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BOB DYLAN / BLONDE ON BLONDE

1966  COLUMBIA   USA 1st PRESS

•••••  SPRAWLING GENIUS OF ROMANCE & SHAMBLING BLUES. Iconic Dylan album weaving tales of love and stream of consciouness ruminations on the trials & tribulations of life featuring "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat" "Just Like A Woman" "Rainny Day Women #12 &35" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again." ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.

• 1966 1st  USA pressing
• MONO
• 2xLP
• COLUMBIA 2-EYE
• thick rigid heavy 146g vinyl weight
• the dead wax is machine stamped "XLP-113761-2D/113762-3D/113763-4A/113764-2D"
• gatefold cover is color printed heavy cardstock
• ***cover DOES HAVE ALL 9 ORIGINAL PHOTOS INCLUDING CLAUDIA CARDINALE
• inner sleeves are generic

CONDITION:
VINYL =     G+     Sleeve scuff, rubbing / hairlines and scratches visible under bright halogens. The labels are VG+ with light handling, fading & spindle wisp marks .

PLAY GRADE =  STRONG VG above visual grade   Hiss & crackle audible between tracks & in backgrounds, pops & ticks on occasion, VERY BOLD DYNAMIC PLAYER WITH LOUD MUSIC OVERPOWERING MOST ARTIFACTS.

COVER =   VG  Storage or handling wear, ring rub/impression, light impressions or streaking, some rub through color, some light residue on front, inside gatefold very nice with light rub or streaking, COLORFUL BOLD BRIGHT.  The edge seams at the top & bottom or the record pockets are SOLID NO SPLITS with rub & dents etc. but the SPINE has significant rub/chipping and 3" split NOT LEGIBLE.  Corners have rub/rounding.

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Bob Dylan ?– Blonde On Blonde

Label: Columbia ?– C2L 41 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US Released: 1966 Genre: Rock, Blues Style: Folk Rock, Rhythm & Blues

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 4:36 A2 Pledging My Time 3:50 A3 Visions Of Johanna 7:33 A4 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) 4:54 B1 I Want You 3:07 B2 Memphis Blues Again 7:05 B3 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Lead Guitar, Harmonica – Bob Dylan 3:58 B4 Just Like A Woman 4:52 C1 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine 3:30 C2 Temporary Like Achilles 5:02 C3 Absolutely Sweet Marie 4:57 C4 4th Time Around 4:35 C5 Obviously 5 Believers Harmonica – Charlie McCoy 3:35 D Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands 11:23

Companies, etc.

• Mastered At – Customatrix
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
• Recorded At – Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville

Credits

• Bass – Henry Strzelecki
• Bass Guitar – Joe South
• Drums – Kenneth Buttrey* 
• Guitar – Al Kooper, Jerry Kennedy, Jaime Robertson*, Wayne Moss
• Harmonica – Charlie McCoy
• Keyboards – Bill Aikins
• Lead Vocals – Bob Dylan
• Organ – Al Kooper
• Piano – Hargus Robbins
• Producer – Bob Johnston
• Vocals – Joe South, Wayne Moss
• Written-By – B. Dylan* 

Notes

Red Columbia 2-eye labels with ''MONO'' in white lettering at the bottom.
The inside of the gatefold cover shows nine pictures, including one of Claudia Cardinale.
Album catalog number: C2L 41
Disc One catalog number: CL 2516
Disc Two catalog number: CL 2517

The complete single line of text at the bottom of the inside gatefold reads as follows:
Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee / Bob Dylan, Harmonica & Lead Guitar (on "Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat") / Charlie McCoy, Harmonica (on "Obviously 5 Believers") / Musicians: Wayne Moss, Charlie McCoy, Kenneth Buttrey, Hargus Robbins, Jerry Kennedy, Joe South, Al Kooper, Bill Aikins, Henry Strzelecki, Jaime Robertson / Produced by Bob Johnston / ? "COLUMBIA", [Columbia logo] MARCAS REG. PRINTED IN U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Other (Catalog number, disc 1): CL 2516
• Other (Catalog number, disc 2): CL 2517
• Matrix / Runout (A-side label): XLP 113761
• Matrix / Runout (B-side label): XLP 113762
• Matrix / Runout (C-side label): XLP 113763
• Matrix / Runout (D-side label): XLP 113764

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