Audio: International Album Releases - Various Artist Compilations 2012

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This is a separate multi-year list by release date of commercially-released Various Artist stereo compilation albums released in 2012 that have been referred to me but do not qualify for my Searching For A Gem list because they contain only Bob Dylan performances which are 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. Promo-only Various Artist compilation albums with Dylan tracks are now included in this list. Other International Compilations are now here:

International Albums: Regular Albums from Round the World - Index

International Compilations: Other Dylan-only Compilations from Round the World

International Compilations: Dylan Album Tracks on Other Artist's Albums

US & International Singles & EPs

There must be hundreds of these albums from round the world! 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 09 April, 2012.

For earlier entries in this list, see the links above.

Various Artists - "Chimes Of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International" - compilation 4CD set, Fontana 7401001 (USA), 24 Jan 2012; Fontana 7401001 (Europe/America), 30 Jan 2012:

Fontana 7401001 (USA) - front with stickers, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

This charity set of Dylan covers to be distributed by Fontana on behalf of Amnesty International was delayed until 24 Jan 2012, but has now been expanded to a 4CD set of 73 songs. The album will be released internationally on 30 Jan 2012. The set was not originally intended to include Bob, but now contains his original recording of Chimes Of Freedom from Another Side Of Bob Dylan as track 18 on CD4. 70 of the songs are reported newly-recorded for this set, with all the artists and engineers working on a pro bono basis. Bob also recorded a duet of Chimes Of Freedom with Joan Osborne for the soundtrack of the US TV Series The '60s, see 1999.

Fontana 7401001 (Europe) - front with sticker, scan by Manuel Garcia Jara

Universal European 2CD-R promo - front (my copy)

Fontana 7401001 (Australia) - front with sticker, scan by Stuart Moore

The anthology includes a posthumous mix of One Too Many Mornings by Johnny Cash with the Avett Brothers, based on the version from Feb 1969 with Bob included on the Johnny Cash documentary The Man Ÿ His World Ÿ His Music (R-0069, see VHS & DVD 1960s). Bob's solo verses have been replaced by the Avett Brothers but he can still clearly be heard on the choruses. This is a rarity, so full details are in 2012.

Thanks to Harold Lepidus for news that the Amnesty International benefit album tribute Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is also to be released as a 2CD set from Starbucks. This set will include One Too Many Mornings by Johnny Cash and the Avett Brothers with Bob on background vocals, but not Bob's own version of Chimes Of Freedom.

Thanks to Harold Lepidus and Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff for information and to Wiebke Dittmer for finding a Universal European 2CD promo on eBay (which I bought, see 2012). I assume this is the same as the Starbucks 2CD set. Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara and Stuart Moore for further information and scans.

Various Artists - "Listen, Whitey! The Sounds Of Black Power 1967-74" - compilation CD, Light In The Attic LITA 081 (USA), 28 Feb 2012; compilation 2LP set, Light In The Attic LITA 081 (USA), 28 Feb 2012:

Light In The Attic LITA 081 (USA) - picture from examiner.com

Bob's contribution to this compilation is George Jackson (Acoustic version) - B-side of 1971 Columbia/CBS singles, see 1971. As this is a rarity, full details are in 2012. Thanks to Peter Ingham for reminding me that this is the first time this performance has appeared on CD in the USA.

Other artists include John Lennon and Gil Scott-Heron. Note the picture of Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, holding a copy of Highway 61 Revisited on the cover! This CD has been compiled to accompany the book "Listen, Whitey! The Sights And Sounds Of Black Power 1965-75" by Pat Thomas (Fantagraphics, USA, 5 Mar 2012).

Thanks to Harold Lepidus, Ian Woodward and Tim Dunn for information.

Pat Thomas book - picture from amazon,com

Various Artists - "Mr. Tambourine Man: 21 Versions" - compilation CD, Classic Hits RADI-1181 (Germany), 24 Feb 2012:

Classic Hits RADI-1181 (Germany) - picture from zweitausendeins.de

Thanks to Dirk Krah for news about a German Classic Hits CD release in their "One Song Edition" series with multiple versions of Mr. Tambourine Man - like the 2010 German Classic Hits releases with 20 versions of Blowin' In The Wind and House Of The Rising Sun, this release has 21 versions of Mr. Tambourine Man including Bob live with The Byrds (wrongly listed as from Montreal, but actually from Los Angeles, 1990), from the Columbia/Legacy 4CD boxed set The Byrds, see 1990, and Bob's solo piano demo of the song (again, wrongly listed as 1961 but actually 1963), from 2010's The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964. As the version with The Byrds is a rarity, full details are in 2012.

Thanks to Dirk for verifying the contents of this CD.

Various Artists - "Elvis Heard Them Here First" - compilation CD, Ace Records (catalogue number?) (UK), 26 Mar 2012: