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
Sally Grossman, widow of Bob's former manager Albert Grossman and the woman
in red on the front cover of Bringing It All Back Home, pictured at
the Bob Dylan exhibition at the Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA, with a
picture by Bob that has hung in her living room for 40 years. Photograph from
"Isis" #118, courtesy of Ida and Arie de Reus
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: 23 May, 2010.
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)
Audience recordings are indicated by (A).
Various Artists - "Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004" - 2CD set, Sanctuary Records 06076-84736-2 (USA), 5 Apr 2005:
 Sanctuary Records 06076-84736-2 (USA) - jewel case with sticker (my copy) |
R-0697 Down Along The Cove
- live, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, 11 Jun
2004 Four further live performances from this show were added to the bobdylan.com Performances page in Jun 2004, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com). Cold Irons Bound from this show appeared in Oct 2007 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. Bob's contribution is on track 1 of CD1. Other artists include The Dead, Dave Matthews & Friends, David Byrne, Steve Winwood, Gillian Welch and Beth Orton. For a 2004 2CD promo compilation album advertising this festival including a Dylan album track, see International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2004. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information and to Jim Paboucek for the disc scans. Thanks to Artur Jarosinski for the information that this performance is from a soundboard recording, not audience as previously stated. |
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"Talkin' John Birch Paranoia Blues [Talkin' John Birch Society Blues]" - 10" stereo acetate, Columbia 70090-2 (USA), 1963 (surfaced April 2005):
 Columbia 70090-2 (USA) - label photo by Karen Fredericks |
This stereo acetate came from the estate of John Hammond. It is housed in a
generic "audiodiscs" sleeve and has a Columbia Recording Studios black label
with handwritten text. The title is given as "Talkin' John Birch Paranoia
Blues". R-0018-3 Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - still unreleased studio version, the one released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991 is a live performance from Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963 (see below) For the original release of this performance on the withdrawn version of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963. Thanks to Karen Fredericks for information and photos. |
 Columbia 70090-2 (USA) - "audiodiscs" sleeve photo by Karen Fredericks |
Various Artists - "Is It Rolling, Bob? Dub Versions: Visions Of Jamaica" - compilation CD, RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA); RAS/Sanctuary RZACD024 (UK), 19 Apr 2005:
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 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA) - front insert scan by David Plentus |
 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA) - reverse of front insert, scan by David Plentus |
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 RAS/Sanctuary Records 06076-89943-2 (USA) - CD scan by David Plentus |
This is the separate release of the bonus "dub" disc originally given away with the RAS Records limited edition of Is It Rolling, Bob? in Aug 2004, see 2004.
R-0665-2 I And I
- dub remix of track from Infidels
Thanks to David Plentus and Hans Seegers for information and scans.
Pete Seeger - "The Essential Pete Seeger" - compilation CD, Sony (catalogue numbers?) (USA/UK), 19 Apr 2005:
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This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) - live with Pete Seeger and ensemble,
Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 28 Jul 1963 (stereo version) Bob possibly appeared on this ensemble recording at the finale of the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, from the Vanguard album The Newport Folk Festival - 1963: The Evening Concerts Vol. 2, see 1964. Thanks to Anthony Bush for informing me of this release. |
Various Artists - "Chroniques: Volume 1 [Chronicles: Volume 1]" - 2CD set, Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France), 11 May 2005:
 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
This 2CD set features 41 tracks by artists mentioned in Bob's book
Chronicles: Volume 1and is exclusive to France, released to tie in
with the French translation. The notes in French inside the booklet are by
British rock journalist Nick Kent. The description of each track in the
booklet includes an excerpt from the French translation of Bob's book
referring to it. R-0002-8 I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley)
R-0680-2 Dignity
There are also five other tracks by Bob: Song To Woody from Bob Dylan; Let Me Die In My Footsteps from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3; Positively 4th Street, the single released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits; If Dogs Run Free from New Morning and Man In The Long Black Coat from Oh Mercy. Other artists include Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Pete Seeger, Irma Thomas, Nina Simone and Johnny Cash. There are seven Dylan covers, including Blowin In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary, Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds, and the performance by Al Kooper of Went To See The Gypsy included in his 2001 compilation Rare & Well Done listed in Honourable Mentions. Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier for information and scans. |
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 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - front with stickers (my copy) |
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 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - CD1 (no Dylan) |
 Sony Music Media SMM 520163-2 (France) - CD2 with R-0002, R-0680 and five Dylan album tracks |
Alabama 3 - "Outlaw" - One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK), 23 May 2005:
 One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK) - front scan by Jack from Canada |
R-0236 The Gospel Train (Bob Dylan/Robert Spragg/Jon Delafons/Piers
Marsh) - song with loop of Lay, Lady, Lay from Nashville Skyline Thanks to Tim Dunn for information and Jack from Canada for scans, |
 One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
 One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD (UK) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
"Democracy Now!" - radio broadcast CD-R (no catalogue number) (USA), 26 Aug
2005:
The programme is partly about the murder of Emmett Till and includes Bob's
song, played over a series of still photographs. The CD-R comes in a jewel case with a single-sided
front insert only and just the handwritten date "8-26-05" on the disc.
For a video version of this programme, see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.
 Insert scan by Jack from Canada |
R-0082-2 The Death Of Emmett Till
 - lyrics on bobdylan.com
 , from "The Broadside Show" radio
broadcast, WBAI-FM, New York, May 1962Originally released on the Smithsonian/Folkways album Broadside Ballads Vol. 6: Broadside Reunion with Bob performing as "Blind Boy Grunt", see 1972. This is a different performance from Witmark demo R-0035, found on the Warner Brothers sampler Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler, see 1967. Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans. |
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"Live At The Gaslight 1962" - Columbia/Legacy A 96016 (USA), 30 Aug 2005; Columbia/Legacy COL 82876728622 (Belgium), 7 Oct 2005:
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This CD available only from Starbucks coffee shops in the USA has been produced for them by Columbia. It comes in a digipak with a 12-page stapled booklet featuring liner notes by Sean Wilentz, who claims the circulating 17-song tape is actually taken from two separate shows at the Gaslight Café in New York in Oct 1962. |
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 Columbia/Legacy A 96016 (USA) - front of sealed digipak (my copy) |
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 Columbia/Legacy COL 82876728622 (Belgium) - front of Humo slipcase, scan by Bernard Reynaert |
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 Columbia/Legacy COL 82876728622 (Belgium) - advert from Humo web-site found by Bernard Reynaert |
R-0701 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
R-0702 Rocks And Gravel (Brownie McGhee/Leroy Carr,
wrongly credited to "Bob Dylan")
Lyrics on bobdylan.com
(where it's copyrighted by Bob
Dylan, although other authorities list the song writers as Brownie McGhee and
Leroy Carr - Glen Dundas and Michael Gray list it as "Traditional")
A studio version appeared on the withdrawn US Columbia version of The
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963.
R-0703 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
R-0679-2 The Cuckoo Is A Pretty
Bird (Traditional)
- previously released on the promo
CD
Chronicles Volume One 6 Song Sampler, Oct 2004 see 2004
R-0704 Moonshiner (Traditional)
A studio version appeared on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991, see International Albums
(Regular)
R-0467-3 Handsome Molly
(Traditional) - previously released on the Japan
only CD
Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances,
Feb 2001 see 2001. It was also one of the 42 rarities included for download with
the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan
Collection, see Online Performances
(Other).
R-0705 Cocaine (Traditional)
A version with Bob backing Richard Fariña and
Eric von Schmidt can be found on a UK-only Topic LP, see
1964. A live
version by Bob from the El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, 16 Dec 1997, was
released on Columbia CD singles and on a bonus CD with the Australian release of
Time
Out Of Mind, see 1998.
R-0706 John Brown
(wrongly credited as "Traditional")
A "studio version" of this song recorded at the Broadside magazine offices in
New York, Feb 1963, was released by Bob under the pseudonym of "Blind
Boy Grunt" on Broadside Records, see 1963. It was not
included on a Columbia album until a 1994 version on MTV Unplugged in
1995, see International Albums
(Regular).
R-0707 Barbara Allen (Traditional)
R-0708 West Texas (Traditional)
Thanks to Ian Woodward for the tracklisting and scans of a promo CD-R copy called "Gaslight Lounge - 1962" in a clear plastic wallet with a white paper insert.
Thanks to Jim Paboucek for scans and especially to Tim Dunn for the copy of the album. Thanks to Bernard Reynaert from Belgium for in formation that a European version of this album exists! He says: "The Live at the Gaslight 1962 CD is now available for a limited time in Belgium through "Humo", a popular weekly magazine. It can be acquired in exchange of a voucher which was in today’s edition (4 Oct 2005) plus 12 Euros only in the “Standaard Boekhandel” (Boekhandel = bookstore) chain stores. I bought my copy in Brussels. The catalogue number of the CD (also a digipak) is COL 82876728622 and is housed in a exclusive brown slipcase which says “Humo presenteert Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962” (“Humo presents…). There is also a booklet (same as the US release I suppose) but the FBI warning is missing of course. The disc is “Made in the EU” which is on the label."
Hans Seegers confirms the disc is made in Austria for distribution in Belgium only at this time. The voucher was also included with the 11 Oct 2005 issue of "Humo". The magazine is on sale throughout the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. but the vouchers are redeemable only at Standaard Boekhandel stores. Jean-Pol Hiernaux adds that the the Belgian release uses much better quality paper for both the digipak and the booklet than the US release - this is in contrast to the US and European releases of The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, where the US booklet is printed on considerably better paper, and needs a wider slipcase as a result!
Three songs, all traditional, from this tape of an Oct 1962 show or shows at the Gaslight Club, New York, have already been officially released:
The six still unreleased tracks from the tape are: Black Cross (Joseph S. Newman) - a monologue written by the uncle of actor Paul Newman and made famous by Lord Buckley and one of the highlights of the Gaslight tape; an early version of Ballad Of Hollis Brown; Motherless Children (Traditional); Kind-Hearted Woman Blues (Robert Johnson); See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson) - studio version released on Bob Dylan; Ain't No More Cane On The Brazo (James "Iron Head" Baker) - performed on The Basement Tapes by The Band. All seventeen songs circulate amongst Dylan collectors and it is a shame the full seventeen could not be officially released on a single title! Thanks to David Goldsmith for correcting this list.
"Live At The Gaslight 1962" - Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL), 2009:
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL) - front of card sleeve, scan by Nol Grint |
This album was released in 2009 in Holland as part of a 10CD set The Bob Dylan 60s Collection, released in association with the Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant", see 2009. The box contains 10 CDs in card sleeves and a 16-page booklet by Dutch author Martin Bril called "Een man uit de verte [A man from afar]". For scans of the regular albums in this set, see International Album Releases (Regular) - 2000s Multi-Packs. |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL) - rear of card sleeve, scan by Nol Grint |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/2 (NL) - CD scan by Nol Grint |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2 (NL) - box front scan by Nol Grint |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2 (NL) - box rear scan by Nol Grint |
Thanks to Nol Grint for information and scans.
"No Direction Home: Bootleg Volume 7 - Exclusive Radio Sampler" - radio station CD, Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA), Sep 2005:
 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
Apparently this
seven track CD
went out to
non-profit and adult alternative radio stations. For a Two Hour
Radio Special promo
radio station set on 2CD-Rs without bonus material, see
International Album
Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. It is a
glass-mastered CD, not a CD-R, in a jewel case with front and back inserts.
The catalogue number is not printed on the artwork or the CD, just in the
matrix information at the centre of the disc. Keith Venturoni says: "After track 3, they insert the intro for Dylan at Newport '65 just before track 4 to make it sound as if that intro leads into that outtake". Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for the information that this is because the track She Belongs To Me is exactly as on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home - it has the intro to Maggie's Farm at Newport on the end of the track instead of at the start of Maggie's Farm! R-0728
Masters Of War - live, New York Town Hall, 12 Apr 1963 (5:21), extended
version of track from The Bootleg Series Vol. 7:
No Direction Home (4:43) R-0729 Highway 61 Revisited banter, Columbia Studios, New
York, 2 Aug 1965 R-0730 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (5:08),
edited version of track from The Bootleg Series Vol. 7:
No Direction Home (5:44) R-0731 Highway 61 Revisited intro, Columbia Studios, New York, Aug 1965 Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux, Åsa Källén-Lindh, Ian Woodward, Keith Venturoni and Hans Seegers for information. Thanks also to Hans Seegers for scans (a huge improvement on the eBay photographs!). |
 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - CD scan by Hans Seegers |
 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Columbia/Legacy COL 1666 (USA) - detail of CD, scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux showing matrix information with catalogue number |
"Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963" - Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA)/Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe), 15 Nov 2005:
 Promo release, insert scan by Ian Woodward |
If you buy No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 and "The Bob Dylan Scrapbook" together from bobdylan.com in the USA, you will get this free six track CD in a card sleeve which opens at the top (the European version opens at the side). Thanks to Lee Griffin for news that this CD is also available at Borders in the USA, with selected Dylan purchases such as "The Bob Dylan Scrapbook", the paperback edition of "Chronicles Vol. 1", The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, and several other remastered Dylan CDs. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information that this CD was included as a bonus disc in a limited edition "long box" edition of The Best Of Bob Dylan (US release). |
 Promo release, CD-R scan by Ian Woodward |
 Columbia 130C 675013LB (USA) - "long box" front scan by Hans Seegers (includes bonus CD of Carnegie Hall) |
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 Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - front of card sleeve with Virgin UK sticker, scan by Neil Burling |
 Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA) - front of card sleeve, scan by Gil Lamont (Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 is identical) |
 Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA) - rear of card sleeve, scan by Gil Lamont |
 Columbia CS-9102 (USA) - stereo front cover of cancelled 1964 album, picture from Jeff Gold, recordmecca.com |
 Columbia 130C 675013LB (USA) - detail of front, scan by Hans Seegers (information about bonus CD of Carnegie Hall) |
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 Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - CD scan by Jean-Pierre Mercier |
 Columbia SAMPCD 15043 2 (Europe) - front scan of card sleeve by Nol Grint |
 Columbia/Legacy CSK 17254 (USA) and Columbia/Legacy SAMPCM 15009 2 (Europe) - side-by-side comparison showing different sleeve openings (my copies) |
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Thanks to Ian Woodward for scans of a CD-R promo release, which came in a clear plastic wallet with a white paper insert. The title is misspelled as "Carnagie" on the insert. This mistake was repeated on the Apple iTunes online store in Sep 2005, see Online Performances (Other).
This album uses a pastiche of the cover of the cancelled US Columbia Bob Dylan In Concert album, including the "STEREO"/arrows logo, see 1964. Thanks to Bob Stacy for pointing out that this is a slightly different photograph from the one due to be used in 1964, both taken by Don Hunstein. Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier and Franck Faugere for details of the European release, Columbia SAMPCM 15009 2. This was initially available only in France, at stores like Virgin with purchases of No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7, but Tim Hayter tells me it is now available at Virgin stores in the UK with any two Dylan CDs.
All tracks were recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963.
R-0709 The Times They Are
A-Changin' - previously
unreleased and uncirculating
R-0710 Ballad Of Hollis
Brown - previously
unreleased and uncirculating
This track also appears on Serve 2, a charity album released in Nov 2007
to benefit World Hunger Year, see 2007.
R-0711 Boots Of Spanish
Leather - previously
unreleased and uncirculating
R-0370-3 Lay Down Your Weary Tune - included on the unreleased US
Columbia Bob Dylan In Concert album, see 1964, and
also appeared on the "Goldmine" acetates, see 1980, and released on bobdylan.com (BDC5, see
Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )
R-0712 North Country Blues
- previously unreleased and
uncirculating
R-0713 With God On Our Side
- previously unreleased and
uncirculating
These six tracks are also part of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see Online Performances (Other).
Thanks to Gil Lamont, Neil Burling, Jean-Pierre Mercier and Nol Grint for information and scans and especially to Tim Dunn for the copy of the US album. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan of the "long box" release of The Best Of Bob Dylan, which includes this as a bonus CD.
Other tracks from this concert released on the unreleased US Columbia Bob Dylan In Concert album, see 1964:
When The Ship Comes In (R-0373) - now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home, Sep 2005
Percy's Song (R-0374) - also released on bobdylan.com (BDC11, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )
Seven Curses (R-0376) - also released on bobdylan.com (BDC13, see Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )
There is also:
Who Killed Davey Moore? - released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991
Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - previously unreleased and uncirculating, now released on No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7, Sep 2005
Thanks to Pachi Becerril for reminding me of the two Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 tracks. Yet again one wishes Columbia would stop this accursed fragmentation and release the whole concert on a single title!
Purchases of No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 in Holland and at HMV in the UK (unlike Virgin, see above) have included a new release of the promo CD Chronicles Volume One 6 Song Sampler, see 2004, and sadly not the Carnegie Hall CD. Note that all the CDs shown above have the "joke" logo "363º SOUND" round the bottom edge. This is not a mistake, as the 2004 Chronicles CD had ""361º SOUND"!
"Bob Dylan Live At
Carnegie Hall 1963" - Sony Music Direct MBCH 80002
(Japan), 15 Nov 2005:
In Japan this CD was available in exchange for five
vouchers, one from each of the following albums:
The second and third albums are of course the 2005 remasters, released in Japan in paper sleeves, as are the two Greatest Hits albums (I've now bought the last four in paper sleeves from Japan and have added them to the International Albums (Regular) section.) The Japanese release came with a promo letter and a folded insert in Japanese.
 Sony Music Direct MBCH 80002 (Japan) - front scan by Michio Kinoshita |
Thanks to Michio Kinoshita and Hans Seegers for information and scans. Thanks to Peter Good for finding the Japanese promo on eBay. Thanks to Wil Gielen for scans of a very rare test pressing with the title Carnegie Hall 6 Song Sampler produced by Sony Music Studios, Tokyo, for in-house distribution only. It is in a standard CD jewel case with a single card front insert and no rear insert. The CD-R itself is blank. |
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 Sony Music Direct MBCH 80002 (Japan) - promo release, picture from eBay |
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 "Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963" Japanese voucher back |
 Sony Music Direct MBCH 80002 (Japan) - unfolded insert, scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Sony Music Direct MBCH 80002 (Japan) - commercial release, CD scan by Michio Kinoshita |
The Band - "A Musical History" - book with 5CD+DVD set, Capitol 72435-77409-6 (USA); Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe), 26 Sep 2005:
 Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe) - front of sealed book with stickers (my copy), note the name "THE BAND" is actually on a transparent sticker and not on the book cover itself! |
Thanks to Tim Dunn for the US catalogue number. This 112-page book measuring 11½"
x 9½" has three pages at the back with pockets containing 5CDs plus a DVD. When
sealed, the copy has two transparent stickers on the shrink-wrap, one with the
name "THE BAND", and one describing the content (shown below). There are several
photos of Bob in the book and four Dylan rarities on the CDs, two of which are
previously unreleased, plus five other Dylan tracks.
CDs 3 and 4 plus the DVD have no Dylan content. Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the US release. Thanks also to Jack for information that a 19-track CD The Best Of "A Musical History" was by Capitol in the USA on 17 Apr 2007. This contains two tracks with Bob, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? and Forever Young. There are no rarities. The CD is also available as a deluxe edition with a bonus DVD of six live Band performances from the DVD in this set. For details of this, see International Compilations (Other Artists' Albums with Dylan Album Tracks). |
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 Capitol 72435-77409-6 (USA) - rear insert scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol 72435-77409-6 (USA) - detail of rear insert with US catalogue number, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Capitol/EMI 72435-71879-0-9 (Europe) - CD1 with R-0650 and R-0054 |
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 2007 Capitol USA 19-track CD selection, picture found by Jack from Canada |
CD1:
R-0650 Tell Me, Momma - recorded live with The
Hawks at the Odeon
Theatre, Liverpool, England, 14 May 1966, previously unreleased
R-0054-9 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- recorded live with the Hawks at The Odeon Theatre, Liverpool,
England, 14 May 1966, B-side of US 7" single I Want You, (see 1966)
This live version, never released on a regular Columbia album, is also on the Japanese promo LP Mr. D's Collection #1 (see
1974), the Japanese
promo EP Mr. D's Collection #2 (see
1976), the 1978 Australian set Masterpieces
(see 1978),
and the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3
promo CD (see 1993).
It's also on the Japanese set Dylan Ga
Rock (see 1993
and 2010). All versions are as far as I know still in mono as originally recorded.
Sadly, it does not appear on the B-side of a withdrawn CBS Spanish EP (see 1972), because the record was
mispressed with It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from Highway
61 Revisited instead!
This CD also contains Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - single version, again in mono, but indicated so here; Odds And Ends from The Basement Tapes.
CD2:
R-0064-4 I Ain't Got No
Home - recorded live with The Band at the
Tribute to Woody Guthrie, Carnegie Hall, New York, 20 Jan 1968 (afternoon show),
from the Tribute to Woody Guthrie Part 1 album (see
1972)
This performance also appears on the Japanese Mr. D's Collection #3
promo CD (see 1993).
This CD also contains Don't Ya Tell Henry plus several other songs from The Basement Tapes featuring The Band alone. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for pointing out that the version of Long Distance Operator (4:32) is listed as previously unreleased and recorded at Goldstar Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 21 Feb 1968. The so-called Basement Tapes version is 3:40, but the new performance is in fact the same recording with an edited verse restored. (It is actually well known that not all the Band tracks included on The Basement Tapes album were the versions that were actually recorded there!)
CD5:
R-0651 Highway 61 Revisited - recorded live with The Band at Madison
Square Garden, New York, 31 Jan 1974 (evening show), previously unreleased
This CD also contains Forever Young (slow version) from Planet Waves; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, live from The Forum, Inglewood, CA, 13 Feb 1974, from Before The Flood.
The Band - "A Musical History: Box Set Radio Special" - radio
station CD-R, Capitol/EMI (no catalogue number) (USA), Sep 2005:
This one-hour radio show promoting The Band's boxed set includes two Dylan
rarities. The CD-R is in a standard jewel case without a front insert.
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R-0650-2 Tell Me, Momma - recorded live with The
Hawks at the Odeon
Theatre, Liverpool, England, 14 May 1966
R-0651-2 Highway 61 Revisited Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans. |
 CD-R scan by Jack from Canada |
Harry Belafonte - "The Essential Harry Belafonte" - compilation 2CD set, RCA 82876 69242 2 (UK), 10 Oct 2005:
 RCA 82876 69242 2 (UK) - picture from amazon.co.uk |
R-0001-27 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 the catalogue number. |
Various Artists - "Music From The Motion Picture 'North Country'" -
film soundtrack album, Sony
Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA), 11 Oct 2005/Sony Music Soundtrax SICP
1021 (Japan), 25 Jan 2006 :
The picture on the front of the album cover is of Charlize Theron, who stars
as a woman working in a Northern Minnesota mine who takes a stand against sexual
harassment. As Bob was raised in Hibbing, a mining town in Northern Minnesota,
it's easy to see why he supported this film. For the film DVD release, see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.
 Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA) - my copy |
R-0649 Tell Ol' Bill
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previously unreleased song, recorded mid-2005 This track was one of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see Online Performances (Other). It was listed as an alternate take, but turned out to be R-0649. The real alternate take of Tell Ol' Bill was released in Oct 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. This means R-0649 remains a rarity. Speculation at first was that this was the uncirculating out-take from Self Portrait recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 4 Mar 1970. Clinton Heylin lists it as "Tell Old Bill", while Michael Krogsgaard lists it as "This Evening So Soon" as written on the studio session recording sheet. However, R-0649 is in fact a new recording, made earlier this year with musicians including Elana Fremerman on violin. Thanks to Tim Dunn and Michael Mets for the information that the song is credited to "Bob Dylan" and is not the same as the traditional song, although we've never heard Bob's 1970 version. The North Country soundtrack album also includes Lay, Lady, Lay from Nashville Skyline, Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) from Slow Train Coming, and Sweetheart Like You from Infidels. There are also covers of Girl From The North Country by Leo Kottke and Paths Of Victory by Cat Power. Paul S. Levine thinks that Lay, Lady, Lay and Sweetheart Like You are remixes, but my ears can't hear any significant differences from the tracks released in the 2003 series of hybrid SA-CDs. There is a pale blue information sticker with white text on the outside of the jewel case. The front insert is a single sheet with three folds. The CD tray is clear to show the picture on the reverse of the rear insert. Thanks to David Plentus, Ole Lien, Gino Galvez and Gil Walker for information about this release. |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA) - front of sealed copy with sticker |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA) - sticker from front |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA) - rear insert |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA) - CD |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia CK 97777 (USA) - reverse of rear insert (under clear CD tray) |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - obi |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - front of sealed copy with obi (my copy) |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - rear insert |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - lyrics booklet |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - CD |
 Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (New Zealand) - detail of rear insert, scan by Bill Hester |
 Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 1021 (Japan) - rear of sealed copy with obi (my copy) |
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 Sony Music Soundtrax CK 97777 (New Zealand) - detail of CD, scan by Bill Hester |
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Thanks to Michio Kinoshita for information about the Japanese release. The three fold front insert and the reverse of the rear insert are identical to the US release, with English text. There is a black, blue and white obi with price ¥2,520 and a Japanese language lyrics booklet inside the front insert. There is no information sticker as on the US release. For a Sony Japan Jan 2006 promotional album with R-0649, see 2006.
Thanks to Hervé from France for the photo of a Japanese promo CD - it is in a standard jewel case with no inserts. The title is in Japanese but the song titles are in English. Thanks to Bill Hester for scans of the New Zealand release and for the information that Niki Caro, the director of this film and the acclaimed "Whale Rider", is a New Zealander, and it was her who persuaded Bob to provide a song for the film! This New Zealand connection is probably why there was a separate New Zealand release for the album.
Thanks also to Bill Hester for this excerpt from an interview with Niki Caro:
NC: (happily) Oh, I'm the producer of that. It thrills me to the core.
Q: There’s Bob Dylan from Minnesota, but is there another aspect of him that made him appropriate for this film?
NC: Good question. When you're cutting the film, you put a lot of music in the picture to see what works. I'm a big Dylan fan, but I'm an equally big Springsteen fan. I tried some of Springsteen's stuff in the movie and it just wouldn't work. When I thought about it, when I really stopped to think about his music: It's very narrative, but it's almost exclusively from the point of view of the young American male and the working class world. Then everything of Dylan's I put in the picture worked just like a charm. So we went to him to see if he'd write an original song for us. I went to meet him. I went from Auckland, New Zealand, to Camden, New Jersey, which is a long trip just for a day to join him briefly on his tour and discuss the movie with him. It was great. And then I just put more and more Dylan songs.
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For
Bangladesh: Remixed Edition" - 2CD set, Apple/Capitol
09463-35880-2-8
(USA)/Epic 82876729862 (Europe), 21 Oct 2005, Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan), 2
Nov 2005:
For the original 1972 Apple 3LP set and the original 1991 Epic 2CD release, see 1972.
This release warrants a separate entry as it has new material. As with previous
releases, release is shared between EMI (Apple/Capitol) and Sony (Epic). It
comes in a hinged orange CD-sized box.
 Apple/Capitol US 4-track sampler CD with R-0079, picture from eBay |
Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding the US
Apple/Capitol 4-track sampler CD on eBay - this promo CD includes R-0079.
Apparently it has no catalogue number. This set comes in a box with a 40-page stapled booklet with several pictures of Bob, some of which were used for the cover of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 in Nov 1971, see International Albums (Regular). All tracks recorded live with George Harrison, Leon Russell and Ringo Starr, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 Aug 1971 (evening show). For information on VHS video and DVD releases of the feature film, omitting Mr. Tambourine Man (R-0078), see VHS & DVD 1970s. For the expanded edition released in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, which includes new Dylan material, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Europe) - front of sealed box with sticker (my copy) |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Europe) - UNICEF insert |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Europe) - front of card sleeve for CD1 (no Dylan) |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Europe) - front of card sleeve for CD2 |
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 Epic 82876729862 (Europe) - CD2 (includes Dylan) |
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 Apple/Capitol 09463-35880-2-8 (USA) - front of box, scan by Jack from Canada |
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 Epic MHCP 896 (Japan) - promo CD1 scan by Hans Seegers (no Dylan) |
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 Apple/Capitol 09463-35880-2-8 (USA) - rear of box, scan by Jack from Canada |
 Apple/Capitol 09463-35880-2-8 (USA) - CD1 scan by Jack from Canada (no Dylan) |
 Apple/Capitol 09463-35880-2-8 (USA) - CD2 scan by Jack from Canada (includes Dylan) |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - rear of box with promo panel, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic MHCP 896 (Japan) - promo CD2 scan by Hans Seegers (includes Dylan) |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - obi scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - front with obi, picture from Rob Cole |
 Sony MHCP 896 (Japan) - test pressing CD-R Disc 1, picture found on eBay by Sam Plessers (no Dylan) |
 Sony MHCP 897 (Japan) - test pressing CD-R Disc 2, picture found on eBay by Sam Plessers (includes Dylan) |
 Epic MHCP 896-7 (Japan) - rear promo panel, scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic MHCP 896 (Japan) - detail of promo CD2, scan by Hans Seegers |
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R-0075-4 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
This performance also appeared on a 1983 compilation from Columbia Brazil, The
Legend, see 1983.
R-0076-4 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A
Train To Cry
This performance also appeared on a 1995 Westwood One US radio station broadcast
about Dylan and the Beatles,
see 1995.
R-0077-4 Blowin' In The Wind
This performance also appeared on an Epic promo CD single for The Concert For
Bangladesh,
see 1991.
R-0078-3 Mr. Tambourine Man
This performance, which is not in the film, also appeared in a 1981 US radio broadcast
Guitar - A Rock Episode: The Guitars Of Bob Dylan (see
1981), and on a 1990 US radio broadcast in Radio Today/ABC Radio Networks
series "The Live Show" (see 1990).
R-0079-3 Just Like A Woman
This deluxe edition, which is being released to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, comes with a bonus track:
R-0722 Love Minus Zero/No Limit (afternoon show)
Thanks to Harold Lepidus and other contributors who told me about this release. Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the US release. The rear of the box has the FBI anti-piracy notice and logo, while the discs have the notice only. Thanks to Rob Cole and Sam Plessers for finding the Sony Japan Epic test pressing and Epic commercial releases. The Japanese test pressing CD-Rs are dated "2005/11/2" (2 Nov 2005). The promo and commercial releases have a bigger box than the US and European releases, with two booklets and an orange, white and black obi with white and black text and price ¥4,200. Thanks to Hans Seegers for further information and scans. The Epic Japan promo CDs have the correct catalogue numbers, but each has text from the discs in the 2005 DVD release, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.
Various Artists - "Putumayo Presents American Folk" - compilation CD, Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA), 2005:
 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
This CD is in a digipak with a
Japanese-style top obi. R-0215-5 Boots Of Spanish Leather
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Jack from Canada for information and scans. |
 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - rear with promo sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
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 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - rear scan by Hans Seegers |
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 Putumayo World Music PUTU 240-2 (USA) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
"Exclusive Out-takes From 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack'"- Three Track Download Only Single (USA), 5 Nov 2005/(UK), 14 Nov 2005:
 Picture from iTunes web-site |
These three rarities can now be found in Online Performances (Other). |
Promotional/Regular Items for 2005
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Stereo promo albums and singles for 2005 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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