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Audio: 2019 - "50th Anniversary Collection 1969"

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This yearly page now contains all the details of the 2019 "50th Anniversary Collection 1969" 2CD set released in Europe only.

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Revised: 07 October, 2024.

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"50th Anniversary Collection 1969", 2CD release: Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK), 6 Dec 2019:

Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - front of card sleeve, picture from Badlands web-site	Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for information about 50th Anniversary Collection 1969, a very limited 2CD set in a fold-out card sleeve. Apparently there are only 200 copies for sale in Europe - the UK, France and Germany. The set consists of out-takes from Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait, all of which are rarities.		Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - rear of card sleeve, scan by Martin Andrzejewki
Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - CD1 scan by Martin Andrzejewki	Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - outside of card sleeve, scan by Martin Andrzejewki	Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - inside of card sleeve, scan by Martin Andrzejewki	Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 190759965122 (UK) - CD2 scan by Martin Andrzejewki

Disc 1

February 13, 1969
Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN

1. To Be Alone With You – Rehearsal (1:11)
2. To Be Alone With You – Take 2 (0:48)
3. To Be Alone With You – Take 3 (1:00)
4. To Be Alone With You – Take 4 (1:52)
5. To Be Alone With You – Take 5 (2:34)
6. One More Night – Take 1 (2:17)
7. One More Night – Take 3 (0:31)
8. Lay, Lady, Lay – Rehearsal (3:51)
9. Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 1 (3:27)
10. Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 3 (3:29)

R-2128 To Be Alone With You – Rehearsal, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (1:11)

R-2129 To Be Alone With You – Take 2, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (0:48)

R-2130 To Be Alone With You – Take 3, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (1:00)

R-2131 To Be Alone With You – Take 4, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (1:52)

R-2132 To Be Alone With You – Take 5, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (2:34)

R-2133 One More Night – Take 1, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (2:17)

R-2134 One More Night – Take 3, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (0:31)

R-2135 Lay, Lady, Lay – Rehearsal, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (3:51)

R-2136 Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 1, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (3:27)

R-2137 Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 3, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 13 Feb 1969 (3:29)
Sonny Boy McFitzson: "First few notes of Peggy Day are included at the end because of bad track separation!"

February 14, 1969
Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN
   
11. Peggy Day – Take 2 (1:16)
12. Tell Me That It Isn’t True – Take 1 (2:06)
13. Tell Me That It Isn’t True – Take 3 (2:35)
14. Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 1 (3:15)
15. Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 2 (1:24)
16. Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 3 (3:15)

Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
Kelton D. Herston, Norman Blake, Charlie Daniels, Wayne Moss: guitars
Bob Wilson: piano, organ
Peter Drake: steel guitar
Charlie McCoy: bass
Kenneth Buttrey: drums

R-2138 Peggy Day – Take 2, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 14 Feb 1969 (1:16)

R-2139 Tell Me That It Isn’t True – Take 1, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 14 Feb 1969 (2:06)

R-2140 Tell Me That It Isn’t True – Take 3, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 14 Feb 1969 (2:35)

R-2141 Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 1, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 14 Feb 1969 (3:15)

R-2142 Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 2, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 14 Feb 1969 (1:24)

R-2143 Lay, Lady, Lay – Take 3, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 14 Feb 1969 (3:15)
Len Pogost thinks that this take sounds like the album track but without post-production.

February 17, 1969
Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN

17. One Too Many Mornings – Rehearsal (7:38)
18. One Too Many Mornings – Take 1 (4:14)
19. One Too Many Mornings – Take 2 (3:40)
20. One Too Many Mornings – Take 3 (4:45)
21. I Still Miss Someone – Rehearsal (0:58)
22. I Still Miss Someone – Rehearsal (1:14)
23. I Still Miss Someone – Take 1 (1:04)
24. I Still Miss Someone – Take 2 (0:40)
25. I Still Miss Someone – Take 3 (2:23)
26. I Still Miss Someone – Take 4 (4:19)
27. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right/Understand Your Man – Take 1 (1:44)

R-2144 One Too Many Mornings – Rehearsal with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (7:38)
Sonny Boy McFitzson: "Chatterings are heard behind the performance which don't sound like engineer's talkbacks but The Carter Sisters."

R-2145 One Too Many Mornings – Take 1 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (4:14)

R-0069-4 One Too Many Mornings – Take 2 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (3:40)
Take 2 from 17 Feb 1969 was previously released in the 1969 film and video Johnny Cash: The Man ● His World ● His Music (see VHS & DVD 1960s), recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN, 18 Feb 1969, Take 2, also on a 1984 release called The Other Side Of Nashville (see VHS & DVD 1980s). Thanks to Michel Pomarede and Sonny Boy McFitzson for identifying this take.

R-2146 One Too Many Mornings – Take 3 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (4:45)

R-2147 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – Rehearsal with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (0:58)

R-2148 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – Rehearsal with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (1:14)

R-2149 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – Take 1 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (1:04)

R-2150 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – Take 2 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (0:40)

R-2151 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – Take 3 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (2:23)

Sonny Boy McFitzson: "Tracks 23-25 end with an abrupt cut-out, not fade away."

R-2152 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – Take 4 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (4:19)

R-2153 Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right/Understand Your Man (Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash) – Take 1 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 17 Feb 1969 (1:44)

Disc 2

February 18, 1969
Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN

1. One Too Many Mornings – Take 2 (4:01)
2. I Still Miss Someone – Takes 1 & 3 (0:58)
3. I Still Miss Someone – Take 4 (2:21)
4. Matchbox – Rehearsal (0:51)
5. Matchbox – Take 2 (3:05)
6. Big River – Take 2 (1:59)
7. I Walk The Line – Take 1 (2:15)
8. Ring of Fire – Takes 2 & 3 (2:44)
9. Guess Things Happen That Way – Take 1 (0:45)
10. Guess Things Happen That Way – Take 2 (1:37)
11. Guess Things Happen That Way – Take 6 (1:44)
12. Waiting For A Train – Take 1 (0:55)

Bob Dylan: vocals, guitar
Johnny Cash: vocals, guitar
Carl Perkins: guitar
Bob Wootton: guitar
Marshall Grant: bass
W.S. Holland: drums

R-2154 One Too Many Mornings – Take 2 with Johnny Cash, Columbia Studio A, Nashville, TN, 18 Feb 1969 (4:01)
This was previously reported to be the take used with Bob's singing replaced by the Avett Brothers for the compilation Chimes Of Freedom (R-0899, see 2012). However, Steve Perrin states categorically that it is not. He says: "This is not the take used for the Avett Brothers track. On this particular take, Cash sings the word “commence” in the first verse. On the Avett Brothers version, Cash sings, “As the night begins to fall.” The original Dylan-Cash take, used as the basis for the Avett Brothers overdubbed version, remains unreleased, although it is available on bootlegs."