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"Bob
Dylan Worldwide -The First Twenty Years" - the first instalment of what
will hopefully be the definite Dylan discography, published by
Christoph Maus/Maus of Music, Hamburg, Germany |
[The
Official Rarities Yearly Lists] [Traveling
Wilburys] [Online Performances (bobdylan.com)]
[Online Performances (Other)] [Interviews with Bob] [VHS & DVD]
[International Mono Releases] [International Stereo Releases] [Released Rarities] [Honourable Mentions] [Honourable Mentions Video]
[Questionable
Releases] [Questionable Video
Releases]
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"There are those who worship
loneliness, I'm not one of them, A list-in-progress of officially released but elusive recordings of Bob Dylan, compiled by Alan Fraser. Before contacting me, read this site's Privacy Policy All the songs
listed in the Official Rarities section are cross-referenced by song
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4 May 2022: A new video of Subterranean Homesick Blues is to be released online on 6 May 2022! The original audio track was released on Bringing It All Back Home in 1965 as well as being released on 7" singles worldwide. The 1965 video is featured in the cue card sequence in Don't Look Back, see VHS & DVD 1960s. For the new video see Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (2022 Remake) - YouTube. 27 Apr 2022: Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for news that Bob has re-recorded some of his classic songs for a new analogue music medium called "Ionic Originals" - for more information see Bob Dylan Has Re-Recorded Classics With T Bone Burnett for New Medium - Variety. Thanks to Bill Brown for news that a 1963 phone call by Bob with snippets of six songs taped by Tony Glover has emerged on a cassette tape and is now up for auction - for more information see RR Auction. 26 Apr 2022: Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for news that CD Japan are also selling a new Sony Music stereo vinyl edition of Bringing It All Back Home (SIJP-1053), to be released on 25 May 2022. All three albums will have reproductions of the original first release obis from 1970. (CBS Japan only released John Wesley Harding in its original form before being taken over by Sony in 1968 - these three regular Dylan albums were not released in Japan until 1970.) 24 Apr 2022: Thanks to Franck Faugere for news that CD Japan are selling two new Sony Music stereo vinyl editions of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (SIJP-1001) and Blonde On Blonde (SIJP-1054-55) from 27 Apr 2022 with 60th Anniversary postcards commemorating Bob's debut on Columbia Records. 13 Apr 2022: The only Bob Dylan offering for Record Store Day, 23 Apr 2022, will be Talkin' New York, an unauthorised release on burgundy vinyl of Bob's first album from a label called Culture Factory. This is legal because the album is now out of copyright, and contains two bonus tracks from Bob's first single, Mixed Up Confusion and Corrina, Corrina (not the Freewheelin' version). |
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There are now over 300 pages on this site - to search for specific entries, try here! |
I must offer grateful thanks to Philip Jump and
Mike Ward of the award-winning Badlands Record Shop, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, for supporting this web-site and the provision of many
Bob Dylan rarities including the very limited 50th
Anniversary Collection series.
Bob Dylan's Official Rarities Pages
"International Stereo Releases" is organised by album and split into "Regular Albums" (again with one page per album), "Compilations" and "Stereo Singles (All Formats)". The new "Index of International Releases by Country" will summarise both mono and stereo album and single releases by individual country.
Lists compiled from "Searching For A Gem"
All the pages below contain lists of tracks that aren't on Bob's regular albums. There is no overlap between them, in that each rarity is listed on one page only.
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Revised:16 May, 2022
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 for Bob's New York business office that I thought was correct, but I have since 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 feedback page at www.bobdylan.com. I also have no means of helping anyone who wants to meet Bob Dylan or obtain his autograph!
Access the yearly pages from here by going to the Official Rarities Yearly Lists. Traveling Wilburys now have their own pages. "VHS & DVD" is now split into multiple pages, including pages for films and TV series with Dylan rarities and pages for films and TV series with Dylan album tracks. "International Mono Releases" now has a page per official album plus pages for compilation albums, mono 7" singles and mono 7" EPs. "International Stereo Releases" is split into "Regular Albums" (again with one page per album), "Compilations" and "Stereo Singles (All Formats)". "Honourable Mentions" are items which don't qualify for these lists, but may be of interest to Dylan collectors. "Questionable Releases" and "Questionable Releases Video" are items sent in by contributors of dubious provenance.
[The Official Rarities Yearly Lists] [Traveling Wilburys] [Online Performances (bobdylan.com)] [Online Performances (Other)] [Interviews with Bob] [VHS & DVD]
[International Mono Releases] [International Stereo Releases] [Released Rarities] [Honourable Mentions] [Honourable Mentions Video]
[Questionable
Releases] [Questionable
Releases Video]
[News] [Updates] [Red Herrings] [Trading] [Other Pages]
All the songs
listed in the Official Rarities section are cross-referenced by song
title in these alphabetical pages.
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F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z
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The Searching For A Gem site is always under sustained attack from Spammers, with 13,300 messages once received in one day. These messages are filtered out, and the Spam filters mean that if you do not put "Dylan" in the subject of a message it will be deleted and not reach the Searching For A Gem mailbox. If you have sent a message and not received a reply, please send it again with "Dylan" in the subject.
I obviously have to make this site's email address openly available so it's open to abuse by third parties. Some correspondents use ISPs whose Anti-Spam policies wrongly reject replies from me as Spam. If I can't send a message to you, I'll post a reply on the Updates page. Therefore, if you're expecting a reply from me and haven't received one, please look there.
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For other Bob Dylan related sites that may be of interest to Searching For A Gem visitors, see here. |
Searching For A Gem is compiled by: Alan
Fraser Alan has
contributed to the UK magazines "Record
Collector", "Q", "Mojo" and "Uncut" as well
as to the "Village Voice", Dylan fanzines "Isis" and
"The Bridge" and several books on Bob Dylan, and has also appeared on
BBC Radio talking about this site. He is the co-author with Christoph
Maus of "Bob Dylan Worldwide: The First Twenty Years". Alan is the
EDLIS "Gemologist", for the EDLIS Parties and Gatherings Facebook page,
go to For Alan's science
fiction
book reviews for the British Science Fiction Association's review
magazine
"Vector", go here
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The font
used for the titles of each page is appropriately called "Jokerman", if
you can't see it, download it here: The original
version of "Bob Dylan's
Official Rarities" was hosted on Guilio Molfese's "Breadcrumb Sins"
site This site is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Larry "Lambchop" Eden, who followed Bob all over the world for many years, and sadly died in 2007. I bought part of his Dylan collection when he was raising money to move to India some years before. He's one of the few fans Bob has ever acknowledged from the stage, saying "This is Lambchop. He's been to more of my shows than I have!". Let's hear it for the Chopper! |
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[The Official Rarities Yearly Lists] [Traveling Wilburys] [Online Performances (bobdylan.com)] [Online Performances (Other)] [Interviews with Bob] [VHS & DVD] [International Mono Releases] [International Stereo Releases] [Released Rarities] [Honourable Mentions] [Honourable Mentions Video] [Questionable Releases] [Questionable Video Releases]
[News] [Updates] [Red Herrings] [Trading] [Other Pages]
All the songs
listed on this web-site are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.
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F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z
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