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

Compiled by Alan Fraser

Michel Montecrossa's 2002 Mira Sound Germany album Fieldmouse From Nebraska, featuring two songs on this page and seven other "co-compositions"

Revised: 06 January, 2024

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Gene Simmons with The Vault 1966-2016, a 2018 collectable model safe including 10CDs with NA, NA, NA, NA on CD5

NA, NA, NA, NA Bob Dylan/Gene Simmons, 1996 N?

Thanks to Alex Filosa for news that in Jan 2018 Gene Simmons released "The Vault 1966-2016", a collectable model safe full of Simmons memorabilia including 10CDs plus a bonus CD, including three co-compositions with Bob Dylan on CDs 5 and 6 - NA, NA, NA, NA, which is an early version of EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY, and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT, the last of which was previously released in a shorter version in 2004 on Gene's solo Sanctuary Records album entitled "A**hole". CD5 also contains a 15:40 track called "BOB DYLAN WRITING SESSION". Each safe costs $2000 and will be hand-delivered to the buyer by Gene Simmons himself! (Presumably just in the continental USA.) For a 1991 song co-written by Bob and Gene Simmons see LAUGHING WHEN YOU WANT TO CRY. Tim Dunn says: Just received the new April 2018 issue of "Goldmine" magazine with an interview with Gene Simmons. He discusses working with Dylan and mentions their writing session, which lasted 6 or 7 hours. Three tracks on "The Vault" involve Dylan, apparently NA, NA, NA, NA, EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT. Simmons says that Dylan wouldn't finish the lyrics "so eventually I just sat down and wrote the lyric and found variations of that which became two other songs... NA, NA, NA, NA has that title because I couldn't come up with a chorus lyric, and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT and EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY were other variations." He adds "Bob came up with some chords that I liked a lot, and I started humming a melody...riffing back and forth...just outlined a few variations...So over the years, I tried to get him to write the lyric...'No, Mr. Kiss, you write it'." One version of WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT is on his album "Asshole". None are in the Copyright Office records as of today.

NEED A NEW NAME	Bob Dylan/Michel Montecrossa, 2002	O
Like JACK O' DIAMONDS, not strictly a Dylan song, but a written lyric of Bob's set to music without authorisation by Italian "Cyber-rocker" Michel Montecrossa on his Mira Sound Germany album "Fieldmouse From Nebraska" (Germany, 2002), see - thanks to David Plentus for spotting this item! See top of page for the album cover

NEVER	?	?
Deliberately misleading song title used on an early vinyl bootleg - I have no information as to which song it actually is

Empire Burlesque # And Reality Rocker (Mira Sound Germany, 2004) album by Michel Montecrossa on which he performs NEW DANVILLE GIRL

The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 - Springtime In New York 1980-1985 (Europe) - 2CD Standard Edition with Bob's version of NEW DANVILLE GIRL

NEW DANVILLE GIRL	Bob Dylan/Sam Shepard, 1984	O
Out-take from "Empire Burlesque", recorded Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 6-12 Dec 1984. Early version of BROWNSVILLE GIRL, subsequently released on "Knocked Out Loaded", 1986 - inspired by Cisco Houston's DANVILLE GIRL. Cover version performed by Italian "Cyber-rocker" Michel Montecrossa on his album "Empire Burlesque # And Reality Rocker" (Mira Sound Germany, 2004) - thanks to Jack from Canada for information. The 2CD Standard Edition of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 - Springtime In New York 1980-1985", released in Sep 2021, contains NEW DANVILLE GIRL, recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 6 Dec 1984

NEW SONG 1	1969	O
Recording session sheet title of WIGWAM, released on "Self Portrait"

NEW SONG 2	1969	O
Recording session sheet title of TIME PASSES SLOWLY, released on "New Morning"

NEW YORK CITY BLUES	1961	N? Y
See NYC BLUES below

NEXT TIME ON THE HIGHWAY	1967	H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, Jul-Oct 1967 Now released on CD6 of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - Bob Dylan And The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete", Nov 2014

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DREAD/NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD	Bob Dylan?, 1990	N?
According to Michael Krogsgaard, song recorded at the Complex, Los Angeles, CA, 19 Apr 1990, during the "Under The Red Sky" sessions. This may be a recording session sheet title for a published song! Heylin calls it NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and says it was originally recorded in Mar 1990, with a new vocal recorded on 19 Apr 1990

NIGHTINGALE’S CODE	1965
The hoax title of the first track of a fictitious Dylan Christmas album called "Snow Over Interstate 80" in a joke article in an early 70s issue of the UK magazine "New Musical Express". It probably refers to one of the takes of FREEZE OUT, the 1965 version of "Blonde On Blonde"’s VISIONS OF JOHANNA, containing the line "He examines the nightingale’s code". For more details, see my "Snow Over Interstate 80" page.

NO. 11 MINE	1963	O
Title used in the US Library of Congress online entry for the 1963 Newport Folk Festival for the live performance at the morning workshop, 27 Jul 1963, of NORTH COUNTRY BLUES, released on "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'". Thanks to Bob Stacy for information

NO COMPASSION
One of the fake titles circulated on the Internet in January 1997 as part of a hoax about a new album to be called "Stormy Season" - see STORMY SEASON for more details

NO LIGHT WILL SHINE ON ME	1969	O
Recording session sheet title of ONE MORE NIGHT, released on "Nashville Skyline"

NO PARTICULAR LENGTH OF TIME	1967-68	Y
Lyrics from the "John Wesley Harding" period held at the Bob Dylan Archive, University of Tulsa, OK. Thanks to Derek Barker and "Isis" magazine for information

NO SHOES ON MY FEET	1967	H
Unidentified Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, Jul-Oct 1967

NORTH OF V	Bob Dylan/Michel Montecrossa, 2002	O
Like JACK O' DIAMONDS, not strictly a Dylan song, but a written lyric of Bob's set to music without authorisation by Italian "Cyber-rocker" Michel Montecrossa on his Mira Sound Germany album "Fieldmouse From Nebraska" (Germany, 2002), see - thanks to David Plentus for spotting this item! See top of page for the album cover

NOTHING HERE WORTH DYING FOR	Bob Dylan?, 1985	S
Previously unknown song possibly recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, May-Oct 1985.

Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes [Various Artists], Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records 2537950140 (USA/Europe) containing the "lost" Dylan song NOTHING TO IT completed by Jim James

NOTHING TO IT	Bob Dylan/Jim James, 1967/2014	Y
T-Bone Burnett has produced an album called "Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes", released in Nov 2014, consisting of unreleased Bob songs from lyrics unused during the Basement Tapes sessions with The Band in Woodstock, New York in 1967, completed by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford. NOTHING TO IT has been completed by Jim James of the band My Morning Jacket

NOT TURNING BACK	1997	N?
Out-take from the "Time Out Of Mind" sessions, which took place at Criterion Sound Studio, Miami, FL, in January 1997, reported by Glen Dundas in the 2004 edition of his book "Tangled". T.J. Young thinks this is possibly a recording session title for MARCHIN' TO THE CITY, released in 2008 on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006"

All Things Must Pass [George Harrison], Capitol/Dark Horse 3565237 (Europe, 2021) - 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe 8LP set with George's demo version of NOWHERE TO GO

All Things Must Pass [George Harrison], Capitol/Dark Horse 3565238 (Europe, 2021) - 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe 5CD+DVD set with George's demo version of NOWHERE TO GO

NOWHERE TO GO	Bob Dylan/George Harrison, 1968	H
Actual copyrighted title for the song performed at Woodstock, New York State, as a duet by Bob and George in November 1968 and circulating mainly under the title EVERY TIME SOMEBODY COMES TO TOWN. Thanks to Jack from Canada that a demo version by George with the title NOWHERE TO GO has been released in 2021 on the Capitol/Dark Horse 50th Anniversary 8LP/5CD+DVD Super Deluxe Editions of "All Things Must Pass". The known duet version with Bob remains unreleased.

NUMBER ONE	1965	O
Untitled instrumental called "Trk No Vocal" on the tape box and "#1" on the artists' contract card, recorded with the Hawks between the "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde On Blonde" sessions at Columbia Studios, New York, 5 Oct 1965 (CO87187 and CO87192) - usually misdated as 30 Nov - 01 Dec 1965. Paul Cable speculated that this track could be the legendary "lost" song CHURCH WITH NO UPSTAIRS, but Tim Dunn, author of "The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962-2007" (AuthorHouse, 2008), informs me that the two songs have separate copyrights, so they cannot be the same. No longer an unreleased song since it was released as UNKNOWN INSTRUMENTAL in Nov 2015 on "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Deluxe Edition)"

NYC BLUES	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 page was auctioned in 2006 for almost $13,000! No recording or performance is known. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information

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NA, NA, NA, NA	Bob Dylan/Gene Simmons, 1996	N?
Thanks to Alex Filosa for news that in Jan 2018 Gene Simmons released "The Vault 1966-2016", a collectable model safe full of Simmons memorabilia including 10CDs plus a bonus CD, including three co-compositions with Bob Dylan on CDs 5 and 6 - NA, NA, NA, NA, which is an early version of EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY, and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT, the last of which was previously released in a shorter version in 2004 on Gene's solo Sanctuary Records album entitled "A**hole". CD5 also contains a 15:40 track called "BOB DYLAN WRITING SESSION". Each safe costs $2000 and will be hand-delivered to the buyer by Gene Simmons himself! (Presumably just in the continental USA.) For a 1991 song co-written by Bob and Gene Simmons see LAUGHING WHEN YOU WANT TO CRY. Tim Dunn says: Just received the new April 2018 issue of "Goldmine" magazine with an interview with Gene Simmons. He discusses working with Dylan and mentions their writing session, which lasted 6 or 7 hours. Three tracks on "The Vault" involve Dylan, apparently NA, NA, NA, NA, EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT. Simmons says that Dylan wouldn't finish the lyrics "so eventually I just sat down and wrote the lyric and found variations of that which became two other songs... NA, NA, NA, NA has that title because I couldn't come up with a chorus lyric, and WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT and EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY were other variations." He adds "Bob came up with some chords that I liked a lot, and I started humming a melody...riffing back and forth...just outlined a few variations...So over the years, I tried to get him to write the lyric...'No, Mr. Kiss, you write it'." One version of WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT is on his album "Asshole". None are in the Copyright Office records as of today.