Songs Graham Gouldman Wrote for Other Artists in the 60s 

The Hollies publishing are annoying..

@ Yesterday's Papers: No need to apologise, friend. It's not your fault but the fault of the greedy grabbing capitalist corporates.

we understand and thank you!

I understand. I wouldn't mind opening a RU-vid channel myself. But I would be too frightened of getting nabbed by the copyright lawyers, or purists as you might call them. So I think it is safest to leave it alone.

Fail to see how it isn't covered by fair use. I, for one, found the video to be educational 🤷‍♂️ Great stuff as always thanks

There's another song of his that Cher did and was incredible. Can't think of it right now.

You got that right. A pop genius

Herman's Hermits did a great recording of "For Your Love" as well.

​@@peterzang🎼🎶🎨🖌️😎

And: "Look Through Any Window" (Hollies' 1st hit in the States), and "Heart Full of Soul." Wow, quite the composer. Thanks, "Yesterday's Papers," I'd never heard of him before. But his songs...

That he continued working in a men's outfitters after writing several US and UK Top Ten hits has just blown my mind!

@@rotterred991 No offense to Goldman but a lot of these songs are just ok.

Thankyou! Yes have long admired his work!! And in particular with 10cc who remain one of my favourite bands of all time!!!

Yes. He signed my bloody tourists record at an unannounced meeting/signing. He was humble although tired due to their last night of touring. I had a good long chat with guitarist rick fenn who stood with a glass of red wine on the go. Me and my friend crashed back stage entrance!

Can you write songs? not everyone can even after 60 years. don't think you can learn how

@@vincentl.9469 No; occasionally I'll create a musical phrase or riff while noodling, but that's about it. I sure wish I could. Can you?

@@TooLooze no..I think it's a mindset, being able to put music to words. Then, what do you sing about? far too many songs are about women & love-always have been, not everyone experiences those emotions. You can even get books that claim to teach songwriting...it doesn't work

@@vincentl.9469 I don't let it bother me. I play blues no matter what version. I love rockabilly, zydeco, some country and classic rock. I have a pretty big guitar collection. What about you?

@@TooLooze don't have a great guitar collection..

As a 10 year old , I loved the Yardbirds

YES!

10cc mattered for about FIVE MINUTES. Get a life.

All so different too.

Agreed.

And if it was too "pop," it was also unusual for 1965 in using bongos and harpsichord as the lead instruments. Perhaps EC was cheesed off that his guitar wasn't more prominently featured.

but infinitely more blues than anything yardbirds ever did again until it morphed into led zep

@@plasteredbastard "Heart Full of Soul"? Their cover of Billy Boy Arnold's "I Wish You Would"? One can argue which of the YBs or their successor band was "bluesier." I think their post-EC experimentation and forays into psychedelia and social-issue-oriented songs were great: "Over Under Sideways Down," "Shapes of Things," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" and others may not conform to the rigid standards of self-appointed (and almost entirely white) arbiters of blues "purism" (whatever the h*ll that is; if you asked the African-American artists who largely created the form, they would tell you that they were influenced by and played whatever the audiences- white, Black, working class, urban, rural, affluent- wanted to hear in the Southern juke joints and roadhouses and, eventually the urban bars up north), but they are all great and adventurous songs. As for the blues "purism" of LZ, that to me is a laughable concept. They explored a number of music forms in their slightly over one decade of existence ("Kashmir," "Battle of Evermore," etc.) and often seemed, especially live, to be showing off (well, three of them anyway). Thank God they had veteran session/studio ace John Paul Jones to keep them grounded and to keep the egos of the other three- 35-minute drum-soloing Bonzo, falsetto showing-off Plant, and (worst of the lot in the '70s IMHO), how-many-pointless-notes-can-I-cram-into-this-interminable-guitar-solo Page (previously also a session ace)- in check. Somewhat. And as for EC, Cream (after their first album) were hardly confined to the blues (and just as guilty as LZ later would be for live-performance egotism). I remember EC's beer commercial-friendly music of the '80s (because it was actually used in U.S. beer commercials), or how he took one of the greatest, most fiery electric guitar ballads of rock history, "Layla," and turned into a somnolent acoustic piece of crap for '80s yuppies, so he can spare me his pious sermons about blues "purism." Again, whatever the h*ll that means anyway.

​@@mackb909and Graham Gouldman? I think Eric and Led Zep have been done to death. Let's give Manchester's boy pop genius a moment in the light.

Same here🤯

And haven't you ever taken advantage of having an umbrella? A courting man should always carry one. That said, it was used as the device in Fatal Attraction - except that she had one.

Thanks, Rachel! Glad you enjoyed the video.

What a gift Gouldman is to the "soundtrack of our lives" - Then your LIFE sucked as bad as his songs. HA, HA

⁠@@91dodgespiritrt You’re still mad because the school Bus Stop that you had to wait at was only for the special, short ones:🤤

Bobby still is awesome, on tour now with the Hollies.

Goodluck enjoying 10cc

i didnt know she did any recordings her dance career goes back to the early 60s

Surprised me. It felt like a break in the timeline. Had to look it up while the video played and yep it was her.

Same here. Loved playing my mum’s records and this was a favourite

Bloody brilliant mate! Greetings from Tarrawanna. I missed it, damn!!! I bet Freddie Mezups was there though.

@@petersampson4635 Pete, are you referring to the little guy that used to dance up the front all the time at every concert at Dapto Leagues back in the day? If so, I think he had passed away a while before that. Let me know!

I love that slide solo.

Same level as Queen for me

When the band 10CC broke in half with Kevin Godley and Lol Creme leaving, Graham and Eric decided to go on as 10CC. The story goes that they figured if they had a number one hit, they could survive the split as 10CC. They sat down and wrote in cold blood, "The Things We Do for Love". Yes, it hit number one in many countries. I know of no other songwriter who could purposely write a song intended to hit number one and actually do it.

@@schuberttim my favourite is Feel The Benefit from the same album...

@@schuberttim Dang! Out of nowhere I now have "Rubber Bullets" bouncing around inside my head. No idea why that track but I ain't bothered! 🙂

@@richardstewart6900 I make CDs for my car from my vast music collection and I have one of 10CC. "Rubber Bullets" is track number two after their one "hit" as Hotlegs, "Neanderthal Man". Most people don't realize that was them. Graham Gouldman was not a member according to the album liner notes, but was brought in by Eric Stewart just to play bass and stayed when they changed their name to 10CC.

Ray Davies wrote Dandy, and the Kinks version puts Herman’s Hermits to shame.

​​@@carspivwe can agree to disagree on which version is the better version.

This is a bit off topic but Toni Basil was also in the movie, Five Easy Pieces, playing one of the hitchhikers.

@@TimG1 Ooh. I actually rather like 'off topic'.

She was also one of the harem girls near the end of "Easy Rider"!

I think that Toni did dancing and maybe choreography in the T.A.M.I. Show.

@@eargasm1072 With Karen Black!

While a clearly talented songwriter, not sure he belongs in the same league as the likes of Brian Wilson, Lennon-McCartney, Ray Davies, Roy Wood, Jagger-Richard, etc...

One "forgettable" song after another. YAWN. So, why waste any time on him? HA, HA

@@91dodgespiritrt Hold on there boy, you weren't around in the sixties were you? 🤠

@@dompicksley3900presuming at this point that any of those listed wrote *their own tunes, or recorded them

Some very good singalong songs for the Hollies and Herman's Hermits and a great one for the Yardbirds. The rest of the songs are rather pedestrian, quite average tunes.

Beck always said they were overqualified on guitar and under qualified on songwriting so wouldn’t have been something

He was of course already in Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, with Eric Stewart, the group that became 10cc (after being Hotlegs).

@@Joanna-il2ur was he in the mindbenders in July 1966 when Paul samwell smith quit?

@@Joanna-il2ur According to Wikipedia He joined the Mindbenders in March 1968

At the time, they said he left because the YBs were forced by Giorgio Gomelsky to cover My Girl Sloopy by the Macoys. It’s on a few YB compilations but it’s an awful song and I don’t think it charted either.

Cheers!

Steely Dan had its properties described in detail by William S Burroughs in one of his novels. 10cc is similar to the spoonful covered by Cream...

@@Joanna-il2ur I know that and you know that, and now all the people who didn't know won't have to research it, because you just told them (oh well). (The Burroughs novel in question is "Naked Lunch").

Saw him with 10cc last year at Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. At the third time of asking as it was rescheduled from 2020 due to covid. 😊.fantastic performance

Cheers!

I think, over the years, that Beck outshone Eric and Jimmy. He was a very inventive guitarist. I've found myself bored by Clapton and Page, although I still rate them as axe men, I'd rather hear Jeff's jazz infused style nowadays as it feels less dated.

You are right Spyder. The Hollies were a great group with excellent harmonies. Along with that Alan Clark was a great singer with a instantly recognisable voice.

I like that!

@@YesterdaysPapers This is how I feel it as I discover new old titles 😉

didnt know that either....i thought she only worked as a dancer/choreographer

​@@thewkovacs316she was also in Easy Rider , New Orleans scenes.

Totally. This is as much addictive as listening to a 10cc album from say 1974/5!!!

I've heard that version by Mike Furber, pretty cool.

​@@YesterdaysPapers His voice was vaguely similar to Keith Relf of the Yardbirds.

Yep great version

Time a compilation of 60s songs were on cd hits & misses various artists all by gouldman and mockingbirds

Cheers, Edwin!

Thank you very much!