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

Bob with Allen Ginsberg on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour, 1975. Photograph
by Ellie Dorfman from Allen Ginsberg's First Blues, John Hammond Records,
USA, 1982 (CD release, Water Records, USA, 2006)
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.
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Revised: 01 January, 2012
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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)
"4 Test Pressings From 1962" - Columbia acetate (USA), which surfaced in May 1982:
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R-0573 Mixed Up Confusion - alternate take to the original single (R-0007, see 1962), also without the opening harmonica solo as alternate take R-0145 but with different lyrics (unique to this acetate) For details of R-0145, alternate take of the 1962 single found on the Japanese compilations Mr. D's Collection #1 (LP, see 1974) and Mr. D's Collection #2 (EP, see 1976), and the 1978 Australian compilation Masterpieces, see 1978. For details of the four released alternate takes of this song, see 1962. Many thanks to Les Kokay for all his information about these alternate takes, and for permission to reproduce his findings. |
R-0579 Whatcha Gonna Do
- unreleased out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (unique to this
acetate), recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 14 Nov 1962 (CO77005) or 6 Dec
1962 (CO77021)
(There are two circulating takes - I don't know which this is. The second one
has a spoken intro by John Hammond "77021, take 1".)
R-0580 Sally Gal (Woody
Guthrie) - unreleased out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (take 3,
unique to this acetate), recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 24 Apr 1962
(CO77086)
This is still unreleased. The performance now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction
Home, Sep 2005, is actually take 1, previous uncirculating. Take 4 also
circulates amongst collectors, but is officially unreleased. Thanks to Bob Stacy
for the information.
The fourth track on this acetate was Kingsport Town, released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3.
"Do You Remember" - 7" single in retrospective series, CBS A 2351 (NL), 11 Oct 1982:
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R-0126-7 Hurricane (Part 1) - first half of
song (3:45) For original 1975-76 singles with this song split over the A- and B-sides, see here. The B-side of the single was Like A Rolling Stone, the regular album track. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
![]() CBS A 2351 (NL) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers |
Allen Ginsberg - "First Blues" - vinyl 2LP set: John Hammond Records W2X 37673 (USA), 1982; 2CD set release: Water Records water166 (USA), 21 Feb 2006:
R-0157 Going To San Diego (Allen Ginsberg) - this song is copyrighted to Allen Ginsberg even though Ginsberg publicly credited Bob with the musical arrangement
R-0158-2 Jimmy Berman Rag (Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan) - this track also appeared on a 1974 anthology Disconnected - The Dial-A-Poem Poets Double, Giorno Poetry Systems (USA), see 1974
R-0159 Vomit Express
(Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan)
- also released on Allen Ginsberg's 1994
Rhino Word Beat CD boxed set Holy Soul Jelly Roll,
see 1994
In "Tangled Up In Tapes" Glen Dundas records that Bob may also have played on Tyger (the famous William Blake poem set to music by Allen Ginsberg) in New York on 20 Nov 1971. However, he states that this track may have been recorded at a later date without Bob, as indeed it was, in Feb-Mar 1981, as stated on the back page of the "Gallimaufry", where the actual musicians are credited.
Thanks to Kenneth Robson for information and scans of the LP set. The copy shown has a gold promo stamp shown above right.
Thanks to Thomas Michalzic for the information this album was released on CD for the first time on 21 Feb 2006, and thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for further information and scans. The front insert is a 16-page booklet that contains many, but not all, of the pictures included on the album's photograph pages.
Promotional/Regular Items for 1982
| Stereo promo items for 1982 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. |

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