BOB DYLAN BROADSIDE BALLADS ULTRA-RARE SEALED ORIG '65 BROADSIDE MONO LP w/BOOK

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·       BOB DYLAN (CREDITED AS “BLIND BOY GRUNT”) , PHIL OCHS, PETER LA FARGE, PETE SEEGER, FREEDOM SINGERS AND OTHER FOLK ARTISTS OF THE SIXTIES – BROADSIDE BALLADS, VOL. 1 – ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1963 BROADSIDE RECORDS MONO LP BR-301

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       THIS ALBUM INCLUDES THREE OF TEN TRACKS BOB DYLAN RECORDED FOR BROADSIDE IN 1962, PLUS THE FOURTH ON WHICH HE PLAYS GUITAR AND HARMONICA (BUT DOES NOT SING),  SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN UNAVAILABLE IN ANY WAY, MANNER OR FORM IN NEARLY 50 YEARS!!!

·       LIKE MANY OTHER ALBUMS RELEASED ON THE FOLKWAYS / SMITHSONIAN / BROADSIDE FAMILY OF LABELS, THIS ALBUM HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING COVER COLOR VARIATIONS, ALL OF WHICH APPEAR TO BE ORIGINAL AND CONTAIN THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING INSIDE: THUS FAR, WE HAVE SEEN PINK,  TAN , GRAY AND PALE GREEN COVERS; THIS IS A PINK VERSION OF THE COVER. )

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL BEIGE BROADSIDE LABEL WITH BELL-RINGER LOGO , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN BELOW, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION 

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       GUARANTEED TO INCLUDES ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN BELOW, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       ORIGINAL "TEXTURED" (CRUDE FINISH) COVER.

·       EXTREMELY THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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In late 1962 and early 1963, Bob Dylan made over a dozen recordings at sessions administered by the folk magazine Broadside. In October 1963, three of these songs — "John Brown," "Only a Hobo," and "Talking Devil" — appeared on the Broadside/Folkways compilation LP Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1, credited to Blind Boy Grunt. (The album also included a Dylan composition, "Let Me Die in My Footsteps," on which Happy Traum took the vocal, and Dylan contributed backing vocal and guitar.) Even at this early point in his career, it was immediately obvious to anyone who had heard Dylan, and indeed many general folk fans, that Blind Boy Grunt was Dylan under a pseudonym; there was no mistaking his voice for anyone else's. Presumably, the pseudonym was used to avoid contractual problems, as Bob Dylan was signed to Columbia Records under his real name. Also, presumably, no one at Columbia ever realized this was going on, or at any rate didn't care enough to try and put a stop to it. If the latter was the case, there were two reasons why Columbia might not have bothered to take action. First, the three songs were definitely among Dylan's lesser early songwriting efforts. And second — though perhaps this is giving Columbia too much credit — it may have realized that the availability of secondary Dylan material under a pseudonym, which wasn't good enough to make his proper albums anyway, served as excellent auxiliary promotion for the singer's more polished and widely distributed major-label recordings.

The Blind Boy Grunt alias was certainly one of the wittiest pseudonyms in pop history, poking fun at the whole notion of young white guys digging into the early-20th century repertoire of blues legends like Blind Boy Fuller. Its use wasn't limited to that 1963 Broadside album, either. In early 1963, Dylan contributed harmonica and backup vocals to an album recorded by fellow folkies Richard Farina and Eric Von Schmidt; when the LP was finally released in 1967 (as Dick Farina & Eric Von Schmidt), his parts were attributed to Blind Boy Grunt. In November 1971, a couple more songs Dylan had recorded for Broadside in the early 1960s, "Train A-Travelin'" and "I'd Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day," were exhumed and included on the Folkways compilation album Broadside Reunion. To add further to the discographical confusion, that album also had a couple of other Dylan performances, "The Ballad of Emmett Till" and "The Ballad of Donald White," taken from a show he recorded (but which was not broadcast) for WBAI in New York in May 1962. All four of the Dylan tracks on Broadside Reunion, again, were credited to Blind Boy Grunt. And all four of these, again, were very secondary, quality-wise, even by the standards of his early compositions. It should also be noted that the recording fidelity and level of performance on some of the Broadside/Grunt/Dylan cuts are sometimes (though not always) way below official release standards as well.

The Broadside/Folkways compilations containing the Blind Boy Grunt songs are not too easy to come by anymore, although a few (NOT ALL) of them were reissued in 2000 on Smithsonian Folkways' The Best of Broadside box. All of the Blind Boy Grunt tracks from the Broadside/Folkways LPs are on the Dylan bootleg Broadside, which also has eight unreleased songs he did for Broadside and an unreleased version of "Blowin' in the Wind" from his May 1962 WBAI taping. The Blind Boy Grunt pseudonym has also been trotted out for use on various Dylan bootlegs, as sort of an in-joke likely to be picked up on by fans serious enough to collect Dylan boots in the first place. As a footnote, Blind Boy Grunt is not the only pseudonym Dylan has used on record: he also appears as piano player Bob Landy on the Elektra anthology The Blues Project (on the song "Downtown Blues"), as Tedham Porterhouse when playing harmonica on Ramblin' Jack Elliott's 1964 album track "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," and as Robert Milkwood Thomas when adding piano and harmony vocals to Steve Goodman's "Somebody Else's Troubles" in the early 1970s. Also, Janis Ian used the pseudonym Blind Girl Grunt when recording for Broadside.

Finding a still sealed original copy of  this much-coveted Bob Dylan recording?!?! Forget it – not even a HOPE!!! This may be the last one you will ever see.

 (All Music Guide)

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The album is guaranteed to come with the original booklet still intact.

(c)           The record is  apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Stereo copies of this album are NOT known to exist.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP   (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.   (nothing significant)

-         Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged  (nothing significant)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No wrinkles or creases

-        No writing

-        No stamps  (the small green stamp in the back is on the shrink wrap, NOT on the cover itself)

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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