Product Code: MFSL 2-417
Artist: Bob Dylan
Origin: USA
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (2015)
Format: 2 X LP 45 rpm
Availability: In Stock
Condition:
Cover: M
Record: M
Genre: Country , Folk , Rock , World N

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits ( Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Original Master Sound Recording.)

Sealed - Brand new 180 gram Mobile Fidelity numbered limited edition half speed mastered audiophile vinyl. Made in USA.

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on March 27, 1967 on Columbia Records, original catalogue number KCS 9463. It contains every Top 40 single Dylan enjoyed through 1967. It peaked at #10 on the pop album chart in the United States, and went to #3 on the album chart in the United Kingdom. Certified five times platinum by the RIAA, it is his best-selling album in the U.S.[3]

Greatest Hits presented Dylan's first appearance on records after his praised Blonde on Blonde double-LP of May 1966 and his motorcycle accident of that summer. With no activity by Dylan since the end of his recent world tour, and no new recordings on the immediate horizon (the sessions that would in part be later released as the Basement Tapes were still months away), Columbia needed new product to continue to capitalize on Dylan's commercial appeal. Hence the appearance of this package, the label's first Dylan compilation and its first LP release with a $5.98 list price, one dollar more than that of standard releases.[citation needed]

Greatest Hits serves as Dylan's de facto singles collection for the 1960s. With the exception of, "The Times They Are a-Changin'", "It Ain't Me Babe", and "Mr. Tambourine Man", all tracks on this album were released as 45 rpm's in the United States during that decade. It is worth noting that "Times" made it to #9 as a single release in the United Kingdom and "Blowin' in the Wind" became a #2 hit single for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1963. The remaining six tracks all made the Billboard Top 40 in 1965 and 1966. A truncated rock and roll version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" had been a number one hit for The Byrds in the summer of 1965, and the Turtles took a folk-rock version of "It Ain't Me Babe" to #8 the same year. Perhaps the most astounding thing concerning this collection is that it documents a time in America when the lyric complexity and philosophic bent of "Like a Rolling Stone", "Positively Fourth Street", and "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" could actually become top ten pop hits. "Positively 4th Street" was the only single of the collection not either later released on or taken off of a long-playing album, having been recorded during the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited.

A1   Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 4:36
A2   Blowin' In The Wind 2:47
A3   The Times They Are A-Changin' 3:13
B1   It Ain't Me Babe 3:34
B2   Like A Rolling Stone 6:07
C1   Mr. Tambourine Man 5:26
C2   Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:18
C3   I Want You 3:05
D1   Positively 4th Street 3:53
D2   Just Like A Woman 4:54