Simple, catchy beats with endlessly quality musicianship and that signature three part vocal harmony. The Hollies love Jennifer Eccles; I love the Hollies!
Never heard Jennifer Eccles, but I loved the Hollies for songs such as Bus Stop, Carrie Anne, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, all having great vocal harmony with Graham Nash's voice on the top.
I had never heard of this song until my best friend the most awesome woman LYNN FOWLKES started calling me Jennifer Eccles and she had to show me this song!!!! R.I.P. LYNNIE YOU ARE LOVED AND MISSED!!!!
The Hollies personalities were shown in this video with interactions between them and their fans. My favorite fan interaction was when Bernie Calvert allowed the kids to play with his bass guitar. It was so cute!🎸
I wonder what the once-little-girl thinks to this day? She was probably 5-ish ... so born in early 60's. She could be approaching Age 60 herself. Bernie probably had a little sister himself.
I didn't hear it in more than 40 years and forgot about it. Now I'm listening to it and i recognized the tune at once. The Hollies were great in the 60ies, and had several hits.
I could just eat him up! He's such a cutie. Even though he's 13 years older than me, I'm 65, I deserve to be a dirty old lady, or maybe he could be my "Sugar Daddy"! Dream big!!! LOL
The blonde girl turning around at the left of the screen at 1:15 was so pretty. I love the style back in those days.. how younger people wore more classy clothes.. and it seemed like everyone was thin and beautiful.
What I really love about this song is the f ing drumming and the harmony of course and with the use of BLK and white film.gramham Nash looks like a hot vampire.
After releasing the superb Butterfly album in late 1967 to little or no response, The Hollies wrote this commercial bubblegum pop song and it went in the UK Top 10 in mid 1968. A far cry however from the brilliant Pop Sike found on Butterfly!
My favorite Hollies song despite the fact that they thought it was dumb. They made it to cater to the teenie boppers but never really thought it was a good song. WRONG!!! Many of us liked it very much, especially me and I was in their age group.
I interviewed Graham Nash in 2017 and he told me: "I just read a quote from Allan Clarke recently that said Graham’s idea of a good song is King Midas in Reverse, but our opinion of a good song is Jennifer Eccles, which is one of the last singles that the Hollies did, and a song that I hate to this day even though I helped write it."
Agree 100 % - Bobby is one of my favorite drummers too. I like to compare Bobby Elliot with Ringo - good technican and very very very important: Always brillant ideas at the right point.
My Mother used to sing this song also when she was alive. I remember it from when I was a child in the 1990s. I always thought it was "Jenny Freckles".. now I realise it was Jennifer Eccles. 😄
April 1968... wurde Marinesoldat.....eine schöne Zeit begannn, aber erst nach der Ausbildung.....ich hab sie genossen. Danke für diese Zeit. Dieser Song erinnert mich immer daran.
This was the first record I ever owned. I gave my brother the money to buy it for me and used to play it on my patents' HMV Dansette when the were out 😊
These guys were a close harmony band that had few rivals, but they refused to change musical directions which led to Graham Nash's departure. This song is a good example of that.
The Hollies are one of the original FIVE SUPERGROUPS that spawned all others in history after that by association (within only a few degrees of separation - less than 5). The Beatles did not.
