Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone Parts 1 & 2 7" 45rpm Mono Columbia JZSP 110939/40
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45 RPM
"Like A Rolling Stone (Part 1)"/"Like A Rolling Stone (Part 2)" - 7" mono singles with the song split over the A- and B-sides, Columbia JZSP 110939/110940 (USA), Jun 1965:
Radio station and jukebox promos with the song split over the A & B-sides. Although the first promos distributed widely by Columbia had this split, Like A Rolling Stone subsequently made history by being the first single (of any prominence) over three minutes played on the radio in full! This promo single is JZSP 110939/JZSP 110940 - the promo with the full version of Like A Rolling Stone on the A-side and Gates Of Eden on the B-side is JZSP 110937/JZSP 110938, so is provably earlier. Mark Polizotti's book "Highway 61 Revisited" (Continuum, UK, 2006) confirms this, saying: "The Columbia marketing guys jibbed at sending out a six-minute single to radio stations and juke box operators, so the split single JZSP 110939/JZSP 110940 was created and distributed instead: (1) they were frightened radio stations wouldn't play it in full, and (2) why let people get six minutes of music for a dime when you can charge them two dimes to listen to both sides? However, the full version got out to New York City discos and the rest is history!"
Found a bunch of 45's in the garage, no idea when I bought them. This one appears to be the best of the lot, but since I didn't even know what I had, let's start the bidding low and see where it goes.
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