Audio: Promotional Items - 1970s Dylan-only Albums

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This page lists Bob Dylan-only stereo promotional albums in all formats from 1966 onwards. They do not contain rarities, but are none the less very collectable. This page only lists albums released solely for promotional purposes including radio station LPs - promo copies of commercially released albums are included on the same page as the commercial album. For other stereo promotional albums, see the links above.

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 12 April, 2008.

1978

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 cover 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.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

Side B scan by Hans Seegers

"Bob Dylan 1960-1978 Forever Young" - promo LP, CBS (no catalogue number) (Spain), 1978:

Front scan by Hans Seegers

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

The album front has a sticker with the text: "DISCO PROMOCIONAL: PROHIBIDA SU VENTA", 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.

Rear scan by Hans Seegers

Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers

Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers

1979

"Bob Dylan: A Musical Biography" - radio station discs RR-91/94, Rock And Religion, Sacramento, CA (USA), 1979:

Information from Philip Bull: "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	Cue sheet for programme RR-91 - scan by Philip Bull	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).
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.

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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