A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-ZAll 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
So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt - 1980 gospel album by Keith Green
featuring Bob playing harmonica on Pledge My Head
To Heaven (R-0153)
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! 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: 19 March, 2008
Titles in red are not available
on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com
)
Key to symbols used:
Links to other World Wide Web pages -
Links to email addresses - 
Links to bobdylan.com for song lyrics -
Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
Harry Belafonte - "Reader's Digest
Presents Belafonte: 72 Of His Greatest Hits"- 6 LP boxed set, Reader's
Digest 2.787.0 (Belgium), 1980s:
Any information as to the exact year this collection was issued will be
welcome!
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R-0001-4 Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter - "Leadbelly") - Bob plays harmonica on the
title track of Harry Belafonte's 1962 The Midnight Special album (stereo
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Various Artists - "The Pitman Family of Music: Our First 20 Years: CBS Records 1960 - 1980" - promo LP, CBS P 15663 (USA), 1980:
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R-0462 The Times They Are A-Changin' - 35 second excerpt (the first verse) used in a special CBS album for internal circulation only (employees of CBS Records and Columbia House), released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the CBS pressing plant in Pitman, New Jersey. For the 10th Anniversary record released in 1970, see 1970. For the 30th anniversary CD released in 1980, see 1990. Thanks to Lars M. Banke for the information. Thanks to Hans Seegers for further scans and the information that Bob's version is followed immediately by the Byrds' version. |
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 CBS P 15663 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS P 15663 (USA) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
"Solid Rock"/"Covenant Woman" - 7" single, Columbia 1-11318 (USA), 2 Jun 1980:
 Columbia 1-11318 (USA) - demo single A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0364 Covenant Woman - edited version on B-side The demonstration single shown has a stamp across the white Columbia logo. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. Thanks also to Bill Hester for information about the New Zealand release, CBS BA 222711 - scans required. For a promo version of this single with Solid Rock on both sides, see Promo Singles 1980-89. |
 Columbia 1-11318 (USA) - regular single A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
 Columbia 1-11318 (USA) - regular single B-side scan (R-0364) by Hans Seegers |
"The Goldmine Acetates" - eight Columbia
Recording Studios Reference Recordings from the 1960s offered for sale in "Goldmine"
magazine (USA), Jun 1980:
R-0009 and R-0010 are listed in the "'Music Master' Price Guide for Record
Collectors" by Nick Hamlyn, published by MBC Information
Services, London, and were previously included in
1962. Are these acetates mono or
stereo? If mono, all the tracks on them are still rarities and some will need
new R-numbers.
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Acetate 1: R-0386 - R-0388 recorded live, Town Hall, New York, 12 Apr 1963. R-0386 Red Wing Reform School [The Walls Of Red Wing] (stereo version) R-0387 All Over You [If I Had To Do It All Over Again (I'd Do It All Over You)] - lyrics on bobdylan.com (stereo
version)R-0388 Who Killed Davey Moore?
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Acetate 2:
R-0389 You Gotta Go [If You Gotta Go, Go Now] - live, Philharmonic Hall New York, 31 Oct 1964 (stereo version). This was released in Mar 2004 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964.
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R-0390-2 The Gal I
Love [Hero Blues] - lyrics on bobdylan.com
(stereo version) I originally listed this as a Witmark demo from May 1963, but Roger Ford, who has a copy of the acetate, informs me that it is the version with Bob on piano, one of the two complete takes recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, on 12 Aug 1963 (CO78980), an out-take from The Times They Are A-Changin'. The Witmark demo version which circulates unofficially has Bob on guitar, as do the out-takes from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, on 6 Dec 1962 (CO77020). This version also appeared on early Columbia acetates of the album, see 1964. It also appeared on eBay in 2007 titled Hero Blues. Track 3 was The Walls Of Red Wing, now released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 (stereo version). |
 Picture found on eBay by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
R-0376-2 Seven Curses - live, Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963 (stereo version), from the cancelled 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964
Acetate 3:
R-0010 Milk Cow Blues (Robert Johnson - see below) - another Freewheelin' out-take, version 1 (take 3), recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 25 April 1962
R-0391 Milk Cow Blues
(Robert Johnson - see below) - version 2 (take 4), recorded at Columbia Studios, New York,
25 April 1962
Michael Krogsgaard reports the studio records as
listing this song as "Milk Cow Calf's Blues" by Robert Johnson. Michael Gray in "Song & Dance Man III" (Cassell,
1999) says: "When Dylan recorded "Milk Cow Blues" (unreleased) in
1962, he used part of Kokomo Arnold's lyric, part of Presley's, part of Robert
Johnson's "Milk Cow's Calf's Blues" and part of Leadbelly's "Good
Morning Blues", shuffling the elements around in the course of two
takes." (Gray says earlier that although Elvis Presley's Sun version is
credited to Kokomo Arnold, it is completely different from Arnold's song, and seems actually to be the version of
"Milk Cow Blues" recorded by Johnny Lee Wills in 1941.) According to
Krogsgaard there were
actually four takes, take 1 does not circulate, take 2 was incomplete, and these
are takes 3 and 4.
R-0392 Wichita Blues
(traditional) - a third Freewheelin' out-take, version 1
(take 1), recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 25 April
1962
Is this the same song Bob recorded with Victoria Spivey and
Big Joe Williams in March 1962? (R-0006 - see
1964)
Acetate 4: all recorded live, Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963:
Track 1 was Who Killed Davey Moore?, now released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3.
R-0370-2 Lay Down Your Weary Tune - from the cancelled 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964
R-0374-2 Turn Turn Turn [Percy's Song] - from the cancelled 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964
Acetate 5:
R-0394 Phantom Engineer [It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry] - early version of this song, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 15 Jun 1965 - I had this listed as an alternate take to the one released on The Bootleg Series Vols.1-3, but Bob Stacy informs me they are the same! A definite alternate take was released in Sep 2005 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home!
R-0395 Over The Cliff [Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence]- recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 15 Jun 1965R-0396 Freeze Out [Visions of
Johanna] -
early version of this song, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 30 Nov-1 Dec 1965.
This is not the take which was released in Sep 2005 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home.
Acetate 6:
R-0397-R-0399 recorded live, Philharmonic Hall, New York, 31 Oct 1964 (as R-0389). These were released in Mar 2004 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964.
R-0397 Never Have Met [I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)]
R-0398 Mr. Tambourine ManR-0399 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Acetate 7:
R-0400 Gates of Eden, recorded live, Philharmonic Hall, New York, 31 Oct 1964 (as R-0389). This was also released in Mar 2004 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964
R-0047 Just A Little Glass Of Water [She's Your Lover Now] - out-take from Blonde On Blonde, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 21 Jan 1966, a solo piano version, not the version on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
Acetate 8:
R-0009 Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams) - a Freewheelin' out-take, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York,
25 April 1962
This song was one of those short-listed for The Bootleg Series Vols.
1-3!
R-0220 Mama, You've Been On My Mind
duet with Joan Baez, recorded live, Philharmonic Hall, New York, 31 Oct 1964
(as R-0389). Later released in 1993 on the Vanguard Joan Baez CD boxed set Rare
Live & Classic, see 1993. This was also
released in Mar 2004 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live
1964.
R-0401 Keep It With Mine - instrumental
version of I'll Keep It With Mine, out-take from Blonde On Blonde, recorded Columbia
Studios, Nashville, TN, 15-16 Feb 1966
(Some say this is actually a different tune - Michael
Krogsgaard lists ten takes of it, and describes these tracks as instrumentals
played by the studio musicians with Bob probably not present!) This instrumental
version turned up in 2005 on the soundtrack of a film called The Wendell
Baker Story, see VHS & DVD 2000s
Part 3.
Keith Green - "So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt..." - vinyl LP: Pretty
Good Records PGR-1 (USA)/Last Day Ministries BIRD 139 (UK), Dec 1980/Sparrow
Records PGR1 (Australia); CD: Sparrow
Records PGD 5431 (USA), 1990:
The album contains a booklet with
lyrics of the songs, notes by Keith Green, and a drawing on the back showing the
participating musicians including Bob. Hans Seegers says the original 1980 album
was never on sale commercially, and could only be obtained by donating at least $25 to Keith
Green's Christian mission. Keith Green was killed in an air crash on 28
Jul 1982.
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Pretty Good Records PGR-1 (USA) - front (my copy) |
R-0153 Pledge My Head
To Heaven (Keith Green) - Bob plays harmonica This track also appeared in a remixed version on Keith's 1983 album I Only Want To See You There (R-0160, see 1983). This original version is included on a Keith Green compilation album for Sparrow Records The Ministry Years Vol. 1: 1977-79 in 1987 and on CD in 1999 (see 1987). For The Ultimate Collection, a different compilation by Keith Green containing this song, see 2002. The So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt... album was released on CD in the USA in 1990 on Sparrow Records, PGD 5431, using the original artwork as a basis for the CD artwork. Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans of the 1990 CD release. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for further information, including that this album is available for download on iTunes. |
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 Sparrow Records PGD 5431 (USA) - rear insert scan by Hans Seegers |
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Stereo promo items for 1980 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.
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