BOB DYLAN HWY 61 REVISITED INSANELY RARE SEALED ORIG'65 COLUMBIA PROMO STEREO LP

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·      BOB DYLAN with MIKE BLOOMFIELD, AL KOOPER, CHARLIE McCOY, TOM WILSON AND OTHERS- HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED - ORIGINAL 1965 COLUMBIA STEREO LP CS-9189

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      *** STILL SEALED ORIGINAL 1965 PROMOTIONAL LP (THE RECORD IS STILL SEALED IN ITS ORIGINAL, PERFORATED  PLASTIC "BAGGY" AND HAS BEEN TOTALLY UNTOUCHED IN EXACTLY 60 YEARS , HOWEVER, THE COVER HAS BEEN UNSEALED

·      *** PROMOTIONAL COPY; THE RECORD HAS STOCK LABELS; HOWEVER, THE PROMOTIONAL STAMP ON THE BACK COVER CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·      ORIGINAL RED & WHITE “360 STEREO” COLUMBIA LABEL WITH SMALL "NONBREAKABLE" BANNER ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE LABEL.

·      (PLEASE NOTE: WHILE IT IS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED THAT BOBBY GREGG PLAYS DRUMS ON THIS ALBUM, IN ONE OF HIS FINAL INTERVIEWS, THE LEGENDARY SESSION DRUMMER, HAL BLAINE, CLAIMED THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY HE WHO PLAYED DRUMS ON 'LIKE A ROLLING STONE', A CLAIM WE FIND EXTREMELY CREDIBLE. BY THE WAY, THIS WOULD NOT BE EITHER THE FIRST OR THE LAST TIME HAL BLAINE PLAYED ON A BOB DYLAN RECORDING: BETWEEN 1963 AND 1971 HAL BLAINE PLAYED DRUMS (TYPICALLY UNCREDITED) ON AT LEAST DOZEN OTHER DYLAN TRACKS, POSSIBLY MORE).

ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE INDIVIDUAL WE ACQUIRED THIS ALBUM FROM, THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE ESTATE (ACTUALLY: A COLLECTION: THE MAN IS STILL ALIVE) OF A VERY IMPORTANT '60s FOLK REVIVAL NOTABLE AND BOB DYLAN'S FELLOW GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLK CIRCUIT ALUMNUS CHARLES ROTHSCHILD.

Charles "Charlie" Rothschild was a figure in the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the early 1960s who worked alongside Logan English as an MC at Gerde's Folk City, the venue where Bob Dylan had his first professional gig.

While there's no evidence of a direct professional collaboration between Rothschild and Dylan, their connection is through this shared early folk scene landmark. Rothschild went on to become the manager for the prominent folk singer Judy Collins, as well as The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine, Holy Modal Rounders and many other early '60s East Coast Folk artists.

·      THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

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

·      ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·      SECOND, SLIGHTLY REVISED VERSION OF THE COVER, WITH THE WORD "MEANINGFUL" REPLACED WITH "MEANINGLESS" IN BOB DYLAN'S LINER NOTES.

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS (LITERALLY: VIRGIN LABELS, UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HAND)

·      THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE

·      MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·      MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-2A/1C'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Taking the first, electric side of Bringing It All Back Home to its logical conclusion, Bob Dylan hired a full rock & roll band, featuring guitarist Michael Bloomfield, for Highway 61 Revisited. Opening with the epic "Like a Rolling Stone," Highway 61 Revisited careens through nine songs that range from reflective folk-rock ("Desolation Row") and blues ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry") to flat-out garage rock ("Tombstone Blues," "From a Buick 6," "Highway 61 Revisited"). Dylan had not only changed his sound, but his persona, trading the folk troubadour for a streetwise, cynical hipster. Throughout the album, he embraces druggy, surreal imagery, which can either have a sense of menace or beauty, and the music reflects that, jumping between soothing melodies to hard, bluesy rock. And that is the most revolutionary thing about Highway 61 Revisited -- it proved that rock & roll needn't be collegiate and tame in order to be literate, poetic, and complex.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Miss Lonely, the mystery tramp, a Siamese cat, Napoleon, Paul Revere, Belle Starr, Jezebel, Jack the Ripper, the hysterical bride, the doctor, the medicine man, John the Baptist, the Commander-in-Chief, the King of the Philistines, Gypsy Davey and his slave Pedro, Galileo, Delilah, Brother Bill, Cecil B. DeMille, Ma Rainey, Beethoven, Bo Diddley, Mr. Jones, the geek, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Queen Jane, God, Abraham, Georgia Sam, Howard, Mack the Finger, Louis the King, the rovin’ gambler, Saint Annie, Sweet Melinda, the sergeant-at-arms, Angel, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Bette Davis, Romeo, Cain, Abel, the hunchback of the Notre Dame, the Good Samaritan, Ophelia, Noah, Einstein, Robin Hood, Dr. Filth and his nurse, Casanova, Nero, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Bob Dylan walk into a bar off Highway 61 and the bartender says: "Welcome back."

TRACK LISTING:

Side One: (8.92)

1. "Like a Rolling Stone" – 6:09 (9.9)

2. "Tombstone Blues" – 5:58 (8.7)

3. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" – 4:09 (8.5)

4. "From a Buick 6" – 3:19 (8.4)

5. "Ballad of a Thin Man" – 5:58 (9.1)

Side Two: (9.03)

1. "Queen Jane Approximately" – 5:31 (8.6)

2. "Highway 61 Revisited" – 3:30 (9.0)

3. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" – 5:31 (8.6)

4. "Desolation Row" – 11:21 (9.9)

Song average: 8.97

Album cohesion bonus: 0.5/0.5

Album concision bonus: 0.5/0.5

Total score: 9.97

All-time rank: #1

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEW)

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565. Finding a still sealed original PROMOTIONAL copy?!?! Forget it – not even a HOPE!!! This may be the last one you will ever see.

The PROMOTIONAL, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed among 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", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

“And the only sound that's left
After this STILL SEALED PROMO COPY IS  gone

Is Cinderella weeping her heart out

On Desolation Row”

 (with apologies from one Bob D. to another)

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·                          CONDITION:

·                          THE 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)         THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them.

(b)         The record is STILL in its original inner, perforated plastic baggy (sealed).

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

·                          THE COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the top seam   (nothing significant)

-       Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); 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 3

-       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.

-       Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging (nothing significant)

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

-       Cover has two corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

-       Visible shelf wear noted on the top seam

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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