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"Starlight In The East"
Directory of Bob Dylan’s Unreleased Songs: I

Compiled by Alan Fraser

Eric Clapton's 1978 Uni/A&M album Backless, which contains his covers of the unreleased Dylan co-compositions IF I DON'T BE THERE BY MORNING and WALK OUT IN THE RAIN. This album was reissued in 1996 in a digitally remastered edition.

Revised: 07 May, 2008

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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).

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(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.)

I CAN’T COME IN WITH A BROKEN HEART	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967

I CAN'T LEAVE HER BEHIND	1966	H
Song seen being worked out with Robbie Robertson in a hotel room in Glasgow, Scotland, 18-19 May 1966, in "Eat The Document" - copyrighted under this title (Dwarf Music, 1978) and also known as DOES SHE NEED ME? - both phrases occur in the lyrics. See also ON A RAINY AFTERNOON (1), not the Basement Tapes song, which is often confused with this song - both songs are really part of the same work-in-progress. This clip is included in "Chronicle", a 1994 Robbie Robertson video documentary, see my VHS & DVD pages

I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU	?	?
Deliberately misleading song title used on an early vinyl bootleg - I have no information on to which song it applies

I CAN’T MAKE IT ALONE	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967

Warner Bros/7 Arts Music 10" acetate including I'D HATE TO BE YOU ON THAT DREADFUL DAY, scan by A.J. LaRue

I'D HATE TO BE YOU ON THAT DREADFUL DAY	1962	O
Witmark demo recorded Mar 1963, surfaced on a Warner Bros/7 Arts Music acetate LP, 1967, and also appeared in a different version from Nov 1962 on a Folkways album called "Broadside Reunion", 1971 (see "Searching For A Gem" 1967 and 1971) Illustrated is a scan of a Warner Bros/7 Arts Music 10" acetate including the Witmark demo

It's Alright (Atlantic City, 2006) - solo album from Joakim Trastell with this "co-composition"

I AIN'T GONNA PIN MY HOPES ON THAT	Bob Dylan/Joakim Trastell, 2006	N?
Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding this on SESAC. Joakim Trastell was a member of a Swedish group called Babalou Smith. He released this song on a solo album called "It's Alright" on Atlantic City Records in 2006. To hear the song, go here. The Dylan connection is that he uses two lines from the Dylan poem LAST THOUGHTS ON WOODY GUTHRIE

I DON’T CARE	1981	N?
Believed to have been rehearsed at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, May-June 1981

I DON'T MIND	?	?
Deliberately misleading song title used on an early vinyl bootleg - I have no information as to which song it actually is, probably DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALL RIGHT released on "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"

I DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR PARTNER	1965	O
Title used for alternate take of I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER, released on "Biograph", recorded with The Hawks at Columbia Studios, New York, 5 Oct 1965. Some classify this as a different song, but it's arguably just an earlier version of the released song

The 1985 Columbia promo "Special AOR" 12" single (CAS 2034) from the Porky's Revenge soundtrack LP, including George Harrison's version of the unreleased Dylan song I DON'T WANT TO DO IT - the other songs on the single are by Dave Edmunds and Jeff Beck. The sleeve is plain black apart from the sticker shown and a gold "FOR PROMOTION ONLY" impressed stamp on the reverse (my copy)

1985 Columbia single (38-04887, USA) with I DON'T WANT TO DO IT as the A-side, the B-side is a different song by Dave Edmunds - picture by Richard Martens

Porky's Revenge soundtrack album, Columbia JS 39983, LP, 1985 - scan by Dave Plentus - also released on CD by Mobile Fidelity, MFCD 797, 1994 (USA)

Porky's Revenge soundtrack album, Columbia/Legacy CK 090875, CD, 2004

I DON'T WANT TO DO IT	1968	N?
There is reportedly a home recording of Bob and George Harrison performing this song at Woodstock, New York State in November 1968 but it is not known to circulate. The song is available only as a cover by George - the song was recorded for his triple album "All Things Must Pass", 1970 (see below on this page), but not released (or copyrighted by Bob) until the soundtrack album for "Porky's Revenge", 1985. The song was also released on a Columbia 7" and promo 12" singles, shown above. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the information that the "Porky's Revenge" soundtrack album was released as a gold CD in 1994 by Mobile Fidelity, MFCD 797. It has now been released in the USA on 27 Apr 2004 as Columbia/Legacy CK 090875

I GOT A NEW GIRL	1959	H
Previously unknown song from a tape recorded by Ric Kangas in Hibbing, MN, in May 1959, supposedly written by Bob

I LOOKED AS FAR AS I COULD SEE	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967, usually known as BABY, WON'T YOU BE MY BABY

I MUST LOVE YOU TOO MUCH	Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1978	C L
Alternate title of LOVE YOU TOO MUCH, soundchecked and performed live in 1978, but no known studio version

Subterranean Jungle, the 1983 Sire/Warner album by the Ramones featuring I NEED YOUR LOVE by Bobby Dee Waxman (who isn't Bob Dylan!)

I NEED YOUR LOVE	Bobby Dee Waxman, 1983
Song released by the Ramones on their 1983 Sire album "Subterranean Jungle" (Sire/Warner 23800-2). Listed by Tim Dunn in his new book "The Bob Dylan Copyright Files: Supplement 1" (Rolling Tomes, 2000) because it's copyrighted with Special Rider Music that implies the song could have been written by Bob. However, I've been contacted by the real Bobby Dee Waxman, who was at that time in a group called the Boyfriends, and who actually wrote the song! There's no Bob connection apart from Special Rider

I ONCE KNEW A MAN	Bob Dylan?, 1984	R
Recorded at rehearsals for the David Letterman Show in Bob's garage studio, Malibu, CA, March 1984, also at rehearsals at NBC studios, New York, 22 Mar 1984

I REALLY MISS MY BABY	????	N?
No details available on this reported title, is it one of the hoaxes?

I SEE FIRE IN YOUR EYES	Bob Dylan?, 1985	N?
Recorded during the "Empire Burlesque" sessions, Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 14 Feb 1985

I WANT YOU TO KNOW I LOVE YOU	1981	S
Out-take from "Shot Of Love", recorded at Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

I WILL LOVE HIM	1980	L
Performed only once at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, 19 Apr 1980, when the concert was recorded for a shelved live album

I WISH IT WOULD RAIN	1981	N?
Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

Cover of the original Apple 3LP set All Things Must Pass, 1970 with I'D HAVE YOU ANY TIME

The 2001 All Things Must Pass 2CD set: the box cover, the covers of CDs 1 & 2, and the front of the booklet - the changing backgrounds show "progress" between 1970 and 2001!

I’D HAVE YOU ANY TIME	Bob Dylan/George Harrison, 1968	H
Recorded with George Harrison at Woodstock, New York State, November 1968 - lyrics on bobdylan.com George's officially released solo version is on his 3LP set "All Things Must Pass", Apple, 1970. A remixed/digitally remastered 2 CD set was reissued with bonus tracks on Capitol (USA), gn records/Parlophone (UK) on 23 Jan 2001 (UK catalogue number 7245 530474 2 9)

I’LL BE A BACHELOR TILL I DIE	1961	N? Y
Lyrics in a manuscript left by Bob at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie after staying there in Summer 1961 (the title is the same as a Hank Williams song)

I’LL BE AROUND	Alex Wilder, 1988	L
Reference works list Bob as having performed a song with this title (with the writer at that time unidentified) at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 04 Aug 1988. However, Joy Munsey informs me it is not Alex Wilder's song, and she has positively identified it as a Hank Snow song called I'M GLAD I GOT TO SEE YOU ONCE AGAIN (see below)

I’LL GET WHERE I’M GOING SOME DAY	1961	N? Y
Lyrics in a manuscript left by Bob at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie after staying there in Summer 1961

I’M A FOOL FOR YOU	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967

I’M ALL RIGHT	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967 - copyrighted under the title ALRIGHT

I’M COLD	1977	N?
Played by Bob in Steven Soles' apartment, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 1977, supposedly inspired by his divorce from Sara. Reported in interview with Robert Hilburn in May 1978 and confirmed by Steven Soles as one of ten or twelve songs played that evening to him and T-Bone Burnett. This is supposedly one of several songs played that have never been released

Hank Snow's Bear Family boxed set The Singing Ranger Vol. 2, which contains his version of the song I'M GLAD I GOT TO SEE YOU ONCE AGAIN, performed by Bob in 1988 and misidentified until 2000

I'M GLAD I GOT TO SEE YOU ONCE AGAIN	Hank Snow, 1988	L
Bob performed this song at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 04 Aug 1988 - it's been misidentified as a Dylan "work-in-progress" or as I'LL BE AROUND by Alex Wilder. Joy Munsey has now identified it as this Hank Snow song, which can be found on the 1990 Bear Family 4CD set "The Singing Ranger Vol. 2" (BCD 15746, available from ). The set also contains two other songs covered by Bob - THESE HANDS and NOBODY'S CHILD

I'm Not There (Sony Music Soundtrax, 2007) - album with previously unreleased Dylan song I'M NOT THERE

I’M NOT THERE (1956)	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967. Thanks to Tim Dunn for news that "Rolling Stone", 19 Oct 2006, reports that Bob Dylan's unreleased Basement Tapes song I’M NOT THERE (1956) was scheduled to be included in the soundtrack of the film "I'm Not There" directed by Todd Haynes released in 2007

I’M YOUR TEENAGE PRAYER	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, July-September 1967

Timepieces Vol. 2: Live In The Seventies (Polydor 811 835 2, 1985)

Double Up: Timepieces/Timepieces Vol. 2 (2CD set, DJ Specialist 53920, 1998)

Crossroads (6LP/4CD boxed set, Polydor 835 621 2, 1985)

Three Eric Clapton compilations with IF I DON'T BE THERE BY MORNING. Thanks to Freddy Freddy Ordoñez Araque for pointing out these albums.

IF I DON’T BE THERE BY MORNING	Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1978	S
Out-take from "Street-Legal", recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 01 May 1978, lyrics on bobdylan.com Covered by Eric Clapton on his "Backless" album (Uni/A&M, 1978 - for picture see the top of this page) along with WALK OUT IN THE RAIN. Also included on Eric's compilations "Timepieces Vol. 2: Live In The Seventies" and boxed set "Crossroads". Paul Cable reported in his book "Bob Dylan: His Unreleased Recordings" that a rough studio recording of Bob performing this song with Helena Springs was in circulation

Back To The Blues, the 2000 US album by Sue Foley including IF YOU THINK I'VE LOST YOU, correctly credited to "West"

Secret Weapon, a 2001 European re-release of the same album where IF YOU THINK I'VE LOST YOU is wrongly credited to "Dylan"

IF YOU THINK I'VE LOST YOU (YOU'RE AS WRONG AS CAN BE)	Jerry West, 1962	N
This song is credited to "Bob Dylan" on "Secret Weapon" (Antone's/Texas Music Group TMG-ANT 0050), the 2001 album by Canadian blues singer Sue Foley. The album, a compilation of out-takes from her first two albums, appeared in the USA in 2000 with the same catalogue number under the title "Back To The Blues", and where the song is credited to "West" (a song by this title is copyrighted at BMI by Jerry West). The credit on "Secret Weapon" is a misprint, as the song follows Sue's cover of POSITIVELY 4TH STREET. Thanks to Martin from Germany for bringing this item to my attention, also to Michele Simpson and Tim Dunn for checking the North American release. The song is included here for completeness, in case other Dylan fans see the album and think they have a find!

Details from rear insert of Sue Foley's Secret Weapon CD showing IF YOU THINK I'VE LOST YOU wrongly credited to "B. Dylan"

IF YOU WANT MY LOVE	1966	H
Recorded in a hotel room in Denver, CO, 12-13 Mar 1966.

IN A BATTLE	1981	N?
Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at Clover Recorder, Los Angeles, CA, 15 May 1981

IN A PLACE (IN A PLACE LIKE THIS)	1983	O
Recording session sheet titles of SWEETHEART LIKE YOU, released on "Infidels", also called BY THE WAY, THAT'S A CUTE HAT!

THE INNER SANCTUARY	Bob Dylan/Scott Belanger, 1991	S
This is the title of an album by "Munesh" (Scott Michael Belanger) that contains a "revised version" of a song by Bob Dylan, copyrighted June 1991 - I have no information as to which song this is, and the CD appears to be out of print - information please!

INSTRUMENTAL CALYPSO	1981	S
Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at United Western Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2 Apr 1981

THE IRON LADY	Phil Ochs, 1964	N
Reported in "The Providence Journal" in a report about an afternoon workshop at the Newport Folk Festival on 24 Jul 1964 as a comical protest against capital punishment, played along with "HEY, MR TAMBARINE MAN" (sic). Dylan fans were excited at the report of a new song, but it was in fact written and performed by Phil Ochs

IS IT WORTH IT?	1981	S
Out-take from "Shot Of Love", recorded at Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

IT’S ALL DANGEROUS TO ME	1981	S
Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

IT’S BREAKING ME UP	1974	N? Y
Lyrics of this song are reported by Clinton Heylin to have been found in a notebook containing lyrics of the "Blood On The Tracks" songs, but no studio or live version is known

IT’S RIGHT	Bob Dylan/Bankie Banx, 1982	N?
Recorded at local singer Bankie Banx's home studio, Anguilla, Caribbean, Summer 1982, but unreleased

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