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"There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them,
In this age of fibreglass I'm searching for a gem."
Bob Dylan, "Dirge", ©1973/2001 by Ram's Horn Music

A list-in-progress of officially released but elusive recordings of Bob Dylan, compiled by Alan Fraser.

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All the songs listed in the Official Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these alphabetical pages.
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Living In Another Country: International Stereo Releases

Starlight In The East: Bob Dylan’s Unreleased Songs

Bob Dylan at the Movies: An Overview of all Films with Dylan Performances

Other Flying Pig Pages

After my current backlog is cleared I shall be freezing the web-site and taking an extended break until at least July 2021. This is because I have several long-standing projects that I wish to complete, including a new Dylan discography book. Some visitors from mainland Europe have been experiencing access problems, and I shall also try to get my web-space provider to get to the bottom of this. Please do not submit any contributions for the web-site from now onwards until this message disappears. They will not be added until my other work has been completed, which may be some time.

16 Jun 2021: bobdylan.com have announced Shadow Kingdom, an exclusive online broadcast event that will take place on Sunday 18 Jul 2021 at 2 p.m. PT (10 p.m. British Summer Time). Bob will perform songs from his extensive body of work "in an intimate setting". Tickets are $25 and allow reviewing until 21 Jul 2021.

24 May 2021: Happy 80th Birthday Mister Bob! Keep on keepin' on!

13 May 2021: Thanks to Bob Stacy for information that the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma will open to the public on 10 May 2022. To draw attention to the centre's offerings and plans, a previously unheard version of Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right — described as “one sterling example of the treasures to be found” in the archive — was released Wednesday morning (12 May 2021) as a free download, courtesy of the BDC. Described as “heretofore unknown,” the 1962 recording includes alternate lyrics and was recorded in the New York apartment of friends Milton (Mell) and Lillian Bailey well before its eventual appearance on 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The download can be found here. The new performance has been added to Online Performances (Other).

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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.

"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.

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.

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.

All the songs listed in the Official Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these alphabetical pages.
A-E

F-J

K-O

P-S

T-Z

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.

EDLIS "Gemologist"!

Searching For A Gem is compiled by:

Alan Fraser
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
For more information on England's Macclesfield, see . There is also a Macclesfield in North Carolina, USA, and two in Australia: one in South Australia (near Adelaide) and one in Victoria (near Melbourne)! All three towns were founded by Cheshire expatriates.

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 .

Alan Fraser, UK - webmaster
Email: bob-rare@searchingforagem.com

Hans Seegers, Holland - Dylan discographer and collector supreme

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 and also appeared in "The Bob Dylan Companion", edited by Carl Benson, Schirmer Books, New York, 1998.

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!

Larry Eden in his trademark Rolling Thunder hat, photo by "jackobob"

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

Counter restarted 24 Dec 2015! Please add around 5 million visits since mid-1998.

Official Rarities and Obscurities	Traveling Wilburys	Online Performances (bobdylan.com)	Online Performances (Other)	Interviews with Bob	VHS & DVD
	International Mono Releases	International Stereo Releases	Released Rarities	Index of International Releases by Country (work in progress)
Honourable Mentions	Honourable Mentions (Dylan's Roots)	Honourable Mentions - Blowin' In The Wind Covers	Honourable Mentions - Covers (Misc)	Honourable Mentions Video
	Questionable Releases	Questionable Releases of Official Dylan Albums	Questionable Releases of Official Dylan Singles	Questionable Releases Video

Mission		Privacy		Acknowledgements
	For this site's mission and inclusion/exclusion policies, see here.		Before contacting me, read this site's Privacy Policy.		The list of people who've contributed to the site is now long enough to merit its own Thanks page!
Red Herrings		Traders		Links
	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.

"Searching For A Gem"

Bob Dylan's Officially Released Rarities and Obscurities