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Bob Dylan - Columbia Recording Studio 1965-06-16 (1965)

Track listing:
  1. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 2:25
  2. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 0:33
  3. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 6:34
  4. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 1:24
  5. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 0:31
  6. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 1:45
  7. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 0:25
  8. Like A Rolling Stone (Take 1) 1:45
  9. Why Should You Have To Be So Frantic? 1:11

Notes

Studio A

Columbia Recording Studios
New York City, New York

16 June 1965

The second Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Tom Wilson.

1. Like A Rolling Stone (take 1)
2. Like A Rolling Stone (take 2)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 3)
3. Like A Rolling Stone (take 4)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 5)
4. Like A Rolling Stone (take 6)
5. Like A Rolling Stone (take 7)
6. Like A Rolling Stone (take 8)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 9)
7. Like A Rolling Stone (take 10)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 11)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 12)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 13)
Like A Rolling Stone (take 14)
8. Like A Rolling Stone (take 15)
9. Why Should You Have To Be So Frantic?

Bob Dylan (guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal), Mike Bloomfield (guitar), Al Gorgoni (guitar), Frank Owens (piano), Bobby Gregg (drums), Joseph Macho Jr. (bass), Al Kooper (organ).

Parts of takes 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15 released on Interactive Music CD–ROM Highway 61 Interactive, Columbia/Graphix Zone CDAC 085700, February 1995.

Included version of take 4 is extended version from Highway 61 Revisited Again Bootleg.




4 released on HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED, Columbia CL–2389, CS–9189, 30 August 1965.
4 released on single Columbia 4–43346, July 20 1965.
4 released on BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS, Columbia KCL–2663, 27 March 1967.
4 released on DYLAN ON DYLAN, Westwood One (Radio Station Discs), 17 November 1984.
4 released on BIOGRAPH, Columbia C5X & C3K 38830, 28 October 1985.
4 released on THE BEST OF BOB DYLAN, Columbia SONYTV28CD, 2 June 1997.
4 released in Sweden on THE VERY BEST OF BOB DYLAN, Columbia COL 498540 2, May 5, 2000.
4 released in the UK on THE ESSENTIAL BOB DYLAN, Columbia C2K 85168, 31 October 2000.

Notes.
· 2, 3, 5-7, 9, 10, 12, 14 are false starts.
· 13 is interrupted
· 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 are not in circulation.
· 4 is available as rough mix of the original master tape.
· 16 is a song with real title unknown and CO-number 86449. It has also circulated as Lunatic Princess Revisited.
· Recorded 2:30-5:30 pm.

CO-numbers:
86446 Like A Rolling Stone
86449 Untitled fragment.

References.
Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 1). The Telegraph #52, Summer 1995, pp. 114-115.
Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 39–43.


Stereo studio recordings.