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Theme Time Radio Hour: Season 2 - With Your Host Bob Dylan (2CD)

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It could not have been an intended consequent of the program. Yet Theme Time Radio Hour continues to spawn these wonderful collections of near-forgotten tracks, great songs from the entire era of recorded music. "Theme Time Radio Hour: Season Two" continues the Ace series of assembling songs that now have the Bob Dylan Stamp of Approval.
There's no appearance of Dylan himself here. This is all music, all music by other artists. All music that was played on Theme Time Radio Hour. If the listener is expecting The Man himself, the listener is not reading the fine print.
What is here is a thoroughly enjoyable two hour collection of music. The experience is enhanced with a detailed booklet, describing each track and the artists who made it. It also includes a fine history of the adolescent Bob, listening late at night to distant radio stations, hearing music that his local station did not play, might never play. All around, a great collection of memories, and for some, for many, not yet memories at all, but will be.
Four stars, because I think there might have been different Theme Time tracks that would have made it better, for me. As I wrote in an earlier review of another TTRH collection, it would be very hard for any two to agree on a "perfect" collection, but it will be easy to agree that this one is exceptionally good to have, to play, to enjoy over and again.

This review is for all the THEME TIME RADIO HOUR WITH YOUR HOST BOB DYLAN BOX SETS, SEASON 2 and SEASON 3--and probably the 1st season also. The 1st season box cover is misleading and deceptive; the 2nd and 3rd season covers are just outright LIES! Let me repeat that: You, the customer, are being LIED to.
The whole deception involves tricking the public into thinking these are the actual complete programs of TTRH; instead it's only the songs from the shows. If the cover had read SONGS FROM THEME TIME RADIO HOUR or SONGS FROM BOB DYLAN'S THEME TIME RADIO HOUR, that would be acceptable, because the consumer has to use his brains and never assume more than is actually said. But it doesn't say "SONGS FROM...", it says what I printed in the first line--and that is just a bald-faced lie.
If Amazon is going to sell this as is, they should put a notice right where the product is that these are NOT the radio programs themselves. Or if not that, Amazon should refuse to stock them until the companies clean up their crooked act by changing the box cover titles to make it clear these are only the songs, not the programs themselves.
I wonder how many people have been deceived into buying these products.
I would encourage everyone to boycott these products until they get honest.
And SHAME ON AMAZON for not having already done something to correct this!

Although the music included is of interest I ordered the cd thinking it was a set of takes from Dylan's actual radio show with his intros and comments accompanying the songs. The way the cd was promoted led me to believe that even though it was never directly stated. That is not the format, it is just the music from the show with no Dylan comments, etc. There is a booklet with other comments included but not from the radio show...hence bait and switch and i took the bait!

'Theme Time Radio Hour, with your host Bob Dylan'.

Well I think that means Bob Dylan will be on the recordings.
The teaser is just plain dishonest and would be easy to correct.

I bought the first box set. Music and price were OK - no "with your host" Bob Dylan was not OK.

The single CD including Dylan was killer - wish i could get more.