Why Don’t You Try
~ Recording by Leonard Cohen
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:53 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX) | KC 33167 |
| 1.5 | Why Don't You Try | 3:50 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia) | S 69087 |
| 1.5 | Why Don't You Try | 3:50 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia) | 69092 |
| 1.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:53 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia) | CDCBS 32660 |
| 1.5 | Why Don't You Try | 3:53 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX) | CK 66952 |
| 1.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:53 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX) | CD 32660 |
| 4.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:55 | Leonard Cohen | The Complete Studio Albums Collection | Leonard Cohen | Album + Compilation |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment) | 88697961772-1, 88697961772-10, 88697961772-11, 88697961772-2, 88697961772-3, 88697961772-4, 88697961772-5, 88697961772-6, 88697961772-7, 88697961772-8, 88697961772-9 |
| 5.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:55 | Leonard Cohen | The Complete Columbia Albums Collection | Leonard Cohen | Album + Compilation |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment) | 88697871842 |
| 1.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:53 | Leonard Cohen | Original Album Classics | Leonard Cohen | Album + Compilation |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment), Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment) | 88697623312 |
| 1.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:54 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment) | |
| 1.5 | Why Don’t You Try | 3:53 | Leonard Cohen | New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | Album |
| CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia) | CDCBS 69087 |
Relationships
| assistant engineer: | Leanne Ungar |
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| engineer: | Frank Laico Rick Rowe |
| producer: | Leonard Cohen (Canadian singer‐songwriter and poet) John Lissauer |
| mixer: | Rick Rowe |
| lead vocals: | Leonard Cohen (Canadian singer‐songwriter and poet) |
| arranger: | John Lissauer |
| mixed at: | Sound Ideas in New York, New York, United States |
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| recording of: | Why Don't You Try (in 1974) |
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Related works
Why Don't You Try
| lyricist and composer: | Leonard Cohen (Canadian singer‐songwriter and poet) |
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| publisher: | Sony/ATV Songs LLC Stranger Music Inc. |
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