This rare drawing (credited to 'Lambert') came as as a bonus with a few early US mono copies in August 1965, and seems only to have been distributed in a handful of markets. Copies containing it originally had a circular red sticker on the shrinkwrap stating 'FREE! INCLUDES A STRIKING PORTRAIT SUITABLE FOR FRAMING'. The insert itself was visible under the shrink on the back cover.
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ReplyDelete"...trying to find out how many copies of the original US pressings of "Highway 61 Revisited" were sold with the free art print by "Lambert". On Sept 1, 1965, Stan Kavan of Columbia wrote to its distributors and sales managers enclosing this "unique Dylan portrait" and advising that it would be "packed under the skin wrap on the liner side" of "all copies of your initial shipment as well as reorders for the next few weeks or as long as the supply lasts". The Stan Kavan memo is quoted in full on pages 369-370 of a book called "The Label: The Story of Columbia Records" by Gary Marmorstein (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007). The person posing the question bought his copy in Hartford, CT, on Sept 11, 1965, and it did not have a print, or indeed the front stickers shown on these stereo and mono albums." — Alan Fraser