Single:
Lay Lady Lay entered the Australian singles chart* on 23 August 1969 and peaked at #20.
Album:
The song is on Nashville Skyline which entered the Australian albums chart* on 17 May 1969 and peaked at #2.
Songwriter:
Bob Dylan
Producer:
Bob Johnston
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Music historian Joel Whitburn said the song was written for Dylan’s wife Sarah Lowndes. However in a 1971 interview, Dylan said the song was written for Barbra Streisand.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_Lady_Lay
Songfacts:
Dylan wrote this for the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy. Harry Nilsson’s Everybody’s Talkin’, which was released the year before, was chosen for the theme song instead.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/bob-dylan/lay-lady-lay
Lyrics:
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have
In your mind
I′ll show them to you
And you’ll see them shine
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