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: 01 January, 2012
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 stereo vinyl LP boxed set, Reader's
Digest 2.787.0 (Belgium), early 1980s:
Any information as to the exact year this collection, which was
manufactured by Elpeco for Reader's Digest, was issued will be
welcome!
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R-0001-5 Midnight Special
(Huddie Ledbetter - "Leadbelly") - Bob plays harmonica on the
title track of Harry Belafonte's 1962 The Midnight Special album (stereo
version) For details of the original album, see 1962. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information. |
Harry Belafonte - "K-Tel Presents Belafonte: 20 Original Hits" - compilation LP, K-Tel NA 514 (Australia), 1980:
 K-Tel NA 514 (Australia) - front scan by Stuart Moore |
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
version)For details of the original album, see 1962. Thanks to Stuart Moore and Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
 K-Tel NA 514 (Australia) - rear scan by Stuart Moore |
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 K-Tel NA 514 (Australia) - Side 2 scan by Stuart Moore |
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 1990, see 1990. |
 CBS P 15663 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS P 15663 (USA) - fake picture disc Side 1 photo from eBay |
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. Thanks to Peter Schoefboeck for information about a picture disc version sold on eBay for $1000! Unfortunately Hans Seegers confirms it is a fake!
"Slow Train"" - promo 7" singles, Columbia 1-11235 (USA), Mar 1980:
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R-0456 Slow Train - edited version, 4:15 on both sides (from album version of 5:57) |
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Three copies of the promo single are shown - one with white labels but undated, one with white labels dated "Mar 31 1980" and the third with commercial orange labels, All three are the same on both sides. Hans Seegers has a white label promo single dated "Mar 18 1980".
Thanks to Sam C. Visser, Ronald Born and Manuel Garcia Jara for information and scans.
"Slow Train"/"Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)" - commercial 7" singles, Columbia 1-11235 (USA/Canada), Mar 1980:
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 Columbia 1-11235 (USA) - rear scan by Nol Grint (commercial release, missing promo text) |
 Columbia 1-11235 (USA) - A-side scan by Nol Grint (R-0456, commercial release) |
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 Columbia 1-11235 (Canada) - A-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara (R-0456) |
 Columbia 1-11235 (Canada) - B-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara |
R-0456-2 Slow Train - edited version, 4:15 on A-side (from album version of 5:57)
The US and Canadian commercial singles had Do Right To Me Baby, Slow Train Coming album version, as the B-side, and also had this edit on the A-side. The Canadian single was made in Canada and did not have a picture sleeve.
Thanks to Sam C. Visser, Manuel Garcia Jara and Nol Grint for information and scans.
"Solid Rock"/"Covenant Woman" - 7" stereo singles, Columbia 1-11318 (USA/Canada),
2 Jun 1980; CBS BA 222711 (New Zealand), 1980:
Only these three singles were released worldwide, and none had picture sleeves. The A-side is the regular album
version from Saved.
 Columbia 1-11318 (USA) - demo single A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0364 Covenant Woman - edited version (4:35) of album version from Saved (6:03) on B-side of single The US demonstration single shown has a stamp across the white Columbia logo on the A-side (the B-side is the same as the regular single). The Canadian demonstration single has a rubber stamped date in French of "11 Juil. 1980 [11 Jul 1980]" on the A-side. For a promo version of the US single with Solid Rock on both sides, see International 7" Singles & EPs 1980-83. Thanks to Hans Seegers, Manuel Garcia Jara and Bill Hester for information and scans. |
 Columbia 1-11318 (USA) - regular single A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Columbia 1-11318 (Canada) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Columbia 1-11318 (Canada) - A-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara (demo copy) |
 Columbia 1-11318 (Canada) - B-side scan by Manuel Garcia Jara (R-0364, demo copy) |
 CBS BA 222711 (New Zealand) - A-side scan by Bill Hester |
 CBS BA 222711 (New Zealand) - B-side scan by Bill Hester (R-0364) |
"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 Red Wing Reform School [The Walls Of Red Wing] (stereo version) - recorded live, Town Hall, New York, 12 Apr 1963 R-0387 All Over You [If I Had To Do It All Over Again (I'd Do It All Over You)] (stereo version), lyrics on bobdylan.com -
recorded live, Town Hall, New York, 12 Apr 1963R-0388 Who Killed Davey Moore?
(stereo version) - recorded live, Town Hall, New York, 12
Apr 1963 |
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.
 Picture found on eBay by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
R-0390-2 The Gal I
Love [Hero Blues] - lyrics on bobdylan.com
 (mono 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).
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 (CO70100)
R-0391 Milk Cow Blues
(Robert Johnson - see below) - version 2 (take 4), recorded at Columbia Studios, New York,
25 April 1962 (CO70100)
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
(Robert Johnson) - a third Freewheelin' out-take, version 1
(take 1), recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 25 April
1962
(CO70101)
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
(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
[listed as 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..." - stereo
vinyl LP: Pretty
Good Records PGR-1 (USA)/Last Day Ministries BIRD 139 (UK), Dec 1980/Sparrow
Records PGR1 (Australia) (date?); 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 original version of R-0153 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) and in remastered form on The Ultimate Collection, a different compilation by Keith Green (see 2002). Pledge My Head To Heaven also appeared in an inferior remixed version on Keith's 1983 album I Only Want To See You There (R-0160, see 1983). The Sparrow Records Australian release with different artwork dates from post 1982 because it has a revised insert with a message from Keith's wife Melody relating to the air crash and the death of Keith and two of his children. 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. |
 Pretty Good Records PGR-1 (USA) - rear |
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 Sparrow Records PGR1 (Australia) - front of insert, scan by Stuart Moore |
 Sparrow Records PGR1 (Australia) - Side 1 with R-0153, scan by Stuart Moore |
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Promotional/Regular Items for 1980
| Stereo promo items for 1980 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now included with promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases. |
 Saved (1980) |
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