# Look Through Any Window

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{{Infobox song
| name       = Look Through Any Window
| cover      = Look Through Any Window picture sleeve.jpg
| caption    = Swedish picture sleeve
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [the Hollies](/source/the_Hollies)
| album      =
| B-side     = "So Lonely"
| released   = 27 August 1965
| recorded   = 30 June 1965<ref name="liner notes">{{cite AV media notes |title=The 30th Anniversary Collection |others=The Hollies |year=1993 |type=CD |publisher=EMI Records |id=D 202205}}</ref>
| studio     = [EMI](/source/Abbey_Road_Studios), London<ref name="liner notes" />
| genre      = 
* [Jangle pop](/source/Jangle_pop)<ref>{{Citation
 | last = LaBate
 | first = Steve
 | title = Jangle Bell Rock: A Chronological (Non-Holiday) Anthology … from The Beatles and Byrds to R.E.M. and Beyond
 | work = Paste
 | date = December 18, 2009
}}
</ref>
* [pop rock](/source/pop_rock)<ref>{{Citation |title=Look Through Any Window by The Hollies - Track Info {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/look-through-any-window-mt0013681466 |language=en |access-date=2022-11-14}}</ref>
* [folk rock](/source/folk_rock)<ref name= "Stanley 2013">{{cite book|first=Bob |last=Stanley|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|chapter= Before and After the Gold Rush: Laurel Canyon|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28198-5|page=406}}</ref>
| length     = 2:14
| label      = *[Parlophone](/source/Parlophone) (UK)
*[Imperial](/source/Imperial_Records) (US)
| writer     = [Graham Gouldman](/source/Graham_Gouldman), Charles Silverman
| producer   = Ron Richards
| prev_title = [I'm Alive](/source/I'm_Alive_(The_Hollies_song))
| prev_year  = 1965
| next_title = [If I Needed Someone](/source/If_I_Needed_Someone)
| next_year  = 1965
}}

"'''Look Through Any Window'''" is a song by the British [beat](/source/Beat_music) group [the Hollies](/source/the_Hollies).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=The Hollies: Look Through Any Window |url=https://www.sky.com/watch/title/programme/7c7f8ac7-e788-4fad-8f40-9ab492d7f67e/the-hollies-look-through-any-window-7c7f8ac7-e788-4fad-8f40-9ab492d7f67e |access-date=18 June 2022 |work=[Sky](/source/Sky_Group)}}</ref> It was their follow-up single to their first UK chart-topper, "[I'm Alive](/source/I'm_Alive_(The_Hollies_song))", and reached No.4 in the [UK Singles Chart](/source/UK_Singles_Chart) at the beginning of October 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/artist/the-hollies/uk|title=The Hollies U.K. Discography|accessdate=10 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10698/hollies/|title=The Hollies on U.K. Official Chart|website=[Official Charts](/source/Official_Charts_Company)|accessdate=10 September 2019}}</ref>

"Look Through Any Window" was The Hollies' first American Billboard Top 40 hit, peaking at No.32 on 22 January 1966 ("[Just One Look](/source/Just_One_Look_(EP))" in 1964 had been the band's first American chart hit). It made No.3 in Canada in the [RPM Magazine](/source/RPM_(magazine)) charts, as well as in South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.5590.pdf| title=RPM Play Sheet - December 6, 1965}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SA Charts 1965–March 1989|url=http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(H).html|accessdate=5 September 2018}}</ref> It was written by [Graham Gouldman](/source/Graham_Gouldman) and Charles Silverman. The Hollies also recorded a version in French (titled "Regardez par des fenêtres") that was not officially released at the time but was included on the 1988 compilation ''Rarities''.

''[Cash Box](/source/Cash_Box)'' described it as a "medium-paced laconic teen-slanted ditty with a contagious repeating rhythmic [riff](/source/riff_(music))."<ref name=cb>{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=October 2, 1965 |page=12 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-10-02.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}}</ref>

First released as a single in the UK, it was included in the US version of the band's 1965 album ''[Hollies](/source/Hollies_(1965_album))'' titled ''Hear! Here!'' by their US label, [Imperial Records](/source/Imperial_Records).

The B-side, "So Lonely", later included on ''[Hollies](/source/Hollies_(1965_album))'' and ''Hear! Here!'', was also recorded by [the Everly Brothers](/source/the_Everly_Brothers) and released in July 1966 on their ''[Two Yanks in England](/source/Two_Yanks_in_England)'' album.

== Cover versions ==
* The American group [Gary Lewis & the Playboys](/source/Gary_Lewis_%26_the_Playboys) recorded the song for their 1966 album ''Hits Again!''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cover versions of Look Through Any Window by The Hollies {{!}} SecondHandSongs |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/48889 |work=secondhandsongs.com}}</ref>
* The Yugoslav rock band [Elipse](/source/Elipse) recorded a Serbo-Croatian version entitled "Pogledaj kroz prozor" in 1966.<ref name="janjatović106">{{cite book|last=Janjatović|first=Petar|title=Ex YU rock enciklopedija 1960-2023|year=2024|publisher=self-released / Makart|location=Belgrade|page=106}}</ref>
* The Brazilian band [Renato e Seus Blue Caps](/source/Renato_e_Seus_Blue_Caps) recorded a version entitled “Pra Você Não Sou Ninguém”, in 1966, for their album ''Um Embalo Com Renato e Seus Blue Caps'', singing in Portuguese.

==References==
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Category:Jangle pop songs

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