"Starlight
In The East"
Directory
of Bob Dylan’s Unreleased Songs: G
| Compiled by Alan Fraser |
Lo And Behold by Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint (CD reissue with
three bonus tracks,
Raven Records RV-CD 62, Australia, 1996) -
this album of Dylan covers was produced by Manfred Mann and first released in
1972, it contains the still unreleased Basement Tapes songs GET YOUR ROCKS OFF
and SIGN ON THE CROSS
Revised:
07 May, 2008
"Searching For A Gem" (Home page) |
For the meanings of the song title colours and the circulation codes used in this directory, please see the header page for this section (click on "Up" below).
(Indefinite and definite articles at the beginning of song titles are ignored, so A WOMAN LIKE YOU is on the "W" page, and THE KING IS ON THE THRONE is on the "K" page.)
| GAMBLER WILLIE/ GAMBLIN' WILLIE'S DEAD MAN'S HAND |
1962 | O |
| Alternate rejected titles of RAMBLING, GAMBLING WILLIE, released on "The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3" | ||
| GAS STATION BLUES IN A | 1975 | M |
| Instrumental from the "Renaldo & Clara" Film Soundtrack, recorded either at Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, October 1975, or somewhere in New England, 30 Oct - 19 Dec 1975 | ||
| GATES OF HATE | 1962 | N? |
Song about the case of John Henry Faulk
 ,
the American radio personality blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
GATES OF HATE is mentioned in Gil Turner's profile "Bob Dylan - A
New Voice Singing New Songs" in
"Sing Out" as being written around May 1962. The chorus is reproduced
in the article as:
There is no report of the song ever being performed or recorded. Phil Ochs also wrote a song called THE BALLAD OF JOHN HENRY FAULK in 1963 |
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 The UK version of Lo And Behold from Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint (DJM DJLPS 424, 1972), scan by Dave Plentus - for an Australian 1996 CD reissue, see the top of this page |
 The US version of Lo And Behold, (Sire SAS 7405, 1972), scan by Dave Plentus |
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 Japanese CD reissue with three bonus tracks (Air Mail Recordings Archive AIRAC-1056, 2004), scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
 UK CD reissue (Evangeline ACAM 8412, 200&), picture found by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
| GET YOUR ROCKS OFF! | 1967 | H |
Basement Tapes song
recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY,
July-September 1967 - available as a cover by Manfred
Mann and Coulson Dean McGuinness Flint. Lyrics on
bobdylan.com  . Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux
for information that this album was
released in Japan in 2004 with three bonus tracks (Air Mail Recordings
Archive AIRAC-1056) and in 2007 in the UK (Evangeline ACAM 8412) |
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| GIMME MY MONEY BACK | Bob Dylan/Allen Ginsberg, 1971 | N? |
| Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, 17 Nov 1971 - intended for Ginsberg’s "Holy Soul Jelly Roll" album, but as yet unreleased | ||
| GIRL FROM THE RED RIVER SHORE | Traditional?, 1997 | N? |
| Out-take from the "Time Out Of Mind" sessions, which took place at Criterion Sound Studio, Miami, FL, in January 1997 - reported first as an original Dylan composition because a copyright was made, although there is a traditional song by that name. It contains the line "She wrote me a letter, and she wrote it so kind", which Bob used in NOT DARK YET | ||
| GLORY OF LOVE | 1981 | N? |
| Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at Clover Recorder, Los Angeles, CA, 15 May 1981 | ||
| GLORY TO THE KING | Bob Dylan?, 1983 | N? |
| Song recorded during the "Infidels" sessions at The Power Station, New York, 22 Apr 1983 | ||
| GO AHEAD, BABY, GO AHEAD | Bob Dylan?, 1987 | R |
| Alternate title of DON’T KEEP ME WAITING TOO LONG | ||
| GO AWAY,
LITTLE BOY (GO 'WAY, LITTLE BOY) |
1984 | S |
Out-take from "Empire
Burlesque", recorded at Delta Sound Studios, New
York, Sep 1984, lyrics on bobdylan.com  -
available officially only as a cover by Lone Justice,
originally only as a B-side on a 1985 12" Geffen European
single, now available on CD on the 1999 Geffen compilation
"The World Is Not My Home", remixed by Bob
Clearmountain. As Bob plays on the track, information can be found on
the "Searching For A Gem" 1985 and
1999 pages |
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| GO JOSHUA GO | 1965 | N? |
| Not strictly a Dylan song, but Poem #5 from "Some Other Kind Of Songs..." from the sleeve notes of "Another Side Of Bob Dylan", set to music along with Poem #4 JACK O' DIAMONDS by American actor Ben Carruthers for a BBC drama called "Man Without Papers", Jun 1965. Poem #4 was recorded by Ben Carruthers and The Deep as the A-side of a quickly-withdrawn JACK O' DIAMONDS 7" UK single, but as far as I know GO JOSHUA GO has never been released commercially | ||
| GOING BACK TO ROME | Bob Dylan, 1963 | R |
| From the "Banjo Tape" rehearsal with Gil Turner and Happy Traum, Gerdes Folk City, New York, 08 Feb 1963 (see comments for ALL OVER YOU). This is believed to be a Dylan original, although probably just an improvisation | ||
| GOIN' | ? | ? |
| Otherwise unknown song copyrighted by Bob at ASCAP before he left for SESAC in 1997. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information | ||
| GOIN' DOWN SOUTH | 1965 | S |
| Alternate title of CALIFORNIA, first version of OUTLAW BLUES with different lyrics, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 13 Jan 1965 (CO85281) - the final version of OUTLAW BLUES was released on "Bringing It All Back Home" | ||
| GONNA GET YOU NOW | 1967 | H |
| Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967 | ||
| GONNA LOVE HER ANYWAY | 1981 | S |
| Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981 | ||
| GOODBYE HOLLY | 1973 | S |
| Out-take from "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid OST", recorded at CBS Discos Studios, Mexico City, 20 Jan 1973, also known as HOLLY'S SONG | ||
Delinquent Habits' 1996 RCA album which contains the Dylan
"co-composition" GOOD TIMES
| GOOD TIMES | Bob Dylan/Alex Martinez/Keimonti Thomas/Ives Martin, 1996 | S |
| This song by Delinquent Habits on their 1996 album of the same name (RCA BG2-66929, USA) contains an "interpolation" of LAY, LADY, LAY from the cover version by the Byrds, so Bob gets a co-writing credit! The Byrds version can be found on their 1969 album "Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde" (remastered reissue Columbia Legacy 486 753 2, which also contains a previously unreleased alternate take of the song) | ||
Alabama 3's 2005 One Little Indian Records UK album OUTLAW which contains
THE GOSPEL TRAIN
| THE GOSPEL TRAIN | Bob Dylan/Robert Spragg/Jon Delafons/Piers Marsh, 2005 | S |
| This song by Alabama 3 on their 2005 album "Outlaw" (One Little Indian Records TPLP389CD, UK) contains a sample of LAY, LADY, LAY from "Nashville Skyline" looped throughout to form the melody. Bob gets a credit in the album booklet. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information | ||
| GOT TO GIVE HIM MY ALL | Bob Dylan/Regina McCrary Brown, 1981 | N? |
| Song co-written with Regina McCrary Brown (then
known as Regina Havis), recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa
Monica, CA, 1981. Tim Dunn provides this information:
The new "On The Tracks" magazine (#23, Summer 2002) has an interview with Regina McCrary (conducted by the editors of "On The Tracks", pp.16-20) in which she says she has a tape of a song recorded "around 1981" in the studio with Dylan. "The song is called 'GOT TO GIVE HIM MY ALL'. I wrote it -- actually Bob helped me write it... (We) were on the bus headed to another city... and I got stuck and I couldn't go any further with the song. I just couldn't, it was like the song needed something else and I didn't know where to take it. So I went up front on the bus and Bob was sitting there and I asked him would he listen to it, and he said 'Yeah!'" So I started singing the words... and then I said, 'But right here, I mean, I'm stuck, I don't know where to go with it!' So Bob took the pencil and pad and he wrote the bridge to the song, and it was awesome. As I was singing Spooner Oldham sat with an acoustic guitar and kind of played chords to match what I was singing and Bob Dylan came up with the chords to the bridge, how he thought it should go, and he put the lyrics to it.... Later Bob Dylan, Tim Drummond, Jim Keltner, Spooner Oldham, Smitty... went in the studio that Bob used to have in Santa Monica... and we did a rough demo of it." In response to a question about McCrary making a gospel album and if the song will be on it she replied "Yes, definitely." No album has yet appeared to my knowledge! |
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| GRAVITY SONG | Bob Dylan?, 1984 | N? |
| Song recorded during the "Empire Burlesque" sessions, Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 09 Dec 1984 | ||
| GREASER JAM | Bob Dylan/Allen Ginsberg, 1971 | N? |
| Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, 17 Nov 1971 - intended for Ginsberg’s "Holy Soul Jelly Roll" album, but as yet unreleased - also reported as not a song, but a description Ginsberg wrote in his journals of one session with Dylan | ||
| GREASY NELLIE | 1967? | N? |
| Reported by UK writer Nick Garrett as being mentioned in an interview with Robbie Robertson from an issue of the UK magazine "Rocker" from 1972 - Robertson names this as a "completely finished" but still unknown Basement Tapes song, recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967. "Up in Woodstock we got concerned with just making music, songs. Some fabulous stuff came out of those sessions - Tears of Rage, Orange Juice Blues, Greasy Nellie, Bob just improvised that on the spot." The journalist questions Robertson about Greasy Nellie. Robertson seems ignorant of the entire contents of the Basement Tapes because he says, "Greasy Nellie isn't on there? That's new on me, must've got left behind in the studio..." In April 2001 it was claimed an acetate of this song was in existence, however it seems likely that it is actually a hoax - thanks to Moise Potie for information | ||
| GREAT BUTTONS AGAIN | Bob Dylan?, 1983 | N? |
| Song recorded during the "Infidels" sessions at The Power Station, New York, 29 Apr 1983 - could be a reprise of the 1948 Oscar-winning song BUTTONS AND BOWS from "The Paleface" by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, see BUTTONS + BUNS | ||
| GREYHOUND BLUES | 1960 | N? |
| Written May 1960, no other details known | ||
| GROOVIN’ AT DELTA | 1984 | S |
| Alternate name for FIREBIRD, instrumental recorded during the "Empire Burlesque" sessions at Delta Sound Studios, New York, 26 July, 1984 | ||
| GROUP THERAPY | 1965 | O |
| Name given by Bruce Springsteen to IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY from "Highway 61 Revisited" when he performed the song in May 1971. This title appears on several Springsteen bootleg albums, and also on the Internet. Thanks to Gil Walker for information | ||
Paths Of Victory by Hamilton Camp (Elektra EKS 7278, 1964), an
album of Dylan covers which contains his versions of two still unreleased songs
- GUESS I'M DOIN' FINE and LONG TIME
GONE - album scan by Dave Plentus, CD scan from Collector's Choice
website (see below)
| GUESS I’M DOIN’ FINE | 1964 | D |
| Witmark demo, recorded
Witmark offices, New York, January 1964, lyrics on
bobdylan.com - a song shortlisted
for inclusion in 1991 on "The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3" but available officially only as a cover by Hamilton Camp on his "Paths
Of Victory" album, along with LONG TIME
GONE This album, which contains seven Dylan covers in all, was released on CD in 2001 by Collector's Choice Music, WWCCM0232 2 |
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| GYPSY LOU | 1963 | D |
| Witmark demo, recorded at
Witmark offices, New York, May 1963, lyrics on
bobdylan.com |
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