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1973 RECORDING SESSIONS

 

 

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JANUARY

 

 

Durango, Mexico

Sam Peckinpah's House

20

Mexico City, Mexico

1st Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid session

 

FEBRUARY

 

 

Burbank, California

2nd Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid session

 

Burbank, California

3rd Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid session

 

Malibu, California

Booker T recording session

 

JUNE

 

 

New York City, New York

Ram's Horn Music Publisher's Office

 

AUGUST

 

 

Sheffield, Alabama

Barry Goldberg recording session

 

NOVEMBER

 

  2

Santa Monica, California

1st  Planet Waves session.

  5

Santa Monica, California

2nd Planet Waves session.

  6

Santa Monica, California

3rd Planet Waves session.

  8

Santa Monica, California

4th Planet Waves session.

  9

Santa Monica, California

5th Planet Waves session.

14

Santa Monica, California

6th and last Planet Waves session.

 

 

 

 

2100

Sam Peckinpah's House

 

Durango, Mexico

 

December 1972 - January 1973

 

 

1.

Billy

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal).

 

Mono recording, 3 minutes.

 

Session info updated 10 August 2001.

 

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2110

CBS Discos Studios

 

Mexico City, Mexico

 

20 January 1973

 

 

 

1st Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid session, produced by Gordon Carroll.

 

 

1.   Billy

2.   Billy

3.   Billy

4.   Billy

5.   Billy 4

6.   Turkey #1

7.   Turkey #2

8.   Turkey #2

9.   Billy

10.   Billy Surrenders

11.   Billy Surrenders

12.   And He's Killing Me Too

13.   And He's Killing Me Too

14.   And He's Killing Me Too

15.   And He's Killing Me Too

16.   Goodbye Holly

17.   Peco's Blues

18.   Peco's Blues

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar, vocal).

 

3-5  Terry Paul (guitar).

 

6-8  Terry Paul (bass).

 

9-16  Steve Bruton (guitar), Terry Paul (bass), Mike Utley (organ), Sammy Creason (drums).

 

17-18  Terry Paul (bass), Sammy Creason (drums), two trumpet players.

 

11, 16-18  Bob Dylan ) and Terry Paul (shared vocal).

 

12-15  Bob Dylan, Terry Paul, Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson (shared vocal), spoken introduction by James Coburn.

 

1, 3, 6-8, 10  instrumentals.

 

5 released on PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, Columbia KC-32460, 13 July 1973, in the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, May 1973 – available as commercial video September 1982. In the movie version the harmonica solo verse and, verse 8 and the end of the song is edited out.

 

11 released in the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, May 1973 – available as commercial video September 1982.

 

11 released in the original version ("directors cut"), of the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, 20 April 1986 - available as commercial video May 1989. A much longer mixing is used here.

 

Reference:

The True Story Of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid by Clinton Heylin, The Telegraph #37, Winter 1990, page 58.

 

1-10, 12-18  stereo studio recording, 11  mono film soundtrack.

 

Session info updated 9 October 1991.

 

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2120

Burbank Studios

 

Burbank, California

 

February 1973

 

 

 

2nd Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid session, produced by Gordon Carroll.

 

 

                         1.  Billy

                         2.  Knockin' On Heaven's Door

                         3.  Knockin' On Heaven's Door

                         4.  Knockin' On Heaven's Door

                         5.  Sweet Amarillo (Donna Weiss)

                         6.  Knockin' On Heaven's Door

                         7.  Final Theme

                         8.  Rock Me, Mama

                         9.  Rock Me, Mama

                       10.  Billy

                       11.  Billy

                       12.  Billy

                       13.  Instrumental

                       14.  Instrumental

                       15.  Final Theme

                       16.  Final Theme

                       17.  Ride Billy

                       18.  Final Theme

                       19.  Bunkhouse Theme

 

 

1-5, 8-12 and 15-17  Bob Dylan lead vocal.

 

6, 7, 18  Bob Dylan harmony vocal.

 

1, 5, 8  Terry Paul (shared vocal).

 

2-10, 12-14, 18, 19  Terry Paul (bass).

 

2-18  Roger McGuinn (guitar).

 

2-14, 18  Jim Keltner (drums and bongos).

 

16, 17  Jim Keltner (maracas).

 

2, 3, 5, 13  backup vocals by Carol Hunter, Donna Weiss and Brenda Peterson, overdubbed later.

 

11, 13-18 Carol Hunter (guitar).

 

2-4, 6, 7, 15-18  Carl Fortina (harmonium, organ & spinette).

 

7, 18  Gary Foster (flute).

 

6, 7, 18  Fred Catz and Ted Michael (cellos).

 

4, 6, 7, 9, 17, 18  Terry Paul, Roger McGuinn and Carl Fortina (backing vocals).

 

7, 13-16, 18, 19  instrumentals.

 

2, 12, 18, 19  released on PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, Columbia KC-32460, July

13, 1973.

 

3, 6, 7, 19  released in the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, May 1973, available as

commercial video September 1982.

 

2 released on BOB DYLAN’S GREATEST HITS VOLUME 3, Columbia 477805 2, November 15, 1994.

 

2 released on single Columbia 4-45913, August 1973.

 

2 released on single Columbia 4-33259, late 1974.

 

2 released on MASTERPIECES, CBS/SONY 57 AP875-7, March 1978 in Japan, and later 1978 in Australia and New Zealand.

 

2 released on UP CLOSE: BOB DYLAN, Media America Up Close 89-23, (Radio Station CDs), October 30, 1989.

 

2  released in the UK on THE ESSENTIAL BOB DYLAN, Columbia C2K 85168, 31 October 2000.

 

2 released on 3 CD box set DYLAN, Columbia 88697114202-D2, 1 October 2007.

2 released in the UK on BEYOND HERE LIES NOTHIN’, Sony Music 8 86979 83862, 24 October 2011.

 

6, 7, 18, 19  released in the original version ("directors cut"), of the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, April 20, 1986, available as commercial video May 1989.

 

Reference: The True Story Of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid by Clinton Heylin, The Telegraph #37, Winter 1990, page 58.

 

2, 12, 18, 19  stereo studio recordings. All other tracks mono studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 20 March 2012.

 

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2130

Burbank Studios

 

Burbank, California

 

February 1973

 

 

 

3rd and last Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid session, produced by Gordon Carroll.

 

 

1.   Main Title Theme (Billy)

2.   Cantina Theme (Workin' For The Law)

3.   Cantina Theme (Workin' For The Law)

4.   Billy

5.   Billy

6.   Billy

7.   Billy

8.   River Theme

9.   River Theme

10.   River Theme

11.   Turkey Chase

 

 

Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar), Bruce Langhorne (guitar), Booker T (bass).

 

1-3, 5-7  Russ Kunkel (tambourine & congas).

 

2, 3  Roger McGuinn (guitar).

 

11  Roger McGuinn (banjo).

 

8, 9, 11  Byron Berline (fiddle & vocal).

 

8, 9  Donna Weiss & Priscilla Jones (vocal).

 

1-3, 10-11  instrumentals.

 

10 maybe same as 8 or 9 but differently mixed.

 

Official releases

1, 2, 4, 8, 11  released on PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, Columbia KC-32460, July

13, 1973.

 

1-6, 9-11  released in the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, May 1973 – available as

commercial video September 1982.

4  released on CD PURE DYLAN – AN INTIMATE LOOK AT BOB DYLAN, Sony Music 8 86979 88082 5, 21 October 2011.

 

11 released on single Columbia 4-45913, August 1973.

 

1-4, 6, 7, 9-11  released in the original version ("directors cut"), of the movie PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, April 20, 1986 - available as commercial video May 1989.

 

Note. The version of track 6 in the "director's cut" is longer than the mixing in the 1973 version.

 

Reference:

The True Story Of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid by Clinton Heylin, The Telegraph #37, Winter 1990, page 58.

 

1, 2, 4, 8, 11  stereo studio recordings. All other tracks mono film tracks.

 

Session info updated 18 October 2011.

 

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2140

Jones Ranch

 

Malibu, California

 

February 1973

 

 

 

Booker T recording session produced by Booker T & Priscilla Jones

 

 

1.

The Crippled Crow (Donna Weiss)

 

 

Booker T (guitar, organ, piano & vocal), Chris Ethridge (bass), Jim Keltner (drums), Bob Dylan (harmonica), Priscilla Jones (shared lead vocal), Donna Weiss & Brenda Patterson (background vocals).

 

Released on BOOKER T AND PRISCILLA JONES: CHRONICLES, A & M ST.4413,1973.

 

Stereo studio recording. 5 minutes.

 

2160

Ram's Horn Music Publisher's Office

 

New York City, New York

 

June 1973

 

 

1.

Forever Young

2.

Nobody 'Cept You

3.

Never Say Goodbye

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal).

 

Notes.

 

These are demo recordings for publishers.

 

2 and 3 are not in circulation.

 

1  released on BIOGRAPH, Columbia C5X & C3K 38830, 28 October 1985.

 

Mono recordings.

 

Session info updated 10 August 2001.

 

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2180

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

 

Sheffield, Alabama

 

August 1973

 

 

 

Barry Goldberg recording session, produced by Bob Dylan & Jerry Wexler.

 

 

1.

Stormy Weather Cowboy (Barry Goldberg)

2.

It's Not The Spotlight (Gerry Goffin & Barry Goldberg)

3.

Silver Moon (Barry Goldberg)

4.

Minstrel Show (Barry Goldberg)

5.

Big City Woman (Barry Goldberg)

 

 

Barry Goldberg (guitar, keyboards, vocal), Pete Carr (guitar), Jimmy Johnson (guitar), Eddie Hinton (guitar), George Terry (guitar), Al Lester (fiddle), Rule Yarborough (banjo), Barry Beckett (keyboards & vibes), David Hood (bass), Roger Hawkins (drums), Jimmy Evans (congas), Harvey Thompson (tenor sax & flute), Ronnie Eades (baritone sax), Harrison Calloway (trumpet), Wayne Hill (trumpet), Charles Rose (trombone).

 

1, 2, 4 and 5 Ralph MacDonald (percussion).

 

1, 4  and 5 Arthur Jenkins (percussion).

 

2  Bob Dylan & Jerry Wexler (percussion).

 

1  Bob Dylan, Tex & Tom Bemfeld (background vocals).

 

2  Brenda Bryant, Margaret Branch & Pat Smith (background vocals).

 

3-5 Bob Dylan & Pete Carr (background vocals).

 

Released on BARRY GOLDBERG: BARRY GOLDBERG, Atco SD 7040, Decemer 1973.

 

Stereo studio recordings. 20 minutes.

 

Session info updated 6 February 2002.

 

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2200

Village Recorder

 

Santa Monica, California

 

November 2, 1973

 

 

 

1st Planet Waves session.

 

 

1.   Instrumental

2.   Never Say Goodbye

3.   Never Say Goodbye

4.   Never Say Goodbye

5.   Never Say Goodbye

6.   Never Say Goodbye

7.   Never Say Goodbye

8.   Never Say Goodbye

9.   Crosswind Jamboree

10.   House Of The Risin' Sun (trad.)

11.   House Of The Risin' Sun (trad.)

12.   Nobody 'Cept You

13.   Crosswind Jamboree

14.   Forever Young

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (drums), Garth Hudson (organ).

 

Notes.

·      3 and 10 are false starts.

·      1  Tune #1 on recording sheet

·      2-8  Tune #2 on recording sheet

·      9  Tune #3 on recording sheet

·      12  Nobody Except You on recording sheet

·      13 Cross Fire corrected to Jamboree on recording sheet

·      8, 14 and one of 10 and 11 are in circulation.

·      Also recorded without Bob Dylan during these sessions were three instrumentals called March Around The Dinner Table, Dinner and Garth Piano Tune.

·      Recorded 12-3 pm, 3:30-6:30 pm, and 7-10 pm.

 

References:

Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). The Telegraph #55, Summer 1996, pp. 117-118.

Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 95–99.

 

8  released on PLANET WAVES, ASYLUM S-7E-1003, 17 January 1974.

 

14 released on THE BOOTLEG SERIES (RARE & UNRELEASED) 1961-1991, Volume 2, Columbia 468 086 2, 26 March 1991.

 

Stereo studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 6 August 1997.

 

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2201

Village Recorder

 

Santa Monica

 

Los Angeles, California

 

5 November 1973

 

 

 

2nd Planet Waves session.

 

 

1.   You Angel You

2.   You Angel You

3.   You Angel You

4.   You Angel You

5.   Going, Going, Gone

6.   Going, Going, Gone

7.   Going, Going, Gone

8.   Going, Going, Gone

9.   Going, Going, Gone

10.   Forever Young

11.   Forever Young

12.   Nobody 'Cept You

13.   Something There Is About You

14.   Tough Mama

15.   Tough Mama

16.   Hazel

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ), Levon Helm (drums).

 

Notes.

·       This is not a complete track listing.

·       10-12  recorded 1-4 pm.

·       13-14  recorded 5-8 pm.

·       15-16  recorded 8:30-11:30 pm.

 

References:

Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). The Telegraph #55, Summer 1996, page 119.

Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 95–99.

 

1, 2  released on single Asylum 11035, March 1974.

 

4, 9  released on PLANET WAVES, ASYLUM S-7E-1003, 17 January 1974.

 

4  released on single Asylum 11033, February 1974.

 

4  released on BIOGRAPH, Columbia C5X & C3K 38830, 28 October 1985.

 

Stereo studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 15 October 1996.

 

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2202

Village Recorder

 

Santa Monica

 

Los Angeles, California

 

6 November 1973

 

 

 

3rd Planet Waves session.

 

 

1.   On A Night Like This

2.   On A Night Like This

3.   On A Night Like This

4.   On A Night Like This

5.   On A Night Like This

6.   On A Night Like This

7.   On A Night Like This

8.   Hazel

9.   Hazel

10.   Hazel

11.   Hazel

12.   Hazel

13.   Short Jam

14.   Hazel

15.   Hazel

16.   Hazel

17.   Tough Mama

18.   Tough Mama

19.   Tough Mama

20.   Tough Mama

21.   Tough Mama

22.   Tough Mama

23.   Tough Mama

24.   Something There Is About You

25.   Something There Is About You

26.   Something There Is About You

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ), Levon Helm (drums).

 

Notes.

·      6, 10, 14, 17-19 are false starts.

·      25  is interrupted.

·      1-7  A Night Like This on recording sheet.

·      Only released tracks are in circulation.

·      Recorded 12-5 pm, and 5:30-10-30 pm.

 

References:

Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). The Telegraph #55, Summer 1996, pp. 119-120.

Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 95–99.

 

16, 21 and 26  released on PLANET WAVES, ASYLUM S-7E-1003, 17 January 1974.

 

26  released on BOB DYLAN’S GREATEST HITS VOLUME 3, Columbia 477805 2, 15 November 1994.

 

Stereo studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 15 October 1996.

 

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2204

Village Recorder

 

Santa Monica

 

Los Angeles, California

 

8 November 1973

 

 

 

4th Planet Waves session.

 

 

1.   Going, Going, Gone

2.   Going, Going, Gone

3.   Going, Going, Gone

4.   On A Night Like This

5.   On A Night Like This

6.   On A Night Like This

7.   Forever Young

8.   Forever Young

9.   Forever Young

10.   Forever Young

11.   Forever Young

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ), Levon Helm (drums).

 

7-11  "Ken" on congas.

 

Notes.

·       4, 9, and 10 are false starts.

·       1-3  Goin Goin Gone on recording sheet.

·       Only released tracks are in circulation, except of track 1, 2, 3 which circulates as a vocal overdub.

·       Recorded 1-6 pm, and 7-10 pm.

 

References:

Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). The Telegraph #55, Summer 1996, page 121.

Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 95–99.

 

Official releases

6 and probably 11 released on PLANET WAVES, ASYLUM S-7E-1003, 17 January 1974.

6 and probably 11 released on 3 CD box set DYLAN, Columbia 88697114202-D2, 1 October 2007.

6  released on single Asylum 11033, February 1974.

6  released on BIOGRAPH, Columbia C5X & C3K 38830, 28 October 1985.

probably 11 released on The Band: A Musical History, Capitol Records, released 27 September 2005.

 

Stereo studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 25 January 2011.

 

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2206

Village Recorder

 

Santa Monica

 

Los Angeles, California

 

9 November 1973

 

 

 

5th Planet Waves session.

 

 

1.   Wedding Song

2.   Adalita

3.   Adalita

4.   Forever Young

 

 

Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal).

 

2, 3  Harry Dean Stanton (guitar & perhaps vocal).

 

Note. Tape box says 10 November 1973.

 

References:

Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). The Telegraph #55, Summer 1996, page 122.

Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 95–99.

 

1  released on PLANET WAVES, ASYLUM S-7E-1003, 17 January 1974.

 

Stereo studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 15 January 1997.

 

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2207

Village Recorder

 

Santa Monica

 

Los Angeles, California

 

14 November 1973

 

 

 

6th and last Planet Waves session.

 

 

1.   Forever Young

2.   Forever Young

3.   Forever Young

4.   Forever Young

5.   Forever Young

6.   Dirge

 

 

1-5  Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocal).

 

1-3  Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (drums), Garth Hudson (organ), Levon Helm (mandolin).

 

4, 5  Robbie Robertson (mandolin), Rick Danko (fiddle), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ), Levon Helm (drums).

 

6  Bob Dylan (vocal, piano), Robbie Robertson (guitar).

 

Notes.

·       6 Dirge For Martha on recording sheet.

·       Only released tracks are in circulation.

 

References:

Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). The Telegraph #55, Summer 1996, page 123.

Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 95–99.

 

2 and probably 6 released on PLANET WAVES, ASYLUM S-7E-1003, 17 January 1974.

 

2  released on THE BEST OF BOB DYLAN, Columbia SONYTV28CD, 2 June 1997.

 

2  released in Sweden on THE VERY BEST OF BOB DYLAN, Columbia COL 498540 2, 5 May 2000.

 

2  released in the UK on THE ESSENTIAL BOB DYLAN, Columbia C2K 85168, 31 October 2000.

 

Stereo studio recordings.

 

Session info updated 10 August 2001.

 

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