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
This second part of the list collects non-album song performances and interviews by Bob Dylan on VHS video and DVD (and laserdisc where I have information) from 1970 to 1979. I would be grateful for any additional information on these items and other material to place here. Video material included on CD-ROMs or CD Plus discs is still in the main directory in the appropriate part. For 1970s films with Dylan album tracks, see VHS & DVD: Films with Dylan Album Tracks 1970s.
Films are listed by date of original appearance (in theatres or on TV), not when the VHS video or DVD came out, often some years later. This page does not include songs from regular albums that appear in films or videos without performance footage, nor do I include music videos of standard album tracks - for a full Dylan filmography, see "Expecting Rain" or "TV Talkin'"
For informed discussion of all Bob's screen appearances, see C.P. Lee's well-received book "Like A Bullet Of Light".
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier for laserdisc details and catalogue numbers and Michel Pomarede for scans. Thanks also to Larry Crum for checking these entries against his own collection, "Positively Bob Dylan" by Michael Krogsgaard, "Bob Dylan on Video" (article in "Record Collector" magazine, Sep 1992), and several other sources. All scans that aren't credited are from my own collection or www.amazon.com
If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to existing entries, please let me know! Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities - see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the dealers on my Trading page for assistance!
Revised: 16 September, 2024.
Titles in red are not available on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com )
Key to symbols used:
Links to other World Wide Web pages -
Links to email addresses -
Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
1971
Earl Scruggs & Guests - "Scruggs: A Festival Of Music" - VHS video of 1971 documentary: New Line Cinema 2015 (USA), 1978; DVD: CustomFlix (catalogue number?) (USA), (date?); Goldenlane Records CLP 1608-9 (USA), 2006:
New Line Cinema 2015 (USA) - 1978 VHS scan by Dr Kevin Jones |
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Goldenlane Records CLP 1608-9 (USA) 2006 DVD release - picture from Barnes & Noble web-site found by Tim Dunn |
Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Germany) - cover scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Germany) - insert scan by Jean-Pol Hiernaux |
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CustomFlix US DVD release - now possibly out of print |
Varied VARIED-0012-DVD (UK) - current DVD release, picture found by Paul S. Levine (Delta 94136 is the same) |
Delta 94136 (UK) - rear scan by Jack from Canada |
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German DVD release - picture from www.amazon.co.uk |
R-0074-3 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, 1970 (video) R-0445 East Virginia Blues [traditional] - Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded as R-0074 (video) This film was broadcast on National Education TV in New York on 10-17 Jan 1971 as Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family & Friends. The audio of R-0074 was first released on the Columbia album Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family & Friends in 1971 (see 1971). This album appeared for the first time on CD on a "2 on 1" Flatt & Scruggs re-release with 1972's Nashville Airplane on Collectable Records in 2000. The version of East Virginia Blues that appeared as the B-side of a single from the album, Lonesome Ruben (see 1971) has now been confirmed as different from R-0445! |
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New Zealand DVD release - picture found by Bill Hester |
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Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 19075981932 (Europe) - front of slipcase with sticker (my copy) |
R-0074, R-0445, and other performances from this session were released in Nov 2019 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 - Travelin' Thru 1967-1969: Earl Scruggs Interview (The Home of Thomas B. Allen,
Carmel, New York, 17 May 1970, Mono) |
Larry Crum informs me that Michael Krogsgaard dates the New Line Cinema VHS release as 1985, but the date in the white band below "VHS FORMAT" is definitely "MCMLXXVIII" (1978) - perhaps it was reissued in 1985. (If so, I'd like scans of that release.)
Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for details of the US DVD release called The Complete Earl Scruggs Story. This is now confirmed as the same material despite the new (misleading) title, as is Earl Scruggs, His Family & Friends: The Private Sessions. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information that this was also released in Germany as Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Region 0) using the Complete Earl Scruggs title. Thanks to Tricia Jungwirth for the information that the original 90 min film is now available on DVD and VHS as a private release by film maker David Hoffman - for more details, see https://thehoffmancollection.com/ads/Scruggs/Dylan.htm. Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding yet another current US release from Goldenlane Records, on sale at Barnes & Noble.
Thanks to Paul S. Levine for the picture of the Varied UK PAL DVD release, which is now available. Jack from Canada has a copy of this DVD as Delta 94136. The title is actually The Complete Earl Scruggs Story: Earl Scruggs, His Family & Friends. Thanks to Moise Potié and Bill Hester for pictures of Japanese and New Zealand DVD releases - more information required.
1972
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" - Apple feature film, Mar 1972, VHS Video: Thorn-EMI TVD 90 0911 2 (UK), Aug 1983; Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA), 1993; Warner Home Video PES 038084 (UK), 1990; Laserdisc: Apple/Paramount LV 15167 (USA/Canada), 1995; DVD: Panorama Music Video PMVDVD-902032 (Hong Kong and Macao only), 1998:
Argentinean film poster, picture found by Sergio Mariano Romay |
All songs were recorded live with George Harrison, Leon Russell and Ringo Starr, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 Aug 1971 (evening show). The two concert performances in New York City in Aug 1971 were organised by George Harrison to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) and the Bangladesh Liberation War. All profits from the sale of albums and videos go to the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. The video release omits Mr Tambourine Man (R-0078) from the Apple 1972 soundtrack album (see 1972). For the 2005 expanded DVD edition, which contains new Dylan material, but still not Mr. Tambourine Man, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. Arie de Reus thinks that when he saw the film on its first release in 1972 on a special large screen Mr. Tambourine Man was included, and that pre-release information for the VHS release in 1983 said that Mr. Tambourine Man would be included. However, no commercial release of the show has ever included it so far! Can anyone else remember seeing the film including Mr. Tambourine Man in 1972? Ian Woodward says he has the original press pack from the 1972 screening, which lists the songs, and Mr. Tambourine Man is not included. Jenni Barrett says a video of Mr. Tambourine Man claiming to be from the Concert for Bangladesh was available on the Internet, but is no longer available. However, Tom Willems has found a review in Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant" from 15 May 1972. The review was written by B.J. Bertina after seeing the movie in Cannes. He mentions two songs played by Bob Dylan in the movie as being exceptional: Blowin' In The Wind and Mr. Tambourine Man. It would therefore seem that Mr. Tambourine Man was indeed in preliminary showings of the film, but not retained for the theatrical release and all subsequent commercial VHS/DVD etc. releases. |
R-0484 If Not For You - a short
clip of Bob and George Harrison performing this song early in the film, not
included on the soundtrack album
This song is included in full in the extras on the 2005 expanded DVD edition,
see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.
R-0075-2 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
This performance also appeared on a 1983 compilation from Columbia Brazil, The
Legend, see 1983.
R-0076-2 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A
Train To Cry
This performance also appeared on a 1995 Westwood One radio station broadcast
about Dylan and the Beatles,
see 1995.
R-0077-2 Blowin' In The Wind
This performance also appeared on an Epic promo CD single for The Concert For
Bangladesh,
see 1991. Dag Braathen informs me that, despite the fact it's a 1971 performance, R-0077 was also included on a
1988 VHS
video called Rock 'N' Roll -The Greatest Years: 1963, see
VHS & DVD
1980s.
R-0079-2 Just Like A Woman
HBO Video 2379 (USA) - VHS tape spine scan by Steven Fant
Thorn EMI 2379 (USA) - VHS tape spine scan by Steven Fant
Warner Home Video PES 38084 (UK) - 1989 VHS scan by Dag Braathen |
The UK VHS release has now been deleted, but the concert was released on DVD in an expanded edition in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. Thanks to Paul S. Levine for the picture of the Oct 2005 US DVD. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the 2002 Brazilian DVD shown. This is a Region 0 release, almost certainly unauthorised by Paramount. Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans of the 1995 US laserdisc release. |
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Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - rear/right side of 1993 US VHS cassette card sleeve, reissued 1998 |
Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - rear/right side/inside top of 1993 US VHS cassette card sleeve, reissued 1998 |
Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - tape label of 1993 US VHS cassette release, reissued 1998 |
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Apple/Paramount 15167 (USA) - 1993 US VHS cassette copy, front promo stickers, scan by Steven Fant |
Apple/Paramount LV 15167, Laserdisc (USA/Canada, 1995) - uses cover from the 1993 US VHS release, front scan by Hans Seegers |
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US 2005 DVD release - picture from www.amazon.com |
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" - Apple feature film, Mar 1972, VHS Video: Thorn EMI Video ZM 4017 (Australia), 1980s:
Thorn EMI Video ZM 4017 (Australia) - VHS tape spine scan by
Stuart Moore
George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" - Apple feature film, Mar 1972, VHS Video: Warner Home Video WV-38583 (Japan), 1991; VHD Disc: Thorn EMI/Tohokushinsha Home Video TESE88010 (Japan), 1985; Laserdisc: Warner Home Video NJL-38583 (Japan), 1990, Videoarts Japan/Apple VALJ-3313 (Japan), 1992, Videoarts Japan/Apple VALZ-2105 (Japan), 1995; DVD release: Apple COBY-90014 (Japan), 1995:
VHD Disc:
This unusual 1980s video format was very short-lived, so there are almost certainly few if any remaining VHD players today! The copy shown has a single-sided insert. There was no obi, and Wil believes this format did not have obis. For two other VHD discs, see VHS & DVD 1980s.
VHS Tape:
Warner Home Video WV-38583 (Japan) - 1991 VHS
tape, tape spine scan by Wil Gielen
Laserdiscs:
There were three laserdisc releases of this film in Japan, by Warner Home Video in 1990 and by Video Arts in 1992 and 1995. The 1990 promo copy shown has Japanese characters indicating a sample on the disc label to the right of the title.
DVD release:
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As far as I know, this is the only official DVD release of the original
film (in what looks like a CD jewel case). For the 2005 expanded DVD
edition, which contains new Dylan material, but still not Mr. Tambourine Man
(as per comments above), see
VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3. Thanks to Wil Gielen for information about the dating of this official Japanese DVD release. |
Apple COBY-90014 (Japan, 1995) - rear of DVD release with obi |
Thanks to Michel Pomarede, Jean-Pierre Mercier, Hans Seegers, Tim Leeman, Wil Gielen, Steven Fant, Stuart Moore and Sergio Mariano Romay for information and scans.
1973
"Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid" - feature film
directed by Sam Peckinpah, May 1973, VHS video: MGM/UA Home Video
MV600159
(USA), MGM/UA Home Video
UMV 10159 (UK),
1982, MGM/UA Home Video 31
512 (West Germany, VHS & Betamax), 1980s; MGM/UA Home Video
0066 (Argentina), 1986; Laserdisc: MGM/UA Home Video UMLV 10159 (USA), 1983:
For the film soundtrack album, see
International Album Releases. The
1973 cinema-released version (103 mins), the 1986 Director's Cut (122
mins) and the two 2006 versions (1998 version - 122 mins, 2005 version -
115 mins) of this film all contain Dylan music not available on CD.
MGM/UA Home Video 0066 (Argentina), 1986:
MGM/UA Home Video
0066 (Argentina) - spine of slipcase, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay
MGM/UA Home Video
0066 (Argentina) - front of tape, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay
Full details of the Dylan tracks included in the 1973 and 1986 versions of the film are listed in Glen Dundas' book "Tangled Up In Tapes", edition 4 (1999)
Thanks to Larry Crum for VHS video information. Thanks to Ronald Born for the scan of the West German VHS release and to Patrick Helfrich for the much rarer Betamax version - both have the same catalogue number. The running time is approx 105 mins, which indicates it's the original version. The title is translated as "Pat Garrett Jagt Billy The Kid [Pat Garrett Hunts Billy The Kid]". Lars-Arne Klintworth has a German DVD copy from 2005 with catalogue number Warner Bros Z5 59922, running time 110 mins.
MGM/UA Home Video M201567 (USA) - VHS release, front scan by Jack from Canada (1986 Director's Cut) |
The original video of this film released in 1982 was withdrawn in 1987 in favour of the 1986 "Director's Cut", see VHS & DVD 1980s. The 1986 Director's Cut was replaced in its turn in 2006 by two versions on a 2DVD set released in the USA on 10 Jan 2006: a "2005 Special Edition" version of the film on disc 1 and a "1988 Turner Preview Version" on disc 2, for both see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. To complicate matters, Criterion Collection released a multi-disc 4K/Blu-ray edition on 2 Jul 2024. This release contains three versions of the film: the "Final Preview Cut" (122 mins, new), the Original Theatrical Release (106 mins, remastered), and the "50th Anniversary Release" (117 mins, new)! See VHS & DVD 2020s. Exactly what Dylan music these new versions contain will be added when the films have been analysed. |
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Criterion Collection 1224 (USA) 4K/Blu-ray release (2024 - original version remastered plus two new versions, my copy) |
Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque, Moise Potié, Yan Friis, Sergio Mariano Romay, Jack from Canada and André Wilbers for information and pictures.
1976
"All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music" - BBC-TV documentary series, broadcast in the UK in 1976 - DVD release: 5DVD boxed set, Voiceprint TPDVDBOX1 (USA), 2008/Plastic Head (catalogue number?) (UK), 5 May 2008:
This 5DVD boxed set titled All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music - Tony Palmer's Classic Series contains all 17 episodes of the documentary series first broadcast in 1976 and not released commercially until 2008. It includes a Dylan rarity in episode 12: "Go Down Moses! Songs of War and Protest".
R-0382 With
God On Our Side - live, BBC TV "Tonight" show, London, 12 May 1964
This performance also appears in the
1996 VHS/DVD documentary Dancing In The Street
- A History Of Rock And Roll (see VHS
& DVD 1990s Part 2).
A
complete audio performance of this song is included on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music Europe limited edition 9LP set The 50th
Anniversary Collection 1964, see
2014.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Bob Dylan/Rolling Thunder Revue - "Hard Rain TV Special" - NBC-TV special
(USA), broadcast 14 Sep 1976:
Recorded live with
the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (during hard rain!).
This show has not been commercially released on VHS or DVD but is included here
for completeness as six of its performances have been officially released on
albums (two as rarities). It deserves a media release, hopefully in an expanded
form including the full concert.
NBC-TV poster, picture from www.amazon.com |
The one-hour TV show tracklist (not in
the order actually performed on stage) was: A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - otherwise officially unreleased, surprisingly not included on the Hard Rain album! R-0221 Blowin' In The Wind - duet with Joan Baez, officially released on her 1993 Vanguard boxed set Rare, Live & Classic, see 1993 Railroad Boy (Traditional) - duet with Joan Baez, otherwise officially unreleased Deportees (Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoffman) - duet with Joan Baez, otherwise officially unreleased |
Poster from www.imdb.com |
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Razor & Tie 7930183035-2 (USA, 2009) - front of digipak with sticker (my copy with R-0757) |
R-0757 I Pity The Poor Immigrant - duet with Joan Baez, now officially released on the Joan Baez Razor & Tie CD and DVD How Sweet The Sound, see 2009 and VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4.
Shelter From The Storm - included on the Hard Rain album
Maggie's Farm - included on the Hard Rain album
One Too Many Mornings - included on the Hard Rain album
Mozambique - otherwise officially unreleased
Idiot Wind - included on the Hard Rain album
As this has never been released commercially I haven't allocated R- numbers to the unreleased songs. It's reported that Bob's Fort Collins performances with Joan Baez featured in the 1976 Hard Rain TV special could not be included on the Columbia album because of contractual difficulties, so were replaced with Dylan performances from Fort Worth, TX, 16 May 1976. Thanks to Dag Braathen for information that the TV special was shown on BBC TV in the UK on 28 Sep 1976 as part of the "Old Grey Whistle Test" series (I watched it, but sadly didn't tape it).
The full concert tracklist from Olof Bjoerner's Bob Dylan Chronologies web-site:
Mr. Tambourine Man; It Ain't Me, Babe; Vincent Van Gogh (Robert Friemark); Maggie's Farm (A, B); One Too Many Mornings (A, B); Mozambique (Bob Dylan/Jacques Levy) (A); Isis (Bob Dylan/Jacques Levy); Blowin' In The Wind (A); Railroad Boy (trad.) (A); Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoffman) (A); I Pity The Poor Immigrant (A); Shelter From The Storm (A, B); Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan/Jacques Levy); I Want You; Tangled Up In Blue; You're A Big Girl Now (B); You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go; Lay, Lady, Lay; Silver Mantis (Joseph Henry Burnett/John Fleming) - vocal by T-Bone Burnett; Going, Going, Gone; Idiot Wind (A, B); Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Gotta Travel On (Paul Clayton/Larry Ehrlich/Pete Seeger/Ronnie Gilbert/Lee Hays/Fred Hellerman/David Lazar/Tom Six); A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (A).
(A)
Hard Rain TV Special
(B)
Hard Rain (1976 Columbia album)
1978
Bob Dylan with The Rolling Thunder Revue - "Renaldo & Clara" - 4 hour/2 hour feature film written and directed by Bob shown in cinemas in 1978, Artificial Eye/Lombard Street Films (USA), Jan 1978:
US film poster found by Jack from Canada |
Renaldo & Clara lasted for over four hours, and was very badly received by critics. It had only a very short cinema release, even in a badly chopped-down two hour version. The full film was shown on TV in the UK and Sweden in 1985. It has never been commercially released for home viewing, although pirate copies exist in varying quality, all taken from the European TV broadcasts. |
Japanese cinema booklet - picture found by Moise Potié |
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Bag for the promo EP (see 1978) with the same design, picture from www.eBay.de |
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French film poster found by Jack from Canada |
Another Italian film poster |
UK film poster - photo by C P Lee (from a wall in his home) |
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However, this film contains about 43 minutes of amazing concert footage of Bob in concert with the Rolling Thunder Revue in late 1975, and is worth re-releasing on DVD for that alone! Some of this footage appeared in 2002 on the bonus DVD with the Limited Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue.
Although a soundtrack album was never released, a Columbia promo four-song 12" EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo And Clara was released in the USA to coincide with the showing of the film in cinemas (see 1978). Two of these songs have now been released on CD, live performances of Isis on Biograph (see 1985), and It Ain't Me, Babe on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (see 2002).
Thanks to Moise Potié for finding the Japanese cinema booklet. Most films shown in cinemas in Japan have these information booklets on sale in the foyer while they're being screened. Thanks to C P Lee and Jack from Canada for the US, UK and French film posters. Thanks to Wiebke Dittmer for the picture of the promo EP bag with the Italian film poster design found on eBay Germany. The text advertises the two hour version of the film.
US film poster, picture from "Isis" magazine |
Thanks to "Isis" magazine for news that Martin Scorsese's documentary Conjuring The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese will now be released on Netflix on 12 Jun 2019. There will be screenings at selected theatres in the USA on 11 Jun 2019. As well as the accompanying 14CD set called Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings the 3LP set The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue was re-released in a remixed/remastered form. For details of the 14CD set see 2019.For details of the documentary film see VHS & DVD 2010s. There is considerable overlap between the 1978 film, the 2019 film and the 2019 14CD set, and I have now allocated separate R-numbers to all the Dylan performances in the 1978 film as well as in both 2019 releases. |
Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings - 14CD set |
Soundtrack from Wikipedia
R-2022 When I Paint My Masterpiece performed by Bob Dylan, War Memorial Coliseum, Plymouth, MA, 31 Oct 1975
R-2080 Mississippi Blues performed by Bob Dylan, Gas Station, Augusta, ME, 25 Nov 1975
R-2011 Kaw-Liga performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, Oct 1975
Isis performed by Bob
Dylan, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada, 4 Dec 1975
Released on the Columbia promo four-song 12" EP
4 Songs From "Renaldo And Clara (see 1978),
later released as the B-side of the 1984 Dutch
Jokerman single (see
1984), and on Biograph (see
1985), so no longer a rarity. The version on the bonus DVD with the Limited Edition of
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
is an otherwise unavailable remix of this
(see 2002)
Ballad in Plain D performed by Gordon Lightfoot, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, Oct 1975
In the Pines performed by Ronnie Hawkins, location unspecified
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna
Fall performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, 4 Dec 1975
Released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling
Thunder Revue, Nov 2002
Nurse's Song performed by Allen Ginsberg, Gerdes Folk City, New York, 23 Oct 1975
Thanks to Bob Stacy for information that Nurse's Song (William Blake/Allen Ginsberg) was one of the songs recorded with Bob at the Ginsberg sessions in Nov 1971, and that version of Nurse's Song is included on Allen Ginsberg's Omnivore Records 3CD boxed set The Last Word On "First Blues" (R-1648, see 2016). Allen Ginsburg's original 1983 First Blues double LP (see 1983) does not contain Nurse's Song. There are two versions of Nurse's Song on CD3 of Allen Ginsberg's 1994 CD boxed set Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs 1949-1993 (see 1994) - Nurse's Song (Experience) (track 9, 2:07) and Nurse's Song (Innocence) (track 21, 7:12), but Larry Crum says neither include Bob. Allen Ginsberg also performed Nurse's Song at PBS-TV Studios, New York, on 30 Oct 1971 with Bob on guitar, but that performance remains officially unreleased.
R-0136-2
People Get Ready performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New
York,
19 Oct 1975
Released on the
Columbia promo four-song 12" EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo And Clara
(see 1978), also released on the 1993 Japanese promo CD Mr. D's
Collection # 3 (see 1993).
Now also released on The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings,
2019
R-1987 I Want You performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 19 Oct 1975
Need a New Sun Rising performed by Ronee Blakely, location unspecified
Mama's Lament performed by Mama Maria Frasca, Dreamaway Lounge, Becket, MA, 7 Nov 1975
God and Mama performed by Mama Maria Frasca, Dreamaway Lounge, Becket, MA, 7 Nov 1975
Salt Pork, West Virginia performed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Seacrest Motel, Falmouth, MA, 29 Oct 1975
Mule Skinner Blues performed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Seacrest Motel, Falmouth, MA, 29 Oct 1975
R-1993 What Will You Do When Jesus Comes performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 19 Oct 1975, now also released on The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings, 2019
R-2012 Little Moses (Bert A. Williams/Earl C. Jones) performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, Oct 1975
R-0137-2 It Ain't Me Babe
performed by Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, MA,
20 Nov 1975
Released on the Columbia promo
four-song 12" EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo And Clara
(see 1978),
also released on the Japanese promo CD Mr. D's Collection # 3,
1993, and
European Unplugged Dignity CD singles 1995,
and now also available on the 2001 Japanese live compilation Bob
Dylan Live 1961-2000: Thirty Nine Years Of Great Concert Performances,
see 2001. The version of this performance released in Nov 2002
on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue,
is a remix, so R-0137 remains a rarity.
R-2099 Knockin' on Heaven's Door performed by Bob Dylan, Clinton Correctional Facility, Clinton, NJ, 7 Dec 1975
R-2003 Hurricane performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 21 Oct 1975
R-1989 She Belongs To Me performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 19 Oct 1975
Catfish performed by Rob Stoner, location unspecified
It Takes A Lot To Laugh,
It Takes A Train To Cry performed by Bob Dylan, Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA,
21 Nov
1975 (evening show)
Released in Nov 2002 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
Longheno De Castro performed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Gerdes Folk City, New York, 23 Oct 1975
Diamonds & Rust performed by Joan Baez, location unspecified
R-2005 If You See Her, Say Hello performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 21 Oct 1975
Romance In Durango
performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada, 4 Dec 1975
Released on
Biograph in 1985
R-2006 One Too Many Mornings performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 21 Oct 1975
R-2081 House Of The Risin' Sun performed by Bob Dylan and Rob Stoner, Hotel Room, Quebec, Canada, 28 Nov 1975
R-2094 One More Cup Of Coffee performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada, 4 Dec 1975
Eight Miles High performed by Roger McGuinn, location unspecified
Chestnut Mare performed by Roger McGuinn, location unspecified
R-2095 Sara performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada, 4 Dec 1975
R-2023 The Water Is Wide performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT, 11 Nov 1975
R-2009 Patty’s Gone To Laredo performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, 21 Oct 1975
Suzanne performed by Joan Baez, location unspecified
R-0138-2
Never Let Me Go performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Montreal Forum,
Montreal, Canada, 4 Dec 1975
Released on the Columbia promo
four-song 12" EP 4 Songs From "Renaldo And Clara
(see 1978), also released on the 1993 Japanese promo CD Mr. D's
Collection # 3 (see 1993)
R-2013 Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, New York, Oct 1975
Tangled Up In Blue
performed by Bob Dylan, Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 21 Nov 1975 (evening show)
Released in Nov 2002 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
R-2053 Just Like A Woman performed by Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, 20 Nov 1975
Knockin' On Heaven's
Door performed by Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, MA,
20 Nov 1975
Released in Nov 2002 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
In The Morning performed by Hal Frazier, Seacrest Motel, Falmouth, MA, 29 Oct 1975
The Rutles - "The Rutles" TV broadcast 22 Mar 1978, VHS video:
Pacific
Arts PAVR 540 (USA), Laserdisc: (catalogue number?)
(USA), Oct 1983:
This was renamed All You Need Is Cash for later releases, see below.
Thanks
to Larry Crum for this information.
Picture from eBay |
R-0520 Harold Lepidus informs me this Beatles spoof originally released in 1978 contains a clip from the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival with Bob and The Band on stage. Apparently Bob is just shown for a second, possibly reaching for something behind him, there is no audio. "A year later the Rutles were caught up in another scandal. In the heady atmosphere of San Francisco of the mid sixties, Bob Dylan had introduced the Rutles to a substance that was to have enormous effects on them: Tea. They enjoyed its pleasant effects, despite warnings that it would lead to stronger things, and it enormously influenced their greatest work, Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band." |
Picture from eBay |
The Rutles - "All You Need Is Cash", VHS: Rhino Video (catalogue number) (USA)/Palace PVC 2065, reissued on Telstar TVE 60003 (UK), 22 Feb 1996; DVD: Rhino Video (catalogue number?) (USA), 13 Mar 2001/Cinema Club CCD 8683 (UK), 21 Jan 2002/ Special Edition DVD: Second Sight 2NDVD 304 (UK), 7 Oct 2002/Prism PPA1637RD (UK), 2005:
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz" - feature film, Apr 1978, VHS: Warner Home Video PEV 99354 (UK), Feb 1985, MGM/UA Home Video M200482 (USA), 1985; Warner Home Video PES 99354 (UK), Jun 1988; Warner Home Video 474345 (Denmark), date?; United Artists 99354 SVVS (France), date?; MGM/UA 99354 (Australia), date?, MGM/UA Home Video S050482 (UK), Aug 1994; MGM/UA Home Video WR-50482 (Japan), 1991; MGM/UA Home Video 17337S (UK), Aug 2001; Laserdisc: MGM/UA Home Video ML 100482 (USA), 1985; United Artists 08EL-99354 Laserdisc (Japan), 1983; United Artists/Warner Bros Soundtrack NJEL-99354 (Japan), 1988:
This last concert by The Band (in their prime incarnation) took place at Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 25 Nov 1976, and was filmed by Martin Scorsese. A "Director's Cut", longer than the commercial video (USA - 117 mins, UK - 112 mins), has reportedly been shown on TV in the UK. For more information on these releases, including a full track listing, see Jan Hoiberg's Band site
For details of the 3LP film soundtrack album, see 1978. The original album omits the performance by Bob and The Band of Hazel (the song from Planet Waves), which was apparently not filmed. This film omits the first performance of Baby Let Me Follow You Down (R-0140) and I Don't Believe You (R-0141), which were also not filmed. For details of the Rhino Records 4CD boxed set which adds Hazel, see 2002. For details of the Special Edition of the film released on DVD in 2002 in the USA with additional material, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1.
R-0142-2 Forever Young - version with second verse missing - the Rhino Records 4CD boxed set has the full version (R-0630, see 2002)
R-0143-3 Baby Let Me Follow You Down ((Rev Gary Davies, arr. Eric von Schmidt)
- reprise
Thanks to Larry Crum for pointing out that the video performance of this track
has more of the intro riffs than the edit on the audio releases (see
1978 for the 3LP set and 2002
for the 4CD boxed set). This is also true of the
performance on the 2002 DVD, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1.
R-0144-3 I Shall Be Released
R-0142/0143 - Bob Dylan with The Band; R-0144 - Bob Dylan with The Band and ensemble.
R-0140 (Baby Let Me Follow You Down) and R-0141 (I Don't Believe You) from the soundtrack album are missing from the film itself - apparently on Bob's instructions, his performance was only filmed from R-0142 onwards. Thanks to Fred Muller from New Zealand for pointing this out.
US and European promo material:
Thanks to Steven Fant for scans of a Warner Bros. "Last Waltz" promo postcard with dates the film was playing in the USA in May-Jun 1978.
Thanks to Sergio Mariano Romay for three pages from a press dossier that was distributed to journalists in Spain when the film was released. The complete dossier includes twelve sheets of thick full-colour paper, measuring 34 cm by 24 cm each.
Thanks to Ronald Born for the East German poster shown above: "This is the very rare East German promotional poster for "The Band - Der Letzte Walzer" (40x29 cm), Progress Film-Verleih, GDR, 1981. The movie started in East German cinemas on 8 Jan 1982 (in West Germany on 13 Jul 1978)."
US and European VHS releases:
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MGM/UA Home Video M200482 (USA) - VHS (NTSC) release, rear picture from eBay |
MGM/UA Home Video M200482 (USA) - VHS (NTSC) release, tape picture from eBay |
MGM/UA S050482 (UK), Aug 1994 - insert from VHS (PAL) release (my copy) |
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MGM/UA S050482 (UK), Aug 1994 - VHS (PAL) release (my copy - spine has no label) |
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Thanks to Larry Crum for VHS catalogue numbers. Thanks to Frank Faugere for the scan of the French SECAM VHS release
US Laserdisc/VideoDisc releases:
Japanese
VHS/Laserdisc releases:
MGM/UA WR-50482 (Japan, 1997) - spine of VHS (NTSC) tape, scan by Wil
Gielen
Australian VHS release
MGM/UA 99354 (Australia, 1980s) - spine of VHS (PAL) tape, scan by
Stuart Moore
40th Anniversary editions, 2016:
Rhino Records 081227943554 (USA/Europe) - front with sticker, scan by Jack from Canada (Deluxe Edition) |
Thanks to
Éamonn Ó Catháin for news that there will be four
40th Anniversary editions of The Last Waltz by The Band, to be
released by Rhino Records on 11 Nov 2016, on CD, vinyl and Blu-ray.
The 6LP
Deluxe Vinyl set
contains the complete audio from the concert, including rehearsals and
outtakes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl for the first time and presented in an
ornate hinged box. There will also be a regular 2CD remastered set, a Deluxe Edition with the complete audio on CD plus a remastered release of the Martin Scorsese film on Blu-ray, and a Collector's Edition limited to 2,500 with the complete audio on CD, the film on Blu-ray, a second Blu-ray disc with rarely seen interviews and a 5.1 audio mix of the original release, plus a 300 page 11½" x 10" hardback book. |
Collector's Edition with 2 Blu-ray discs - picture from www.rhino.com (2016) |
Eureka Video EKA70312 (UK) - front picture from www.eurakevideo.co.uk (2018) |
Thanks to Jack from Canada for the scan and to Steve Perrin for information about 2018 and 2020 Blu-ray Eureka Video UK Blu-ray releases, see VHS & DVD 2010s. For a 2022 Criterion Collection release, see VHS & DVD 2020s.
1979
"Heroes Of Rock 'N' Roll" - TV broadcast,
ABC Network (USA), 9 Feb 1979:
Bob Stacy and Larry Crum have queried whether this was ever released on
commercial video.
US 40th Anniversary poster from T. J. Jenkins |
This program was a two hour TV movie that played on
American broadcast television on the ABC network on 9 Feb 1979. It was never
released commercially on VHS or other formats. There was a 40th anniversary
screening that was specially prepared and exhibited to an audience on October
25, 2019 in Beverly Hills, CA, for which the poster is shown. R-0506 Excerpt from interview with Bob at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 16 Dec 1965 R-0319-2 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966, from the unreleased documentary Eat The Document (see above) This R-0319 clip was also used in the 1987 video The Fabulous 60s Vol. 7 (see VHS & DVD 1980s), and also appears in the 1994 Robbie Robertson video Going Home (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1), and in the 1996 boxed sets The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll and Dancing In The Street (for both see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2). R-0506 was used in the 1990 documentary John Hammond: From Bessie Smith To Bruce Springsteen (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1), and the 2000 documentary Hendrix (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1). Both clips were used in the 2003 Ed Sullivan Show set "Rock 'N' Roll Forever" + Rock 'N' Roll Revolution" (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2). Larry Crum thinks this is actually from Cardiff, Wales, 11 May 1966. |
This programme also contains a clip of Subterranean Homesick Blues from Don't Look Back, see VHS & DVD 1960s. Fred Muller adds: "At the start, before the opening credits with the juke box, there's about 30 seconds of a close-up of Dylan in concert, in colour, in what would seem come from one of the Rolling Thunder shows, doing the first verse of Just Like a Woman." This would be from the film Renaldo & Clara, recorded at Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, 20 Nov 1975, see above.
Thanks to Bob Stacy, Larry Crum, Fred Muller and T. J. Jenkins for information and picture.
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