Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

Infobox Single
Name = Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?


Artist = 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 = Bob Dylan
Producer = Bob Johnston
Chart position =* #58 (US Billboard Hot 100)
* #44 (Canada CHUM Chart)
* #17 (UK Singles Chart)
Last single = "Positively 4th Street"
(1965)
This single = "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
(1965)
Next single = "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)"
(1966)Extra tracklisting
Album = Biograph
Type = Compilation
prev_track = "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (live)
prev_no = 13 of disc 2
this_track = "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
track_no = 14 of disc 2
next_track = "Positively 4th Street"
next_no = 15 of disc 2"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, and #17 on the UK chart in January 1966. It was recorded with The Hawks (later to become The Band) during the same session where One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) was recorded. These two songs were the only two fully realized during these sessions, and Dylan went on to record the rest of what would become "Blonde on Blonde" in Nashville with various other musicians.

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." [Schumacher, Michael, "There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs." New York; Hyperion, 1996, p. 106]

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."

Covers

The Jimi Hendrix Experience later 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 second album, "Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble."

Les Fradkin covers it in his 2006 release "If Your Memory Serves You Well".

Notes

References

*Hornby, Nick (2002) Songbook, McSweeney's Books, ISBN 0971904774