BOB DYLAN~BLONDE ON BLONDE~INSANELY RARE SEALED ORIG '66 COLUMBIA LP~FIRST COVER

 
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·       BOB DYLAN - BLONDE ON BLONDE - ORIGINAL 1966 STEREO 2-LP SET C2S-41
 
·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
 
 
*** INSANELY RARE STILL SEALED ORIGINAL 1966 COLUMBIA STEREO PRESSING ***
 
 
·       *** STILL SEALED ORIGINAL 1966 2-LP SET (THE RECORDS ARE STILL SEALED IN THEIR ORIGINAL, PERFORATED  PLASTIC "BAGGIES" AND HAVE BEEN TOTALLY UNTOUCHED IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS, HOWEVER THE COVER HAS BEEN OPENED)
 
·       ORIGINAL RED AND WHITE "360 STEREO SOUND" COLUMBIA LABELS WITH THE SMALL "NONBREAKABLE" BANNER ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE LABEL
 
·       ORIGINAL COVER WITH CLAUDIA CARDINALE PHOTO ON THE INSIDE OF THE GATEFOLD - REPLACED BY DYLAN PHOTO ON ALL LATER PRESSINGS
 
·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
 
·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THIN CARDBOARD (PAPERBOARD)
 
·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
 
·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD
 
·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE (LITERALLY: UNTOUCHED) LABELS
 
·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-2D/-2D/-2D/-2A'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)
 
(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)
(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)
 
 
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Here it is, ladies and gentlemen: THE STILL SEALED ORIGINAL PRESSING of the King of all singer-songwriters albums, Bob Dylan's very finest hour and one of two or three most important, creative, subversive, ingenuous, inspired and mind-intriguing albums ever - EVER - recorded. Just listening to the bouncing, cascading rhymes of Bob Dylan's surreal poetry sung over jazzy, bluesy, folksy and rocking instrumental backing (provided courtesy of Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, The Band and some of the finest studio musicians of the day) makes our heart skip a few beats. Track listing?!?!  Aw, c’mon…do you really need one? Finding a still sealed original copy?!?! Forget it – not even a HOPE!!! This may be the last one you will ever see.
 
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If Highway 61 Revisited played as a garage rock record, the double album Blonde on Blonde inverted that sound, blending blues, country, rock, and folk into a wild, careening, and dense sound. Replacing the fiery Michael Bloomfield with the intense, weaving guitar of Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan led a group comprised of his touring band the Hawks and session musicians through his richest set of songs. Blonde on Blonde is an album of enormous depth, providing endless lyrical and musical revelations on each play. Leavening the edginess of Highway 61 with a sense of the absurd, Blonde on Blonde is comprised entirely of songs driven by inventive, surreal, and witty wordplay, not only on the rockers but also on winding, moving ballads like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." Throughout the record, the music matches the inventiveness of the songs, filled with cutting guitar riffs, liquid organ riffs, crisp pianos, and even woozy brass bands ("Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"). It's the culmination of Dylan's electric rock & roll period -- he would never release a studio record that rocked this hard, or had such bizarre imagery, ever again.
 
 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)
 
For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 (or ►click here  for the complete album listing).
 
For additional historical or discography information on this album, including track listing ►click here
 
 
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THE FOLLOWING IS THE HISTORY OF THE COLUMBIA STEREO PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM:
 
 
(1)          Original,  first version, in print between 1966-1968: thin gatefold cover; Claudia Cardinale photo on the inside gatefold; “360 Stereo  nonbreakable” red & white Columbia labels. Original catalog number on the cover.  (this is the pressing we  have here)
 
(2)          Second  version,  in print between 1968-1970: thin gatefold cover; Bob Dylan (not Claudia Cardinale) photo on the inside gatefold; “360 Stereo” red & white Columbia labels. Original catalog number on the cover
 
(3)          Third  version, in print between 1970 and about 1974/75). Thick cardboard gatefold cover; Bob Dylan (not Claudia Cardinale) photo on the inside gatefold; Red Columbia label with yellow print along the label’s edge (70’s style) . Original catalog number on the cover.
 
(4)          Fourth version, in print between 1975 and cca 1981: Thin paperboard gatefold cover; Bob Dylan (not Claudia Cardinale) photo on the inside gatefold; Red Columbia label with yellow print along the label’s edge (70’s style) . Different catalog number on the cover. No bar code on the back cover.
 
(5)          Fifth version, in print between 1981 and 1989: Thin paperboard gatefold cover; Bob Dylan (not Claudia Cardinale) photo on the inside gatefold; Red Columbia label with yellow print along the label’s edge (70’s style) . Different catalog number - OR NO NUMBER AT ALL - on the cover. Blurry images on the cover; Bar code on the back cover.
 
 
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03 Jun 2020
$1828.38