Audio: Promotional Items - Singles 1980-89

For 7" versions of this French single with Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking as the B-side, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

This white label promo had Solid Rock from the Saved album on the A-side and Are You Ready? and What Can I Do For You? on the B-side. It was in a plain white or black card sleeve, cut out to show the record label, with a promotional sticker with the words "Three songs from 'Saved', Bob Dylan's forthcoming album".

Information from Alan Hoaksey. Thanks to Hans Seegers, Patrick Helfrich and Jon McAuliffe for the scans.

Columbia AS 798 (USA) - 12" promo single, B-side scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia AS 798 (USA) - 12" promo single, stamp on sleeve, scan by Hans Seegers

Thanks to Hans Seegers for the information and scans.

This white label jukebox single had Bob on the A-side only and a non-Bob B-side.

For the commercial version of this Italian single with Are You Ready? as the B-side, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

Thanks to Arie de Reus for information and scan.

This 12" single had the title track and Heart Of Mine on the A-side and Trouble plus Every Grain Of Sand on the B-side. All tracks are from the Shot Of Love album. It comes in a plain white sleeve with the gold embossed stamp shown below in the top left hand corner.

Thanks to Alan Hoaksey for information.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS A 1406 (Spain) - A-side of promo release (R-0365)

CBS A 1406 (Spain) - B-side of promo release (R-0154)

CBS BA 222856 (Australia) - B-side of promo release, scan by Hans Seegers (R-0154)

The B-side was a rarity at the time, but was subsequently added to releases of the Shot Of Love album.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS A1640 (Spain) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

CBS A1640 (Spain) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (promo release)

Alan Hoaksey reports there is a version where the sleeve has the LP cover picture - more information required!

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

For the equivalent Columbia US 7" commercial single with Union Sundown as the B-side, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Thanks to Manfred Endtner for information and scans.

The second version shown below has the picture from the front of the Infidels album on the front of the sleeve and a rubber stamp with the words "EDIÇÃO LIMITADA" [LIMITED EDITION]. Usually these singles with the same track on both sides have two identical labels, but on this one the sides are marked as "A" and "B".

Information from Alan Hoaksey and Hans Seegers, pictures from Hans Seegers and Ulf Gyllenspetz.

CBS Especial 620.074 (Brazil) - A-side picture from Ulf Gyllenspetz

CBS Especial 620.074 (Brazil) - B-side picture from Ulf Gyllenspetz

CBS 51.030 (Brazil) - rear scan from Hans Seegers

This single, which came in a plain black sleeve, had Jokerman  from Infidels on the A-side. On the B-side was Licence To Kill and the live version of Isis from the promotional 12" single Four Songs From Renaldo & Clara (see 1978), later released on Biograph (see 1985). This version of Isis was also used as the B-side of Jokerman 7" singles in 1984.

Information from Alan Hoaksey. Thanks to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

B-side scan by Hans Seegers (crossed out)

CBS A 3904 (Italy), promo release, rear scan by Hans Seegers

Detail from above rear picture, showing the pinholes of the promo stamp

CBS A 3916 (Spain), front cover scan by Hans Seegers

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS A 3916 (Spain), blank B-side scan by Hans Seegers (promo release, both variants)

CBS A 3916 (Spain), detail of promo stamp on rear cover, scan by Hans Seegers

CBS A 3916 (Spain), A-side scan by Hans Seegers (promo release, first variant)

CBS A 3916 (Spain), A-side scan by Hans Seegers (promo release, second variant)

This very rare record, issued after the country formerly known as Rhodesia had gained independence, had a generic sleeve and orange/yellow CBS labels.

It has a different, unique, 5:09 edit of the A-side, for full details, see 1984.

Thanks to Nol Grint for information and scan.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan.

Columbia AS 1975 (USA) - label of promo 12" single (my copy)

For a commercially-released "UK Tour Souvenir Edition" of this single with It Ain't Me, Babe from Real Live on the B-side, see International Singles & EPs 1980s.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS A5020 (Spain) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers (promo release)

Thanks to Ulf Gyllenspetz for photos.

CBS A 6303 (UK) - promo "ADJ"-side scan by Kenneth Robson (R-0166)

Thanks to Kenneth Robson for information and scans.

Thanks to Stuart Moore and Hans Seegers for information and scans.

In the writer credits on the single label Bob's name is misspelled "B. Diylan"!

CBS JC 15151 (Italy), jukebox strip - scan by Hans Seegers

Information from Alan Hoaksey.

For commercial singles with Emotionally Yours as the A-side and Clean Cut Kid as the B-side, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Information and scans from Magnus Sjöberg and Hans Seegers.

A-side: Abandoned Love; Up To Me

B-side: Like A Rolling Stone; Blowin' In The Wind

Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans.

CBS ARI 2015 (Spain) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers

This item had the album track from Empire Burlesque on both sides. It was in a plain sleeve.

Information from Alan Hoaksey, photograph from Ulf Gyllenspetz.

MCA-52811 (USA) -  promo 7" single, with "Side 1" on both sides, scan by Christian Faerber (R-0182)

 
MCA L33-17118 (USA) - promo 12" single, also with "Side 1" on both sides (R-0182, my copy)

Both tracks are from Knocked Out Loaded. This is the only single outing for Brownsville Girl! It was never released as a commercial single.

Information from Alan Hoaksey, photographs from Ulf Gyllenspetz.

Columbia CAS 2443 (USA) - A-side photograph by Ulf Gyllenspetz

Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for the information and Hans Seegers for the scans.

This item had the album track from Knocked Out Loaded on both sides.

Information from Alan Hoaksey. Thanks to Magnus Sjöberg for the scan.

Side 2 had two live versions of the song, track 1 from Before The Flood from 1974, and track 2 from Bob Dylan At Budokan from 1978.

For other 7" singles containing this song see 1973, US & International 7" Singles & EPs 1970-73 and US & International 7" and 12" Singles & EPs 1974-76. Note previous single releases had the 1960s-early 1970s orange CBS labels, and the late 1970s-early 1980s red/yellow labels. This EP (which you might expect to be from 1978, not 1987) has the later red label with white CBS logo.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

Thanks to Arie de Reus, Hans Seegers and Anthony Craig for information and scans.

CBS 651148 7 (UK) - 7" front scan by Hans Seegers (promo single)

CBS 651148 6 (UK) - 12" single front, scan by Anthony Craig (promo and commercial releases)

CBS 651148 6 (Spain) - 12" rear scan by Hans Seegers (promo release)

CBS 651148 7 (NL/Spain/Portugal) - 7" front scan (my Dutch copy, promo and commercial releases)

CBS 651148 7 (Spain) - 7" A-side scan by Hans Seegers (promo single)

This single-sided copper master plays the album track from Down In The Groove at 331/3 RPM and is dated "12/11/87". For a 1988 black vinyl promo single, see below.

For the commercial 7" single with Driftin' Too Far From Shore as the B-side, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Thanks to Arie de Reus for information and scans.

For the commercial 7" single with Driftin' Too Far From Shore as the B-side, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Information originally from Alan Hoaksey.

It comes in a generic plastic CBS sleeve, see 7" Single Sleeves.

B-side: Driftin' Too Far From Shore from Knocked Out Loaded, When Did You Leave Heaven? from Down In The Groove (12" single only)

The 10" acetate for the 7" single has stock labels from the US company Precision Lacquer, with "CBS Records" and other information typewritten. The date is shown as "06/07/88" (6 Jul 1988).  The length of Driftin' Too Far From Shore is given correctly as 3:38.  The 12" acetate has stock labels from CBS's London Mastering Studios, with handwritten titles, and came in a plain black sleeve with the CBS London recording studios address (shown below). The length of Driftin' Too Far From Shore is given incorrectly as 3:10. For the UK commercial single, CBS 651406, see below. For a 1988 USA 12" promo single with Silvio alone, see Promotional Singles 1980-89.

Thanks to Arie de Reus for information and scans of the 10" acetate and to Hans Seegers for information and scans of the 12" acetate.

Thanks to Hans Seegers and Kenneth Robson for information and scans.

Information and scans from Hans Seegers and Manfred Endtner.

Thanks to Dag Braathen for information and scans.

Thanks to Raoul Verolleman for finding the first variant on eBay France and to Hans Seegers for the second variant and for extra details. The single shown on the left is an unusual item for CBS France in that "TEST PRESSING" is in English.

For commercial singles which included a rare live performance of Dead Man, Dead Man, see 1989.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS 655358 6 (UK) - 12" single, detail from rear with promo sticker, scan by Hans Seegers

For the US commercial cassette single which included a rare live performance of Dead Man, Dead Man (R-0205), see 1989.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans and to Jack from Canada for correcting the catalogue number.

For the special 1989 Canadian sleeve that housed this record, see 7" Single Sleeves.

Thanks to Sam C. Visser for information and scans.

The commercial single sold in Spain with Death Is Not The End from Down In The Groove on the B-side was imported from Holland, there was no separate Spanish release. For the Dutch commercial single, see US & International 7" & 12" Stereo Singles & EPs 1980-89.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scans.

CBS ARIC 2261 (Spain) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers

Thanks to Nol Grint for information and scans.