Why Can't I Have You

	Why Can't I Have You
	Produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange & The Cars
	Released on April 1984
	US CHART POSITION #33 (charted Jan. 26, 1985 for 17 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
7-69657 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

I ndicative of the deflated Heartbeat, “Why Can’t I Have You” doesn’t have the oomph that a good Cars single should. Instead, the synthesizers and slow tempo seem like holdovers from Beatitude’s listless bounty. (As opposed to those bounties that hop all over the place, I’m sure.) The US single featured the nonalbum “Breakaway” on the B side, which is as lame as you’d expect a song that didn’t make the original cut of Heartbeat City to be.

TRACK LISTING

UK 1984 7-inch single (E9741)

WHY CAN'T I HAVE YOU
HEARTBEAT CITY

1985 7-inch single
WHY CAN'T I HAVE YOU (Ric Ocasek) 3:49
BREAKAWAY (Ric Ocasek) 3:49

GER 12-inch track listing
WHY CAN'T I HAVE YOU
BREAKAWAY
SHAKE IT UP

CREDITS

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REGION	RELEASE DATE	LABEL	MEDIA	ID NUMBER	FEATURES
UK	April 1984	Elektra	7"	E9741	picture sleeve
US	January 1985	Elektra	7"	7-69657
US	1985	Elektra	7PRO	7-69657	feat. A on both sides
UK	February 1985	Elektra	7"/12	EKR3/T	picture sleeve
GER	1985	Elektra	7"	96 96577
GER	1985	Elektra	12	966914-0

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