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This new page lists former entries in the Searching For A Gem list that have now been released since 1997 (when the site was set up) on currently available Dylan CDs in the USA. I've also listed the Dylan album releases that include the former rarities. A case has been made by correspondents that because record companies today like to remix and remaster old material, no rarity is ever now released in its exact original form. However, this page still enables visitors to identify previously hard-to-find performances.
I have been asked to include here items which were already included in Dylan albums when I started the site in 1997 but had been rarities on their original release. A good example is the live Rolling Thunder Revue performance of Isis released on the 1978 promo EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo And Clara", and again in 1984 as the B-side of Jokerman 7" singles - this ceased to be a rarity when it was released on Biograph in 1985. This is a good idea, but the current high level of submissions and requirement for page reformatting means it has been given low priority.
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: 01 January, 2012
Items Removed from the Searching For A Gem list
"Songs By Bob Dylan" - unreleased 12" mono vinyl LP, Sound Makers Inc. (no catalogue number) (USA), 1963:
 Suze Rotolo's personal copy, picture from Christie's New York web-site found by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
A copy of this pre-Freewheelin' album of Witmark demos came up for auction in Dec 1992, when it fetched $1,000 (nowadays it would fetch around $15,000). These discs were created by Sound Makers Inc., 6 West 57th Street, New York, on behalf of Columbia Records for distribution to other artists who might record Dylan songs. |
 Detail of front, Columbia address label |
 Side 1 scan by Arie de Reus |
 Side 2 scan by Arie de Reus |
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Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding the copy from Suze Rotolo's personal collection for auction at Christie's, New York, in Nov 2006. The album is housed in a buff paper sleeve with a sticker giving Albert Grossman's then postal address in New York. It has generic labels with typed title and tracklists. Thanks to Arie de Reus for further information, especially that it is a mono vinyl LP, not an acetate as previously reported, and for the label scans.
Side 1
R-0286 Baby, I'm In The Mood For You - Witmark demo recorded Dec 1962, different from the Freewheelin' out-take released on Biograph
R-0287 Quit Your Lowdown Ways - Witmark demo recorded Dec 1962, different from the Freewheelin' out-take released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
R-0288 Hard Rains Are Gonna Fall [A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall] - Witmark demo recorded Dec 1962, different from the regular Freewheelin' version
R-0289 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Witmark demo
recorded Mar 1963, different from the the regular Freewheelin' version
Now released in stereo on The Bootleg Series
Vol. 7: No Direction Home, Sep 2005. Thanks to Rob Carson for pointing out this is in mono, so
was therefore still a
rarity until its release in 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964.
R-0290 Oxford Town - Witmark demo recorded Mar 1963, different from the regular Freewheelin' version
R-0539 Walkin' Down The Line - Witmark demo recorded Mar
1963 (mono version)
Now released in stereo on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991. Thanks
again to Rob Carson for pointing out this is in mono, so was therefore still a
rarity until its release in 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964.
Side 2
R-0030 Long Time Gone - Witmark demo of this still unreleased song, recorded Mar 1963
R-0029 Long Ago, Far Away - Witmark demo of this still unreleased song, recorded Nov 1962
R-0291 Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Witmark demo, recorded Dec 1962, different from the version released on Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits, 1971, which is a live performance from New York Town Hall, 12 Apr 1963. Bob later recorded a version at Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN, during the New Morning sessions, but that is still unreleased.
R-0292 Masters Of War - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, different from the regular Freewheelin' version
R-0293 Farewell Pamilina [Farewell] - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963 - this performance was short-listed for The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3, 1991
The last track is not a mistitled Farewell Angelina, this was actually the earliest title of the unreleased song called Farewell (see my "Starlight In The East" Directory of Bob Dylan's Unreleased Songs, page F - information from Tim Dunn). Bob recorded the song at Columbia Studios, New York, on 6 Aug 1963, during the Times They Are A-Changin' sessions, although the four takes are listed as incomplete.
All these tracks were officially released in mono in Oct 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964, so have ceased to be rarities.
"Long Ago, Far Away" - 8" metal acetate, Music Publishers Holding Corp. for Witmark Publishing Company (USA), 1963:
 A-side of acetate (B-side is blank), scan by Gil Walker |
R-0029-2 Long Ago, Far
Away - Witmark demo of this still unreleased song,
recorded Nov 1962 Now officially released in mono in Oct 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964., so no longer a rarity. This single-sided acetate came in a plain sleeve, with a sheet containing the music and lyrics. Like the LP above and the two acetates below, this acetate was cut for promotion to other artists who might record Dylan songs. Long Ago, Far Away was subsequently recorded by The Brothers Four and Odetta, see my "Starlight In The East" Directory of Bob Dylan's Unreleased Songs, page L. For a 1963 MPHC acetate of Paths Of Victory which surfaced in 1992, see 1992. For a 1964 MPHC acetate of I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), see Mono Singles & EPs 1962-64. Thanks to Gil Walker for informing me of this item. |
 A-side label of acetate, scan by Gil Walker |
 Song sheet scan by Gil Walker |
"(I'd Hate To Be You) On That Dreadful Day" - 8" metal acetate, Music Publishers Holding Corp. for Witmark Publishing Company (USA), 1963:
 A-side of acetate (B-side is blank), picture from eBay |
R-0036 (I'd Hate To Be
You On That) Dreadful Day - demo recorded Mar 1963 For a Warner Bros 1967 acetate LP with this track, see 1967. For the Nov 1962 Broadside recording (R-0081), not released until the 1970s, see 1972. The lyrics of this song have now disappeared from bobdylan.com! Now officially released in mono in Oct 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964., so no longer a rarity. This single-sided acetate came in a plain sleeve, with a sheet containing the music and lyrics. Like the LP and acetates above and below, this acetate was cut for promotion to other artists who might record Dylan songs. For a 1963 MPHC acetate of Paths Of Victory which surfaced in 1992, see 1992. For a 1964 MPHC acetate of I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), see Mono Singles & EPs 1962-64. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding this item on eBay. |
 A-side of acetate, picture from eBay |
 Song sheet picture from eBay |
"Quit Your Lowdown Ways" - 8" metal acetate, Music Publishers Holding Corp. for Witmark Publishing Company (USA), 1963:
 A-side of acetate (B-side is blank), picture from eBay |
R-0287-2 Quit Your Lowdown Ways - Witmark demo recorded Dec
1962, different from
the Freewheelin' out-take
released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 Now officially released in mono in Oct 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964., so no longer a rarity. This single-sided acetate came in a plain sleeve, with a sheet containing the music and lyrics. Like the LP and acetates above, this acetate was cut for promotion to other artists who might record Dylan songs. For a 1963 MPHC acetate of Paths Of Victory which surfaced in 1992, see 1992. For a 1964 MPHC acetate of I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), see Mono Singles & EPs 1962-64. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding this item on eBay. |
 A-side of acetate, picture from eBay |
"Ain't Gonna Grieve" - 10" acetate, Columbia (no catalogue number) (USA), Aug 1963:
 1963 acetate scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0031 Ain't Gonna
Grieve - Witmark demo recorded Aug 1963 Now officially released in mono in Oct 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964., so no longer a rarity. This acetate has a generic Columbia promo white label with typewritten title "Ain't Gonna Grieve No More" and handwritten "23591" in red. There is still no officially released recording of this song. This performance later appeared with eight other Witmark demos on a US Warner Bros/7 Arts Music 12" singled-sided acetate LP in 1967. It also surfaced in a set of US Music Publishers Holding Corporation acetates, see 2004. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
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 2004 acetate scan by A J LaRue |
"Paths Of Victory" - 8" acetate of Witmark demo, MPHC Reference Recording (no catalogue number) (USA), recorded 1963, offered for sale by auction, Dec 1992:
 Picture from "Isis" 46, Dec 1992/Jan 1993 |
R-0465 Paths Of Victory - Witmark demo (different from
version released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, see
International Album Releases) This is no longer a rarity because it was released officially in 2010 on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music set The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964. "MPHC" stands for “Music Publishers Holding Corporation,” of which Witmark was a part. Some sources give the date of this Witmark demo as Dec 1963, although the Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 version was recorded on Columbia Studios, New York, on 12 Aug 1963, which would place any publishing company demo somewhat earlier. This single-sided 8" acetate is housed in an "audiodisc" generic sleeve, see 7" Single Sleeves. Thanks to Derek Barker of "Isis" magazine for the information. For three 1963 MPHC acetates of Long Ago, Far Away, Quit Your Lowdown Ways and I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day, see 1963. For a 1964 MPHC acetate of I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), see Mono Singles & EPs 1962-64. For a 1965 Columbia acetate of Positively 4th Street in an "audiodisc" sleeve, see Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1965. Tim Dunn saw an MPHC acetate with Let Me Die In My Footsteps at the Bob Dylan exhibition at the Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA, in Jan 2005. |
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"/"Highway 61 Revisited" - 7" mono singles and EPs, Jan 1966 onwards:
 CBS LL-882-C (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0488 Highway 61 Revisited - mono version
on B-side of single (3:20), same as mono album version but slightly shorter
than stereo album version (3:28) R-0488 is included on the mono release of Highway 61 Revisited as part of the 9CD set The Original Mono Recordings in Oct 2010, so is no longer a rarity. Full details of these singles are now here. Thanks to Hans Seegers for information and scan. |
Various Artists - "Disco Teen '66" - limited edition stereo vinyl LP, Columbia Record Club DS 155 (USA), 1966:
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R-0049 Positively 4th Street - alternate stereo
mix, slightly longer at 4:12 as opposed to 3:56 on regular track Carsten Baumann informs me that he's checked the version on this 1966 album (also on the 1965 Witmark tape, see 1965) against the version now included on the remastered Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (US release), and they are the same. This means it replaces the single version which is now to be found on CD only on Biograph. (R-0049 is also on the non-US release The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000). Thanks also to David Goldsmith for confirmation. The stereo version has therefore ceased to be a rarity, and the entry has now moved here. The mono version of R-0049, R-0049M, remains a rarity and is still listed for 1965 and 1966. For the previous release in this series, Disco Teen '65, which contains Subterranean Homesick Blues, see the Various Artist Compilations page of Mono Album Releases and International Compilations: Various Artist Albums 1960-69 (stereo). |
"Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler" 12"
single-sided mono vinyl LP, Warner Bros./7 Arts Music Inc. XTV 221567 (USA), 1967:
These are all Witmark & Sons demos recorded in the Witmark offices,
New York, in 1962-63 except R-0037, which is an alternate Columbia studio take
from 1964 used as a demo. The record is single-sided so there is no label on Side 2. For
an acetate with two of these and other Witmark demos, see
1963.
Thanks to John R. Overall for information that this is really badly pressed and
appears not to have been equalised for LP.
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R-0029-3 Long Ago, Far Away - Witmark demo recorded Nov 1962, for a Witmark acetate with this performance see 1963 R-0030-2 Long Time Gone -
Witmark demo recorded Mar 1963, for a Witmark acetate with this
performance see 1963 R-0031-2 Ain't Gonna
Grieve - Witmark demo recorded Aug 1963 |
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R-0032 John Brown - Witmark demo recorded Aug 1963, for the Jan/Feb 1963 Broadside recording (R-0026), see 1963
R-0033 I Shall Be Free - Witmark demo recorded Apr 1963, different performance from the one released on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
R-0034 Only A Hobo -
Witmark demo recorded Aug 1963
The version released on The
Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 is an out-take from The Times They Are
A-Changin', recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 12 Aug 1963 (CO78982,
3:28). For the Jan/Feb 1963 Broadside recording (R-0027) and a May 1963 radio
broadcast on The World Of Folk Music (Starring Oscar
Brand) (R-0317), see 1963
R-0035 The Death Of
Emmett Till -
Witmark demo recorded Dec 1962. For the
May 1962 Broadside recording (R-0082), not released until the 1970s, see
1972
Lyrics on bobdylan.com
R-0036-2 (I'd Hate To Be
You On That) Dreadful Day -
Witmark demo recorded Mar 1963.
For a 1963 acetate with this track, see 1963. For
the Nov 1962 Broadside recording (R-0081), not released until
the 1970s, see 1972
The lyrics of this song have now disappeared from bobdylan.com!
R-0037 I'll Keep It With Mine - Witmark demo recorded Jun 1964, different version from the one released on Biograph, see 1985
All nine of these songs have now been released officially in 2010 on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music set The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964.
"MPH Acetates" - set of five 10" acetates made by Music Publishers
Holding Corporation for Warner Bros (USA), probably 1967, surfaced in Nov 2004:
R-0031, R-0036, R-0691, R-0692 and R-0693 are no longer rarities because
they were released officially in 2010 on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music set The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The
Witmark Demos 1962-1964.
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0691) |
These five acetates on stock labels with handwritten text contain six
unreleased Bob Dylan songs.
They are all single-sided. The publisher is identified as "W-7 Music", which
is Warner Bros/7 Arts, also publisher of a 12" acetate LP that surfaced in 1967
(illustrated below and in 1967). My tentative identification of the performances
is as follows:
R-0691 All Over
You - lyrics
on bobdylan.com
R-0035-2
The Death Of Emmett Till - lyrics
on bobdylan.com
R-0031-3 Ain't Gonna Grieve No More - Witmark demo, recorded Aug 1963, also surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner Bros/7 Arts acetate LP, see 1963 and 1967 R-0692 Talkin' John Birch Society Blues - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, previously unreleased The version of this song released on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991 is a live performance from Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963. For the studio version from the Columbia test pressing and promotional copies of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, see 1963. R-0036-2 (I'd Hate To Be
You On That) Dreadful Day -
Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963, surfaced in 1967 on a 12" Warner
Bros/7 Arts acetate LP,
see 1967 Thanks to A J LaRue and John Rush for information and scans |
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0035) |
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Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0031) |
 Acetate scan by A J LaRue (R-0692) |
"Blowin' In The Wind" - 10" acetate, Liberty Records (no catalogue number) (USA), surfaced on eBay Mar 2007:
 Scan from eBay |
R-0776 Blowin' In The Wind - Witmark demo version recorded
Witmark offices, New York, Jul 1962 This 10" acetate was made for Witmark by Liberty Records, Los Angeles, CA. The description of the performance sounds like the circulating Witmark demo from Jun 1962. The title is given as "It's Blowing In The Wind". R-0776 was included in the Deluxe Edition of Together Through Life, 2009 and was also released in Oct 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964. This means it's no longer a rarity. Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding this on eBay. |
"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" - stereo vinyl LP, Family Club (CBS/Sony) FCPA-19 (Japan), 1976:
This record club edition has a different track list from previous versions
of the album in Japan, the
same tracklisting as the US Greatest Hits (Columbia KCS 9463 stereo).
Full details are now on the 1967 Greatest Hits
page of International Albums (Regular).
 Family Club FCPA-19 (Japan) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
R-0049 Positively 4th Street - alternate stereo
mix, slightly longer at 4:12 as opposed to 3:56 on regular track Same as the version from 1965 Witmark tape and 1966 Columbia compilation album Disco Teen '66 - see above (no longer a rarity). The mono version of R-0049, R-0049M, remains a rarity and is still listed for 1965 and 1966. Side 1: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Blowin' In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe: Like A Rolling Stone Side 2: Mr Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; I Want You; Positively 4th Street; Just Like A Woman |
Ralph Stanley - "Clinch Mountain Country" - 2CD set, Rebel Records REB-511 (USA), May 1998:
 Rebel Records REB-511 (USA) - front insert (my copy) |
R-0266 The Lonesome
River (Ralph & Carter Stanley)  - duet with Ralph Stanley, same as BDC25
(see
Online Performances (bobdylan.com) )This 2CD set contains new performances by Ralph Stanley of his best known songs with many guest artists including Bob. |
 Rebel Records REB-511 (USA) - rear insert |
 Rebel Records REB-511 (USA) - CD1 with R-0266 |
The Lonesome River was released in Oct 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. This means R-0266 has ceased to be a rarity. Full details of the album are now in International Album Releases - Other Artists' Compilations with Dylan Album Tracks .
Various Artists - "Touched By An Angel: The Album" - TV Series soundtrack compilation, 550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax BK 68971 (USA), 3 Nov 1998; Epic/550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax 491828 2 (France/NL), Nov 1998; Epic Records ESCA 7446 (Japan), 20 Feb 1999:
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550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax BK 68971 (USA) - front of jewel case with sticker (my copy) |
R-0273 Dignity |
 Epic/550 Music/Sony Music Soundtrax 491828 2 (France/NL) - front scan by Hans Seegers |
 Epic Records ESCA 7446 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Wil Gielen |
This song appeared in the 100th episode of this US drama series broadcast in 1998 - for the 1999 VHS tape of the episode, see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2.
Full details of the album are now in International Compilations (Various Artists) 1998.
Various Artists - "Wonder Boys: Music From The Motion Picture"
- film soundtrack album, Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 63849 (USA), 15 Feb 2000/Columbia/Sony
Music Soundtrax COL 497738 2 (Europe), Sep 2000/"Loco
Fin De Semana [Crazy weekend]" - Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CDMI 497738
(Mexico), 2001:
For DVD and VHS releases of the Wonder Boys feature film, see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part
1.
 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 63849 (USA) - front with sticker (my copy) |
R-0299 Things Have
Changed  - a song written and recorded specially for this film,
lyrics on bobdylan.com
 Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page. R-0320 Shooting Star
R-0321 Buckets Of Rain
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Various Artists - "Original Soundtrack: High Fidelity" - film soundtrack album, Hollywood Records HR-62188-2 (USA)/Hollywood Records 0109182 HWR (Germany), March 2000:
 Hollywood Records HR-62188-2 (Germany) - front scan by Olav Langum |
R-0446 Most Of The Time  - this version was reportedly remastered from
the original 1989 Oh Mercy version
Oh Mercy was one of three Dylan albums that were remastered in 1997 but which have never actually been released in the remastered CD format. This track appeared to be from that master. It has now been superseded by the remastered hybrid SA-CD release of Oh Mercy. Harold Lepidus informs me the video/DVD of the film also contains Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You, see VHS & DVD: Films with Dylan Album Tracks. Thanks to Olav Langum for scans. |
Various Artists - "Music From The Motion Picture: Moonlight Mile" - film soundtrack album, Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax EK 86874 (USA), Sep 2002:
The Dylan Album Releases that include Former Rarities
"The Bootleg Series
Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue",
Columbia/Legacy C2K 87047 (USA); Columbia/Legacy 510140 2 (Europe)/SME records SICP
296/7 (Japan); Columbia/Legacy
5101403000 (Australia), 26 Nov 2002:
For the Limited Edition of this
album with a bonus DVD, see 2002.
 Columbia Legacy C2K 87047 (USA), Columbia/Legacy 510140 2 (Europe) |
R-0137 It Ain't Me, Babe This performance was originally released on the 1978 US Columbia promo 12" EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo & Clara" (see 1978). However, Don Handy considers that the performance on this album is different from the performance from the EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo & Clara", which he suggests actually comes from The Forum, Montreal, Canada, 4 Dec 1975. Both Glen Dundas and Olof Björner confirm the 20 Nov 1975 date on the EP, not 4 Dec 1975. It also appeared on: Thanks to Larry Crum for pointing out that the 2002 version of this performance is actually a remix of the track, so R-0137 remains a rarity. |
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 - Bob Dylan Live 1964: The Philharmonic Hall Concert" - 2 CD set, Columbia/Legacy C2H 86882 (USA), 30 Mar 2004; Columbia/Legacy COL 512358 2 (Europe), 29 Mar 2004:
 Columbia/Legacy COL 512358 2 (Europe) |
This is the complete famous "Halloween Mask" concert at the New York Philharmonic Hall on 31 Oct 1964. We already knew that the concert had been recorded by Columbia, because six tracks from it surfaced on Columbia acetates in 1980 - one of them, Mama, You've Been On My Mind (R-0220), the live duet with Joan Baez, appeared on her Vanguard boxed set Rare, Live & Classic in 1993. This has lead to more rarities being removed from this list! |
The six live tracks from the "Goldmine Acetates", Columbia acetates which surfaced in 1980:
R-0389 You Gotta Go [If You Gotta Go, Go Now]
R-0397 Never Have Met [I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)]
R-0398 Mr. Tambourine Man
R-0399 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
R-0400 Gates of Eden
R-0220 Mama, You've Been On My Mind - duet with Joan Baez
R-0220 also appeared on Joan Baez's Vanguard boxed set Rare, Live & Classic, 1993
(No entries have actually been moved from the main list because of this release.)
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - 2CD set, Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA); Columbia/Legacy 520358 2 (Europe), 29 Aug 2005:
 Columbia/ Legacy C2K 93937 (USA); Columbia/Legacy 520358 2 (Europe) |
This release means four Rarities are removed from the list: BDC71 Dink's Song (traditional) - from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 22 Dec 1961, from bobdylan.com in Sep 2001, see Online Performances). An excerpt of this song was included in the Highway 61 Interactive CD-ROM, 1995 R-0289 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Witmark demo version from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, different from the regular Freewheelin' version, 1963 |
R-0373 When The Ship Comes In - live, Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the unreleased 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964
R-0300 Maggie's Farm - recorded live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival, 25 Jul 1965, from Murray Lerner's film Festival, 1967 (see VHS & DVD Part 1), also available on a 1991 Italian CD Bob Dylan 1 accompanying an issue of Il Dizionario del Rock (The Dictionary of Rock) - a series of magazines in the early 1990s, see Questionable Releases
I previously misreported three others as rarities now released:
R-0514 I Was Young When I Left Home (traditional)
- from the "Minnesota Hotel
Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 22 Dec 1961, now officially released on a bonus
disc with the limited edition of "Love
And Theft", Sep 2001, see 2001 and 2002.
It is released here with a spoken intro, so the version without the intro
remains a rarity as R-0514.
R-0580 Sally Gal (Woody Guthrie) - unreleased Freewheelin' out-take from a 1962 Columbia acetate that
surfaced in May 1982
Bob Stacy informs me that the version on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 is in
fact new, and does not match the two circulating Freewheelin' out-take versions!
This newly released performance is take 1, whereas the two previously
circulating performances were take 3 (R-0580) and take 4 (still officially
unreleased).
R-0394 Phantom Engineer [It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry] - early version of this song, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 15 Jun 1965. This is actually the take released on The Bootleg Series Vols.1-3, from Columbia acetates that surfaced in 1980, not an alternate as I previously reported. The take on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 is new!
Thanks to Bob Stacy for the corrections.
(No entries have actually been moved from the main list because of this release.)
"Dylan" - 3CD Deluxe set in box, Columbia/Legacy 88697 11420 2 (USA/Canada/Europe/Australia), 1 Oct 2007/Sony SICP 1553-1555 (Japan), 24 Oct 2007:
 Columbia/Legacy 88697 11420 2 (USA) - box front with sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
R-0273 Dignity - original Oh Mercy out-take
produced by Daniel Lanois - not the 1994 Brendan O'Brien remixed
version for Greatest Hits Vol. 3, which retained only
Bob's vocal and piano and added new backing. This performance originally appeared on the Touched By An Angel: The Album TV series soundtrack album, 1998, see above. |
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006" - 2CD set, Columbia/Legacy C2K 735795 (USA)/ Columbia/Legacy 88697357952 (Europe); 3CD set in box: Columbia/Legacy 8697 35797 2 (USA), 7 Oct 2008:
 Columbia/Legacy 88697357952 (Europe) - front of slipcase with sticker (my copy) |
The 2CD set release includes six current rarities: R-0266 The Lonesome River (Carter and Ralph Stanley) 3:04 (With Ralph Stanley, from the album Clinch Mountain Country). see 1998 R-0586 'Cross the Green Mountain 8:15 (From Gods and Generals Soundtrack), see 2003 and VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2 R-0680 Dignity 2:09 (Piano demo, Oh Mercy), from a promo US Columbia CD single given away with Bob Dylan's autobiography "Chronicles Vol. 1", see 2004 R-0613 Everything Is Broken - alternate take with different lyrics from the version on Oh Mercy, available for download from iTunes in Apr 2003, see Online Performances (Other) R-0738 Huck's Tune (From Lucky You soundtrack), see 2007 and VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4 R-0830 High Water (For Charley Patton) - live, Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 23 Aug 2003, from an exclusive download in Sep 2007 from iTunes with Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine): Mark Ronson Re-Version, see Online Performances (Other) |
 Columbia/Legacy 8697 35797 2 (USA) - front of sealed box with sticker (my copy) |
The 3CD version contains:
R-0681 Tryin' To Get To Heaven
- live audience recording from the UK in 2000 (now
identified as Wembley Arena, London, England, 5 Oct 2000), from a US Columbia promo CD single, see
2004
This track was previously wrongly identified as being from the Guildhall,
Portsmouth, England, 25 Sep 2000.
As this is a Limited Edition of 5000 copies, R-0681 remains a rarity.
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964" - 2CD release, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697761792 (USA/Europe), 19 Oct 2010:
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697761792 (USA/Europe) - picture from bobdylan.com |
This 2CD 47-track release includes all the former Witmark and Leeds Music rarities. |
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 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697761792 (Europe) - front sticker |
These 22 performances have appeared on official recording company acetates (see above), now all removed from the Rarities list:
R-0029
Long Ago, Far
Away - Witmark demo, 1963, released on
Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0030 Long Time Gone
- Witmark demo, 1963, released on
Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0031 Ain't Gonna
Grieve - Witmark
demo, 1963, released on Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0032 John Brown - Witmark demo, 1963, released on Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0033 I Shall Be Free - Witmark demo,, 1963, released on Warner
Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0034 Only A Hobo - Witmark demo, 1963, released on Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0035 The Death Of
Emmett Till - Witmark demo,1963,
released on Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0036 (I'd Hate To Be
You On That) Dreadful Day -
Witmark demo, 1963,
released on Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0037 I'll Keep It With Mine - Witmark demo, 1964, released on Warner Bros Nine Songs Publisher’s Sampler
LP, 1967
R-0286 Baby, I'm In The Mood For You - Witmark demo version
from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0287 Quit Your Lowdown Ways - Witmark demo version from
Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0288 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Witmark demo version from
Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0289 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Witmark demo version
from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0290 Oxford Town - Witmark demo version from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0291 Tomorrow Is A
Long Time - Witmark demo version from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0292 Masters Of War -Witmark
demo version from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0293 Farewell -
Witmark demo version from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963
R-0465 Paths Of Victory - acetate of Witmark demo recorded 1963, offered
for auction in Dec 1992
R-0539 Walkin' Down The Line - Witmark demo version from
Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, 1963, mono version of track released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols.
1-3
R-0691 All Over You - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963,
on MPH acetates which surfaced in 2004
R-0692 Talkin'
John Birch Society Blues - Witmark demo, recorded Mar 1963,
on MPH acetates which surfaced in 2004
R-0693 Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag
- out-take from
The Times They Are A-Changin', Aug or Oct 1963,
on MPH acetates which surfaced in 2004 (this remains officially unreleased)
R-0776 Blowin' In The Wind - Witmark demo version
recorded Jun 1962, from Liberty 10" acetate, 2007
"Bob Dylan: The Original Mono Recordings" -
9CD set in 5" box, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697761042 (USA/Europe),
19 Oct 2010; Sony Music (catalogue number?) (Japan), 10 Nov 2010; 9LP set in 12"
box, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music (catalogue number?) (USA/Europe), 21 Dec 2010:
This set includes all the 1960s mono album tracks previously listed as
rarities. Details to be added later.
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697761042 (USA/Europe) - picture from bobdylan.com |
This set of Bob's first eight albums in the original mono mixes comes in
a card box. The CD albums are in card sleeves reproducing the original mono
album artwork (Blonde On Blonde is a double CD album). The vinyl releases will be in a 12" box with reproductions of
original full-sized sleeves. Orders from the Sony Music Store will receive an exclusive reproduction of a
1965 advertising poster. The package includes details on how to download all
the contents in MP3 format including Positively 4th Street, not included on
any of the albums themselves. The Positively 4th Street 7" mono single is included on the
single CD The Best Of The Original Mono Recordings, see below. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and Jeremy Mayle for information. |
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697761042 (USA/Europe) - exclusive poster with orders from the Sony Music Store |
"The Best Of The Original Mono Recordings" - compilation mono CD, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697791672 (USA/Europe), 19 Oct 2010:
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697791672 (Europe) - front with stickers (my copy) |
Thanks to Bill Hester
for the tracklist from amazon.com of the mono compilation CD extracted from the
8CD set
Bob Dylan
– The Original Mono Recordings.
1.
Song to Woody |
9. Tombstone Blues 10. Positively 4th Street (7" mono single and on the mono release of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits) 11. Rainy Day Women #'s 12 & 35 12. Just Like a Woman 13. I Want You 14. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 15. All Along The Watchtower |
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697791672 (USA/Europe) - picture from amazon.com |
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697791672 (Europe) - front sticker |
 Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697791672 (Europe) - rear |
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