Searching For A Gem: Recent Updates

"I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like."
Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind", © 1974/2002 Ram's Horn Music

"By popular demand", here's a list of the latest Bob Dylan Rarity Updates made to the site.  If you have any items to add to the site, please contact me here. Please make sure the subject of your message includes the word  "Dylan"- this will ensure it's not deleted by the site Spam filter. This is absolutely vital - incoming Spam is up to 13,300 messages per day, and I'm sure some of your valuable messages have been missed! Please retry if your message was rejected or if you haven't received a reply.

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Revised: 02 February, 2012


Recent Updates

This list by date covers the last two months, and only includes additions, not changes or corrections to existing entries:

Rarities Updates:

 

Other Updates:

     
2 Feb 2012:          


Untitled Promo EP [Various] - extremely rare Virrey Peru 7" promo stereo EP with Heading For The Light by  The Traveling Wilburys from The Traveling Wilburys Volume One added to Traveling Wilburys 1989
 

         
2 Feb 2012:   31 Jan 2012: 2 Feb 2012:    


Street-Legal - Discos CBS Brazil stereo vinyl release of original 1978 album added to 1978 and International Albums (Regular)


Legal Para Circular [Street-Legal]
- CBS Mexico stereo vinyl release of original 1978 album added to 1978 and
International Albums (Regular)


Bob Dylan At Budokan - 1979 Columbia Argentina promo stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1978 double live album added to International Albums (Regular)


Slow Train Coming - CBS Mexico stereo vinyl release of 1979 album added to International Albums (Regular)

   
26 Jan 2012: 28 Jan 2012: 27 Jan 2012: 29 Jan 2012: 30 Jan 2012: 31 Jan 2012:


Desire - CBS Sugar Italy 8-track stereo tape cartridge release of 1976 album with repeated excerpt from Sara added to 1976


Chimes Of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International [Various] - Universal European 2CD promo with One Too Many Mornings by Johnny Cash and the Avett Brothers with Bob on background vocals added to 2012
 


Planet Waves [Bob Dylan/The Band] - very rare 1975 Asylum/Asfona Chile stereo vinyl release of 1974 album added to International Albums (Regular)


Blonde On Blonde - 1970s CBS UK stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1966 double album with alternate record labels added to International Albums (Regular)


Desire - CBS Brazil stereo vinyl release of 1976 album added to International Albums (Regular)


Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - CBS Australia original stereo vinyl release of 1967 compilation with US tracklist added to International Albums (Regular)

24 Jan 2012:   23 Jan 2012: 24 Jan 2012:   26 Jan 2012:


Bringing It All Back Home - rare CBS Singapore mono vinyl release of 1965 album with different front sleeve and labels added to Mono Album Releases

 


MTV Unplugged - Columbia US stereo cassette release of 1995 TV special live album added to International Albums (Regular)
 


Bringing It All Back Home - CBS UK stereo vinyl release of 1965 album with bottom stereo logo added to International Albums (Regular)


Desire - CBS Rhodesia stereo vinyl release of 1976 album added to International Albums (Regular)

 


Before The Flood [Bob Dylan/The Band] - very rare Asylum/Suzy Records Yugoslavia stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1974 double live album added to International Albums (Regular)

12 Jan 2012: 16 Jan 2012: 18 Jan 2012: 19 Jan 2012: 23 Jan 2012:  


Bringing It All Back Home - rare CBS Singapore mono vinyl release of 1965 album added to Mono Album Releases


Positively 4th Street/Subterranean Homesick Blues - two 1980s releases of  1973 Columbia US "Hall of Fame" mono 7" vinyl single added to Mono 7" Singles 1970-76


Infidels
- Columbia US promo stereo cassette release of 1983 album added to
International Albums (Regular)


Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - rare CBS UK stereo 8-track release of 1967 compilation with US tracklist added to International Albums (Regular)
 


Before The Flood [Bob Dylan/The Band] - 1978 Island UK stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1974 double live album added to International Albums (Regular)


Saved - Columbia US stereo vinyl release of 1980 album with alternate record labels added to International Albums (Regular)

10 Jan 2012: 12 Jan 2012: 16 Jan 2012: 17 Jan 2012:    


Street-Legal - Columbia Holland 1991 stereo vinyl release of original 1978 album added to 1978 and International Albums (Regular)


Street-Legal - CBS Argentina promo and commercial stereo vinyl releases of original 1978 album added to 1978 and International Albums (Regular)


Slow Train Coming - 1982 CBS/Sony Singapore/Malaysia stereo vinyl release of 1979 album made by EMI added to International Albums (Regular)
 


Bob Dylan - 1965 Columbia US stereo release of 1962 album exported to France added to International Albums (Regular)


John Wesley Harding - late 1970s CBS Australia stereo vinyl release of 1968 album added to International Albums (Regular)


World Gone Wrong - 2012 Sony Music USA/Canada CD release of 1993 album added to International Albums (Regular)

4 Jan 2012:   7 Jan 2012:   8 Jan 2012: 16 Jan 2012:


All-Star Hootenanny [Various] - CBS UK mono vinyl compilation with Swing And Turn Jubilee by Carolyn Hester with Bob on harmonica plus Blowin' In The Wind from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan added to 1964
 

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Grandes Exitos De Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits] - very rare CBS Venezuela stereo vinyl LP release including non-album track George Jackson with two label variants added to 1972


Self Portrait - original Columbia Canada stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1970 double album added to International Albums (Regular)


Blood On The Tracks - mid 1970s Columbia US stereo vinyl release of 1975 album added to International Albums (Regular)


Blood On The Tracks - late 1970s CBS South Africa stereo vinyl release of 1975 album with two label variants added to International Albums (Regular)
 


Blood On The Tracks
- 1977 Columbia US stereo cassette release of 1975 album added to
International Albums (Regular)

3 Jan 2012:   6 Jan 2012:      


Dylan - CBS Spain 1988 stereo vinyl release of deleted 1973 album added to 1973 and  International Albums (Regular)


Living In The Material World [George Harrison] - 2011 Metropolitan France Blu-ray release of Martin Scorsese documentary with footage of The Traveling Wilburys added to VHS & DVD 2010s


Planet Waves [Bob Dylan/The Band] - Asylum Records Portugal stereo vinyl release of 1974 album added to International Albums (Regular)


Before The Flood [Bob Dylan/The Band] - 1991 CBS/Sony Spain stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1974 double live album added to International Albums (Regular)


Blood On The Tracks - CBS Israel stereo vinyl release of 1975 album added to International Albums (Regular)


Tangled Up In Blue/If You See Her, Say Hello - CBS UK 7" stereo single with two tracks from Blood On The Tracks added to International Singles 1975

3 Jan 2012:   4 Jan 2012:   6 Jan 2012:  


Dylan - CBS Spain 1982 stereo vinyl release of deleted 1973 album added to 1973 and  International Albums (Regular)


Dylan - CBS Spain 1985 stereo vinyl release of deleted 1973 album added to 1973 and  International Albums (Regular)


Good As I Been To You - Columbia US stereo cassette release of 1992 album added to International Albums (Regular)
 


Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 - Columbia US stereo cassette release of 1994 compilation added to International Albums (Regular)


More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits - CBS UK 1970s 8-track tape cartridge release of 1971 double album compilation with UK tracklist added to International Albums (Dylan-only Compilations) 1970s
 

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Planet Waves [Bob Dylan/The Band] - Island Records UK stereo vinyl releases of 1974 album added to International Albums (Regular)

3 Jan 2012:   3 Jan 2012: 4 Jan 2012:    


Dylan - CBS Israel sealed stereo vinyl release of deleted 1973 album added to 1973 and  International Albums (Regular)


Dylan - CBS Spain stereo vinyl releases of deleted 1973 album with two label variants added to 1973 and  International Albums (Regular)


Al's Big Deal - Unclaimed Freight: An Al Kooper Anthology [Al Kooper] - 1995 Sony Music Japan single CD release of 1975 2LP set with If Dogs Run Free from New Morning added to International Releases (Other Artists' Compilations with Dylan Album Tracks)
 


The Rock Machine Turns You On [Various Artists] - 1968 CBS Holland stereo vinyl compilation with I'll Be Your Baby Tonight from John Wesley Harding added to International Albums (Various Artists Compilations) 2007


Self Portrait
- mid-1970s Columbia Canada 2LP stereo release of 1970 double album
added to International Albums (Regular)


Before The Flood [Bob Dylan/The Band] - Asylum Holland/West Germany stereo vinyl 2LP release of 1974 double live album added to International Albums (Regular)

    1 Jan 2012:   2 Jan 2012:  
   


Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid - 1974 CBS Spain stereo vinyl release of 1973 film soundtrack album added to International Albums (Regular)

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Is Your Love In Vain?/We Better Talk This Over - rare CBS Ireland 12" stereo single with two tracks from Street-Legal added to International Singles 1978


Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid - 1980, 1982 and 1985 CBS Spain stereo vinyl releases of 1973 film soundtrack album added to International Albums (Regular)


Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid - 1992 CBS/Sony Spain stereo vinyl releases of 1973 film soundtrack album added to International Albums (Regular)


All page changes are made with the aim of keeping pages below 50Kb if possible.  The main Rarities List is now in individual year pages, which now contain only the main Rarities List. Access the yearly pages by going to the appropriate decade (Part 1 - the 1960s, etc.).  The Rarities header page for each decade now contains links to the other audio pages for that decade. To remove some confusion I have stopped using separate R-numbers for mono and stereo rarities - a mono version now has the same R-number as the stereo version with an "M" suffix, e.g. the mono version of "R-0001" is "R-0001M". This has released several R-numbers which have now been reused.

Mono 7" Singles & EPs (up to 1976) have their own pages in International Mono Releases"International Mono Releases" now has a page per official album plus several more for compilation albums - it also has multiple pages for mono 7" Singles and EPs.

"International Stereo Releases" is split into "Regular Albums" (again with one page per album),  "Compilations" (in multiple sections) and "International Stereo Singles".  All stereo promo album releases including Radio Station albums have now been moved to the appropriate album page in International Albums (Regular). Similarly, all stereo promo singles have now been moved to the appropriate singles pages of International Singles. This has removed many cross-references between those pages and the former Promo albums and singles pages. Stereo singles are now in a single multi-part chronological list with the former "US Stereo Singles", "International Stereo EPs & CD Singles" and "Promotional Singles" pages combined. For links see below.

"VHS & DVD" is split into multiple pages by decade. All Honourable Mentions are here. Traveling Wilburys rarities are here.

[VHS & DVD] [International Mono Releases] [International Stereo Releases]

In answer to queries about making the pages "printer-friendly", the volatility of the site means I strongly discourage people from printing out these pages. Any printed page would soon be out-of-date! For proof of this, just see below. Also, because of the regular page restructuring that seems to be required as the site expands, if you link to the site, it's best to link to the Home Page only.

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Contacting Bob Dylan

This is a fan site with no connection to Bob - that means you can't contact him through me!  I used to have a postal address that I thought was correct, but I have now been informed by someone who wrote to that address that their mail was returned. I have never had an email address. I can only suggest you contact Bob's publisher Simon & Schuster or use the contact address at bobdylan.com . I also have no means of helping anyone who wants to meet Bob Dylan or obtain his autograph!

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I obviously have to make this site's email address openly available so it's being abused by third parties to send Spam. Some correspondents use ISPs whose Anti-Spam policies now reject replies from me as Spam. If I can't send a message to you, I'll post a reply on this page. Therefore, if you're expecting a reply from me and haven't received one, please look here.

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Because of the huge number of submissions to this site I would be very grateful if you could submit scanned pictures 100% ready to be added to a page. Sadly, digital photos are usually disappointing with unrealistic colours, unwanted reflections and badly distorted geometrically, so I prefer not to use them. Taking digital photos and sending them to me is usually a waste of your time! That means all pictures should be aligned so they're exactly horizontal and vertical, especially label pictures, and cropped to be exactly square (or 2:1 if gatefold). I add pictures to the site at 320x320 (640x320 for gatefold) but I like submissions to be 300 dpi so I can show details if necessary. Pictures of sleeve/label details you submit should be either 1:1, 2:1 or 3:1, I can't easily use pictures on my pages with different width/height ratios as they spoil the look of the pages. Scan LP sleeves in four sections on a flatbed scanner and "stitch" them together in a program like Adobe PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro to show the whole sleeve. (It's easy!)


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