Hey, Hey, What Can I Do

{{Infobox song

| name = Hey, Hey, What Can I Do

| cover = Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Led Zeppelin

| A-side = Immigrant Song

| released = {{Start date|df=yes|1970|11|5}}

| recorded = May–June 1970 (?); 29 May 1970{{sfn|Guesdon|Margotin|2018|p=218}}

| studio = Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, Headley Grange, Hampshire; Olympic Sound Studios, London{{sfn|Guesdon|Margotin|2018|p=218}}

| genre = Country rock{{cite book|first=George|last=Case|title=Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man: An Unauthorized Biography|year=2009|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-0-87930-947-3|page=103}}

| length = 3:55

| label = Atlantic

| writer = *John Bonham

| producer = Jimmy Page

}}

"Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1970 as the B-side of the single "Immigrant Song" in the US.{{cite book|first=Nigel|last=Williamson|title=The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin|date=2 August 2007|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-841-7|pages=66, 74–75, 214}}

Releases

After its release on a single, "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" was included on the Atlantic Records compilation album The New Age of Atlantic in 1972.{{efn|Some pressings of the US single (Atlantic 45-2777) list "From Atlantic LP 19128 "LED ZEPPELIN III", which only applies to the A-side, "Immigrant Song".

{{Cite AV media notes| year = 1970| title = "Immigrant Song" / "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do"| type = Single notes| location = New York City| publisher = Atlantic Records| id = 45-2777| at = B-side label}}}} The song was first released on CD in September 1990, on the Led Zeppelin Boxed Set collection. In 1992, as a 20th-anniversary release, "Immigrant Song"/"Hey, Hey What Can I Do" was issued as a "vinyl replica" CD single.

In 1993, the song was included on The Complete Studio Recordings 10-CD box set, as one of four bonus tracks on the Coda disc as well as the subsequent 12-CD Led Zeppelin Definitive Collection box set released in 2008. In 2015, the song was also included on disc one of the two companion discs of the reissue of Coda.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Personnel

According to Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin:{{sfn|Guesdon|Margotin|2018|p=218}}

Robert Plant – vocals
Jimmy Page – acoustic guitars (six-string and twelve-string)
John Paul Jones – bass, mandolin
John Bonham – drums

Footnotes

References

Bibliography

{{cite book|first1=Jean-Michel|last1=Guesdon|first2=Philippe|last2=Margotin|year=2018|title=Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-316-448-67-3}}