Repetitively Released Song Versions

By: Jeff (DrJibe@edlis.org) and Alan (alan@edlis.org)

The following song versions have been released officially on CDs three or four times. They may be Sony's favourites or maybe Sony is just lazy.

To be released four times means the song was released on an initial album, one of the US/UK Greatest Hits volumes, Biograph and Masterpieces. Dates are as reported in Krogsgaard Telegraph articles, except for Knocking On Heaven's Door and The Mighty Quinn, which are not included, where the dates have been taken from Heylin's Day By Day, confirmed by Olof Bjorner's Yearly Chronicles.

Song versions released 4 times:

• Blowin' In The Wind     7/9/62
• The Times They Are A-Changin'     10/24/62
• It Ain't Me, Babe     6/9/64
• Subterranean Homesick Blues     1/13/65
• Mr. Tambourine Man     1/15/65
• Just Like A Woman     3/8/66
• I Want You     3/9/66
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight     11/29/67
• Knockin' On Heaven's Door     2/73

Song versions released 3 times:

• Masters Of War     4/23/62
• Don't Think Twice, It's All Right     11/14/62
• A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall     12/6/62
• Like A Rolling Stone     6/6/65
• Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35     3/10/66
• Lay, Lady, Lay     2/14/69
• Quinn The Eskimo     8/31/69
• If Not For You     8/12/70
• I Shall Be Released     9/24/71
• Tangled Up In Blue     12/30/74
• Gotta Serve Somebody     5/1-11/79
• Positively 4th Street     7/29/65
• All Along The Watchtower     11/6/67
• Hurricane     10/24/75
• Forever Young     11/8/73
• The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar     5/11/81