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Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Compilation album by Bob Dylan
Released	March 27, 1967
Recorded	1962-1966
Genre	Folk Rock
Length	40:21
Label	Columbia Records
Producer(s)	John H. Hammond, Tom Wilson and Bob Johnston
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Bob Dylan chronology
Blonde on Blonde (1966)	Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967)	John Wesley Harding (1967)

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967) was the first album released by Bob Dylan after his epic Blonde On Blonde double-LP of May, 1966, and his famed 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 Basement Tapes sessions were still months away if the accepted chronologies are correct), Columbia Records 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.

This album also serves as Dylan's de facto singles collection for the 1960s, as all but three of the tracks present, "The Times They Are a-Changin'," "It Ain't Me Babe," and "Mr. Tambourine Man" had been issued at 45 rpm in the United States during the decade, although "Times" made it to #9 as a single release in the United Kingdom. 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 Peter, Paul and Mary enjoyed a huge hit with "Blowin' in the Wind" in 1963. The remaining six tracks all made the Billboard Top 40 in 1965 and 1966. Probably the most astounding thing of all concerning this collection is that it documents a time in America when this kind of lyric complexity and philosophic bent could actually become a top ten pop chart hit, "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" both going to #2 and "Positively 4th Street" going to #7. The latter track, incidentally, was the only single of the collection not later released on or taken off of an LP, having been recorded during sessions for Highway 61 Revisited.

The cover photograph of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits was taken by Rowland Scherman at Dylan's November 28, 1965 concert in Washington, D.C. The cover won the 1967 Grammy award for "Best Album Cover, Photography." The original album package also included Milton Glaser's now-familiar "psychedelic" poster depicting Dylan; it would later be disparaged by the burgeoning rock press.

Reaching #10 the US and #3 in the UK, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is now certified five times platinum in the US, making it one of his very best selling albums.

When this album was remastered for its 1997 rerelease, a slightly longer alternate mix of "Positively 4th Street" was substituted for the original single version.

All songs written by Bob Dylan.

1. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
2. "Blowin' in the Wind"
3. "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
4. "It Ain't Me Babe"
5. "Like a Rolling Stone"
6. "Mr. Tambourine Man"
7. "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
8. "I Want You"
9. "Positively 4th Street"
10. "Just Like a Woman"

• Milton Glaser poster
• Bob Dylan singles chart positions