Rare Vintage Original THE FREEWHEELIN BOB DYLAN lp MISPRINT ERROR RECALLED Cover

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57

Here's a great rare version of a legendary album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" by, well, the freewheelin' Bob Dylan. 

The cover lists four tracks that were pulled from the album before it was widely distributed.  The four tracks are "Solid Road", "Let Me Die In My Footsteps", "Gamblin' Willie", and "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues".

Here's the story:

Early in 1963, Bob Dylan was scheduled to appear on Ed Sullivan.  When Ed told Bob that his "John Birch" song blasting narrow-minded conservatives was too defamatory, Bob refused to censor his performance and left. 

For the album, Bob conceded and allowed Columbia to yank the tune as well as three others that Bob felt were "too old fashioned".  Before that happened, a few extremely rare copies escaped with the soon-to-be deleted tracks on either the cover, the label, and/or the vinyl, mostly promos in the U.S. 

Those four deleted songs are listed on the cover of this record.  They are not on the label nor the vinyl. 

Mono pressing.

The vinyl is glossy and VG+ with light surface scuffs that don't affect play. 

It plays excellent, with very low noise in the quiet parts.

Columbia two eyes red label CL 1986., Canadian first pressing. 

This album sold only about 5000 copies the first year so they are hard to come by.  Add to the fact that this one has a misprinted front cover, and a scarce variation on the label and it is in nice shape, and you begin to realize how rare this pressing is.

Famous cover of Dylan walkin' down the street with Suze Rotolo in winter (not Joan Baez as I thought for years). 

Cover has faint ring wear and light creases on the spine.

Back cover has a name written on it.

"It is hard to overestimate the importance of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the record that firmly established Dylan as an unparalelled 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 certainly were a number of gifted songwriters, nobody had transcended the scene as Dylan did with this record." 

"There are a couple of very good covers 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" were gracefully executed and even melodic." 

"But this also revealed a songwriter who could turn out whimsy ("Don't Think Twice, It's Allright"), 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 equalled this, but he never topped it." -All Music Guide 

This album also began the '60s folk protest song craze and contains Bob Dylan's most famous song, "Blowin' In the Wind".

This Canadian misprint lists at 300-400 dollars in Goldmine. 

There are only two U.S. copies of this album in the world with the deleted tracks on it and they are worth over $30,000 each!  Once again, the deleted tracks are only on the cover of this one.  A Canadian copy has never been found with the deleted tracks on the vinyl.

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