These 7" Subterranean Homesick Blues singles are listed separately because of the length of the Mono Singles 1965 page. For details of the promo and regular singles with Like A Rolling Stone split into two parts, which are rarities, see 1965. For the other 1965 Mono Singles & EPs pages, see here:
For 1965 Dylan mono 7" singles and EPs with rarities see 1965. For illustrations of all the generic 7" single sleeves used by Bob's record companies from the 1960s onwards, see the 7" Single Sleeves page. (A single has much less value to a collector if it doesn't have its correct original sleeve.)
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"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7"
mono singles, Columbia 4-43242 (USA/Canada), 8 Mar 1965:
Ian Woodward says: "The single
first showed in the US charts
at #83 in the 3 Apr 1965 issue of "Billboard". The chart in "Billboard" for 3
Apr 1965 would have been on sales between 16 and 22 Mar 1965. Whatever sales it
achieved in the previous week were insufficient to get it into the top 100. It
was noted, however, as a regional breakout in the previous week's issue (i.e.
the one with the masthead date of 27 Mar 1965 that was on newsstand sale from 20
Mar 1965). This would have been put together for printing around 16 to 18 Mar
1965 and was likely based on radio plays as much as actual sales in the previous
week (that is, the first week it became available).
The Subterranean Homesick Blues single entered the "Cash Box" and "Record World"
charts in the same week as it did the
"Billboard"
charts (but different entry positions)."
Sound Makers acetate:
The seller says: "This is the only known acetate to have ever surfaced of Dylan's iconic 1965 hit, Subterranean Homesick Blues. It is from 1965, and was created by Sound Makers Inc. from New York City. There are 7 tracks on side 1, and 1 track on side 2. These all seem to be the same take, but are different mixes. The first few mixes features piano in the intro, and later mixes do not. I believe that some of these mixes have never been released. Tracks 5 & 6 both feature heavy/fuzzy electric guitar much more noticeably. The track that is on side 2 has areas where the volume suddenly gets brighter/louder, as if an engineer or producer was tinkering with different ideas. Track 3 has a short spoken intro, probably by the producer. Record is housed in a plain manila sleeve. Both labels have handwritten titles."
Gerd has found a second acetate on eBay in May 2022. This one is 8" in diameter, single-sided and comes in a buff "audiodisc" sleeve. It has a CBS promo label with typed text.
Columbia 4-43242 (USA/Canada):
Columbia/Legacy 88697977117-1/4-43342 (USA), 2011:
Columbia/Legacy 88875124402-(SV)1 (USA), 2015:
Thanks to Peter Stone Brown, Ian Woodward, Hans Seegers, Stefan Haras and Augie Krater for information and scans.
Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Andy Williams - "Columbia Records Hit Pack" - 7" mono singles radio station promo pack, Columbia (USA), Mar 1965:
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Hans-Juergen Zollerg for scans. For other promo and commercial releases of Columbia 4-43242, see below. Kenneth Robson has a copy of this red vinyl promo with the word "TOUTANT" stamped on it - does anyone have an explanation?
Various Artists - "Philco Invites You To A Pop Party Vol.
I" -
7" mono singles boxed set, Columbia
Special Products (no catalogue number) (USA), 1965:
Philco was
a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company, and this was a customer special offer.
The box, which could be yellow or blue, contained five current Columbia 7" singles.
Manuel García Jara points out that the single selection in these boxes was
completely random, so there is no point in buying one unless you know it
contains a Dylan single!
Various Artists - "Philco Invites You To A Pop Party Vol.
II" -
7" mono singles boxed set, Columbia
Special Products (no catalogue number) (USA), 1965:
This second Philco box contained also five current Columbia 7" singles.
Again, the single selection in these boxes was completely random, so there is no
point in buying one unless you know it contains a Dylan single! Again, Volume
II was available in both yellow and blue boxes.
Volume II box spine scan by Manuel García Jara (yellow)
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel García Jara for information and scans and to Stephen Goldsmith for finding a complete box for sale on eBay.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono singles, CBS 201753 (UK), Apr 1965:
Paul Shenton's commercial single with a solid centre has a different A-side record label with the song title on one line instead of two in smaller text. The text "PRODUCTION: TOM WILSON" has been added to both sides below "(Dylan)". This single has stamped matrix numbers: A-side - A.5058-1A-1, B-side - A.5059-1B-1.
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Manuel García Jara and Paul Shenton for information and pictures.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono singles, CBS BA 301079 (Greece), Apr 1965:
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono single, CBS 1883 (Norway/Denmark/Sweden), 1965:
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" test pressing and commercial mono single, CBS LL-764-C (Japan), Jul 1965:
The Japanese 7" single CBS LL-764-C was the first Bob Dylan single to be released in Japan, by CBS/Nippon Columbia, before it was taken over by Sony Music. The single has a 4-page folded insert and orange CBS labels. It is very rare indeed. Wil Gielen has also found photos of two test pressings with plain white labels online.
Test Pressings:
Commercial Singles:
![]() CBS LL-764-C (Japan) - front of folded insert, scan by Hans Seegers |
Bizarrely, the record labels of Wil Gielen's commercial copy (not shown) each have a sticker over the CBS logo and a ring of tape covering the copyright information round the circumference of the label. The reason why this should have been done is obscure. Wil's copies of Just Like A Woman/Obviously 5 Believers (CBS LL-987-C, 1966, see 1966 Just Like A Woman) and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35/Pledging My Time (CBS LL-928-C, 1966, see 1966 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35) also have the same defacing, so have come from the same source. Apparently similar taping has been found on items imported from Hong Kong, so these may have been exported from Japan to another Far East country. Sonny Boy McFitzson believes that these copies were actually bought after Sony Music bought CBS Japan from Nippon Columbia, so the stickers are to cover Nippon Columbia's trademarks. |
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![]() CBS LL-764-C (Japan) - detail of front, scan by Hans Seegers (the Japanese text means "Melancholy Expressed in Western Rock"!) |
![]() Sony Music SIKP-1002 (Japan) - detail of front, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson |
![]() Sony Music SIKP-1002 (Japan) - front with sticker, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson |
![]() CBS LL-764-C (Japan) - A-side scan by Hans Seegers |
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![]() CBS LL-764-C (Japan) - detail of A-side, scan by Hans Seegers ("MADE BY NIPPON COLUMBIA CO. LTD. JAPAN") |
![]() CBS LL-764-C (Japan) - B-side scan by Hans Seegers |
This mono single will be re-released on "cherry pink" vinyl to mark Bob's tour of Japan in April 2020. It is expected to be limited to 2,500 copies and the front artwork is the same as in 1965. Sonny Boy McFitzson points out that for Sony Music to re-release this CBS single is as big a deal as when Columbia/CBS bought the rights to reissue Planet Waves and Before The Flood from Asylum in 1982.
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Wil Gielen and Sonny Boy McFitzson for information and scans.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono singles, CBS BA-221172 (Australia)/CBS BA-461059 (New Zealand), 1965:
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono single, CBS 2-468 (Hong Kong), 1965:
This rare Hong Kong single has orange CBS labels with a solid centre. There was no picture sleeve. Thanks to Peter Denzler for information and scans. |
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 4-43242 (Philippines), 1965:
These very rare CBS 7" mono singles were made in the Philippines by Mareco Inc. and use the US catalogue number. There were no picture sleeves. The mono promo single has plain white labels with the text rubber-stamped. The A-side has been misprinted with a partial backwards stamp! The commercial single has unique green labels and the copy shown has a handwritten radio station sticker, "DYRM". "RM" in the station's call sign is for Ramon Magsaysay, the original owner of the radio station and President of the Philippines, who was killed in an air crash in 1957.
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me" - 7" mono singles, CBS SSC.556 (South Africa/Southern Rhodesia), 1965:
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - 7" mono jukebox and commercial singles, CBS 1.904 (NL/West Germany), 10 May 1965:
The record label variants were very complicated but essentially summarise to this:
The record of Manuel García Jara's copy has a unique solid centre (variant 4). Apart from this difference, this copy has the second sleeve variant (a folded insert with dark blue lettering) This sleeve has a sticker from a previous owner. The labels have "45 RPM", "1.904" and a large CBS logo on both sides, similar to variant 3, but there are some differences:
A-side: "45 RPM" and "1.904" are in slightly different positions: more orientated to the right. The text "RECORDING FIRST..." is in a lower position.
B-side: the text under the centre hole is lower, overlapping the circumference text.
There were further tiny label variants, but these aren't shown. The pairing of sleeve and label variants appears to be random. The Dutch single was also distributed in West Germany - there was no separate German release.
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Tom Willems and Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - 7" mono jukebox and commercial singles, CBS 1904 (France), May 1965:
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'"/"Subterranean
Homesick Blues" - 7" mono jukebox and commercial singles, CBS 1904 (Italy), 10
Jun 1965:
Ian Woodward has found an article from "Cashbox", Jun 1966, that dates this
single from then, released at the same time as Highway 61 Revisited/Can You
Please Crawl Out Your Window?.
Also shown is a special edition that came in a red envelope (below) promoting "THE NEW SOUND" that also holds a single by The Byrds with their cover of Mr Tambourine Man, pictured on the other side. The sleeve came in two variants:
"BOB DYLAN" and song titles in red text on front of sleeve, Byrds on reverse
"BOB DYLAN" and song titles in grey text on rear of sleeve, Byrds on front
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" - 7" mono EP, CBS EP 6096 (France), May 1965 (two variants):
CBS EP 6096 (France) - front scan by Manfred Endtner (both variants) |
The other tracks on this EP are It Ain't Me, Babe; The Times They Are
A-Changin' and She Belongs To Me. This cover picture was used again in France for the Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? singles, see Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1966-68. |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - detail of front, scan by Manfred Endtner (both variants) |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - rear scan by Manfred Endtner (both variants) |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - detail of rear, scan by Manfred Endtner (both variants) |
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CBS EP 6096 (France) - detail of A-side, scan by Stefan Haras (both variants) |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - detail of A-side, scan by Hanns Peter Bushoff (variant 1 - font 1, e.g. "g") |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - A-side scan by Hanns Peter Bushoff (variant 2) |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - detail of A-side, scan by Hanns Peter Bushoff (variant 2 - font 2, e.g. "g") |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - B-side scan by Stefan Haras (both variants) |
CBS EP 6096 (France) - detail of rear, scan by Manfred Endtner (both
variants)
Thanks to the eagle-eyed Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff for spotting that the A-side of his copy has a tiny difference from Stefan's A-side - the text "longue durée [extended play]" to the left of the centre hole is in a different type face. To see this most clearly, look at the letter "g" - on the A-side of Stefan's copy and on both B-sides it looks like this: "g" (a serif font), on the A-side of Hanns Peter's copy it looks like this: "g" (a sans-serif font).
Thanks to Manfred Endtner, Stefan Haras and Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff for information and scans.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" - 7" mono EP, CBS 6193 (Portugal), 1965:
"Como Un Vagabundo [Like A Rolling Stone]"/"Tristezas De Ausencia [Subterranean Homesick Blues]" - 7" mono promo and commercial singles, CBS 321.440 (Argentina/Uruguay), 1965:
"Como Una Piedra Que Rueda" [Like A Rolling Stone] - 7"
mono EP, CBS EPC 496 (Mexico), 1965:
This EP exclusive to Mexico had a
unique picture of Bob at the piano by Daniel Kramer. For the Mexican 7" single
of Like A Rolling Stone, see above.
For the other 1965 Mono Singles & EPs pages, see here:
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![]() Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1966-68 |
Mono 7" Singles & EPs 1969 |
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