He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother, Bus Stop, Carrie Anne, On A Carousel, The Air I Breathe, Look Out Any Window, Just One Look, Stop Stop Stop, Jennifer Eccles, King Midas In Reverse, and Sorry Suzanne.
I accept your bid and offer you: I'm Alive, Here I Go Again, We're Through,, Yes, I Will, Hey! Willie! , Gasoline Alley Bred, Stay, Listen To Me, I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top and I Can't Let Go. :)
@@Isleofskye ,And I offer you, Gloria Swansong, Too many people, Oriental Sadness, The very last day, So lonely, Stewball, Fifi the flea, Clown, That's my desire, Peculiar situation and hundreds of others...I'll have to get all my old LPs out !
It will be your "Swansong" if you come out with any more like that Isobar :( How I am supposed to know about the love between Fifi and the little clown? I can't match your list. You've topped me :)
Thank you very much for putting this song on with your nice compliments. I worked listening to the song from a Jukebox while working at a restaurant in the summer of 1974 in Columbus, Mississippi. 50 years have gone by and I still love this song and so many more from my youth.
The best memory I have of this song was in 1972. I was heated South of Jacksonville on 95. I had just been dumped by the golddigger I was engaged to. My pal and I were headed to Miami to party for a weekend. The Playboy Club was deeply involved. About 3:00 in the morning we were listening to some AM station in South Carolina. The Skip was wide open that morning. The DJ said, "Here are the Hollies singing Long Black Woman in a Cool Dress." Everytime I hear this it makes me smile.
This lead singer has an incredible voice. He ain't heavy, hes my brother and the air that i breathe are top notch. Both are very emotional songs that will stay with you forever!
"Bus Stop" was a big hit from the early days when Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash &/or Young) was in The Hollies. They had an album track that is a bit of a hidden gem in the aong "Little Lover" (cowritten by Nash). It has a distinct Beatles flavour to it. As does "On A Carousel," also cowritten by Nash) - Lots of great stuff to explore lots of great suggestions in the comments so far.
Allan Carke is one of the more underrated vocalists of the 1960s amd 1970s. There are many great Hollies tunes... "He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother)", "The Air That I Breathe" and others.
@ Quinny ...... I'm 64 but back when I got my driver's license at 16, I would drive my brother's 1965 Mustang GT 350. He put speakers in the doors and he had a 8 track player in it along with an 8 track tape of the Hollies. Being new to driving, I wasn't use to keep my speed down and man, when this song came on and I cranked up the sound, I had an even harder time of being mindful of my speed. lol I never got stopped for speeding but whenever I hear this song.... I'm cruisin' down the road in that Mustang.
The lead singer Graham Nash left the group and joined Steven Stills and Crosby and Is Crosby Stills & Nash. Songs like SOUTHERN CROSS and JUDY BLUE EYES are two of their best. Neil Young joined them briefly and OHIO is the one that they are known for.
Allan Clarke was the lead singer of the Hollies, before and after Nash left. Nash sang harmony with an occasional lead. Mr. Clarke should get the credit he is due!
I grew up listening to the Hollies in the 60's, you really ought to listen to a lot more of this band, to me they were a pop band that just kept banging out hit after hit and I still play their music now and I am in my 70's.
wow.... finally found someone who GETS the remarkable musicality of this,,, one of the great pure rock songs of music history...listened to three reactions before this ....none of them picked up on the pure music rhythm groove being laid down........
The cool thing about this song, is that it sounds so simple.. the riff... so, if you are a guitar player like me, you sit down and try to play it at some point lol... But you can never make it sound exact.. the reason is they have 3 guitarists playing that rhythm part.. and they do it so seamlessly that it sounds like one guitar.. it's crazy good. Great reaction. Thank you. 😊
This was dubbed my "theme song" in college, by a friend, due to a particular black dress I had, and my long legs. LOL Good song, The Hollies had lots of hits and this was one of their later ones.
I love the look on your face at the beginning of the song, and that you actually had to stop the song and catch your breath. The song deserves that pause. I first heard it when it came out, I was only 10 y.o. but my mind was blown. Still is. Thanks for doing this!
Yeah, that baby rocks!! And it did back in the 70's. One of my brothers first single 45 records. I just was rocking to that while in my gym the other day. Actually been listening to it on and off the past 7 years, and many times with my granson. It's a Goldie! 👍😉 Thanks for playing it. 🙏
I simply cannot fathom how you make it to any age without knowing these songs . How can you possibly know where you are if you dont know where youve been ? Cmon Girl.... 😎😎
Got to listen to he aint heavy he's my brother - will blow you away. Hollies had hit after hit in the sixties released on single 7 inch records (one song on each side)
I joined my first band when I was in grade 8 in 1972. We did this song and I am 100% sure we did not sound this good. LOL. However, the song has aged very well. Nice blast from the past. Cheers.
When this song was first released in the United States, people thought it was Creedence Clearwater Revival, and kept asking for the creedence song when it was really the Hollies who hadn’t had a significant hit since 1970 with “he ain’t heavy.”
@Michael Rochester - I heard on another reaction channel that The Hollies challenged themselves to make their own version of a CCR song. They nailed it! I remember the confusion, too. (I was 11 at the time, but there’s no way around my being old now…)
There is an extended play version with Nash guesting...he had left the hollies but came back for this one gig....it is awesome.... unbelievable picking...
When I was a kid listening to this as a new song on the radio, the intro was groundbreaking. Very inventive. We've had a ton of music since then though, so it doesn't stand out much, but this was notable. Probably the two biggest hits for the Hollies would be Air That I Breathe and He Ain't Heavy.
The rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester is real enough, but although the latter never had the biggest band in the world, it has produced some of the most important British rock and pop groups of the last 60 years. The Hollies' were a pop factory in their own right during the 1960s and would even return to the top of the UK chart in 1989 with their version of 'He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother', after it was used on a TV commercial.
Manchester has a VERY long list of musical artists who were very popular through many decades. Not sure what's in the water there :) Will have to check if Liverpool has had any since the 60s.
@JPMadden - There is a great lyrics video for this song. It has a still photo of a woman who is the embodiment of a ‘Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.’ As best as I can tell, the lyrics are accurate. I don’t recall any typos or misspelling of words. I mention that because I’ve seen some really bad “lyrics” videos here on YT. I’m not sure if your comment means that Jayy should see the lyrics or if you want to see them. In case you want to see them, now you know what to look for!
@JPMadden - YT isn’t letting me edit my previous reply, so here’s another reply, because I’m fussy: In thumbnails for this song, I’ve been seeing a comparatively bad photo of a woman in a black dress. I don’t know where that’s from. The lyrics video I’m thinking about has a very classy looking photo of a more beautiful woman. After giving you so much description, I should just get the link! I still might!
This is one of the best rockabilly songs I've ever heard, and it's from a group a would least expect to do it, at a period in the history of rock n' roll that caught me off guard. I mean, the Hollies of "All I Need is The Air That I Breath" and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"? This sounds like something Carl Perkins, or the early Elvis, or Ronnie Hawkins, or Dale Hawkins, or Buddy Knox, or Gene Vincent, or Eddie Cochran would have done somewhere between 1955 and 1959. In other words, the prime years of my teenage self and the golden years of rockabilly. The guitar lead, the echo effect, the well-described full-grown sexy lady. It's not profound or philosophical, but it sure is fun. It turned my radio into a time machine for about three minutes.
Happy your enjoying my favorite song since I was knee high to a grasshopper. He was just kind of messing around with that song in the studio and the rest is history.
When I see what young people think is good music today, I feel embarrassed for them. My generation had so many great groups, they seemed endless. Then all of a sudden 40 years later, the magic is gone. With the exception of going to Vietnam, my times were great. If really wish my kids could have had the great times we has.
was written by them as a tribute to CCR who had just broken up- john fogerty wasnt impressed and sued them for plagerizing GREEN RIVER- was settled for half the royalties !
From my city Manchester, UK. Must have picked up the American accent from the telly. ;-). Great song from my youth. There's lots to explore from the past.
Hey JAYY! I grew up listening to this song. My mom still to this very day has the 45 record (the small size records) of this song. Good song, Great reaction as always!
Still catching up with your videos, thanks for uploading this one, you reactors keep taking me down memory lane. Keep doing what you are doing. Mick Thailand
