Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
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| Single by Bob Dylan | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Highway 61 Revisited" | |||||||||
| Released | December 21, 1965 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||
| Recorded | October 5 and 6 , 1965 | |||||||||
| Genre | Garage rock | |||||||||
| Length | 3:32 | |||||||||
| Label | CBS | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||||||||
| Producer | Bob Johnston | |||||||||
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"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" was a 1965 single by American rock artist Bob Dylan. It reached #58 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and #17 on the UK chart in January 1966. Dylan is accompanied on the song by the musical group then known as The Hawks, who had backed the singer on his 1966 world tour and would subsequently go on to fame in their own right as The Band: Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass), Richard Manuel (piano), Garth Hudson (organ), and Levon Helm (drums).
Originally available as a single only, the song was eventually included on Dylan's compilations Masterpieces (1978) and Biograph (1985), and on the Band's box set A Musical History (2005).
Dylan played the song to Phil Ochs as the two were riding in a limousine. When Ochs expressed a lukewarm feeling about the piece, Dylan kicked him out of the limousine, yelling "You're not a folk singer. You're a journalist."[1]
This song was included in the list of songs in Nick Hornby's book 31 Songs, that was published in the U.S. as Songbook.
[edit] Covers
The Vacels recorded the song for Kama Sutra in 1965. It is believed that their version pre-dates Dylan's own version.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience covered the song for BBC Radio. This version was later released on the BBC Sessions album.
The Hold Steady covered the song for the soundtrack to the Dylan quasi-biopic I'm Not There.
Transvision Vamp covered the song on their third album, Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble.
Les Fradkin covers it in his 2006 Dylan cover album If Your Memory Serves You Well.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Schumacher, Michael, There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs. New York; Hyperion, 1996, p. 106
[edit] References
- Hornby, Nick (2002) Songbook, McSweeney's Books, ISBN 0971904774
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