This is the third part of a separate multi-year list by release date of commercially-released stereo Dylan-only compilation albums (including Greatest Hits albums with non-standard tracklists) that have been referred to me but do not qualify for my Searching For A Gem list because they contain only performances which are all available on officially released Dylan albums. Nevertheless, their interest value or scarcity means they're worth listing here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site. Thanks to Hans Seegers for all the exclusive CBS Japanese releases, etc.!
See the Promotional Albums pages of International Promotional Releases for promo-only Dylan compilation albums. Other International Compilations are now here:
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This page is still incomplete. 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
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Revised 19 March, 2008.
Bob Dylan Compilations
For the other parts of this list, see the links above. This list now includes albums with the title Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (various Volumes) with non-standard tracklists. For Greatest Hits albums with the standard US tracklists see International Albums (Regular). There are also several international Bob Dylan compilation albums such as The Essential Bob Dylan which contain rarities in the main Searching For A Gem list.
"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" - stereo LP, Amiga 8 55 680 (German Democratic Republic, East Germany), 1980:
 Amiga 8 55 680 (East Germany) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
This rare album is the only widely available commercial release from East Germany - the 1967 mono Bob Dylan album release, see Mono Album Releases, was for a record club only. It has the same tracklist as the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits album released in Holland in 1966 (different again from the US and UK versions of the album), and uses a variant of the cover (shown below for comparison). It was printed at the Amiga pressing plant in East Berlin, under licence from CBS Records and has a fragile unlaminated cover. The album was re-released in 1989 with the original dark purple labels replaced by blue. All information and scans from Hans Seegers. |
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 Amiga 8 55 680 (East Germany) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS S 62694 (NL, 1966) - scan by Wim van der Mark |
"Historia De La Musica Rock [History Of Rock Music]" - vinyl album with Issue 31, Orbis Publications, CBS LSP 15264 (Spain), 1980s:
"Electric Lunch" - 12" promo-only 6 track sampler, Columbia AS 1471 (USA), 1982:
 Columbia AS 1471 (USA) - front (my copy) |
This mini-album has three tracks each from the former
Asylum/Island albums Planet Waves and Before
The Flood. It was prepared for the "Superstars Radio Network" to mark the
albums' move to the Columbia label. As this Dylan compilation is promo only, full details are in Promotional Albums Dylan-only. |
"Greatest Hits" - stereo LP, CBS 10080/UK AL 62847 (India), 1983:
 CBS 10080/UK AL 62847 (India) - front |
The original CBS Indian stereo release from 1967 has the US Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits tracklist, see International Album Releases. This release has the UK tracklist, see International Compilations (Dylan-only) 1960s. The record has orange/yellow labels with written matrix numbers: CBS 10080-A/B2-MSO. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans. |
 CBS 10080/UK AL 62847 (India) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 CBS 10080/UK AL 62847 (India) - Side 2 scan by Hans Seegers |
"Bob Dylan The Legend" - vinyl LP, Columbia Opus 412.050 (Brazil), 1983:
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This compilation was exclusive to Brazil. It contains two rarities, so full details are in 1983. |
"Time Passes Slowly: Biograph Sampler" - promo vinyl LP, Columbia CAS 2222 (USA), Nov 1985:
 Columbia CAS 2222 (USA) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
As this Dylan compilation of tracks from Biograph is promo only, full details are in
Promotional Albums Dylan-only. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
"Sampler" - promo-only LP, CBS SAMP LP 1052 (NL), early 1986:
 CBS SAMP LP 1052 (NL) - front photo by Ulf Gyllenspetz |
As this second Dylan compilation of tracks from Biograph is promo only, full details are in
Promotional Albums Dylan-only. Thanks to Ulf Gyllenspetz for information and photo. |
"His Latest & His Greatest" - cassette-only release, CBS CDNT-291 (Canada), 1986:
 CBS CDNT-291 (Canada) - front insert scan by Lars M. Banke |
This release was exclusive to Canada and on
cassette only. Side 1 (His Latest): Brownsville Girl; Got My Mind Made Up; They Killed Him; Under Your Spell; Maybe Someday (all taken from the current album Knocked Out Loaded). Side 2 (His Greatest): Tangled Up In Blue (taken from the album Blood On The Tracks)/ Lay, Lady, Lay; Don't Think Twice It's All Right; All I Really Want To Do; Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (listed as being from the album Greatest Hits Vol. 2); Mr. Tambourine Man; The Times They Are A Changin' (listed as being from the album Greatest Hits). Thanks to "Blind Willie McTell" for information about this item and to Lars M. Banke for the scan. |
"Presença De Bob Dylan [The Presence Of Bob Dylan]" - 2LP set, Discos CBS 138.750/1 (Brazil), 1987:
 Discos CBS 138.750/1 (Brazil) - front (my copy) |
This was a 24-track 2LP set, unique to Brazil, containing
a very strange selection of previously-released material, including six
songs from Self Portrait and four from New Morning. The two
records are in plain sleeves inside a single outer sleeve, not gatefold. According to Alexandre Froemming it was part
of a series with the Presença title of "Best of" CBS collections
with different coloured sleeves featuring many popular
Brazilian and international artists, and several of these are shown on an
insert.
Side 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Lay, Lady, Lay; Tombstone Blues; Ballad Of A Thin Man; Highway 61 Revisited; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. Side 2: Mr. Tambourine Man; Just Like A Woman; All The Tired Horses; Early Mornin' Rain; Little Sadie; Living The Blues. Side 3: Like A Rolling Stone; Day Of The Locusts; If Dogs Run Free; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues; Blue Moon; Minstrel Boy. Side 4: If Not For You; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Hurricane; Queen Jane Approximately; The Man In Me; Subterranean Homesick Blues. The records have orange/red Discos CBS labels, and are numbered CBS 138.750 and CBS 138.751. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for this album! Thanks to Nol Grint for the scan of a different record label design. |
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 Discos CBS 138.750/1 (Brazil) - back |
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 Discos CBS 138.750 (Brazil) - Side 1 |
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 Discos CBS 138.750 (Brazil) - Side 1, alternate design scan by Nol Grint |
"More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits" - stereo 2LP set, CBS S 67239 (NL), 1987:
 CBS S 67239 (NL) - front scan (title in blue circle) (my copy) |
This Dutch album is a reissue of the 1971 UK More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits album with the same catalogue number
(see International
Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 1970s). The front picture is a lighter blue than
the UK release. On the front cover the title "MORE
BOB DYLAN GREATEST HITS" is still in white, but in a different type face,
and enclosed in a blue circle with a dark blue border. On the UK cover the title
is superimposed directly over the picture. The records themselves are in plain
white paper sleeves with red CBS labels with
matrix numbers: Unlike the UK set, which had an inside pocket to hold both records, this release has two openings on the outside edges of the gatefold sleeve for the records, so one goes in each side of the sleeve. Holland of course had its own three Greatest Hits albums from the 1960s (all on the 1960s page of this list). On the tracklisting on the rear cover, the two tracks which are exclusive to the UK release, Positively 4th St. and New Morning, are clearly whiter than the other listed tracks. This is not true of the 1971 UK release, and implies the cover artwork for this release was sourced from the USA and modified. |
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 CBS S 67239 (NL) - Side 1 |
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 CBS S 67239 (NL) - detail from rear ("printed in Holland") |
"Sampler" - promo-only CD, CBS SAMP CD 1158 (NL), 1987:
 CBS SAMP CD 1158 (NL) - front insert scan by Hans Seegers |
As this Dylan compilation CD is promo only, full details are in
Promotional Albums Dylan-only. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
"Forever Young" - promo CD, Columbia CSK 1151 (USA), 1988:
 Columbia CSK 1151 (USA) - front insert scan by Eddie Cockrell |
As this Dylan compilation CD is promo only, full details are in
Promotional Albums Dylan-only. Thanks to Eddie Cockrell for information and scan. |
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