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[29] [30] Dylan rehearsed "If Not for You" with Harrison before the concerts, [31] but did not include the song in his set the following day. [32] Dylan included "If Not for You" on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II, [33] a double album he compiled in late 1971 to placate Columbia in the absence of a new studio album. [34]
If Not for You is the debut studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in November 1971 by Festival Records. The album was released on the Pye International label in the UK as Olivia Newton-John , with a slightly different cover.
Schaffner viewed the "Dylanesque numbers" as "somewhat overshadowed" by those with the obvious Spector Wall of Sound production qualities, but identified songs such as "I'd Have You Anytime", "If Not for You" and "Behind That Locked Door" as being "far more intimate, both musically and lyrically, than the rest of the album". [91]
"If Not for You" is a song written by Jerry Chesnut and recorded by American country singer George Jones. It was released as a single on the Musicor label and reached No. 6 on the Billboard country singles chart in 1969. [citation needed] Like many of his biggest hits of the period, it is a love ballad. The song extols the virtues of a ...
The ChordPro (also known as Chord) format is a text-based markup language for representing chord charts by describing the position of chords in relation to the song's lyrics. ChordPro also provides markup to denote song sections (e.g., verse, chorus, bridge), song metadata (e.g., title, tempo, key), and generic annotations (i.e., notes to the ...
Dylan scholar Tony Attwood notes that, although the song consists of only a single chord, it is the music that resonates more than the words: "the extraordinary thing is that for once it is not the lyrics that stay with the listener first, second or third time it is sung.
Twenty-one years after the original version, Patty Loveless recorded a cover of the song on her 1987 album, also entitled If My Heart Had Windows. Loveless's version was also a top-10 country hit — the first of her career — peaking at number 10 on the country music charts. [ 3 ]
No Dylan version was released in the US or the UK until the appearance of The Bootleg Series, which, as noted above, featured a different version of the song from the single. The song also appears on The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall , albeit in an acoustic, live form.