BOB DYLAN FREEWHEELIN' INSANELY RARE WHITE LABEL PROMO LP TIMESTRIP+DELETED TRAX

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·       BOB DYLAN - THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN (BOB DYLAN'S SECOND ALBUM) – ORIGINAL 1963 COLUMBIA RECORDS MONO LP CL-1986

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING (SECOND VERSION OF THE ALBUM WITH FOUR REPLACEMENT TRACKS, WHICH PLAYS FOUR REPLACEMENT TRACKS: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY; MASTERS OF WAR. BOB DYLAN'S DREAM AND TALKING WORLD WAR III BLUES)

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       *** IN ADDITION, THE THE PROMOTIONAL TIMING STRIP ON THE COVER CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM  AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·       Historic radio Station advance WHITE LABEL PROMO copy of Dylan's legendary "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan".  Of significance with this issue is the appearance of the four deleted tracks "Rocks And Gravel", "Let Me Die In My Footsteps", "Gamblin' Willie's Dead Man's Hand" and "Talkin' John Birch Blues" on the Timing Strip.  (The songs are not on the labels, the record or the jacket otherwise). 

·       The record is a White Label Promo with trail off matrix numbers:  XLP-58717-3A   and  XLP-58718-2A

·       ORIGINAL "GUARANTEED FIDELITY" COLUMBIA LABEL, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST OFFICIAL U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       THE COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE WRAP.

·       CLEAN LABELS (SOME MINOR WRITING NOTED ON SIDE 1)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate stand-alone Compact Disc, although it was recently released as a part of the 9-CD Dylan Mono Box Set .

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In May 1963, shortly before the album's release, Dylan walked off the set of The Ed Sullivan Show because the head of program practices considered the song “Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues” potentially libelous and wouldn’t allow Dylan to perform it. The song was one of four taken off the album and replaced. (The other deleted songs were “Rocks and Grave,” “Let Me Die In My Footsteps,” and “Gambling Willie.”)

Within a two-week period, replacement songs were recorded, new albums were pressed, and the album's artwork was reprinted - all in enough time to fill Columbia’s immediate order. In great haste, a number of the original pressings were stamped with the new label and packaged in the new sleeve (the old version of the sleeve, with four deleted tracks was never actually completed and no known copies exist; although album's original photo slicks have been spotted here and there over the decades).

There is disagreement among Dylan's biographers about the consequences of this censorship row. Anthony Scaduto writes that after The Ed Sullivan Show debacle, CBS lawyers were alarmed to discover that the controversial song was to be included on Dylan's new album, only a few weeks from its release date. They insisted that the song be dropped, and four songs ("John Birch", "Let Me Die In My Footsteps", "Rambling Gambling Willie", "Rocks and Gravel") on the album were replaced with Dylan's newer compositions recorded in April ("Girl from the North Country", "Masters of War", "Talkin' World War III Blues", "Bob Dylan's Dream"). Scaduto writes that Dylan felt "crushed" by being compelled to submit to censorship, but he was in no position to argue.

According to biographer Clinton Heylin, "There remains a common belief that [Dylan] was forced by Columbia to pull "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" from the album after he walked out on The Ed Sullivan Show." However, the 'revised' version of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was released on May 27, 1963; this would have given Columbia Records only two weeks to recut the album, reprint the record sleeves, and press and package enough copies of the new version to fill orders. Heylin suggests that CBS had probably forced Dylan to withdraw "John Birch" from the album some weeks earlier, and that Dylan had responded by recording his new material on April 24. Whether the songs were substituted before or after The Ed Sullivan Show, critics agree that the new material gave the album a more personal feel, endistanced from the traditional folk-blues material which had dominated his first album, 'Bob Dylan'.]

A few copies of the original pressing of the LP with the four deleted tracks have turned up over the years, despite Columbia's supposed destruction of all copies during the pre-release phase (all copies found were in the standard album sleeve with the revised track selection). Other permutations of the Freewheelin' album include versions with a different running order of the tracks on the album, and a Canadian version of the album that listed the tracks in the wrong order. The original pressing of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is considered the most valuable and rarest record in America, with one copy having sold for $35,000 (what we have is a rare white label promo with deleted tracks listed on the promo timing strip, but not listed on the cover, or the label and not actually included on the record; we do not believe that white label promos of this album with four deleted tracks were ever actually produced, but we may be wrong)

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It's hard to overestimate the importance of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the record that firmly established Dylan as an unparalleled songwriter, one of considerable skill, imagination, and vision. At the time, folk had been quite popular on college campuses and bohemian circles, making headway onto the pop charts in diluted form, and while there certainly were a number of gifted songwriters, nobody had transcended the scene as Dylan did with this record. There are a couple (very good) covers, with "Corrina Corrina" and "Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance," but they pale with the originals here. At the time, the social protests received the most attention, and deservedly so, since "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" weren't just specific in their targets; they were gracefully executed and even melodic. Although they've proven resilient throughout the years, if that's all Freewheelin' had to offer, it wouldn't have had its seismic impact, but this also revealed a songwriter who could turn out whimsy ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"), gorgeous love songs ("Girl From the North Country"), and cheerfully absurdist humor ("Bob Dylan's Blues," "Bob Dylan's Dream") with equal skill. This is rich, imaginative music, capturing the sound and spirit of America as much as that of Louis Armstrong, Hank Williams, or Elvis Presley. Dylan, in many ways, recorded music that equaled this, but he never topped it.

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The cornerstone of modern music. Nothing more, nothing less. We proudly present here the nicest MONO copy of this Bob Dylan's groundbreaking album we’ve ever offered on eBay.

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          CAUTION! The vinyl is only GOOD TO GOOD- (G/G-), with multiple, numerous,  scuffs which are BOTH visible AND audible. The record plays with bearable BUT AUDIBLE surface noise and some pops and clicks. The record plays without skipping throughout. This record WAS play-graded.

(b)          This album is presented here mostly for its historical value and as a very rare item, which can be exceedingly difficult to find in any other condition

(c)             The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)            White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 300:1.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

THE COVER IS ABOUT VERY GOOD  (VG)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover has some visible ring wear ; On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 5 (front side) and 6 (back side).

-         Back cover has circular tarnish (grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record),  probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.

-        A visible water stain affects one third of the back panel  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)  ; there is no structural damage to the cover, and both cardboard base and paper slick are intact, however, the stain is visible and has caused a slight warp in the affected area.

-         Cover shows some yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has some visible fraying/tattering on the bottom seam

-         Cover has a tiny wrinkles along the spine

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the top seam and spine (nothing significant)

-         The cover has a few light scratch marks on the front side

-         Cover has a partially split bottom seam (less than 1 inch / 2.5 centimeters)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No writing

-        No stamps (except for the promo stamp on the back panel)

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stickers or labels (except for the hype sticker and promo timing strip)

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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