg albums and should be released by Columbia. (The CBS Spanish 7" EP and singles released in 1972 are now proved to have the track in mispressed mono, not stereo. Thanks to Lars M. Banke for information and scan. |
"Bob Dylan - Pack 20"- vinyl album, CBS/Sony SOPQ 11 (Japan),
1974:
This is a single album in a gatefold sleeve with 10 tracks per side, part of a series of
"Pack 20" albums with the same 10/10 track format. It has a unique dark red
"Pack 20" label. It has an orange, black, blue and white obi.
The inside sleeve comes with an insert which is a part of the sleeve, which has
eight black-and-white photos of Bob, text in Japanese, tracklisting and
advertisement for all the "Pack 20" LPs. This LP also has a four page
booklet with lyrics in Japanese and English.
 CBS/Sony SOPQ 11 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
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Side 1: Like A Rolling Stone; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Just Like A Woman;
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; I'll be Your Baby Tonight; All Along The
Watchtower; Lay, Lady, Lay; The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo); Watching The
River Flow; I Shall be Released. Side 2: Blowin' In The Wind' Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Song To Woody; The Times They Are A-Changin'; North Country Blues; It Ain't Me, Babe; Positively 4th Street; If Not For You; Knockin' On Heaven's Door. Shawn Chambers informs me the version of Positively 4th Street on this album is 3:53, so it's not the 4:12 alternate mix R-0049 that appeared on earlier Japanese compilations. Because it's now included on the remastered US release of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (it's also on the non-US release The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000), R-0049 has ceased to be a rarity, and has been moved to the new Released Rarities page! The mono version of R-0049, R-0049M, remains a rarity and is still listed for 1965 and 1966. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. Hans has three sleeve variations, one of which is a promo. The variations are in the colours of the circles: light-brown and violet, dark-brown and violet, and black and lavender. |
 CBS/Sony SOPQ 11 (Japan) - obi by Hans Seegers |
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"Bob Dylan - Golden Double Series: 15"- 2LP set, CBS/Sony SOPW
57-58 (Japan),
late 1974:
This is Vol.
15 in the Golden Double Series issued in 1975. It is a two-record set in a thick gatefold
sleeve with an attached booklet and a cardboard obi.
The obi is yellow, black and gold with a price of ¥3,800. The booklet has 15
photos of Bob, lyrics, text in Japanese and a discography.
 CBS/Sony SOPW 57-58 (Japan) - unique cardboard obi scan by Hans Seegers |
Side 1: Like A Rolling
Stone; Highway 61 Revisited; Living The Blues; I Threw It All Away; When I Paint
My Masterpiece, Just Like A Woman. Side 2: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; It Ain't Me, Babe; Ballad Of A Thin Man; Song To Woody; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine). Side 3: Blowin' In The Wind; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding): If Not For You; Lay, Lady, Lay. Side 4: Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Mr. Tambourine Man; The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll; I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met); All Along The Watchtower; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. Thanks to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans. |
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 CBS/Sony SOPW 57-58 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony SOPW 57 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 1) |
 CBS/Sony SOPW 57 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 1 Side 2) |
 CBS/Sony SOPW 58 (Japan) - Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 1) |
 CBS/Sony SOPW 58 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen (Record 2 Side 2) |
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"Bob Dylan - New Gift Pack"- deluxe 2LP boxed set, CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan),
late 1974:
This album contains the rarity A Fool Such As
I (R-0099), so is listed fully on the
1974
page. Shawn Chambers says:
"This is Vol. 8
in the New Gift Pack Series issued Nov 1974. It is a limited edition
2-record box set issued with a lyric insert." Wil Gielen
points out that the Dylan discography on one page of the Japanese booklet (see
1974)
ends with Dylan (CBS/Sony SOPL-236), a late 1974 release in Japan, so
this may support the late 1974 date. The album had two four-page folded inserts
in English and Japanese.
 CBS/Sony SOPZ 53-54 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers |
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. Thanks to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans. |
1975
"Il Meglio Di Bob Dylan N. 2 [The Best Of Bob Dylan No. 2] - stereo vinyl LP, CBS Sugar CBS 62911 (Italy), 1975:
 CBS 62911 (Italy) - front scan by Manfred Endtner |
Side 1: I Want You; One Of Us Must Know; It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues; Masters Of War; Chimes Of Freedom. Side 2: Just Like A Woman; Obviously 5 Believers; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Gates Of Eden; Leopard-Skin Pill-Box hat; Absolutely Sweet Marie This compilation is the 1967 Dutch Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 with a new title and sleeve - see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 1960s. Thanks to Manfred Endtner for information and scans. |
 CBS 62911 (Italy) - rear scan by Manfred Endtner |
 CBS 62911 (Italy) - Side 1 scan by Manfred Endtner |
"Bob Dylan - New Gold Disc"- vinyl album, CBS/Sony SOPO 59 (Japan), Jul 1975:
 CBS/Sony SOPO 59 (Japan) - front with obi, photo by Ulf Gyllenspetz |
The front sleeve is a 1974 stage photo of Bob, the rear sleeve has a small 1974 stage photo of Bob in the centre. The
record has orange CBS/Sony labels with black text. Shawn Chambers adds:
"This is Vol.
23 in the New Gold Disc Series issued July 1975." It comes with
a six page booklet with 14 monochrome pictures of Bob. Tangled Up In Blue is
included from Blood On The Tracks. Side 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; My Back Pages; Mr. Tambourine Man; Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. Side 2: Like A Rolling Stone; All Along The Watchtower, Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; I Shall Be Released; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Tangled Up In Blue. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans, and Ulf Gyllenspetz for extra pictures. For an illegal Taiwanese cassette release of this album, see Questionable Releases. |
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 CBS/Sony SOPO 59 (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
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"Bob Dylan - New Gold Disc"- vinyl album, CBS/Sony SOPO 59 (Singapore/Malaysia), Jul 1975:
 CBS/Sony SOPO 59 (Singapore/Malaysia) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony SOPO 59 (Singapore/Malaysia) - detail from rear sleeve, scan by Hans Seegers |
This rare album has black/orange CBS/Sony labels and written matrix numbers: SOPO-59-A/B.
The front and rear sleeves are the same as the Japanese album above, but on the back sleeve the Japanese catalogue information is blacked out with new text "Trademark owned by COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM INC. and SONY CORPORATION. Manufactured and distributed in Singapore by EMI (SINGAPORE) PTE. LIMITED and in Malaysia by EMI (MALAYSIA) SDN, BHD."
Tracklisting is the same as the Japanese album.
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 1" - stereo vinyl LP, CBS 137.904 (Brazil), 1975, re-released 1977:
 CBS 137.904 (Brazil) - front photo by Sergio Magnacca (both releases) |
This album had the picture from the 1971 US Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album
and the following tracklist: Side 1: Blowing In The Wind; It Ain't Me Babe; If Not For You; Lay, Lady, Lay;
Like A Rolling Stone |
 CBS 137.904 (Brazil) - rear photo by Sergio Magnacca (both releases) |
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 CBS 137.904 (Brazil) - Side 2 photo by Sergio Magnacca (1977 release) |
The record has orange CBS labels with song titles in English only and the 1977 copy shown has matrix numbers: Side 1 - XSLP-427- A, Side 2 - XSLP-428 -A. The 1977 labels have different text placement than the 1975 labels. This album was later released in Brazil in 1988 as The Best Of Bob Dylan, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 1980s.
Thanks to Sergio Magnacca for information and photos.
1976
"Grand Prix 20" - vinyl album, CBS/Sony 29AP 35 (Japan), 1976:
All 20 tracks on this exclusive-to-Japan compilation are the regular album
versions. There is a six-page folded insert in English and Japanese.
 CBS/Sony 29AP 35 (Japan) - front with obi, scan from Esprit International |
Side 1: Like A Rolling Stone; All Along The Watchtower; Mr. Tambourine Man; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Blowin' In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Song To Woody; John Wesley Harding. Side 2: One More Cup Of Coffee; New Morning; Just Like A Woman; Lay, Lady, Lay; Tangled Up In Blue; I Want You; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; Knockin' On Heaven's Door. |
 CBS/Sony 29AP 35 (Japan) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony 29AP 35 (Japan) - Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen |
Thanks to Ole Lien, Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans.
1977
"Golden Best 20" - compilation stereo cassette, CBS/Sony 34KP 181 (Japan), 1977:
 CBS/Sony 34KP 181 (Japan) - outside of cassette insert, scan by Wil Gielen |
 CBS/Sony 34KP 181 (Japan) - inside of cassette insert, scan by Wil Gielen |
 CBS/Sony 34KP 181 (Japan) - cassette Side 1 scan by Wil Gielen |
 CBS/Sony 34KP 181 (Japan) - cassette Side 2 scan by Wil Gielen |
This single cassette compilation looks like a promo from the orange card insert, the monochrome artwork and because it has no price. It contains 20 tracks from Golden Grand Prix 30 below, but not the same selection as the South Korean 1978 release Bob Dylan also below. It's also not the same as Grand Prix 20 above. The cassette is white and has orange CBS/Sony paper labels. There is also a double-sided lyrics insert in English.
Side 1: One More Cup Of Coffee; Like A Rolling Stone; Lay, Lady, Lay; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; If Not For You; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; New Morning; All Along The Watchtower; Mozambique; Shelter From the Storm.
Side 2: Blowin' In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Song To Woody; Mr. Tambourine Man; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; I Shall Be Released; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; Just Like A Woman; Tangled Up In Blue; Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans.
"Golden Grand Prix 30" - compilation 2LP set, CBS/Sony 40AP 465-466 (Japan), early 1977, re-released late 1977:
 CBS/Sony 40AP 465-466 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Wil Gielen (first release) |
This 2LP set with unique graphics was housed in a gatefold sleeve with a
full-sized lyrics booklet in Japanese and English in the centre. There was
also a double-sided insert in Japanese. The front
picture has a gold foil rectangle in the centre with a Rolling Thunder
Revue picture of Bob and the title embossed below. Note the
rear picture shows Bob in front of a crucifix, predating his Christian
conversion. All the 30 tracks are the regular stereo album versions (all
the tracks from Grand Prix 20 are included, see 1976 above). There was a black and gold obi with price ¥4,000 (the "40" in the catalogue number indicated the price). The album was released twice in 1977 with different obis, the second wider obi released in late 1977 listed the 1978 Japanese Bob Dylan tour dates, including the Tokyo Budokan shows from which Live At Budokan was taken. |
 CBS/Sony 40AP 465-466 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Hans Seegers (second release) |
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 CBS/Sony 40AP 465-466 (Japan) - front of obi, scan by Hans Seegers (second release) |
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Side 1: Like A Rolling Stone; All Along The Watchtower; Lay, Lady, Lay; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Just Like A Woman; I Want You; Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again; Tangled Up In Blue.
Side 2: One More Cup Of Coffee; New Morning; Highway 61 Revisited; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; Mozambique; Maggie's Farm; Shelter From the Storm.
Side 3: Blowin' In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Song To Woody; It Ain't Me, Babe; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; My Back Pages; Mr. Tambourine Man.
Side 4: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; John Wesley Harding; I Shall Be Released; Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans.
1978
"Bob Dylan" - promo and commercial stereo vinyl LPs, CBS/Sony/Jigu KJPL-0143 (South Korea), 15 Feb 1978; CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109 (South Korea), 20 Dec 1990:
 CBS/Sony/Jigu KJPL-0143 (South Korea) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
This rare 16-track release was manufactured by Jigu Records in South Korea on behalf of CBS/Sony in Japan. (The name of the country is printed as just "Korea".) It uses the same artwork as the Japanese Golden Grand Prix 30 album above (without the embossed title under the picture) and has the same catalogue number as the first album of that set (40AP 465) on the label. |
 CBS/Sony/Jigu KJPL-0143 (South Korea) - promo release, Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony/Jigu KJPL-0143 (South Korea) - promo release, Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Jigu KJPL-0143 (South Korea) - commercial release, Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony/Jigu KJPL-0143 (South Korea) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109 (South Korea) - outer sleeve scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109 (South Korea) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109 (South Korea) - Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109 (South Korea) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
 CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109 (South Korea) - inner sleeve scan by Hans Seegers |
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The tracks are taken from Golden Grand Prix 30, Side 1 is a selection from Record 1, and Side 2 is a selection from Record 2. It was re-released in 1990 as CBS/Sony/Jigu CPL-1109.
Side 1: Like A Rolling Stone; All Along The Watchtower; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; I Want You; One More Cup Of Coffee; New Morning; Highway 61 Revisited; Mozambique.
Side 2: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; It Ain't Me, Babe; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; My Back Pages; If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
The promo album has the same sleeve as the commercial release, with a promo impressed stamp with the words “NOT FOR SALE PROMOTION USE ONLY" on the front that is difficult to scan (shown below). Strangely enough the promo record has white labels with the CBS/Sony logo, while the commercial record has orange/cream Japanese CBS/Sony style labels but with just the CBS logo. Both labels have the same South Korean government approval date, 15 Feb 1978. The Korean characters to the left of the centre hole on the promo label show it's a promo.
The 1978 record has handwritten matrix numbers: KJPL-0143 A/B. The 1990 record is credited just to CBS Records with title "GREATEST HITS" and has a completely different label design.
Christopher Burton says: "I have a copy of the commercial release of the South Korean Bob Dylan compilation (CBS/Jigu KJPL-0143) which I was lucky to find still sealed. It has a different plastic inner sleeve to that pictured on your site - it is transparent on one side and printed in white on the other with lots of small Jigu logos in a checkerboard effect. Incidentally, the cover has a 1977 copyright date on the back, whereas the 1990 re-release (CPL-1109), which I also have in my collection, has a 1978 copyright date on the cover. Presumably the first issue cannot have been released until at least 1978 however as the labels have a 1978 government approval date."
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"Masterpieces" - 3LP set, CBS/Sony 57AP-875/6/7 (Japan), Columbia S3BP 220502 (Australia/New Zealand), Mar 1978:
 CBS/Sony 57AP-875/6/7 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Seiji Murata |
For full details of this release which contained several tracks
unavailable elsewhere on albums, see 1978. Thanks to Sheiji Murata, Stuart Moore and Bill Hester for information and scans. |
 Columbia S3 BP 220502 (Australia) - front scan by Stuart Moore |
 CBS S3 BP 220502 (New Zealand) - front scan by Bill Hester |
"The Best Of Bob Dylan" - stereo cassette release, Footprint S-3102A (Saudi Arabia), 1978:
 Footprint S-3102A (Saudi Arabia) - cassette inlay scan by Dag Braathen |
This unauthorised cassette release uses the front design of
Masterpieces but has a unique tracklist: Side 1: Mr. Tambourine Man; Just Like A Woman; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; I Shall Be Released; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; If Not For You; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. Side 2: Blowin' In The Wind; Like A Rolling Stone; Lay, Lady, Lay; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; The Times They Are A-Changin'; I Want You; Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You. Because it is unofficial, full details are in Questionable Releases. Thanks to Dag Braathen for information and scans. |
"Bob Dylan 1960-1978 Forever Young" - promo LP, CBS (no catalogue number) (Spain), 1978:
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All twelve tracks on this LP are the standard album versions, although Changing Of The Guards is the original Street-Legal version now available on CD only on 1994's Greatest Hits Vol. 3. All the song titles are given in Spanish and English. Side 1: Changing Of The Guards; Blowin' In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Mr. Tambourine Man; Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Side 2: All Along The Watchtower; Girl From The North Country (version with Johnny Cash from Nashville Skyline); Lay, Lady, Lay; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; If You See Her, Say Hello; Hurricane |
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 Rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Detail of rear, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers |
 Detail of Side 1, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Detail of Side 1, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers |
Both the sleeve and teh record were made in Spain. The album rear has a sticker with the text: "DISCO PROMOCIONAL PROHIBIDA SU VENTA [PROMOTIONAL DISC SALE PROHIBITED]", and the same text is stamped on the white CBS record labels. The rear sleeve shows 20 Dylan albums, ending with Street-Legal. A few of the album titles are translated into Spanish, but most are given in English.
There are also US (1988) and UK (1990) promo CDs with the title Forever Young, with completely different track listings from this and each other, see the 1980s and 1990s links below.
Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.
Bob Dylan/Rolling Thunder Revue - "Rock Around The World" - radio station LP, program 91 "Bob Dylan And The Rolling Thunder Revue" (USA), 1978:
 Side A scan by Hans Seegers |
This radio show LP presented by
John Brody comes with a white sleeve with the programme handwritten on it in
green. It includes
interviews with Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Mick Ronson, Rob Stoner, Scarlet
Rivera, tour director Lou Kemp and Rubin Carter. Dylan's contribution is: Side 1: Hurricane (0:17 excerpt); Mr. Tambourine Man (1:50 excerpt) Side 2: Blowin' In The Wind (0:43 excerpt); Black Diamond Bay (complete); Desolation Row (2:30 excerpt); Hurricane (8:30 faded out); One More Cup Of Coffee (complete). Because these excerpts are unique and not released on commercial/promo records, they are no longer listed with R-numbers. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
 Side B scan by Hans Seegers |
1979
"Bob Dylan: A Musical Biography" - radio station discs RR-91/94, Rock And Religion, Sacramento, CA (USA), 1979:
Thanks to Philip Bull for information: "It sounds as if there may have been four "Rock And Religion" shows about Dylan spread across two LPs. The cue sheet from my LP says "This is the beginning of a four-part series entitled "Bob Dylan: A Musical Biography".
Each show lasts 28 minutes 30 seconds and the records would have been distributed to radio stations and intended for broadcast. My copy was given to me by someone who used to present the Sunday morning religion show on Piccadilly Radio in Manchester back in the 1970s and he acquired it while working for a radio station in the US.
Lengthy excerpts of Dylan's music are featured, often with commentary spoken over instrumental passages. There is no unreleased music on the LP and no Dylan interview material. Show One opens with a live "Blowin' in the Wind" probably taken from the Budokan LP while Show Two inexplicably opens with the instrumental intro to "Stage Fright" by The Band!"
This corrects an erroneous entry on the Interviews with Bob page that these programmes contained interview material.
 RR-91/92 (USA) - sleeve front scan by Philip Bull |
RR-91 "The
Protest Years" covers the early years in Dylan's career, from
1961-1964, when he would have "an incalculable effect on the growing
radicalisation of young America". RR-92 "Dylan the Prophet" covers the years 1964-1973 when Dylan "pioneered mystical visionary music and became a hip existential hero, leading the way to a kind of karmic spirituality." |
 Label for programme RR-91 - scan by Philip Bull |
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 Cue sheet for programme RR-92 - scan by Philip Bull |
 RR-91/92 (USA) - detail from sleeve front, scan by Hans Seegers |
The Dylan content is as follows: RR-91: Blowin' In The Wind (live performance from Bob Dylan At Budokan, partly talked over, full length); With God On Our Side (partly talked over, 3:45 excerpt); The Times They Are A-Changin' (fadeout at 3:07); It Ain't Me, Babe; Maggie's Farm (live performance from Bob Dylan At Budokan, (partly talked over, 3:10 excerpt); Positively 4th Street (partly talked over, 2:35 excerpt); My Back Pages (partly talked over, 2:50 excerpt). RR-92: Mr. Tambourine Man (live performance from Bob Dylan At Budokan, partly talked over, 3:45 excerpt); Like A Rolling Stone (partly talked over, 3:00 excerpt); Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (partly talked over, 4:22 excerpt); Visions Of Johanna (partly talked over, 3:02 excerpt); All Along The Watchtower (partly talked over, full length); Lay, Lady, Lay (0:55 excerpt); Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You (live performance from Bob Dylan At Budokan, 0:28 excerpt); If Not For You (0:50 excerpt); New Morning (partly talked over, 0:55 excerpt); Forever Young (live performance from Bob Dylan At Budokan, partly talked over, 3:45 excerpt). |
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 RR-93/94 (USA) - picture from eBay: sleeve, record and cue sheets |
The second record shown on left (RR-93 and RR-94) contains
two half-hour radio broadcasts combining tracks from Bob's Slow Train
Coming album with commentary from the hosts interpreting the songs.
Again, there is no interview material. The Dylan content is as follows (all songs are partly talked over): RR-93: Shelter From The Storm (live performance from Hard Rain, 4:05 excerpt); Hurricane (5:34 excerpt); One More Cup Of Coffee (0:20 excerpt); Isis (3:39 excerpt); I Threw It All Away (live performance from Hard Rain, 3:11 fadeout); Oh, Sister; Sara. RR-94: A Satisfied Mind; Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) (0:25 excerpt); When You Gonna Wake Up (5:16 fadeout); Gotta Serve Somebody; Solid Rock; I Believe In You (5:16 fadeout). Thanks to Philip Bull and Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
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Shows 91-94 were re-aired as "Bob Dylan: A Musical Biography Parts I to IV" in 1981: Show 143 (22 Feb 1981), Show 144 (1 Mar 1981), Show 145 (8 Mar 1981), Show 146 (15 Mar 1981). See the 1980s part of this section.
Philip Bull adds: "Incidentally, I also have another LP in the "Rock And Religion" series which deals with Punk Rock. This one features excerpts from the music of the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Damned interspersed with two clean-cut announcers warning listeners to steer well clear of the evil influence of punk. It's actually far more entertaining than the Dylan show though neither of them is the kind of record you would want to listen to more than once."
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