Rare
Batch of Little White Wonder
The Best of Bob Dylan
source: Various outtakes 1962-65
Side one:
She Belongs To Me (6)
Love Minus Zero (6)
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (6*)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune (4)
Hard Times In New York Town (1)
Poor Lazarus (1)
Side two:
From a Buick 6 (8)
California (5)
Candy Man (1)
The Death Of Emmett Till (3)
Farewell (2)
Please Crawl Out Your Window (7)
Notes:
The material was taken from the two LPs that
have
been issued since 1973 as Vol 1
&
Vol 3. of the Rare Batch series, with one track
(Hard
Times In New York Town) from the Vol
2 issue. The year following this release, Joker re-released Vol
1 and Vol 3
as single LPs in a cover with a photo from the
Bangladesh
concert. 3 years later, Joker included them in
a 3
LP Box set. As is par for the course with this label, the
track
list on the cover and labels is a complete mess. The tracks are
erroneously
listed as follows:
A1 Lady Down Your Weart Tune
[sic]
A2 Dusty Old Fairgrounds
A3 From A Buick [sic]
A4 Love Minus Zero
A5 Hard Times In New York
Town
A6 Poor Lazarus
B1 She Belongs To Me
B2 California
B3 Candy Man
B4 The Death Of Emmett
Till
B5 Farewell Angelina
B6 If You Gotta Go, Go Now
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2002 CD Pinkerton - bobsboots.com
Thanks to Joan
Muntanyola for photos and info
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This material had been released continuously throughout the 70s
in countless packages, and in several countries.
In 1977, the Italian Label Joker
released
this LP, which is supposedly the "best of" the
same
old material, in the same quality. Though the songs are the same, tired
versions that had been around for more than a decade, the one new and
exciting
item was the cover photo. It's an incredible shot taken 3
years earlier on the Jan 3, 1974
concert stage of the Chicago Stadium. One thing that Joker prided
itself
on was trying to look the part of a legitimate Label. Indeed, because
of
the confusing Spanish and Italian copyright laws, this material was
allowed
to be sold in supermarkets and the like. It has made its' way to the USA
as budget imports before, but rarely appeared in quantity. Joker LPs
were always mastered from tape sources, new mothers were created, and
the
discs were always pressed with clean, new plates. The downfall
for
the Label was not the countless repackaging jobs... it was the
incredible
lack of concern for the printed information about the songs.
© 1998 CD Pinkerton - bobsboots.com
6-8 stars
NMP50
© 1998 CD Pinkerton - bobsboots.com
gwa88
Matrix: LPUP.5122 A/B
© 1998 CD Pinkerton - bobsboots.com
Sources:
(1) Minnesota
'hotel' tape
(2) Witmark
& Sons demo
(3) Broadside
show WBAI radio May 1962
(4) Carnegie
Hall show, Oct 26, 1963
(5) CBS
Studios NYC June 9, 1964 ASOBD
outtake
(6) Jan 15, 1965
BIABH outtake *released as Euro
45 RPM
(7) CBS
Studio A June 16, 1965 H61
outtake
(8) CBS
Studio A July 30, 1965 H61
outtake |
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