Bob Dylan - 1965 - Highway 61 RARE Alternate mispressing LP in shrink w/blurb

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Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited"; Columbia Records - stereo; Cover is NM, open in shrink! It has the original blurb sticker "featuring Like a Rolling Stone". It also has a name sticker on the shrink. LP is VG++ except for a small scratch towards the end of "Desolation Row" that ticked here and there but did not skip or stick. Both labels have a name sticker on them. There is probably a way to remove these stickers but I'm not going to attempt it. This is on the original Columbia 360 label!!! This is straight from my personal collection!!! This is ultra-rare alternate pressing/ mispressing with the different, longer version of "From A Buick Six" with extended harmonica intro. (actually a completely different version of the song). The matrix #s are: Side A: XSM110640-1A and Side B: XSM110641-1A A copy with 1B in the matrix sold for $360. I found another 1A/1A that went for $427. I'm starting the bidding at only $328.95 History: it remains unclear – as is the case with most of Dylan’s musical and business decisions – why he (or someone else at Columbia) decided to, at the very last moment, replace the faster, rowdier version of the “From the Buick Six” with the slower, more mellow version which is found on regular pressings of this album. What we do know for fact is that, at a time, Dylan was involved in a feud with Tom Wilson (who produced “Like a Rolling Stone” and received a very reluctant – minor - producer co-credit on the album’s cover) over Dylan’s musical direction and overall “feel” of his music. Dylan reportedly felt that Wilson was “electrifying” his music too much too fast and making it artificially more commercial. Needless to say, Wilson would soon – during the sessions for this album, as a matter of fact – get booted and lose his position as a Dylan’s in-house producer (hey, guys – don’t mess around with Bob D !!!) . Our assumption – which we are unable to substantiate – is that this, earlier, version of “From the Buick Six” was produced by Tom Wilson, and that Dylan didn’t like it, replacing it with a slower version produced by his next Columbia producer, Bob Johnston, who received a major credit as the album producer. Our personal feeling is that Tom Wilson was a sheer genius, that he did a phenomenal job on “Like a Rolling Stone” (I mean, for crying out loud, according to a recent poll, it is a #1 song of all time), and that Bob Dylan made a major mistake in having him sacked. But, hey – that’s only our opinion. Who knows what actually happened? From this perspective, 46 years later, probably not even Bob Dylan can remember why the song was replaced with another version. It remains a fact that, with or without Tom Wilson, Highway 61 Revisited remains one of two or three greatest Rock albums ever recorded. 1. Like a Rolling Stone 2. Tombstone Blues 3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 4. From a Buick 6 5. Ballad of a Thin Man 6. Queen Jane Approximately 7. Highway 61 Revisited 8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 9. Desolation Row Out of country shipping will be more.; Please check out my many other fine lps for sale!; Thanks!; Good luck! Items can be returned if not satisfied. All records must be carefully packaged. Returns must be shipped back with insurance and include tracking as required by Pay Pal for a return. Sealed albums cannot be returned if opened. Return shipping will be paid by the buyer.