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
Masked And Anonymous - the
Jul 2003 Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax film soundtrack album with four new Dylan performances, a
previously released Dylan rarity, and nine Dylan covers
This yearly page now contains only the main Rarities List! Promotional Items (Albums and Singles) are now here. All Honourable Mentions are now here.
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)
"Waitin' For You" - one-track promo CD-Rs, Columbia ML 253A03815780/253A0520880, (USA), Jan 2003:
Columbia ML 253A03815780/253A0520880 (USA) - insert scan by Gerd Rundel (blank on reverse) |
This promo CD-R single in a slimline jewel case was sent out to voters for the 2003 Oscar Academy
Awards for the category of "Best Original Song". Both the CD-R and
insert read "FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION" (the traditional phrase
used for Academy Award candidate items). R-0552-3 Waitin' For You - Dylan composition exclusive to the film soundtrack of Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, see 2002 |
Columbia ML 253A03815780 (USA) - CD-R scan by Sam C. Visser |
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Picture from eBay - full page ad for the film in US "Variety" magazine, 6 Jan 2003 |
The CD-Rs have different numbers in the centre: Hervé from France and Sam C. Visser have copies with "ML 253A03815780", while John Gaylor and Gerd Rundel have copies with "ML 253A0520880".
Thanks to Tim Dunn, Hervé from France and John Gaylor for information, also to Sam C. Visser and Gerd Rundel for scans. Sadly Bob's song wasn't nominated in the end for a 2003 Oscar.
Various Artists - "Little Steven's Underground Garage Show #42" - three radio station discs, Renegade Nation (USA), original broadcast 17-19 Jan 2003, updated repeat 2 Mar 2003:
Picture from eBay found by Tim Dunn |
R-0140-5 Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Rev Gary Davies, arr. Eric von Schmidt)
- by Bob Dylan and The Band from The Last Waltz,
recorded live, Winterland, San Francisco, CA, Nov 1976. For the original 3LP release, see 1978; for the remastered 4CD release, see 2002. The theme of this radio show was "Martin Scorsese", and the show also included Theme From "The Last Waltz" by The Band. Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding this on eBay. |
Bob Dylan/Mary Fahl - "Gods And Generals Original Soundtrack" -
promo CD-R singles from film soundtrack album, Sony Classical YL254B0155880/YL254B0152980 (USA),
Jan 2003:
This promo CD single is in a clear plastic jewel case with a rear insert but
no front insert. Gerd Rundel's copy has a different catalogue number,
YL254B0152980, so individual copies may
have various numbers.
The full version of 'Cross The Green Mountain was released in Oct 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. This means R-0586 has ceased to be a rarity. R-0601 remains a rarity.
Thanks to Hervé from France, Sam C. Visser and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
"'Cross The Green Mountain" - single-track promo CD-R, Columbia (no catalogue number) (Canada), Jan 2003:
Various Artists - "Gods And Generals Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - promo CD single: Warner Bros 7706-WBGODS 111503 (USA), Jan 2003; Limited Edition of film soundtrack album with bonus DVD, Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax SK 87891 (USA/Australia); Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax S2K 87891 (Europe), 4 Feb 2003:
Promo CD single: Warner Bros 7706-WBGODS 111503 (USA); CD+DVD release: Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax SK 87891 (USA):
"Gods And Generals" is the prequel to "Gettysburg" by the same director, Ron Maxwell, based on the novel by Jeff M. Shaara. Thanks to Tim Dunn for the catalogue number and release date. For more information about the film, see
R-0586-2 'Cross The Green
Mountain - original song from film soundtrack,
played over the closing credits (8:12), now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased
1989-2006 (2008)
The version played over the closing credits in the film itself is
edited to about 5 minutes in length, see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2.
R-0586 is one of the 42 rarities included for download with the
Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan
Collection, see Online Performances
(Other).
R-0601-2 'Cross The Green Mountain - edit of original song from video on DVD with Limited Edition (3:10)
The full version of 'Cross The Green Mountain was released in Oct 2008 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006, see here. This means R-0586 has ceased to be a rarity. R-0601 remains a rarity.
Bob took part in a shoot for the video of this song in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA, on 23 Nov 2002. He appears in period dress with a wig and beard similar to the ones he wore at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, on 3 Aug 2002! This video, 3:10 in length, is included as a bonus DVD in the Limited Edition of the soundtrack album.
The bonus DVD is NTSC, but region-free and will certainly play on a Region 2 DVD player. For details of the US DVD and VHS releases of the film itself, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2.
Jack from Canada has two copies of this set, one of which has the bonus DVD made in the USA, and the other has the bonus DVD made in Mexico! Scans of both are shown for comparison - the colours are slightly different with the Mexican copy being browner. My copy is the same as his USA-made version.
In the UK the US import Limited Edition can be obtained from Badlands, see my Trading page for contact details.
The Warner Bros promo was sent only to members of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the hope of obtaining Oscar nominations for Jeff Frizzell for composition of the Best Original Score and to Bob Dylan for Best Original Song. Unfortunately this did not happen. Peter Oudejans has a promo CD-R in a jewel case with a rear insert only.
Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax S2K 87891
(Europe):
Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax SK 87891
(Australia):
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Jack from Canada and Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Gods And Generals Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - Limited Edition of film soundtrack album with bonus DVD, Sony Classical SICP 376-7 (Japan), 16 Jul 2003:
The discs come in a design of 2CD jewel case introduced before the slimline design (slimmer than a double-width 2CD jewel case but not as thin as the single-width slimline 2CD jewel case).
Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Gods And Generals Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - film soundtrack album: Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax SK 87891 (Canada), 2003:
Various Artists - "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob
Dylan" - CD releases: Columbia CK 89015 (USA/Canada), 1 Apr 2003/Columbia COL 511126 2
(Europe), 24 Mar 2003:
This album was released in a digipak in both the US and the UK, but in a
jewel case in Canada. There is a 12
page booklet with essays from Tom Piazza and Joel Moss (the last page is glued
to the left-hand inside of the digipak, so only 11 are visible).
Columbia CK 89015 (USA) - Digisonics test CD, scan by David Plentus |
R-0602 Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
- duet
with Mavis Staples, new recording of album track
from Slow Train Coming This recording is from 4 Mar 2002, in Bob's home studio in Malibu, with Bob's band plus Mavis and Yvonne Staples. All the tracks have a Biblical reference, this one is Mark 10:49. Other artists appearing on the album include Shirley Caesar, Aaron Neville and the Chicago Mass Choir. |
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Columbia CK 89015 (Canada) - rear of jewel case, scan by Jack from Canada |
Columbia/Legacy CK 89015 (Canada) - CD scan by Jack from Canada |
The US test pressing shown of Columbia CK 89015 is by Digisonics of Northridge, CA, and dated 3 Feb 2003. Thanks to Gil Walker for finding this on eBay and to David Plentus for scans. Two copies of this test pressing have the identical handwritten text with later date 7 Feb 2003, so the insert has been photocopied. The CD-R just has the Columbia catalogue number and title.
More scans of the US release required!
Dogwoof DV001468634V (UK) - DVD front, picture from www.amazon.co.uk (2016 release |
For Mavis!, a 2016 Film First Co. US documentary film about Mavis Staples with Bob performing Blowin' In The Wind from 1963 and a Dylan interview, see VHS & DVD 2010s. There is a 2018 DVD with the same title of Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan with an overlap of artists and songs, although it includes Bob performing When He Returns from the DVD with The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition) instead of R-0602, and is therefore listed in Films & Videos with Dylan Album Tracks 2010s, not VHS & DVD 2010s. |
MVD Visual MVD0843D (UK) - 2018 DVD picture from Badlands web-site |
2003 CD:
1. Shirley Caesar - Gotta Serve Somebody
2. Lee Williams & The Spiritual QC's - When You Gonna Wake Up?
3. Dottie Peoples - I Believe in You
4. The Fairfield Four - Are You Ready?
5. Sounds Of Blackness - Solid Rock
6. Aaron Neville - Saving Grace
7. Helen Baylor - What Can I Do For You?
8. Chicago Mass Choir featuring Regina McCrary - Pressing On
9. The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Saved
10. Rance Allen - When He Returns
11. Bob Dylan & Mavis Staples - Gonna Change My Way of Thinking (R-0602)
2018 DVD:
1. Arlethia Lindsey - Every Grain of Sand
2. Bob Dylan - When He Returns
3. Sounds of Blackness - Solid Rock
4. Shirley Caesar - Gotta Serve Somebody
5. Dottie Peoples - I Believe in You
6. Aaron Neville - Saving Grace
7. Helen Baylor - What Can I Do For You?
8. The Fairfield Four - Are You Ready?
9. Great Day Chorale - In the Garden
10. The Mighty Clouds of Joy - Saved
11. Chicago Mass Choir featuring Regina McCrary - Pressing On
12. Rance Allen - When He Returns
Tracks in italics are exclusive to that CD or DVD.
Thanks to Harold Lepidus, David Plentus, Hans Seegers, Jack from Canada and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan" - stereo cassette release: Columbia CT 89203 (USA), 1 Apr 2003:
On the cassette release, Bob's contribution is the last track on Side 2.
Thanks to Stuart Moore for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan" - CD release: Sony Music MHCP 8 (Japan), 21 May 2003:
Thanks to Wil Gielen and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Various Artists - "Let Freedom Sing: This Land Is Your Land II" - compilation CD releases: Vanguard 79731-2 (USA)/Vanguard VCD 79731-2 (Germany), 11 Apr 2003:
Vanguard 79731-2 (USA) - front scan by Franck Faugere |
R-0020-8 Ye Playboys
And Playgirls
- with Pete Seeger, recorded live at the
"Topical Songs" workshop on 28 Jul 1963 (stereo version), from the 1964
album Newport Broadsides (Topical Songs) (see 1964) R-0022-12 Blowin' In The Wind - recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1963, originally released on the Vanguard album Evening Concerts At Newport Vol. 1 (see 1964) |
Vanguard VCD 79731-2 (Germany) - front scan by Peter Oudejans |
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This album also contains a performance by Joan Baez of A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, again live at Newport. For the first album in this Vanguard series, This Land Is Your Land: Songs Of Freedom, see 2002.
The German release was manufactured by ZYX Music on behalf of Vanguard Records.
Thanks to Bob Stacy, Franck Faugere and Peter Oudejans for information and scans.
Various Artists - "May Your Song Always Be Sung: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 3" - 2CD set: BMG 82876 50567-2; 3LP set: BMG 82876 50567-1 (Germany), 26 May 2003:
Thanks to Ole Lien for information and thanks to Hanns Peter Bushoff of BMG Germany for his sterling work in compiling yet another album in this series, which was released both on CD and on vinyl. This 2CD/3LP set is a mixture of established and new (and sometimes unsigned) artists, ranging artistically from Rick Danko and the Cruzados to Eric Andersen and Onelinedrawing, and geographically from Norway via Romania to Japan. Eight tracks were recorded exclusively for this compilation.
Promo releases:
R-0452-2 Rising Sun (Hufsteter/Larriva/Marsico/Quintana)
- Bob plays harmonica for the
Cruzados (then The Plugz), Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, 1983 (5:42)
The version from the
privately-produced album released in 2000, Cruzados -
Unreleased Early Recordings, is timed at 4:40, see 2000. This version
at the end of CD2 has a long pause after the end of the music,
followed by a voice saying "Hi! This is Bob...", thanks to Jean-Pol
Hiernaux for spotting this. Thanks to Hanns Peter Bushoff for confirming that
this version of Rising Sun is indeed exactly the same as R-0452, and was sent to him by Tony Marsico
of the Cruzados. The spoken fragment is actually taken from Bob's Columbia 1965 Miami
Sales Convention message, see 1965.
Commercial release (2CD):
BMG 8287650567-2
(Germany) - underside of
slipcase, scan by Gerd Rundel (commercial
release)
Commercial release (3LP):
For the previous May Your Song Always Be Sung collections see 1997 and 2001. For a Japanese single disc compilation with tracks from the first and second collections, see 2006.
Ronald Born from Jena in Germany, who covers Black Diamond Bay on May Your Song Always Be Sung: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 3, has also contributed many scans of rarities to this site! In fact, all of the people named in the acknowledgments have contributed to this site, even Jeff Rosen!
Thanks to Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
"Bob Dylan SA-CD Sampler" -
promo 6-track Multichannel SA-CD, Columbia CSH 55838 (USA), 6 Jun 2003:
This was originally listed as a Dylan
album tracks compilation, but was moved here when it was announced that The Bootleg
Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 would be released in CD stereo only, turning
the SA-CD versions of All I Really Want To Do into rarities! See below for a
seven-track sampler from Oct 2003 with the same catalogue number.
SA-CD 5.1 multichannel mixes of Bob Dylan Albums, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music (USA/Europe/Japan), Jun 2003:
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Columbia CH 90326 (USA/Canada)/Columbia 512353 6 (Europe)/Sony MHCP 10003 (Japan) - enhanced stereo and 5.1 surround sound |
Columbia C2H 90325 (USA/Canada)/Columbia 512352 6 (Austria for Europe), Sep 2003; Sony Music MHCP 10005-6 (Japan) - enhanced stereo and 5.1 surround sound (two disc sets) |
Columbia CH 90323 (USA/Canada)/Columbia 512350 6 (Europe)/Sony Music MHCP 10010 (Japan) - enhanced stereo and 5.1 surround sound |
Columbia CH 90322 (USA/Canada)/Columbia 512349 6 (Europe)/Sony Music MHCP 10013 (Japan) - enhanced stereo and 5.1 surround sound |
Columbia CH 90340 (USA/Canada)/Columbia 512357 6 (Europe)/Sony Music MHCP 10016 (Japan) - enhanced stereo and 5.1 surround sound |
R-2234 SA-CD 5.1 mix of Another Side Of Bob Dylan - tracks not separately listed
R-2235 SA-CD 5.1 mix of Bringing It All Back Home - tracks not separately listed
R-0307 SA-CD 5.1 mix of Blonde On Blonde - tracks not separately listed
R-2236 SA-CD 5.1 mix of Blood On The Tracks - tracks not separately listed
R-2237 SA-CD 5.1 mix of Slow Train Coming - tracks not separately listed
R-2238 SA-CD 5.1 mix of "Love And Theft" - tracks not separately listed
Thanks to André Wilbers for information and scans.
Various Artists - "The Essentials X Star Box" - promo compilation CD, Sony Music SDCS 83001 (Japan), 2003:
Sony Music SDCS 83001 (Japan) - front insert scan by Wil Gielen |
This CD was issued to promote two series of Sony
Music compilations: the
international Essential series (including The Essential Bob Dylan,
see below,
International Album Releases and 2001)
and the Japan-only Star Box series. Bob's contribution is a unique
edit of Like A Rolling Stone. The CD comes in a slimline CD single jewel
case with a single-sided card insert. R-0352 Like A Rolling Stone - 2:03 edit of album track from Highway 61 Revisited Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans. |
Sony Music SDCS 83001 (Japan) - CD scan by Wil Gielen |
Various Artists - "Music From The Motion Picture 'Masked And
Anonymous'"- film soundtrack album,
CD: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax
(various catalogue numbers) (Worldwide); , Oct 2003; 2LP set: Classic Records/Columbia/Sony
Music Soundtrax C2K 90618-1 (USA), Oct 2003:
For details of the Masked And Anonymous film see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2. For the official movie
web-site, see here
. For an unofficial movie web-site
by Trevor Gibb, see here
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The rarities on this film soundtrack album are:
R-0615 Down In The Flood - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded at Stage 6, Ray-Art Studios, Canoga Park, CA, 18 Jul 2002 (an audio clip of this song is available on the "Masked And Anonymous" web-site )
R-0612 Diamond Joe
(Tex Logan)
- live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615
This performance is
available to download from the Apple iTunes Online Music Store
, see
Online Performances (Other)
). Thanks to Paul S. Levine and Jean-Pol
Hiernaux for pointing out that the iTunes version is 10 seconds shorter. Note this
is a
different song from the one on Good As I Been To You, see
International Albums (Regular),
thanks to Gil Walker for pointing this out. Thanks to Derek Barker for
information in "Isis 180" that although the song is associated with fiddler
Benjamin F. "Tex" Logan and has been copyrighted by him, it is in fact
traditional.
R-0616 Dixie (Daniel Decatur Emmett) - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615
R-0617 Cold Irons Bound
- live from Jack Fate and his
band, recorded as R-0615
This performance is also available to download on the Apple iTunes Online Music
Store, see
Online Performances (Other).
R-0612, R-0615, R-0616 and R-0617 are part of the 42 rarities included for download with the Aug 2006 Apple iTunes Bob Dylan Collection, see Online Performances (Other).
R-0442-3 Come Una Pietra Scalciata [Like A Rolling Stone] (Dylan/Aleotti/Perrini) - cover version in Italian by Articolo 31 with excerpts from Bob's original version, from their 1998 Ricordi (Italy) album Nessuno (see 1998), and on the May 2001 BMG Germany compilation May Your Song Always Be Sung Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (see 2001)
Also included are Gotta Serve Somebody - cover by Shirley Caesar from the Columbia album Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan (see above) and City Of Gold - cover by the Dixie Hummingbirds from their 2003 album Diamond Jubilation (see Bob Dylan's Unreleased Songs "C" and "Covers" pages). These tracks are not in the film. Thanks to Harold Lepidus for pointing out that City Of Gold here has a spoken intro by Bob (dialogue from the film by Jack Fate).
The 2CD limited edition (USA: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax C2K 90618/UK: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 512556 6), includes a 7 track version of the Jun 2003 SA-CD sampler listed above. The extra track over the 6 listed below is R-0617 from the Masked And Anonymous soundtrack, but included not just in CD Stereo, but in SA-CD Stereo and SA-CD Surround Sound also. The "Reissue Series Sampler" CD design is that of a vinyl Columbia white label promo LP and the sampler CD catalogue number is the one shown on the spine of the digipak. For a separate promo release of this sampler, see below.
R-0635-2 All I Really Want To Do - live from Philharmonic Hall, New York City, 31 Oct 1964, version in SA-CD stereo (this is now a rarity as the album released in Mar 2004 was in stereo only)
R-0636-2 All I Really Want To Do - live from Philharmonic Hall, New York City, 31 Oct 1964, version in SA-CD 5.1 surround sound (this too is now a rarity as the album released in Mar 2004 was in stereo only)
R-0659 Cold Irons Bound - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615, version in SA-CD stereo
R-0660 Cold Irons Bound - live from Jack Fate and his band, recorded as R-0615, version in SA-CD 5.1 surround sound
Limited Edition: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax C2K 90618 (USA):
Thanks to David Thomas for reminding me that the Sampler SA-CD has a spoof "361° SOUND STEREO" logo as on 1960s stereo LPs, which had "360° SOUND STEREO". This reappeared on the Chronicles CD in 2004 , while the Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963 CDs from 2005 had "363° SOUND STEREO"!
Standard Edition: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax CK 90536 (USA/Canada):
Classic Records/Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax C2K 90618-1 (USA):
Limited Edition: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 512556 6 (Europe); Standard Edition: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 512556 2 (Europe):
Paul Shenton has a copy of the Limited Edition with a beige coloured outer spine that is other wise identical to mine. I have two copies of a no Dylan album in a digipak, one of which has been on a shelf and the other in a drawer. The spine of the copy that has been on the shelf and exposed to light is now a similar beige, while the spine of the copy that has been stored away from light is still red. I therefore believe the spine of Paul's copy is just faded.
The regular album (not yet shown) comes in a standard jewel case. The 16-page booklet from the Limited Edition is the front insert.
Standard Edition: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 5129462000 (Australia):
Standard Editions: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 2 512556 (Brazil/Argentina):
Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 2 512556 (Taiwan/China):
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Gil Lamont, Gerd Rundel, Alexandre Froemming, Sergio Mariano Romay, Jack from Canada, Michel Pomarede, William Henry Prince. Paul Shenton and Sergio Mariano Romay for information and pictures.
Various Artists - "Music From The Motion Picture 'Masked And Anonymous'"- film soundtrack album, CD: Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 430 (Japan), 27 Aug 2003; reissue: Sony Music MHCP 817-18 (Japan), 20 Jul 2005:
Sony Music Soundtrax SICP 430 (Japan), 27 Aug 2003 (promo cassette and CD releases, commercial CD release):
The promo cassette shown has a text-only printed insert in English and Japanese and gold labels. It is dated "2003/8/20" (20 Aug 2003) and has the same catalogue number as the CD release.
The withdrawal date is "04-2-26" (26 Feb 2004). As well as the US booklet there was a second 28-page booklet, the front page of which is shown. The only difference between the Hans' promo 2003 release and the commercial release is the text "SAMPLE LOANED" in the clear centre of the CD, there is no promo sticker on the rear insert. Jim Siddy's promo copy does have a yellow promo sticker on the rear insert, numbered "551784".
Sony Music MHCP 817-18 (Japan), 20 Jul 2005:
The withdrawal date is "06-1-19" (19 Jan 2006). As well as the 16-page stapled booklet in English there was a single-sided insert in English and Japanese and a 36-page stapled booklet in English and Japanese. The copy shown is a promo, with numbered promo stickers on both the rear insert and the obis, and the text "SAMPLE LOANED" in the clear centre of both CDs.
Thanks to Derek Barker, Gil Lamont, Jack from Canada, William Henry Prince, Hans Seegers, Alexandre Froemming, Wil Gielen, Anssi Sallmén and Jim Siddy for information and scans.
Articolo 31 - La Mia Ragazza Mena [My Girlfriend Mena] - CD single: Best Sound/Ricordi/BMG Italy 82876560192 (Italy), 2003:
R-2361 Come Una Pietra Scalciata [Like A Rolling Stone]
(2003 Remix) (Dylan/Aleotti/Perrini) - cover version in Italian by Articolo 31,
complete remix of 1998 track with parts of Bob's original version included
For three occurrences of the original rarity R-0442, see their 1998 Ricordi Italy album Nessuno
(1998), the May 2001 BMG Germany compilation May Your Song Always Be Sung
Again: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (2001)
and the Masked And Anonymous soundtrack above.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans.
Bob Dylan & The Band - "Planet Waves" - hybrid SA-CD releases, Columbia CH 90339 (USA/Canada); Columbia 512356 6 (Europe), 16 Sep 2003; Sony Music MHCP 10009 (Japan), 19 Nov 2003:
Columbia CH 90339 (USA/Canada) - front of digipak (my copy) |
This release is housed in a three-fold digipak and contains both a CD version and an SA-CD stereo version. There's no 5.1 surround sound version despite the fact the album was also released in quadraphonic sound. There is no booklet. The outside of the digipak has an unpublished picture of Bob from 1974. The inside of the digipak includes Bob's "obscene" sleeve notes and another unpublished picture. |
Columbia 512356 6 (Europe) - picture from www.amazon.co.uk |
Sony Music MHCP 10009 (Japan) - front of digipak with obi, scan by Wil Gielen |
As these releases have now been deleted, the SA-CD stereo version is now a rarity and is listed here:
R-2240 SA-CD enhanced stereo mix of Planet Waves - tracks not separately listed, 2003
Thanks to Wil Gielen for further information and scans.
"Bob Dylan SA-CD Sampler" - promo 7-track Multichannel SA-CD releases, Columbia CSH 55838 (USA), Aug 2003/Columbia CSH 55838000 (Europe), Oct 2003:
R-0635-3 All I Really Want To Do - live from Philharmonic Hall, New York City, 31 Oct 1964, version in SA-CD stereo (this is now a rarity as the album released in Mar 2004 was in stereo only)
R-0636-3 All I Really Want To Do - live from Philharmonic
Hall, New York City, 31 Oct 1964, version in SA-CD 5.1 surround
sound (this too is now a rarity as
the album released in Mar 2004 was in stereo only)
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for a report that The Bootleg Series
Vol. 6 - Bob Dylan Live
1964: Concert At Philharmonic Hall from 2003 will finally be released on
SA-CD in stereo and 5.0 surround sound remastered by Steve Hoffman in Mar
2016.
This promo SA-CD sampler has the same catalogue number as the previous one, but is actually the 7-track sampler included with the Limited Edition of Masked And Anonymous (see above) in a gatefold card sleeve. Cold Irons Bound from Masked And Anonymous is the seventh track. This CD design is different from the sampler CD.
The inside of the gatefold sleeve has a pocket on the right for the CD. On the left are the pictures of the fifteen Dylan albums being released on hybrid SA-CD in Sep 2003, on the right is a plug for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 with a first look at the cover design. There is also a version of the US sampler with a slightly different rear design that was being given away with Sony SA-CD and DVD players at Christmas 2003. This has the same catalogue number but new text on the back: "CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PLAYER, YOU DESERVE A SPECIAL DISC". This was available both in a card sleeve and in a jewel case.
The European version of this promo sampler has a slightly different card sleeve but a different CD (silver instead of white). The CD is made in Austria.
See above for a six-track sampler from Jun 2003 with the same catalogue number.
Thanks to Peter Good for finding the US sampler on eBay, to Hervé from France, Pachi Becerril, Ian Woodward, Gerd Rundel
and Jack from Canada for information and pictures.
Lone Justice - "The Best Of Lone Justice: The Millennium Collection", Geffen B0000718-02 (USA), 20 Oct 2003:
Geffen B0000718-02 (USA) - front (my copy) |
R-0274-2 Go Away Little
Boy -
Bob appears on Lone Justice's version of one of his unreleased
compositions (an out-take from Empire Burlesque)
- this is a remix by Bob Clearmountain of R-0163, the bonus track
that appeared on the B-side of the 12" single of Sweet Sweet
Baby (I'm Falling) (Remix) in 1985. Bob plays rhythm guitar. I
previously said that Bob may also have played harmonica on this track -
however, it's clearly stated on the 1999 and 2003 releases of the song that the
harmonica was played by Maria McKee. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for this
information. The front insert is a single sheet folded into four sections. For The World Is Not My Home: The Best Of Lone Justice, the US Geffen compilation on which this remix first appeared, see 1999. Thanks to Ole Lien for the information. |
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Geffen B0000718-02 (USA) - detail of front insert listing Dylan involvement |
Geffen B0000718-02 (USA) - rear insert |
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Geffen B0000718-02 (USA) - CD |
Geffen B0000718-02 (USA) - reverse of rear insert |
Doug Sahm - "The Genuine Texas Groover" - 2CD sets,
Rhino Handmade RHM2 7845 (USA), Nov 2003; Wounded Bird WOU 7254 (USA), 14 Jan
2014:
This set is released as a limited numbered edition of 5,000 copies. Of the
42 tracks, 19 are previously unreleased. It includes all the eleven tracks on
which Bob is known or reputed to play, plus five more, so is an essential
purchase for Dylan fans.
Rhino Handmade RHM2 7845 (USA), Nov 2003:
Rhino Handmade RHM2 7845-A (USA) - CD1 (Doug Sahm & Band), spine
of digipak (promo and commercial copies)
Rhino Handmade RHM2 7845-B (USA) - CD2 (Texas Tornado), spine of
digipak (promo and commercial copies)
Jack from Canada has a promo copy where part of the barcode is obscured on the rear of the slipcase. The limited edition number on the rear of the booklet is missing. The CDs in digipaks are the same as those of my commercial copy.
R-0090-10 (Is Anybody
Going To) San Antone (Dave Kirby-Glen Martin)
- Bob plays guitar, organ and provides backup vocals
For details of the original release on the Atlantic
album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
Also released on CD as follows:
The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975, see 1990
Doug Sahm & Friends: The Best Of Doug Sahm (Atlantic Sessions) -
see 1992
Promo compilation US 2CD set
Rhino ● Atlantic ● Remasters
(Various Artists), also see 1992
Promo compilation CD Wex On Wax: A Tribute To Jerry Wexler
(Various Artists), see
1999
Jesus' Son - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Various Artists), see
2000
and
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1
Warner Bros Germany 2CD compilation
Are You Ready For The Country? (Various
Artists), see
2001
Nascente Records UK 2CD
compilation
Bar Nashville: Classic & New Country
Flavours (Various Artists), see 2008
Rhino US promo 2CD
compilation Rhino Presents Atlantic And Atco Remasters Series
(Various Artists), also see 2008
R-0637-2
It's Gonna Be Easy (Atwood Allen)
- Bob plays organ
(uncredited before 2003)
For details of the original release on the Atlantic
album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
R-0638-3 Poison Love (Elmer Laird)
- Bob plays
guitar (uncredited before 2003)
For details of the original release on the Atlantic
album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
R-0088-6 Wallflower
- Bob
shares lead vocals and plays guitar on Doug Sahm's 1972 cover of his
then unreleased song
For details of the original release on the Atlantic
album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
For a Columbia acetate of Bob's own recording of this song, finally released
on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 in 1991, see 1971.
R-0088 has been re-released on CD on the following compilations:
Various Artists - I Shall Be Unreleased - Sony Music Special Products/Rhino Records (USA), see 1991
Doug Sahm & Friends: The Best Of Doug Sahm (Atlantic Sessions) - Rhino Records (USA), 1992/Sequel (Germany), 1994, for both see 1992
Various Artists - Are You Ready For The Country? - Warner Bros Germany 2CD compilation, see 2001
Various Artists - Doin' Dylan 2 - Columbia Australia CD compilation, see 2002
Various Artists - Cosmic Country Festival Records Australia 2CD/2LP compilations, see 2013.
R-0214-3 Dealer's Blues
(Doug Sahm) -
Bob plays organ (uncredited) - source: Glen Dundas
For details of the original release on the Atlantic album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
R-0092-2 Faded Love
(John Wills/J R "Bob" Wills/Billy Jack Wills)
- Bob plays organ
For details of the original release on the Atlantic
album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
R-0089-2 Blues Stay Away
From Me (Alton & Rabon Delmore-Wayne Raney-Henry
Glover) - Bob plays guitar and provides backup vocals
For details of the original release on the Atlantic album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
R-0091-2 Me And Paul
(Willie Nelson) - Bob plays harmonica and organ
For details of the original release on the Atlantic
album Doug Sahm & Band, see 1973
R-0105-3 Tennessee Blues
(Robert Guidry - "Bobby Charles") -
Bob plays harmonica
Recorded
Oct 1972 at Doug Sahm & Band sessions,
released in 1973 on the Sir Douglas Band Atlantic album Texas
Tornado, see 1973
R-0151-3 Ain't That Loving You (Deadric Malone) - Bob is reputed to play on this track (still uncredited) from the Sir Douglas Band Atlantic album Texas Tornado, see 1973
R-0152-2 I'll Be There (Dave Burgess) - Bob plays guitar (credited this time) on this track from the Sir Douglas Band Atlantic album Texas Tornado, see 1973
There are five previously unreleased tracks on which Bob appears (all 1972 out-takes from Doug Sahm & Band):
R-0639 On The Banks Of The Old Pontrachain (Hank Williams/Ramona Vincent) - Bob plays guitar
R-0640 Hey, Good Lookin' (Hank Williams) - Bob plays guitar
R-0641 Please Mr. Sandman (Huey P. Meaux) - Bob plays guitar
R-0642 Columbus Stockade (Woody Guthrie) - Bob plays piano and organ
R-0643 The Blues Walked On In (Joey Longoria) - Bob plays piano and organ
The outsides of the digipaks show the original albums' front and rear. The insides of the digipaks show the German Philips 7" single of R-0090 for CD1, and a German Philips single without Bob for CD2.
Wounded Bird WOU 7254 (USA), 14 Jan 2014:
Thanks to David Plentus for finding this item and to Peter
Gilmer and Jack from Canada for additional information and scans. Thanks also to Freddy Ordóñez Araque for
pointing out that Amazon have a Doug Sahm title for sale with the name
The Complete Atlantic Recordings with the same 2CD tracklist, so it
must be a mistitling of this set.
BGO Records BGOCD 1259 (UK) - front picture from BGO Records web-site |
Doug Sahm And Band and Texas Tornado were re-released in the UK by reissue label BGO (Beat Goes On) Records in 2016 as part of a three album set with the 1974 Warner Bros album Groover's Paradise with no Dylan content. |
"The Essential Bob Dylan: Limited Tour Edition" - 3CD set, Columbia 503133 0 (NL), 13
Nov 2003:
For the 30-track US/Japanese release, see
International Album Releases. For
the German/UK/French 36-track releases (same as this but without the bonus disc), see 2001. This
"Limited Tour Edition" Dutch set has a 6-track Bonus Disc featuring a further
rarity! This album is housed in a double-width jewel case with a purple/white
sticker with white/black text. There are two booklets - a 20-page booklet in
Dutch reprinting Bob's entry from a Dutch pop encyclopaedia, a discography,
Dutch chart hits and an advertisement for the fifteen albums reissued on hybrid
SA-CD, plus a 12-page booklet in English with notes by Patrick Humphries.
Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - front of jewel case with sticker (my copy) |
CD1 has no rarities. On CD2: R-0299 Things Have
Changed from the Wonder Boys
soundtrack album as well as Columbia compilations and singles, lyrics on
bobdylan.com
here R-0273 Dignity
- original Oh Mercy out-take produced by
Daniel Lanois from Touched By An Angel: The Album - see 1998
and
Released Rarities. Also on The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2,
see 2000 |
Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - front of English language booklet |
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Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - Dutch language sticker |
Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - inside of Dutch language booklet with Dutch singles chart placings |
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Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - inside of Dutch language booklet with hybrid SA-CD advert |
On CD3:
R-0085-4 George Jackson
(Acoustic version) - 1971 single (see 1971),
lyrics on bobdylan.com
here
Also on the Japanese limited edition compilation LP Mr. D's Collection #1
(see 1974), the Japanese limited edition compilation CD Mr. D's Collection #3
(see 1993), on the Light In The Attic
US CD/2LP compilation
Listen, Whitey! The Sounds Of Black Power 1967-74
(see 2012),
on the 2013 2CD set Side
Tracks, included with The Complete Album Collection Vol. One (see
2013),
and on the Sony Music Holland 2CD release Top 40 Bob Dylan
(see 2019).
Thanks to Hans Seegers for this set!
Track listing:
Disc 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Maggie's Farm; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like A Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street (3:54 stereo version from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits and Biograph); Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (from Biograph); I Want You; Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along The Watchtower; Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) ("Basement Tapes" version with The Band from Biograph); I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; I Shall Be Released (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); Knockin' On Heaven's Door. [Thanks to David Goldsmith for correcting the origin of the Mighty Quinn version!]
Note that Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? is still in mono, as on Masterpieces (1978) and Biograph (1985).
Disc 2: Forever Young (slow version from Planet Waves), Tangled Up In Blue; Shelter From The Storm; Hurricane; Changing Of The Guards (1978 version, as above); Gotta Serve Somebody; Blind Willie McTell (from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3); Jokerman; Tight Connection To My Heart; Silvio; Everything Is Broken; Dignity (Original Version) (R-0273 as above); Not Dark Yet; Things Have Changed (R-0299 as above).
Disc 3 ("Limited Tour Edition Bonus Disc"): John Wesley Harding; I Threw It All Away; Wigwam; Watching The River Flow; George Jackson (Acoustic Version) (R-0085 as above); On A Night Like This.
This is one of a series of 2003 "Essential" collections using the same artwork style marketed by Columbia, including Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand:
For The Essential Johnny Cash, which contains Girl Of The North Country, the 1969 duet with Bob, see International Album Releases (Other Artists' Albums).
For The Essential Country Album, which contains I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, see International Album Releases (Various Artist Compilations) 2003.
"Custom Mix CD" - CD-R rarities compilation, Newbury Comics (USA), Dec 2003 onwards:
Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information that this CD-R is now offered by Newbury Comics as a permanent item with the same fixed twelve tracks and artwork. The front insert and rear insert are always the same. The tracks are listed on a separate A4 sheet. Note that the timing of George Jackson (5:53) is a mistake. It's 3:38 and is the acoustic version (R-0085) and not the "Big Band" version (R-0084).
For full details of the rarities, see Online Performances (Other).
Thanks to David Plentus and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information and scans.
Promotional/Regular Items for 2003
Stereo promo albums and singles for 2003 which don't contain rare material but which are still very collectable are now included with promo releases of regular albums and commercially released singles on the appropriate page in International Stereo Releases. |
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