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

Compiled by Alan Fraser


Portraits Of Bob Dylan, the 1999 Eagle UK CD (released by Purple Pyramid in the US) by Steve Howe containing the unreleased song WELL, WELL, WELL (vocal by P P Arnold) - scan by David Plentus

Revised: 17 September, 2024

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.)



 


Troubles Up And Down The Road (self pressing, USA, 2001) - EP by Old Crow Medicine Show in which their version of WAGON WHEEL is jointly credited to Bob


O.C.M.S.(Nettwerk Records, USA, 2004) - album by Old Crow Medicine Show in which their version of WAGON WHEEL is jointly credited to Bob


2004 WAGON WHEEL US single by Old Crow Medicine Show


Putumayo Presents America (Putumayo Records, USA, 2007) - compilation album including Old Crow Medicine Show's version of WAGON WHEEL, again jointly credited to Bob


Protect: Benefit For The NAPC (Far Wreck Chords, USA, 2005) - charity album with WAGON WHEEL by Against Me!

Nearer To The Fire (Pool Records, Germany, 2008) - album with WAGON WHEEL by Onkel Tims Hütte [Uncle Tim's Cabin]
 
WAGON WHEEL Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup/Bob Dylan/Ketcham Secor, 2001 S
Title of reworked version of Bob's version of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's ROCK ME MAMA, out-take from "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid", recorded at Burbank Studios, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 1973. A cover version of this song is credited to "Bob Dylan with additional lyrics and melody by Secor" on "Troubles Up And Down The Road", a 2001 limited edition EP by Old Crow Medicine Show (Ketcham Secor is a band member), and later on "O.C.M.S.", their 2004 Nettwerk Records album . This track is published by Blood Donor Music (BMI)/Special Rider Music (SESAC) - Special Rider is Bob's publishing company. Thanks to Tim Dunn for copyright information. The song has now also been recorded by Against Me! on the charity album "Protect: Benefit For The NAPC" (Fat Wreck Chords, USA, 2005); by Onkel Tims Hütte [Uncle Tim's Cabin], a German band including Searching For A Gem contributor Ronald Born on their 2008 Pool Records Germany album Nearer To The Fire, by The Whiskey River Band on a 2011 single; by Nathan Carter on his 2012 Sharpe Music Ireland album "Wagon Wheel", also released as a single and as the title of his 2013 live show; and by Darius Rucker, former frontman of Hootie and the Blowfish, on his 2013 10 Spot Records US album "True Believers", also released as a single. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for news that South Dakota Democratic Senatorial candidate Rick Weiland has recorded a version with rewritten lyrics called BIG WHEEL for a 2014 election campaign ad! Thanks to "Isis" #174 for news that Old Crow Medicine Show have recorded another "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid" sessions song, SWEET AMARILLO, on the their 2014 ATO Records US album "Remedy", see the "S" page



2013 WAGON WHEEL US single by The Whiskey River Band



Wagon Wheel (Sharpe Music, Ireland, 2012) - album by Nathan Carter with his version of WAGON WHEEL



The Wagon Wheel Live Show (Nathan Carter Music, Ireland, 2013) - album by Nathan Carter with his live version of WAGON WHEEL



The Country Album (UMTV, UK, 2015) - including Nathan Carter's version of WAGON WHEEL



True Believers (10 Spot Records, USA, 2013) - album by Darius Rucker with his version of WAGON WHEEL


2013 WAGON WHEEL US single by Darius Rucker
   



The Key West Connection
(USA, 2013) - album by Don Middlebrook and the Pearl Divers with his version of WAGON WHEEL, entitled WAGON WHEEL GONE TROP ROCK


50th Anniversary Collection 1973(Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music Europe, 2023) - CD release with Bob's version of ROCK ME MAMA
   

 

WAGON WHEEL GONE TROP ROCK Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup/Bob Dylan/Ketcham Secor/Don Middlebrook, 2013 S
Parody of Old Crow Medicine Show's version of WAGON WHEEL released as a download single by Don Middlebrook in Mar 2013, later included on his self-released album "The Key West Connection", Autumn 2013. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information.

 

WAIT AND SEE 1981 S
Copyrighted title of an instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions at United Western Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 02 Apr 1981, also known as MOVIN'

 


A**hole (Sanctuary Records, USA, Jun 2004) Gene Simmons' solo album with his version of the Dylan/Simmons co-composition WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT
 


WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT (Sanctuary Records SANPRX 245, UK, May 2004) - promo CD single scan by Ronald Born


Gene Simmons with The Vault 1966-2016, a 2018 collectable model safe including 10CDs with a longer version of WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT on CD6

WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT Bob Dylan/Gene Simmons, 1996 N?

"Billboard" in Jun 2003 revealed that Gene Simmons' first solo record in 25 years would feature songs co-written by Simmons with Bob Dylan and the late Frank Zappa. The album was finally released on 8 Jun 2004 in the USA on Sanctuary Records entitled "A**hole"! The UK promo CD single of WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT from the album is dated "17.05.04" (17 May 2004). The Dylan co-written song, "WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT," was born out of a one-day writing session at Simmons' home in Los Angeles six or seven years ago, the Kiss bassist/vocalist reveals. "Bob came up with the chords, most of them, and then I took it and wrote lyrics, melody, the rest of it," says Simmons, adding that he kept urging Dylan through the years to put lyrics to the song. "I'd see him on tour, and I'd say, 'Bob, you wanna write the song? And he would say, 'No, man, you write it, Mr. Kiss.'" Of the one-day session, Simmons says, "We understood each other right away. He picked up an acoustic guitar, and we just tossed it back and forth, 'How 'bout this, how 'bout that?' And he started to strum, because he -- at least with me -- tended to talk and strum guitar at the same time. And as soon as I heard the first three or four chords, I went, 'Wait, wait, what's that? Do that again.' So I went and started to write a lyric around that." 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, with a longer version of WAITING FOR THE MORNING LIGHT on CD6. CD5 contains two more Dylan/Simmons co-compositions, NA, NA, NA, NA and EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEBODY, plus 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 "A*hole". None are in the Copyright Office records as of today.

 


Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One (ATO Records 0224, USA, 2014) with Tea Leaf Green's version of WAITING TO GET BEAT

WAITING TO GET BEAT 1985 S
Out-take from "Empire Burlesque", recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 14 Feb 1985. Another take of this song with different lyrics is known as THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU. Thanks to Alex Filosa for information that WAITING TO GET BEAT has now been recorded by US band Tea Leaf Green for the various artists album "Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One" (ATO Records 0224, USA, 2014). As far as I know, this song is not on any of their albums

 

WALK DOWN CROOKED HIGHWAY 1964 N? Y
Copyrighted Nov 1964 and lyrics published in the New York folk magazine "Sing Out!" Jan 1965, but there is no record of any studio or live performances. Stephan Pickering says this was in fact a prose piece called "Condensed from 'Walk Down Crooked Highway'" above the lyrics for ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO (pp. 32-33). The piece itself was part of the growing manuscript of what was then called "Tarantula Meets Rex Paste", but, along with several other pieces, was not included in the final Macmillan version of "Tarantula".

 


I Shall Be Unreleased, Rhino Records, 1991 - a compilation album of cover versions of then unreleased Dylan songs including WALK OUT IN THE RAIN by Eric Clapton
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Self-titled bluegrass album by Ronnie & Bob McCoury with their version of WALK OUT IN THE RAIN, Rounder Records, 1995. Thanks to Hans Marijnissen and Tim Dunn for information on this item.


Born In The Basement
(Lookout Records, 1996) by the Groovie Ghoulies with their version of WALK OUT IN THE RAIN. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information on this item

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One Step Closer, the May 2001 Telarc release by bluesman Kenny Neal with his version of WALK OUT IN THE RAIN. Thanks to David Plentus for information on this item
WALK OUT IN THE RAIN Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1978 S
Out-take from "Street-Legal", recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 01 May 1978 - covered by Eric Clapton on his "Backless" (Uni/A&M, 1978) album along with IF I DON’T BE THERE BY MORNING (a picture of the album cover is on the "I" page). Lyrics are no longer on bobdylan.com. A bluegrass version by Ronnie and Bob McCoury was released in 1995 on their album of the same name (Rounder Records CD-0353). The Groovie Ghoulies released a version in 1996 on their Lookout Records album "Born In The Basement" (this album also had a cover of Bob's film soundtrack song BAND OF THE HAND under the title HELL TIME! - see "Searching For A Gem", 1986). May 2001 saw two covers of this song released: a previously unreleased 1978 live recording by the Belgian singer Ann Christy on the BMG Germany release "May Your Song Always Be Sung Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2", and a version by Kenny Neal on his Telarc album "One Step Closer".

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



The May 2001 BMG Germany release, May Your Song Always Be Sung Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, which features a previously unreleased live recording of WALK OUT IN THE RAIN by Ann Christy. Thanks to Dr Hanns Peter Bushoff of BMG for several different versions of this album, especially the 7" vinyl boxed set (right)


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Single #06 from the vinyl boxed set version of the 2001 BMG Germany release, May Your Song Always Be Sung Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, with the previously unreleased live recording of WALK OUT IN THE RAIN by Ann Christy (B-side).

 

WALKING DOWN THE STREET 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

 

WALKING ON EGGS 1981 S
Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions, Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

 


The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again (Amherst Records AMH 3305, USA, 1986) with his version of THE WANDERING KIND

THE WANDERING KIND Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1979 S
Recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, October 1979, with vocal by Helena Springs - available officially as a cover by Paul Butterfield on his album "The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again", Amherst Records AMH 3305, 1986. Lyrics are no longer on bobdylan.com

 

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The Complete San Quentin, the 2000 Columbia Legacy remastered and expanded CD release of Johnny Cash's legendary 1969 prison concert, with WANTED MAN


Little Fauss And Big Halsy, the 1971 Columbia soundtrack album also including Johnny Cash's version of WANTED MAN


Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood and The Destroyers (Capitol, 1982), with their version of WANTED MAN


The First-Born Is Dead by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (Mute, 1985) including their version of WANTED MAN


The Songs Of Bob Dylan, Start Records (UK), 1989, 2LP set with WANTED MAN by George Thorogood and The Destroyers as well as three other still-unreleased Dylan songs

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Michel Montecrossa's Bob Dylan Fest 2001 6CD boxed set on the Mira Sound Germany label containing his version of WANTED MAN. The set also contains versions of BOB DYLAN'S NEW ORLEANS RAG, DENISE, EAST LAREDO BLUES and HERO BLUES
 

WANTED MAN 1969 O
Recorded with Johnny Cash at Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN, 18 Feb 1969 - lyrics on bobdylan.com are here. Paul Cable reported in his book "Bob Dylan: His Unreleased Recordings" that writer Stephen Pickering claimed to have a tape of Bob's demo of this song.

First performed live by Johnny Cash on his "Johnny Cash At San Quentin" album, this version also appears on the soundtrack album of the 1970 film "Little Fauss and Big Halsy". Also available are covers by George Thorogood and the Destroyers on their 1982 Capitol album "Bad To The Bone" (also compiled on "The Songs Of Bob Dylan", Start Records, UK, 1989), Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds on their 1985 Mute album "The First-Born Is Dead" and by Michel Montecrossa on his 6CD Mira Sound Germany set "Bob Dylan Fest 2001", see D page for details.

WANTED MAN has now been released officially on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 - Travelin' Thru 1967-1969. This set also includes WESTERN ROAD, a previously unknown out-take from Nashville Skyline. This song was previously listed here as GOING TO CHICAGO, see below.


The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 - Travelin' Thru 1967-1969, Nov 2019, with WANTED MAN by Bob and Johnny Cash

WAR TIME 1984 R
Worked on during rehearsals at the Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy, on 27 May 1984, but not performed in public and no studio version is known to exist

 

WARMING UP ? N?
Unknown song copyrighted by Bob and Special Rider Music at SESAC. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information

 

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Checks, Thugs And Rock-N-Roll (RomenMpire Records, USA, 2006) - uncensored and "clean" versions of album by DMC containing rewritten version of ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

WATCHTOWER Bob Dylan/Darryl McDaniels (DMC), 2006 N?
Version of ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER from "John Wesley Harding" using the first two lines of each of the three verses with new lyrics by Darryl McDaniels (DMC) completing the verses and Jimi Hendrix-style guitar by Elliot Easton of The Cars on DMC's solo album "Checks, Thugs And Rock-N-Roll" (RomenMpire Records/From Rags To Riches Records 2-68607, USA, 2006). The song for some reason is credited solely to Bob and Dwarf Music. The album also contains CADILLAC CARS, which uses a Dylan lyric sample. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information

 

WAY DOWN YONDER 1961 N?
Thanks to Tim Dunn for information that the page with the handwritten lyrics of this song were auctioned on the Internet on 24 Jun 2006 - no recording or performance is known

 

WE JUST DISAGREE J. Krueger, 1980 L
This song performed live in 1980 and 1981 is identified by some as a Dylan song - it is actually a cover

 

(WE'RE LIVING ON) BORROWED TIME 1981 S
Out-take from "Shot Of Love", recorded Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

 

WEIRD CONSUMPTION 1964 O
Recording session sheet title of BLACK CROW BLUES, released on "Another Side of Bob Dylan"

 

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Fanning The Flames by Maria Muldaur (Telarc CD-83394,
USA, 1996), who was given WELL, WELL, WELL by Bob for her album


I'm A Woman: 30 Years Of
Maria Muldaur (Shout! Factory DK-301219/Rhino OPCD-7614, USA, 2004), compilation including her version of WELL, WELL, WELL

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Running From The Devil by Danny O'Keefe (Miramar,
USA, 2000), who co-wrote WELL, WELL, WELL with Bob

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The first official release of WELL, WELL, WELL, by David Lindley and Hani Naser on their Pleemhead album Playing Even Better in 1995

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David Lindley's re-recording of the song with Wally Ingram on their Ulftone album Twango Bango Deluxe in 1998


Raven Records Australia 2005 compilation Danny's Best 1970-2000 - Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues which contains Danny O'Keefe's version of WELL, WELL, WELL
 

WELL, WELL, WELL Bob Dylan/Danny O'Keefe, 1993 N?
Although he has never recorded it in the studio, WELL, WELL, WELL was first performed live by Don Henley at the Walden Woods Benefit, Foxboro, MA, 6 Sep 1993, and broadcast by Westwood One as part of their "Superstars In Concert" series, show #93-43, in the week of 18 Oct 1993. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information. The first release on CD was by David Lindley and Hani Naser on their album "Playing Even Better" (Pleemhead 75676-2, 1995), followed by an outing on Maria Muldaur's "Fanning The Flames" album (Telarc Blues CD 83394, US, 1996, also on her compilation "I'm A Woman: 30 Years Of Maria Muldaur" (Shout! Factory DK-301219/Rhino OPCD-7614, US, 2004).

Gil Walker says: "The guy I heard about the song from is also a film/music critic for a local group of weekly newspapers; he told me he asked Maria about the song at a recent club appearance, and she told him, that, as far as she knew, no one else had released a version of the song. Where did she get it? She said she just called up Dylan one day and asked him if he had anything on hand she could put on her new record - so he sent it to her! Unfortunately, she didn't say (or John didn't ask) whether she got sheet music, a Dylan demo, or something else to work from."

Thanks to Hans Marijnissen for the information that the lyrics are at Danny O'Keefe's web-site , and thanks to Gil Walker for this quote about the song from Danny O'Keefe's web-site explaining Maria's source: "I used to work for Bob Dylan's publishing company, Special Rider Music, and Bob sent me a demo tape and requested that I write lyrics to the song. I arranged the song and wrote the lyrics that you have below. David Lindley heard the song on a demo tape I sent him and recorded the song. Maria Muldaur and Mavis Staples also have a version of the song together. I think the meaning is fairly plain: poison the sources of water and we are all effected. Water is the life of the planet, as is the air, the earth and the fire within."

Maria therefore received the song on the demo tape mentioned above performed by co-writer Danny O'Keefe, not Bob, so there is no circulating Dylan version. Danny O'Keefe released his own version in February 2000, on his album "Running From The Devil" (Miramar 090006-23148-2), its first appearance from one of its writers, and which also appears on his Australian Raven Records compilation "Danny's Best 1970-2000 - Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues" (Raven Records WWRAV 71098, Australia, 2005). Maria has also covered the unreleased Dylan song AIN'T NO MAN RIGHTEOUS, NO NOT ONE.

David Lindley re-recorded the song with Wally Ingram on their September 1998 album "Twango Bango Deluxe" (Ulftone UTCD-003) and it has also been covered by Steve Howe with P.P. Arnold as guest vocalist on his Jun 1999 album "Portraits Of Bob Dylan" (Eagle Records, UK/Purple Pyramid CLP 0600-2, US).

Also covered by Michel Montecrossa on his 2011 Mira Sound Germany 2CD set "Something That Counts: Climate Change Acoustic Concert - Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2011", which also contains covers of COVER DOWN, BREAK THROUGH, GET YOUR ROCKS OFF and YOU’VE BEEN HIDING TOO LONG. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information


Something That Counts by Michel Montecrossa (Mira Sound Germany, 2011) with Michel's version of WELL, WELL, WELL

 


Betsy Siggins, Bob Dylan and Maria Muldaur, Wang Theatre, Boston, MA, 2009 (picture from www.examiner.com)

WELL IT'S EARLY(?) "Early 1960s" N? Y
Tentative title of an unpublished song whose lyrics were typed by Bob when staying at Harvard, and kept by Joan Baez's then room-mate, Betsy Siggins. The story and lyrics were published in the "Boston Globe", 24 Nov 1998. Betsy Siggins later ran the Club 47 folk club in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, where Bob performed on Sunday, 21 Apr 1963. For "For The Love Of The Music: The Club 47 Revival", a documentary DVD including some of Bob's 1963 performance, see VHS & DVD 2010 onwards

 

WELL WATER 1981 S
Instrumental recorded during "Shot Of Love" sessions, Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981

 


The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 - Travelin' Thru 1967-1969, Nov 2019, with unreleased song WESTERN ROAD, previously listed as GOING TO CHICAGO

WESTERN ROAD 1969 O
A previously unknown out-take from "Nashville Skyline", recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 - now released officially on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 - Travelin' Thru 1967-1969. This song was previously listed here as GOING TO CHICAGO!

 

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT [WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT] 1970 S
Two recording session sheet working title variants for SIGN ON THE WINDOW, released on "New Morning", recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 05 Jun 1970, during "New Morning" sessions (CO107277) with strings overdubbed on 13 Jul 1970. The string overdubbed version was not used for the final album

 

WHAT KIND OF FRIEND IS THIS? Bob Dylan/Koko Taylor, 1966 H
Bob's adaptation of a Koko Taylor song, seen in "Eat The Document" being worked on in a hotel room in Glasgow, Scotland, 18-19 May 1966. Now included on CD18 of the Columbia/Legacy 18CD set "The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Bob Dylan 1965-1966 The Cutting Edge Collector's Edition", Nov 2015

 

WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN JESUS COMES? 1975 M
Song based on a traditional spiritual recorded at Studio Instrument Rentals, New York, Oct 1965 with the Rolling Thunder Revue and included in the film "Renaldo & Clara"

 

WHAT'S IT GONNA BE WHEN IT COMES UP? Bob Dylan/one or more members of The Band, 1969-71 N?
An otherwise unknown song listed by Tim Dunn in his book "The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962-2007" (AuthorHouse, 2008) - no recording or performance is known

 


PLEASE STAY/WHAT'S NEWS, PUSSYCAT by the Cryin' Shames (Decca F-12340, UK, 1966) with Bob's ON THE ROAD AGAIN with new words on the B-side
 


PLEASE STAY/WHAT'S NEWS, PUSSYCAT by the Cryin' Shames (London 45-LON 1001, USA, 1966)


Telstar: The Hits Of Joe Meek (Castle, UK, 2005) - compilation with WHAT'S NEWS, PUSSYCAT by the Cryin' Shames

Joe Meek Freakbeat: You're Holding Me Down (Sanctuary, UK, 2008) - 2CD compilation with WHAT'S NEWS, PUSSYCAT by the Cryin' Shames


WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? - the 1965 Decca single of the Bacharach-David film theme by Tom Jones

WHAT’S NEWS, PUSSYCAT? Bob Dylan/George Robinson/Joey Kneen, 1966 N?
This song on the B-side of the 7" mono single by the Merseybeat group The Cryin' Shames produced by Joe Meek is Bob's ON THE ROAD AGAIN from "Bringing It All Back Home" with new words by bass player George Robinson. It is credited to "Kneen, Robinson" on the original single (Joey Kneen was the band's vocalist.). Robinson says: "I wrote the B-side of PLEASE STAY, WHAT'S NEWS, PUSSYCAT?. That is definitely mine, although I am now forced to share composer rights with Bob Dylan ( I ripped off the tune of ON THE ROAD AGAIN). I don't mind that! Apparently it is still getting plays on American TV stations, calling it 'Freakbeat'." (PLEASE STAY was co-written by Burt Bacharach, as was WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT?, the 1965 film theme song performed by Tom Jones.) The song can also be found on two UK CD compilations: "Telstar: The Hits Of Joe Meek" (Castle, 2005) and "Joe Meek Freakbeat: You're Holding Me Down - 30 Freakbeat, Mod & R&B Nuggets" (Sanctuary, 2008). Thanks to Jack from Canada for the information and scans

 

WHAT’S THE MATTER? Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1979 N?
Believed to have been recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, October 1979, with vocal by Helena Springs

 

WHATCHA GONNA DO? 1962 D S
Out-take from "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", recorded as a Witmark demo and twice at Columbia Studios, New York - on 14 Nov 1962 (CO77005) and on 4 Dec 1962 (CO77021). The Witmark demo was officially released on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964" in Oct 2010, and the two studio takes were officially released on the very limited edition Columbia/Legacy 4CD-R set "The 50th Anniversary Collection", Dec 2012

 

WHEN A FELLOW'S OUT OF A JOB Grant Rogers/John Barnes, 1970 N?
Recorded during "New Morning" sessions, Columbia Studios, New York, 03 Mar 1970 (no CO number) - songwriter unidentified by Krogsgaard.

 


Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes [Various Artists], Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records 2537950140 (USA/Europe)

WHEN I GET HIGH

Bob Dylan/Taylor Goldsmith, 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. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information that a new song WHEN I GET HIGH completed by Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes is included in the Showtime documentary "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued"

 


Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes [Various Artists], Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records 2537950140 (USA/Europe) containing the "lost" Dylan song WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU completed by Marcus Mumford and Taylor Goldsmith

WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU

Bob Dylan/Marcus Mumford/Taylor Goldsmith, 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. WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU has been completed by Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons and Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes

 

WHEN I GOT TROUBLES 1958 H
From the "John Bucklen Tape", recorded at Hibbing, MN, included on the soundtrack of the 2005 Martin Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home"

 

WHEN THE LINE FORMS Bob Dylan?, 1985 N?
Recorded during the "Empire Burlesque" sessions, The Power Station, New York, 19 Feb 1985

 

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS Bob Dylan/W. Bellon, 1995 N
Song with Polish words by W. Bellon, music by Bob Dylan, see KIEDY WIEJE WIATR

 

WHEN YOU GIVE ME YOUR LOVE    
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

 

WHEN YOU WALKED AWAY 1966 N
Song idea developed during the "Blonde On Blonde" sessions, 1966 - typed lyrics published in "Isis" #46 and "Isis" #120. Information from Clinton Heylin's book "Revolution In The Air - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957-73" (Constable, 2009)

 

WHEN YOU WERE FULL OF WONDER Earth Opera, 1968 N
Actually a track by Earth Opera, not Bob Dylan - see AS IT IS BEFORE

 

WHERE DO YOU TURN 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 - also known as TURNING POINT

 


Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes [Various Artists], Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records 2537950140 (USA/Europe) containing the "lost" Dylan song THE WHISTLE IS BLOWING completed by Marcus Mumford

THE WHISTLE IS BLOWING

Bob Dylan/Marcus Mumford, 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. THE WHISTLE IS BLOWING has been completed by Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons

 

WHITE LOVE AND SONG 1966 N?
Song title found on a typescript of rough drafts described by Clinton Heylin in “Behind The Shades 2” (p242 US edition) – thanks to Gil Walker for the information. It is not known if this refers to a released or unreleased song

 

WHO LOVES YOU? [WHO LOVES YOU MORE?] 1984 S
Out-take from "Empire Burlesque", recorded at Delta Sound Studios, New York, 26 Jul 1984

 

WHO YOU REALLY ARE Traditional, 1963 H
Song title used on bootlegs, the song is actually BACK DOOR BLUES, also known as GRASSHOPPERS ON MY PILLOW, 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)

 

WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO FRANTIC? 1965 S
Previously listed as and alternate title of YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT, out-take from "Bringing It All Back Home", recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 13 Jan 1965 (CO85280) - this title has also been used for the incomplete out-take normally known as LUNATIC PRINCESS NO. 3 or LUNATIC PRINCESS REVISITED (FROM A BUICK 6) Tim Dunn, in his book "The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962-2007" (AuthorHouse, 2008), notes that a copyright record does exist for this title.

Clinton Heylin's book "Revolution In The Air - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957-73" (Constable, 2009) lists this as a later take CO86229 from 16 Jun 1965 and therefore a separate song

 


Tá Tudo Mudando: Zé Ramalho Canta Bob Dylan [Things Have Changed: Zé Ramalho Sings Bob Dylan] (EMI Music Brazil, 2008) - album of Dylan songs with Brazilian Portuguese lyrics by Zé Ramalho, including WIGWAM (scan by Jack from Canada)

WIGWAM/PARA DYLAN Bob Dylan/Zé Ramalho, 2008 N
1970 instrumental from "Self Portrait" with Brazilian Portuguese lyrics by Zé Ramalho from his album "Tá Tudo Mudando: Zé Ramalho Canta Bob Dylan [Things Have Changed: Zé Ramalho Sings Bob Dylan]" (EMI Music Brazil, 2008). The lyrics of all the other songs on the album are translations of Bob's lyrics into Brazilian Portuguese by Zé Ramalho, these lyrics are new. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin, David Plentus and Jack from Canada for information and scan

 

WILD WOLF 1967 N? Y
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, Jul-Oct 1967, the lyrics were published in "Some Other Kinds Of Songs" (1986)
Now released on CD5 of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - Bob Dylan And The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete", Nov 2014

 

WIND BLOWING ON THE WATER 1981 S
Out-take from "Shot Of Love" sessions, recorded at Cream Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 01 Apr 1981 and mixed Clover Recorder, Los Angeles, 05 May 1981

 

WIRETAPPIN' (IT CAN HAPPEN) 1975 N?
Out-take from "Desire", recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 28 Jul 1975 (no CO number) - reportedly too chaotic to be used! In his book "Still On The Road - The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2: 1974-2008" (Constable, 2010), Clinton Heylin says this could also be the song listed as DEVITO'S SONG during the "playback" session on 1 Aug, 1975

 

WITHOUT YOU Bob Dylan/Helena Springs, 1979 N?
Believed to have been recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, CA, October 1979, with vocal by Helena Springs

 

WOLF 1984 S
Instrumental recorded during the "Empire Burlesque" sessions at Delta Sound Studios, New York, 26 July, 1984

 

A WOMAN LIKE YOU 1970 O
Recording session sheet title of THE MAN IN ME, released on "New Morning"

 

WON'CHA BUY A POSTCARD? [WON'T YOU BUY MY POSTCARD] 1962 N
Song mentioned by Bob in his radio interview with Cynthia Gooding in New York, Feb/Mar 1962, as being about "a performer who had a distinctive image to sell". No version has ever been heard

 

WONDER WHEN MY SWAMP’S GONNA CATCH ON FIRE 1970 S
Alternate title of LAS VEGAS BLUES

 

WON'T GO BACK TILL THEY CALL ME BACK AGAIN Bob Dylan?, 1985 S
Previously unknown song possibly recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, May-Oct 1985

 

WON'T YOU BE MY BABY 1967 H
Basement Tapes song recorded with The Band, Big Pink, West Saugerties, NY, Jul-Oct 1967, usually known as BABY, WON'T YOU BE MY BABY although actually copyrighted under the title I LOOKED AS FAR AS I COULD SEE
Now released as BABY WON’T YOU BE MY BABY on CD2 of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 - Bob Dylan And The Band: The Basement Tapes Complete", Nov 2014

 

WOODSTOCK YULE 1969  
This is a hoax title of a non-existent track from the 1969 "Self Portrait" sessions named in a joke article UK music magazine "New Musical Express in 1975 about a fictitious Dylan Christmas album called "Snow Over Interstate 80". The article claims it was considered as a Christmas single. For more details, see my "Snow Over Interstate 80" page.

 


The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait 1969-1971 (Columbia, 2013) with WORKING ON A GURU

WORKING ON A GURU 1970 S
Out-take from "New Morning", recorded with George Harrison at Columbia Studios, New York, 01 May 1970 (CO107089). now officially released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait 1969-1971, released in Aug 2013

 

WORLD WAR NO III 1963 D
Alternate title of CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, recorded at Broadside magazine offices, New York, March 1963 - Dylan lyrics to the traditional TRAIL OF THE BUFFALO

 

WORSE THAN MONEY 1965 O
Recording session sheet title of SHE BELONGS TO ME, released on "Bringing It All Back Home" - also called MY GIRL

 


The Blackbird Diaries - 2010 album by Dave Stewart including co-composition WORTH THE WAITING FOR, for more details see

WORTH THE WAITING FOR Bob Dylan/Dave Stewart, 1985 S
Song co-written with Dave Stewart on Dave's 2010 album "The Blackbird Diaries". The original recording of this song is one of two instrumentals recorded with Dave Stewart at the Church Studios, London, 22 Nov 1985, broadcast on BBC TV on "The Old Grey Whistle Test", 26 Nov 1985. The song is on a cassette tape listed as "Female Voc." (Annie Lennox is the singer). Thanks to Harold Lepidus and Arie de Reus for information

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