All the songs listed in the Official
Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.
A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z

This second 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) from 1970 to 1979. 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. For 1970s films with Dylan album tracks, see VHS & DVD: Films with Dylan Album Tracks 1970s.
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'"
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For informed discussion of all Bob's screen appearances, see C.P. Lee's well-received book "Like A Bullet Of Light ".
Thanks to 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!
Revised: 25 March, 2010.
Titles in red are not available
on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com
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Key to symbols used:
Links to other World Wide Web pages - ![]()
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Links to bobdylan.com for song lyrics -
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Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
1971
Earl Scruggs & Guests - "Scruggs: A Festival Of Music" - VHS video of 1971 documentary: New Line Cinema 2015 (USA), 1978/DVD: CustomFlix (catalogue number?) (USA), (date?); Goldenlane Records CLP 1608-9 (USA), 2006:
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![]() Possibly the same material with yet another title - more information required! Picture found by Freddy Ordoņez Araque |
![]() Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Germany) - cover scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
![]() Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Germany) - insert scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
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![]() Varied VARIED-0012-DVD (UK) - current DVD release, picture found by Paul S. Levine (Delta 94136 is the same) |
![]() New Line Cinema 2015 (USA) - 1978 VHS scan by Dr Kevin Jones |
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![]() New Zealand DVD release - picture found by Bill Hester |
R-0074-3 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, 1970 R-0445 East Virginia Blues [traditional] - Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded as R-0074 This film was broadcast on National Education TV in New York on 10-17 Jan 1971 as Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family & Friends. R-0074 was first released on the Columbia album Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family & Friends in 1971 (see 1971). This album appeared for the first time on CD on a "2 on 1" Flatt & Scruggs re-release with 1972's Nashville Airplane on Collectable Records in 2000. R-0445 is unique to the video. |
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Larry Crum informs me that Michael Krogsgaard dates the New Line Cinema VHS release as 1985, but the date in the white band below "VHS FORMAT" is definitely "MCMLXXVIII" (1978) - perhaps it was reissued in 1985. (If so, I'd like scans of that release.)
Thanks to Freddy Ordoņez Araque for details of the US DVD release called The Complete Earl Scruggs Story. This is now confirmed as the same material despite the new (misleading) title. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information that this was also released in Germany as Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Region 0) using the same title. Thanks to Tricia Jungwirth for the information that the original 90 min film is now available on DVD and VHS as a private release by film maker David Hoffman - for more details, see http://thehoffmancollection.com/ads/Scruggs/Dylan.htm. Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding yet another current US release from Goldenlane Records, on sale at Barnes & Noble.
Thanks to Paul S. Levine for the picture of the Varied UK PAL DVD release, which is now available. Jack from Canada has a copy of this DVD as Delta 94136. The title is actually The Complete Earl Scruggs Story: Earl Scruggs, His Family & Friends. Thanks to Moise Potie and Bill Hester for pictures of Japanese and New Zealand DVD releases - more information required.
1972
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For
Bangladesh" - Apple feature film, Mar 1972, VHS Video:
Thorn-EMI
TVD 90 0911 2 (UK), Aug 1983; Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA), 1993;
Warner Home Video PES 038084 (UK), 1990; Laserdisc: Apple/Paramount LV 15167 (USA/Canada), 1995; DVD:
Panorama Music Video PMVDVD-902032 (Hong Kong and Macao only), 1998:
All songs recorded live with George Harrison, Leon Russell and
Ringo Starr, Madison Square
Garden, New York, 1 Aug 1971 (evening show). The video release omits Mr Tambourine Man (R-0078) from the
Apple 1972
soundtrack album (see 1972). For the 2005 expanded DVD
edition, which contains new Dylan material, but still not Mr. Tambourine Man, see
VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3. Arie de Reus thinks that when he saw the film on its first
release in 1972 on a special large screen Mr. Tambourine Man was included, and
that pre-release information for the VHS release in 1983 said that Mr.
Tambourine Man would be included. However, no commercial release of the show has
ever included it so far! Can anyone else remember seeing the film including Mr.
Tambourine Man in 1972? Ian Woodward says he has the original press pack from
the 1972 screening, which lists the songs, and Mr. Tambourine Man is not
included, so it may not have been filmed.
R-0484 If Not For You - a short
clip of Bob and George Harrison performing this song early in the film, not
included on the soundtrack album
This song is included in full in the extras on the 2005 expanded DVD edition,
see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.
R-0075-2 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
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This performance also appeared on a 1983 compilation from Columbia Brazil, The
Legend, see 1983
R-0076-2 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A
Train To Cry ![]()
This performance also appeared on a 1995 Westwood One radio station broadcast
about Dylan and the Beatles,
see 1995.
R-0077-2 Blowin' In The Wind ![]()
This performance also appeared on an Epic promo CD single for The Concert For
Bangladesh,
see 1991. Dag Braathen informs me that, despite the fact it's a 1971 performance, R-0077 was also included on a
1988 VHS
video called Rock 'N' Roll -The Greatest Years: 1963, see VHS & DVD
1980s.
R-0079-2 Just Like A Woman

HBO Video 2379 (USA) - tape spine scan by Steven Fant

Thorn EMI 2379 (USA) - tape spine scan by Steven Fant
![]() Thorn-EMI TVD 90 0911 2 (UK) - 1989 UK VHS scan by Dag Braathen |
The UK VHS release has now been deleted, but the concert was released on DVD in an expanded edition in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. Thanks to Paul S. Levine for the picture of the Oct 2005 US DVD. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the 2002 Brazilian DVD shown. This is a Region 0 release, almost certainly unauthorised by Paramount. Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans of the 1995 US laserdisc release. |
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![]() Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - rear/right side of 1993 US VHS cassette card sleeve, reissued 1998 |
![]() Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - rear/right side/inside top of 1993 US VHS cassette card sleeve, reissued 1998 |
![]() Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - tape label of 1993 US VHS cassette release, reissued 1998 |
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![]() Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - 1993 US VHS cassette copy, front promo stickers, scan by Steven Fant |
![]() Apple/Paramount LV 15167, Laserdisc (USA/Canada, 1995) - uses cover from the 1993 US VHS release, front scan by Hans Seegers |
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George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" - Apple feature film, Mar 1972, VHS Video: Warner Home Video WV-38583 (Japan), 1991; VHD Disc: Thorn EMI/Tohokushinsha Home Video TESE88010 (Japan), 1985; Laserdisc: Warner Home Video NJL-38583 (Japan), 1990, Videoarts Japan/Apple VALJ-3313 (Japan), 1992, Videoarts Japan/Apple VALZ-2105 (Japan), 1995; DVD release: Apple COBY-90014 (Japan), 1995:
VHD Disc:
![]() Thorn EMI/Tohokushinsha Home Video TESE88010 VHD disc (Japan, 1985) - front scan by Wil Gielen |
Thanks to Wil Gielen for scans of a unique Japanese item, a VHD format disk, which is rather like a large computer floppy disc in a jacket, inside a card sleeve. This unusual 1980s video format was very short-lived, so there are almost certainly few if any remaining VHD players today! The copy shown has a single-sided insert. There was no obi, and Wil believes this format did not have obis. For two other VHD discs, see VHS & DVD 1980s. |
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![]() Thorn EMI/Tohokushinsha Home Video TESE88010 VHD disc (Japan, 1985) - rear of disc, scan by Wil Gielen |
VHS Tape:

Warner Home Video WV-38583 (Japan) - VHS tape
(Japan, 1991) - tape spine scan by Wil Gielen
Laserdiscs:
There were three laserdisc releases of this film in Japan, by Warner Home Video in 1990 and by Video Arts in 1992 and 1995. The 1990 promo copy shown has Japanese characters indicating a sample on the disc label to the right of the title.
Thanks to Michel Pomarede, Jean-Pierre Mercier, Hans Seegers and Wil Gielen for information and scans.
DVD release:
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As far as I know, this is the only official DVD release of the original
film (in what looks like a CD jewel case). For the 2005 expanded DVD
edition, which contains new Dylan material, but still not Mr. Tambourine Man
(as per comments above), see
VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3. Thanks to Wil Gielen for information about the dating of this official Japanese DVD release. |
![]() Apple COBY-90014 (Japan, 1995) - rear of DVD release with obi |
1973
"Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" - feature film directed by Sam Peckinpah, May 1973, VHS video: MGM/UA Home Video MV600159 (USA), MGM/UA Home Video UMV 10159 (UK), 1982, MGM/UA Home Video 31 512 (West Germany, VHS & Betamax), 1980s/Laserdisc: UMLV 10159, 1983:
![]() The original 1973 poster for Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid - this original 103 min cinema version is not currently available on VHS videocassette or DVD |
The original video of this film released in 1982 was withdrawn in 1987 in
favour of the 1986 "Director's Cut" (see VHS & DVD
1980s)- details of the original VHS video are required (especially
cover scans)! For the film soundtrack album, see
International Album Releases. The
1987 Director's Cut was replaced in its turn in 2006 by two versions on a 2DVD
set released in the USA on 10 Jan 2006: a "2005 Special Edition"
version of the film on disc 1 and a "1998 Turner Preview Version" on disc 2
(see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3).
Exactly what Dylan music these two versions contain will be added when
the films have been analysed. R-0482 Original music by Bob Dylan (not listed separately) not included in the 1973 Columbia soundtrack album The cinema-released version (103 mins), the Director's Cut (122 mins) and the two 2006 versions of this film all contain Dylan music not available on CD. Full
details of the Dylan tracks included in the 1973 and 1987 versions of the film are
listed in Glen Dundas' book "Tangled Up In Tapes", edition 4
(1999)
Thanks to Larry Crum for VHS video information. Thanks to Ronald Born for the scan of the West German VHS release and to Patrick Helfrich for the much rarer Betamax version - both have the same catalogue number. The running time is approx 105 mins, which indicates it's the original version. The title is translated as "Pat Garrett Jagt Billy The Kid [Pat Garrett Hunts Billy The Kid]". Thanks to Freddy Ordoņez Araque, Moise Potie and Yan Friis for information and pictures. |
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![]() Laserdisc of the original film: MGM/UA Home Video UMLV 10159 (USA), 1983 - scan by Michel Pomarede for Jean-Pierre Mercier |
![]() MGM/UA Home Video 31 512 (West Germany), 1980s - insert scan by Ronald Born (VHS) |
![]() MGM/UA Home Video 31 512 (West Germany), 1980s - insert scan by Patrick Helfrich (Betamax) |
![]() Photo from 1973 press kit, scan by Yan Friis |
![]() Photo from 1973 press kit, scan by Yan Friis |
![]() Photo from 1973 press kit, scan by Yan Friis |
![]() Laserdisc of the 1986 Director's Cut - MGM/UA Home Video ML 102238 - scan by Michel Pomarede for Jean-Pierre Mercier |
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1976
"All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music" - BBC-TV documentary series, broadcast in the UK in 1976 - DVD release: 5DVD boxed set, Voiceprint TPDVDBOX1 (USA), 2008/Plastic Head (catalogue number?) (UK), 5 May 2008:
This 5DVD boxed set titled All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music - Tony Palmer's Classic Series contains all 17 episodes of the documentary series first broadcast in 1976 and not released commercially until 2008. It includes a Dylan rarity in episode 12: "Go Down Moses! Songs of War and Protest".
R-0382 With
God On Our Side - live, BBC TV "Tonight" show, London, 12 May 1964
This performance also appears in the
1996 VHS/DVD documentary Dancing In The Street
- A History Of Rock And Roll (see VHS
& DVD 1990s Part 2).
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Bob Dylan/Rolling Thunder Revue - "Hard Rain TV Special" - NBC-TV special
(USA), broadcast 10 Sep 1976:
Recorded live with
the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (during hard rain!).
This show has not been commercially released on VHS or DVD but is included here
for completeness as five of its performances have been officially released on
albums (one a rarity). It deserves a DVD release, hopefully in an expanded form
including the full concert. The one-hour TV show tracklist (not in the order
actually performed on stage) was:
![]() Still from the NBC-TV show from TV Talkin' |
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - officially unreleased, surprisingly not included
on the Hard Rain album! R-0221 Blowin' In The Wind
Railroad Boy (Traditional) - duet with Joan Baez, officially unreleased Deportees (Woody Guthrie) - duet with Joan Baez, officially unreleased R-0757 I Pity The Poor Immigrant - duet with Joan Baez, now officially released on the Joan Baez CD and DVD How Sweet The Sound, 2009 and VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4. |
Shelter From The Storm - included on the Hard Rain album
Maggie's Farm - included on the Hard Rain album
One Too Many Mornings - included on the Hard Rain album
Mozambique - officially unreleased
Idiot Wind - included on the Hard Rain album
As this has never been released commercially I haven't allocated R- numbers to the unreleased songs. It's reported that Bob's Fort Collins performances with Joan Baez featured in the 1976 Hard Rain TV special could not be included on the Columbia album because of contractual difficulties, so were replaced with Dylan performances from Fort Worth, TX, 16 May 1976.
1978
Bob Dylan with The Rolling Thunder Revue - "Renaldo & Clara" - 4 hour/2 hour feature film written and directed by Bob shown in cinemas in 1978, Artificial Eye/Lombard Street Films (USA), Jan 1978:
![]() US film poster found by Jack from Canada |
Renaldo & Clara lasted for over four hours, and was very
badly received by critics. It had only a very short cinema release, even in
a chopped-down two hour version. The full film was shown on TV in the UK and
Sweden in 1985. It has never been commercially released for home viewing,
although pirate copies exist in varying quality, all taken from the European
TV broadcasts. However, this film contains about 43 minutes of amazing concert footage of Bob in concert with the Rolling Thunder Revue in late 1975, and is worth re-releasing on DVD for that alone! Some of this footage appeared on the bonus DVD with the Limited Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue. Although a soundtrack album was never released, a Columbia promo four-song 12" EP was released in the USA to coincide with the showing of the film in cinemas (see 1978). Two of these songs have now been released on CD, live performances of Isis on Biograph (see 1985), and It Ain't Me, Babe on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (see 2002). Thanks to Moise Potie for finding the Japanese cinema booklet. Most films shown in cinemas in Japan have these information booklets on sale in the foyer while they're being screened. Thanks to C P Lee and Jack from Canada for the US, UK and French film posters. |
![]() Another still from the film with Bob as Renaldo and Joan Baez as "the Woman in White" |
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![]() UK film poster - photo by C P Lee (from a wall in his home) |
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The Rutles - "The Rutles" TV broadcast 22 Mar 1978, VHS video: Pacific
Arts PAVR 540 (USA), Laserdisc: (catalogue number?)
(USA), Oct 1983:
This was renamed All You Need Is Cash for later releases, see below. Thanks
to Larry Crum for this information.
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R-0520 Harold Lepidus informs me this Beatles spoof originally released in 1978 contains a clip from the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival with Bob and The Band on stage. Apparently Bob is just shown for a second, possibly reaching for something behind him, there is no audio. "A year later the Rutles were caught up in another scandal. In the heady atmosphere of San Francisco of the mid sixties, Bob Dylan had introduced the Rutles to a substance that was to have enormous effects on them: Tea. They enjoyed its pleasant effects, despite warnings that it would lead to stronger things, and it enormously influenced their greatest work, Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band." |
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The Rutles - "All You Need Is Cash", VHS: Rhino Video (catalogue number) (USA)/Palace PVC 2065, reissued on Telstar TVE 60003 (UK), 22 Feb 1996; DVD: Rhino Video (catalogue number?) (USA), 13 Mar 2001/Cinema Club CCD 8683 (UK), 21 Jan 2002/ Special Edition DVD: Second Sight 2NDVD 304 (UK), 7 Oct 2002/Prism PPA1637RD (UK), 2005:
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz" - feature film, Apr 1978, VHS: Warner Home Video PEV 99354 (UK), Feb 1985, MGM/UA Home Video (catalogue number?) (USA), 1985; Warner Home Video PES 99354 (UK), Jun 1988; Warner Home Video 474345 (Denmark), date?; United Artists 99354 SVVS (France), date?; MGM/UA Home Video S050482 (UK), Aug 1994; MGM/UA Home Video WR-50482 (Japan), 1991; MGM/UA Home Video 17337S (UK), Aug 2001; Laserdisc: MGM/UA Home Video ML 100482 (USA), 1985; United Artists/Warner Bros Soundtrack NJEL-99354 (Japan), 1988:
This last concert by The Band (in their prime incarnation) took
place at Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 25 Nov 1976, and was filmed by Martin
Scorsese. A "Director's Cut", longer than the
commercial video, has been shown on TV in the UK. For more information on these
releases, including a full track listing, see Jan Hoiberg's Band site
For details of the 3LP film soundtrack album, see 1978. The original album omits the performance by Bob and The Band of Hazel (the song from Planet Waves), which was apparently not filmed. This film omits the first performance of Baby Let Me Follow You Down (R-0140) and I Don't Believe You (R-0141), which were also not filmed. For details of the Rhino Records 4CD boxed set which adds Hazel, see 2002. For details of the Special Edition of the film released on DVD in 2002 in the USA with additional material, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1. Thanks to Larry Crum for VHS catalogue numbers.
R-0142-2 Forever Young
- version with second verse missing - the Rhino Records
4CD boxed set has the full version (R-0630, see
2002)
R-0143-3 Baby Let Me Follow You Down ((Rev Gary Davies, arr. Eric von Schmidt)
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Thanks to Larry Crum for pointing out that the video performance of this track
has more of the intro riffs than the edit on the audio releases (see
1978 for the 3LP set and 2002
for the 4CD boxed set). This is also true of the
performance on the 2002 DVD, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1.
R-0144-3 I Shall Be Released
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R-0142/0143 - Bob Dylan with The Band; R-0144 - Bob Dylan with The Band and ensemble.
R-0140 (Baby Let Me Follow You Down) and R-0141 (I Don't Believe You) from the soundtrack album are missing from the film itself - apparently on Bob's instructions, his performance was only filmed from R-0142 onwards. Thanks to Fred Muller from New Zealand for pointing this out.

MGM/UA WR-50482 (Japan, 1997) - spine of VHS tape, scan by Wil Gielen
Thanks to Jack from Canada
for finding a picture of the very rare 1981 RCA SelectaVision CED VideoDisc
release of this film. CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) was a short-lived video
format that was sold in the USA between 1981 and 1986.
The 12" LP-sized
discs were housed in a hard plastic cartridge, which was inserted into the
player (much like a giant Sony MiniDisc). The discs were played by a stylus,
like an LP. The cartridges had labels pasted on the top and bottom of the
plastic cartridge. Scans of this item (which is probably the only CED release
featuring Bob) required. (An RCA CED sampler disc included Neil Diamond's
performance from this film, but not Bob.)
Thanks to Ronald Born for the East German poster shown above: "This is the very rare East German promotional poster for "The Band - Der Letzte Walzer" (40x29 cm), Progress Film-Verleih, GDR, 1981. The movie started in East German cinemas on 8 Jan 1982 (in West Germany on 13 Jul 1978)."
1979
"Heroes Of Rock And Roll" - TV broadcast(?), publisher/catalogue
number? (USA), 1979:
Bob Stacy and Larry Crum have queried whether this was ever released on commercial video -
more information, please!
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R-0506 Excerpt from interview with Bob at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 16 Dec 1965 R-0319-2 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966, from the unreleased documentary "Eat The Document" (see above) This R-0319 clip was also used in the 1987 video The Fabulous 60s Vol. 7 (see VHS & DVD 1980s), and also appears in the 1994 Robbie Robertson video Going Home (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1), and in the 1996 boxed sets The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll and Dancing In The Street (for both see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2). R-0506 was used in the 1990 documentary John Hammond: From Bessie Smith To Bruce Springsteen (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1), and the 2000 documentary Hendrix (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1). Both clips were used in the 2003 Ed Sullivan Show set "Rock 'N' Roll Forever" + Rock 'N' Roll Revolution" (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2). This programme also contains a clip of the Subterranean Homesick Blues segment from Don't Look Back, see above. Fred Muller adds: "At the start, before the opening credits with the juke box, there's about 30 seconds of a close-up of Dylan in concert, in colour, in what would seem come from one of the Rolling Thunder shows, doing the first verse of Just Like a Woman." This would be from the film Renaldo & Clara, recorded at Providence, RI, 4 Nov 1975 (evening show), see above. |

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