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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]
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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
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There are now over 300 pages on this site - to search for specific entries, try here! |
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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
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 Traveling Wilburys |
 Online Performances (bobdylan.com) |
 Online Performances (Other) |
 Interviews with Bob |
 VHS & DVD |
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 International Stereo Releases |
 Released Rarities |
 Index of International Releases by Country (work in progress) |
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 Honourable Mentions |
 Honourable Mentions (Dylan's Roots) |
 Honourable Mentions - Blowin' In The Wind Covers |
 Honourable Mentions - Covers (Misc) |
 Honourable Mentions Video |
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 Questionable Releases |
 Questionable Releases of Official Dylan Albums |
 Questionable Releases of Official Dylan Singles |
 Questionable Releases Video |
"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:01 June, 2023
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
Viruses and Spam
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 this site's mission and inclusion/exclusion policies, see here. |
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Before contacting me, read this site's Privacy Policy. |
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The list of people who've contributed to the site is now long enough to merit its own Thanks page! |
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For records that have been wrongly associated with Bob but definitely have no connection with him, see here. |  |
Sorry, for legal and other reasons it is not possible for this site to offer valuations of your Dylan rarities, for details of online Dylan traders, see here. |  |
For other Bob Dylan related sites that may be of interest to Searching For A Gem visitors, see here. |
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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! Also remembering Hans Seegers, who died on 30 Nov 2022 aged only 71. Hans was a Dylan collector extraordinaire, whose collection became a vital part of my Searching For A Gem website. |
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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
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