| Philharmonic Hall, New York, New York, 31 October 1964 | |
| 1.1. | announcement (0:45) |
| 1.2. | The Times They Are A-Changin' (0:00/3:04/0:10) |
| 1.3. | Spanish Harlem Incident (0:00/2:40/0:18) |
| 1.4. | Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues (0:05/3:55/0:33) |
| 1.5. | To Ramona (0:00/4:53/0:20) |
| 1.6. | Who Killed Davey Moore? (0:57/3:25/1:19) |
| 1.7. | Gates Of Eden (0:04/7:34/0:09) |
| 1.8. | If You Gotta Go, Go Now (0:51/3:08/0:53) |
| 1.9. | It's Alright, Ma (0:09/8:27/0:15) |
| 1.10. | I Don't Believe You (1:21/3:36/0:43) |
| 1.11. | Mr. Tambourine Man (0:00/6:00/0:26) |
| 1.12. | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (0:14/7:17/0:08) |
| 2.1. | Talking World War III Blues (0:08/5:23/0:22) |
| 2.2. | Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (0:01/3:54/0:12) |
| 2.3. | The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (0:00/6:50/0:45) |
| 2.4. | Mama, You Been On My Mind (with Joan Baez) (0:00/2:44/0:26) |
| 2.5. | With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez) (0:13/5:29/0:46) |
| 2.6. | It Ain't Me Babe (with Joan Baez) (0:08/3:33/1:39) |
| 2.7. | All I Really Want To Do (0:00/3:05/1:01) |
| Broadside Show, WBAI-FM Radio, New York, New York, May 1962 | |
| 2.8. | interview (2:37) |
| 2.9. | Ballad Of Donald White (0:04/4:25/0:00) |
| 2.10. | interview (1:11) |
| 2.11. | The Death Of Emmett Till (0:08/4:31/0:00) |
| 2.12. | interview (0:52) |
| 2.13. | Blowin' In The Wind (2:28) |
Total time disc 1: 63:42
Total time disc 2: 53:09
Something like (a:aa/b:bb/c:cc) in the track list means that b:bb is the duration of the actual song. a:aa and c:cc indicate how much time of the track is due to introductions, tunings etc.
Review by Lonesome Sparrow
On the evening of 31 October 1964 (Halloween) Bob Dylan gave an acoustic concert at the Philharmonic Hall in New York City. A good quality recording of this concert is very pleasant to listen to, not only because of the excellent songs, but especially because of the atmosphere. You hear both Dylan and the audience having a great time. When Dylan talks between songs, he's charming and very funny. He laughs a lot and has the audience laughing with him constantly.
At the time Columbia Records recorded the entire concert. At some later date the tape escaped from their vaults and started circulating. Now the concert can be found on several unofficial CDs. Matthew Zuckerman has compared these with each other in a Usenet message, from which I quote here the following:
>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan >Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:02:33 +0000 >From: Matthew Zuckerman >Subject: '64 Halloween Concert >The best release of this concert is on "It's Alright". There's more hiss on >it than on other releases, but better sound and correct speed. > >All Hallows Eve is slightly fast, has excellent sound (if a little harsher >than It's Alright) and no hiss. > >Mr T 1+2 are a mite faster, still with exellent sound and only a little >hiss. This has also been released on Document, Bulldog and Black Panther, >together with the Newport 65 performance. > >Halloween Mask is much too fast and has indifferent sound. > >It's Alright was a Japanese release which is now very hard to find, so All >Hallows Eve would be the best one to get (unless you can find the >Document/Bulldog/Black P CDs, which are excellent).
Of these CDs I know only "All Hallows' Eve & More", of which this is my review, and "Live In Newport 1965", which is the Document CD containing the second part of the concert and for which I also have written a review. What surprises me in Matthew's comments is his statement that "All Hallows' Eve" has no hiss. My copy has a very prominent hiss, which has some properties I don't know how to describe, but which are quite irritating. The hiss is especially annoying in the beginning of the concert, during most of the rest of the concert it isn't so notable, but I cannot think of how one can experience this as having no hiss.
If you compare the sound quality with the Town Hall and Carnegie Hall live recordings on "The Bootleg Series", then the quality of those recordings is a lot better, so although the looks of the CDs and their packaging are of official release quality, the sound quality is not. It sounds as if there have been a number of copies between Columbia's tape and this one. Still, setting aside the hiss, it's quite good and many call it excellent. I think I like the sound of "Live In Newport 1965" better, although you can clearly hear that that one is copied from vinyl.
Dylan does three duets with Joan Baez, who also sang a song solo, Dylan accompanying her on guitar. This song, "Silver Dagger", however, is omitted from these CDs, which is a pity. It's not the only thing that has been omitted, for someone wrote:
>From: Karl-Heinz Meurer >Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan >Subject: Re: '64 Halloween Concert >Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:13:38 +0200 >All Hallows Eve sounds great, but isn't complete. They've cut some >intros and some of Bob's talk. > >Charlie
Since there is plenty of space left on both CDs, even with the filler, these omissions wouldn't have been necessary.
The filler consists of the "Broadside" radio program that is also on the CD "Broadside". That CD has a few seconds more talk. This CD has the same hiss as the Halloween Concert and it's annoyingly present throughout the whole show.