I was only 6 in '68 but my parents had wonderful taste in music and introduced my to many artists and one was The Hollies. So I can relate. Still listening to them at 62.
Was born in october 49 loved this group saw them in concert when i was about i6 also saw on dif occasions dave clarke 5 dusty springfield the kinks happy days❤
I was 12 years old at that time in 1968, and the only reason I went to the swimming pool was to listen to the Jukebox and plug it was Holly's music and Badfinger. All the oldies including the Beatles and David Bowie. But most of all the Hollies and bad finger
I sang this song to Jennifer Powell (Manchester, CT 1969) every time I passed her in the hallway. She thought I was "crazy," and of course she was right!
I was 16 in 1968..i am 71 now and still love the Hollies! I am one of their many fans in Ireland. I reckon Listen to me was a very underated single ss it only reached the loeer echelons of the Top Twenty
Allan Clarke was a fantastic singer, a gifted performer! Love his voice and style, culminated in early '70s reaching stellar level with Long cool woman in a black dress. Which met such success that he had to postpone his post-Hollies career..
Yep, they had to grab him back after it became a surprise big hit, and they were touring. Clarke's "replacement," Swede Mikael Rickfors (wtf were they thinking?), couldn't sing the song live so it was left to Terry Sylvester. Terry actually did a decent job, but I think the Hollies would have done better in the 70s without that first departure from Clarke.
I don't think they generated the same publicity as some of the other bands. We like their hit singles at that time but I don't know anyone from back then who bought their albums, knew what they looked like, or talked about their group. There was no You Tube. Only had the Ed Sullivan show and what was being promoted on the radio.
One of my ALL TIME FAVOURITE GROUPS,WAT LYRICS WAT HARMONIES WAT VOCALS,WAT AN ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT GROUP ,THANKS GUYS FOR THE MUSIC YOU LEFT US WITH A TROVE OF BEAUTIFULL MUSIC.
My favorite English band and they sound so terrific live. I was lucky enough to grow up with the Hollies. This was popular just before I graduated from high school in June of 1968. I would go back to those days in a New York minute.
..Same here, relocated with my family from L.I,NY to Tucson, AZ..This song became fairly popular there right before I, too, graduated h.s. in June 1968..Believe it may've been the last Clarke, Nash, Hicks composed song recorded/released by them..Absolutely loved it!! These guys were definitely a milestone within that whole British Invasion csmpaign!!
White chalk, written on red brick. Our love, told in a heart. It's there, drawn in the playground. Love, kiss, hate or adore. I love Jennifer Eccles. I know that she loves me. I used to carry her satchels. She used to walk by my side. But when we got to her doorstep, her dad wouldn't let me inside. One Monday morning, found out I'd made the grade. Started me thinking, had she done the same? I hope Jennifer Eccles is going to follow me there. Our love is bound to continue. Love, kiss, hate or adore. Singing,
The great and lovely Allan Clarke. This is one of my favorite songs. I really regret not having seen the Hollies perform live when I resided in London in the 60s and 70s. One of the greatest groups ever!
I’m from the Philly area. I regret not seeing them on The Mike Douglas Show, sadly, I was in High School. My parents would never let me cut class. There was also a week when John Lennon and Yoko, co-hosted for a week; but I’d still rather have seen the Hollies. I Love their positive energy.
Wish I could hear that Rickenbacker 360 Tony Hicks' is playing just a little more loudly. Still, these live performances by the Hollies are great to see...and hear.
On this day in 1968 {March 10th} "Jennifer Eccles" by the Hollies entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #76; and nine weeks later on May 12th, 1968 it peaked at #40 {for 1 week} and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #5 in Austria and Norway... Between 1964 and 1983 the quintet had twenty-four Top 100 records; six made the Top 10 with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" being their biggest hit, it peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} in 1972... The two weeks that "Long Cool Woman" was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O’Sullivan...
@@Jazz-dc6tf i met a guy on holiday he came from Eccles - i was in London at the time and i went to Eccles to meet him for the weekend - he then came down a few week later to stay with me for the weekend - oh it was one of those Romantic things that lasted just a short time
OMG Tony is so adorable!Too bad his guitar was low and couldn't listen to it clearly...But Bobby's drumming is amazing...so Allan's vocals!Anyway nice live version...thaks for sharing it!
" Jennifer Eccles", 1968, co-written by Graham Nash and Hollies leader, Allan Clarke. Although Nash had now left the Hollies to move to California to form CS &N. An in joke about their wives.
I was a teen in the 60's and would rate the Hollies right up there third behind the Beatles and Beach Boys, the Hollies kept churning out hits as if on a production line..:)
Jennifer Eccles was a protest tune after King Midas missed Top Ten. Management wanted more pop hits. The result was another hit that still stands the test of time.
Tungsten Kid, You have gr8 taste in 60s music, except I rate The Beach Boys numero uno. Good Vibrations rates with the best Mozart could ever have written. For mine, The Beatles narrowly head The Hollies because of their writing abilities, but The Hollies were almost on a par with the Beach Boys when it came to harmonies. Arohanui.
@@TheIgmister1 The B Boys were great of course, but their music had a softer feel to it than the Beatles chunkier bass guitar sound which i think I prefer.. Incidentally did the Hollies write their own songs?
@@thekitowl - Yeah we tend to mistakenly think many groups wrote their own hits and the songwriters never seem to get full credit. PS- for 50 years i thought the Beatles 'Mr Postman' was written by them but I only learned recently it was penned by somebody else..:)
Graham thought they weren't maturing or moving ahead, writing little love ditties like Jennifer Eccles. He quit and moved to California to hook up with Mama Cass Elliot who in turn introduced him to David Crosby. The rest is history.
I'm a big fan of the Hollie's Allen Clark a great frontman, a world class guitarist Tony Hick's 🎸, Bobby Elliott on drum's, Graham Nash a brilliant writer long live the Hollie's ENJOY PEEP'S 🎼🎹
mackb909 i guess so. Hes not really doing anything. The Hollies were not a guitar group.they were a vocal group. Studio musiciNs do all the tricky stuff. Like steel drums on Carrie anne. Who the hell outside of montego bAy can play them?
Nash was within months here of leaving the Hollies for CSN&eventually Y...he was what like 25 here? He turned 80 Jan 2022. Joni, Drugs, Woodstock, Rita, breakups with Crosby, his wives, seemed so simple here.
White chalk written on red brick Our love told in a heart It's there drawn in the playground Love kiss hate or adore I love Jennifer Eccles I know that she loves me I love Jennifer Eccles I know that she loves me La la la la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la la I used to carry her satchels She used to walk by my side But when we got to her doorstep her dad wouldn't let me inside One Monday morning found out I'd made the grade Started me thinking had she done the same verse 2 verse 4 I hope Jennifer Eccles is going to follow me there Our love is bound to continue Love kiss hate or adore Singing chorus x2 verse 2
CSN had some songs that I liked listening to at the time. Never loved any of them. Over the past forty five years, never requested them, pulled them up on youtube or fail to turn the station on the radio looking for something better. They may have been on the cutting edge, but musically, the tunes weren't all that. They put me in mind of cabbage patch dolls, you know, all the rage in the day because they were a hot commodity but intrinsically an ugly doll. They made a lot of money too. That too is history.
Diana Taylor how sad to read this, oops , so you have never listened to deja vu, manasas, oh and ,if i could only remember my name, go on give it a listen, beware your life will be altered, be warned, that would be good for you ..thanks
@degree7 Of course, you have no taste you also don't know the history of rock n roll. w/o these guys there would have been a huge hole in what you listen to - if any.
The groove of this song is so much like "The 59th Street Bridge Song" (commonly called "Feelin' Groovy") by Paul Simon. That song is from Simon and Garfunkel's 1966 album, so predates this by a couple of years.
"White chalk written on red brick", sung by The Hollies. Until a month ago I had no idea what these words meant, as millions of others also may not know. Then, May, 2018, my Wife and I went to England, visited the U.K, stayed at Liverpool, two nights. People, Liverpool is a 'MUST SEE'!. Do yourself a favour, do your homework, but absolutely, Liverpool ya gotta see. you MUST check out The Cavern Club, it's where the Beatles first got 'recognised' and firstly managed by their first, Manager, Brian Epstein,. It's where we scrawled our two name on a red brick in 'The Caven'. Not a lot of space available for your initials, but you'll never know if you never go.
Saw Graham Nash with CSN in Roanoke VA in 1990 . He was nicest guy .So was David Crosby . Stephen Stills thought he was in Charlotte NC and felt it necessary to give his low opinion of then Senator Jesse Helms .
