Let's Celebrate: BOB DYLAN's 76th Birthday!! Wed. May 24

Fellow Bobcats and enthusiasts~

Bob Dylan's 76th Birthday is this Wednesday.. May 24th!
Let's have a "Show and Tell" ... Share your favorite collectibles and rarities: LP's /45's / PS's / CD's/ Tickets / Programs /Autographs / Art - Whatever you have ? Photos encouraged, but not necessary .

I'll get us started...






Bob Dylan ~ "Bob Dylan"
Columbia Records U.S. 12" Stereo LP.
Rare original, very first pressing ..
Columbia LP cover w "New Star" promotional sticker.
Columbia early 1962 six-eye labels .. Stereo copies w
this label are extremely rare in NM condition.

 

Bob Dylan ~ "Bob Dylan"
Columbia Records U.S. 12" Mono LP.
Rare original, early first Promotional Copy pressing.
Columbia 1962 'six-eye' mono labels have "Demonstration Record"
and "Not For Sale" printed in to the actual labels. Very rare example.
The reason Dylan collectors seek out the early six-eye labels is because
just two months after the LP was released, Columbia completely changed
their record labels .. This first s/t album did not do well sales wise, making
these LP's the most treasured. The Mono copies out numbered the Stereo
pressings something like 10 / 1 or more. Making the Stereo 'six-eye' a major
chord, these first "Demonstration" 'six-eye' Mono's are also very sought after,
especially in NM.

 

Wishing the Bobster a GIANT HAPPY 76TH BIRTHDAY!!
Don't have any elite Bob rare albums only have all his 1960's commercially available albums mono and some stereo pressings.
Most of the bootleg series. I have plenty of Dylan books also. Still learning more about Bob.

Just spun the Best Of The Cutting Edge last night 3 lp vinyl. I'll be spinning the Real Albert Hall 2 lp today as well as some of the 36 cd Live 1966 recordings box set later on. Maybe throw on Triplicate tonight.

Happy 76th Birthday Bob!!

 

This, from two weeks ago.

 

Bob Dylan ~ "Another Side of Bob Dylan"
Columbia Records U.S. 12" mono 'Guaranteed High Fidelity' LP.
This is the very first issue w rare Columbia pressing, having the
textured raised relief pattern of the 'eye" label.
The Columbia white-print, textured label variation
is becoming near impossible to find w no spindle wear
... a most beautiful example.



This oddball label was the only one ever released for a Dylan album.

 

Yeah, "God knows" Bob doesn't gets enough attention on this forum.
Neither does that Macca guy.

 

Settle down. It's his Birthday, after all!

 

Not particularly rare, but I do have the I Want You 45 RPM, b/w Just like Tom Thumb's Blues Live. With picture sleeve, of course!

 

Self Portrait 1970

 

Actually, Bob's b-day has always been something of a sore spot with me. The very first Dylan bio I ever read (a 1966 quickie called Bob Dylan: The Folk Rock Story) had the Minnesota bard making his earthly debut on May 21 — which happens to be my birthday.

Sound the trumpets, my destiny was foretold, etc. — at least until I got my first copy of Freewheelin' some time later (which of course mentioned Bob's actual DOB), and later confirmed by Anthony Scaduto's semi-authorized bio in 1972.

 

I don't have any rare stuff but I sure like the photos of those cool Columbia labels.

 

Bob Dylan ~ "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume II"
Columbia Records factory sheet of six unused labels, three pairs of
side 3/4 .. these are for a later pressing, note: the second cat# PG-PC.



Bob Dylan ~ "Greatest Hits II"
Columbia Records U.S. 12" ref. disc acetate.
The two-sided metal core disc, hand titled as "Bob Dylan Hits"
is dated 11/5/71 .. the double LP was released 11/17/71, less than two weeks later.

 

Bob Dylan ~
Authentic, vintage pink autograph page signed during early U.K. Tour,
c., 1965 .. a NM- beauty.

 

Wasn't this something to do with his birth date being wrong on his passport ?

 

To add to the confusion:

"Bob's identity card in the photo on the rear of the booklet contains a mistake: Bob's birth date is shown as "May 11, 1941" - it should be "May 24, 1941"."

 

Here's one I had many years ago, I sold it or traded it way back in the 70s. @Bruce Mulle' will know more about it than I do. I guess it's Witmark demos? I don't recall if it even had a sleeve other than a plain white paper inner sleeve.

 

Every year I always take an extra day off on the Memorial Day weekend in honor of Bob Dylan's birthday!

 

Right Forthlin-
This is a rare U.S. Warner Bros/7 Arts, one-sided mono LP.
The songs are part of the Witmark Demos, came out in 1967.
Often listed as an acetate disc, it is a test pressing used to shop some of Dylan's songs around.
Mine came in a white die-cut cover as you mentioned above.



Bob Dylan ~ "FAREWELL"
MPHC U.S. 8" metal reference acetate.
Authentic and original rarity .. Artist listed as "DYLAN"
This is a Witmark & Sons demo lacquer c., 1963.
Came in an original audiodisc sleeve, along with a music sheet to shop for cover artists.