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Bob Dylan - Great White Wonder (1967)

Track listing:
  1. Candyman 3:06
  2. Ramblin Round 3:18
  3. Hesakia 4:48
  4. In This Word 2:07
  5. Boy From Chicago 5:29
  6. Poor Lazeras 3:31
  7. Down In New Orleans 1:04
  8. If You Got To Go 2:27
  9. Only A Hobo 3:23
  10. $1,275 3:53
  11. Mighty Quinn 2:07
  12. This Wheels On Fire 3:48
  13. Baby Please Don't Go 4:15
  14. Fare Thee Well
  15. There Is One Kind Favor 3:38
  16. Im A Man Of Constant Sorrow 5:06
  17. A Certain Thing 2:45
  18. Too Much Of Nothing 2:46
  19. Nothing Was Remembered 4:28
  20. Tears Of Rage 4:05
  21. Living The Blues 2:46

Notes

One of the most famous bootlegs of all time. This is the first bootleg ever to be produced in the rock-and-roll era. Great White Wonder was originally released in the United States in July of 1969. There was little on this piece to identify it to the world. It came out in a blank white gatefold cover, with blank white labels. The only identifying mark whatsoever is the matrix number: GF 001/2/3/4. (gwa 1Aa version 1). The name 'Great White Wonder' probably actually began as a joke when retailers needed to come up with a name for this blank white album. The term quickly became synonymous with Dylan in the bootleg world however, and has since been used many, many times to refer to either the man or his work.
Later in the year this famous album was repressed. This second repress, (gwa 1Aa version 2 ) can be identified only by the addition of the number "2" carved after the matrix on all four sides of the LP.

At about the same time that the album first made its appearance in the United States, a Swedish pressing began circulating in Europe. The differences in this album and the previous is that this one had a very thin blank white gatefold cover, and a machine-stamped matrix BD 101 A/B. (gwa 1Ab). It is not impossible that this is actually the first "Great White Wonder".

Towards the end of the year, one of the above pieces began appearing in the east coast of the United States in two separate blank white covers. The matrix number has been completely scratched out, so it is not sure exactly which piece this is, or if it is actually a different pressing.
This set is known as gwa 1Ac.

Hot Wacks, the book that tries to chronicle bootlegs by every artist, says that there is an original version of the above album with fewer songs. It is doubtful, however, that this actually exists.

The quality on all of the above pieces is similar, and very good. As the same master plates were used over and over, sound quality began to deteriorate somewhat.

While these pieces, pressed in the last year of the decade, are fairly easy to chronicle ... things start getting a little more complicated from here on out. There are no fewer than 50 separately identifiable albums that have either copied this material directly, or have released this material in varying qualities under the same title.