Tracks from this session:

1.	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (featured in No Direction Home movie)
2.   	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (9 - from No Direction Home Soundtrack)
3.	Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence (12 - from Highway 61 Revisited Again)
4.	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (13 - from The Bootleg Series Vol. 2)
5.	Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence (16 - from The Bootleg Series Vol. 2)
6.	Like A Rolling Stone (17 - from Highway 61 interactive cd-rom)
7.	Like A Rolling Stone (18 , 19 or 20 - from Bootleg Series Vol. 2)
8.	Like A Rolling Stone (21 - from Highway 61 interactive cd-rom)

9.	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (take 13 - alternate source - mono, with intro and real ending)
10.	Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence (take 16 - alternate source - mono with count in)


Session Details:

Studio A

Columbia Recording Studios
New York City, New York
 
15 June 1965
 
The first Highway 61 Revisited session, produced by Tom Wilson.

1.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
2.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
3.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
4.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
5.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
6.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
7.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
8.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
9.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
10.    Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
11.    Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
12.    Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
13.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
14.    Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
15.    Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
16.    Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
17.    Like A Rolling Stone
18.    Like A Rolling Stone
19.    Like A Rolling Stone
20.    Like A Rolling Stone
21.    Like A Rolling Stone

Bob Dylan (guitar, piano, harmonica, vocal), Mike Bloomfield (guitar), Al Gorgoni (guitar), Frank Owens (piano), Bobby Gregg (drums), Joseph Macho Jr. (bass), Al Kooper (organ).

Notes.
·         2, 3, 5, 14, 15, 17-20 are false starts.
·         4, 10 are interrupted
·         Only released tracks and probably 10 are in circulation.
·         1-9, 13  Phantom Engineer on recording sheet.
·         10-12  Over The Cliffs, pt 1 on recording sheet.
·         14-16  Over The Cliff on recording sheet.
·         Recorded 2:30-5:30 pm.

Parts of 17 and 21 released on Interactive Music CD–ROM Highway 61 Interactive, Columbia/Graphix Zone CDAC 085700, February 1995.

13, 16, 17 and one of 17-21 released on THE BOOTLEG SERIES (RARE & UNRELEASED) 1961–1991, Volume 2, Columbia 468 086 2, 26 March 1991.

CO-numbers:
86443      It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
86444      Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence
86445      It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
86446      Like A Rolling Stone

References.
Michael Krogsgaard: Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 1). The Telegraph #52, Summer 1995, pp. 113-114.
Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan. The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]. St. Martin’s Press December 1995, pp. 39–43. 

Stereo studio recordings.