I have always loved this song, when I was 18yrs old my boyfriend soon to be husband bought me my first black dress and high heels. I felt so happy with the memory of that wonderful experience. We've been married for over 50yrs years now and my dear husband is fighting Cancer now for the 3rd time please put him in your prayers 🙏❤.
I'll pray for him..😊...And long live the black dress..Cocoa Channel first designed it after the war..;)..Long live Van The Man..my mum used to play it when growing up .always..'Takes me back' Stay safe and many more memories you two Love Birds..Bless you Both Beat it..Xx
STAY strong for him, I fought cancer while the world was shut down and I won... NO WE WON... because people around me gave me the GOOD REASONS to win the battle... it sucks and its HARD VERY HARD... but as a survivor... without my support team I would have lost....
My dad just passed away last month, the day after his 75th birthday due to cancer. He loved this song. Heard it many times as a kid riding around in his truck. Hearing it here again just brought me to tears because of him. What a rocking song, it’s not even from my era but it’s great.
Here’s to your dad friend. Good legends never die. They live on in our hearts and songs. Play it for him every now and then, he’ll be there right beside you, wind in your hair in his old truck.
True, but it makes you expect a totally different song if you've never heard it before. The colour note(s?) used in the intro aren't used anywhere in the song.
It never will exist Times of Musik and Hippie feeling an Hope of a peaceful Future, but the greed aand the dependency of Money destroy this.... and ower Future....
I've been playing that riff for over 25 years now and I could never understand, until recently, when earth you could go to the trouble of writing one of the greatest riffs ever only to play it twice in the intro and just forget it.
It is a great song THERE is a LOTTA COOL riffs in THIS song i was blown away when it came out to find out it waz the hollies the VOCAL is aittle more hard sounding that most of there songs great band harmonys are fabulous a me mates?
Those who don't like it is not a waste of skin,,,that's it and I carry full responsiblity for my words ,,,because such people are the reason for deteriorating music that we currently experiance
Hell yeah man! My dad is into classic rock from the 60’s 80’s and 90’s and country and my grandpa loves the oldies. I always tell people some new music is good but too much of the new stuff had filthy in it and a lot of the older music has good rhythm to it and it’s not the same as it used to be. It’s a great thing to appreciate the stuff out parents and grandparents grew up on because I feel even at my age as well 28, I can learn from the older generations!
You have EXCELLENT taste in MUSIC! Please don't ever let anybody change the way YOU feel about the AMAZING music you love! I'll bet that at least SOME of the people who supposedly don't like it REALLY DO, but pretend they don't, just to "go along with the crowd". 🙄
I'm 62, class of 1980. I grew up listening the 60's and 70's music. There is some good stuff from the 80's too, when MTV was rockin'. You'll probably like a lot of that too. And don't miss out on some of the more obscure songs from the 60's and 7'0's like "I Won't be Home Tonight" and "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" among others.
I went to suriname on holidays to see nature and stuff, and then it reminded me of louisianna so when we were out fishing I put on green river, long cool woman and run through the jungle. man the atmosphere was great
I'm 53 years old. My earliest memories was my parents cranking this up in the car. No seatbelts. My little brother and I would be going crazy dancing in the back seat. Bouncing everywhere. LOL! I still bounce crazy when I hear this song. Good times!!!!
We don't need no stinking seatbelts! Besides, the vehicles were made of 100% Detroit steel. Plenty of protection. I remember standing on the front seat at "speed" peeing into a Coca Cola bottle because "we're not stopping". Greatness!
I’m only 30 I grew up in the 90’s and I thank god everyday for this clasic rock music idk where we would be without the classics, there’s just no more soul in music now days , this is a masterpiece
Would it be Peter Howarth singing this live? He is the current lead singer and guitarist. (Peter has a phenomenal voice and fantastic guitar skills! ❤) It looks like this video was posted here about 4 years ago.
@@libertasautmors8995 Less talent nowadays and less innovation since music can be virtually made with a computer. You can call be one of those "they don't make them like they used to type of guys" but let's see if in 20 years anyone is blasting Gooba at a family reunion.
When I was a kid, my dad used to listen and dance to this song. The vibration of the song and seeing my dad dance gave a big satisfaction. Love this song!!!!
I love this song...been looking for this song! I'm a 65 yr old Black woman...finally found it by asking a random woman sitting at the bar...2024, still listening 😎🙋🏽♀️🎸🎙️🎶👩🏽🎤🎵🎧📻
Without a doubt one of THE greatest song intros of any era! It never gets old and no matter where in the song you catch it on radio(even if there’s more static than song) you let it play out. 😎
+Mark Christopher did you all know this is a 100% Hollies song and by no means that their producer (who was ill by then) did not participate in this, no tips, no suggestions, no comments, just the band doing what they always wanted to do at studio and recording the way it is lololol I think that's why this song particularly sounds a lot ahead by it's time
I'm 63 years old and rocking all over my kitchen to this song like a crazy woman. Can't ever get enough of this song after all these years. I'm 5'2"but I'm pretending to be 5'9" in a black dress with stilleto heels right now.
I’m 24 and love this old music it’s crazy to see how this new day stuff is called rock after hearing stuff like this I love the old stuff led zeppelin AC/DC blue oyster cult ZZ Top etc 😊
I lived in a small town and had just had my induction physical and was told I was fit mentally and physically to serve. I had about 2 weeks before I reported back to the Armed Forces Entry Station. There was a small metal building in the next county we called the "The Sit down" they sold beer by the mug at 25 cents each. My buddies took me to the sit down before I left and this song was on the juke box and was played just about every other song. I sat in a metal folding chair and drank my mugs of beer. When I reached the point of not being able to walk I would just hold up my empty mug and a buddy would come by get my mug and have it filled up and bring it back to me. This song every time I hear it is like a flashback to that night. It was played over and over and that night and this song is burned into my brain !!
@Michael Castro Thank you Michael for your comment, but I always try to say when someone thanks me for my service, I tell them don't thank me, thank my brothers that did not come home.
@@JP-nj7do Yep JP after I entered the Army I met new guy''s and after I got out new guy's at work, but nothing like the buddy's you have growing up you never forget them.
Summer of 72 running around and swimming at the local public pool and hearing this song blasting over the pa system of the juke box. You could hear this sing playing from 3 blocks away. Takes me back to a better time . Im 63 now music will never be the same same or as good.
The best, absolutely THE BEST song ever written. That opening guitar riff is instantly recognizable by anyone who grew up in the 60's and 70's. As a friend said "A guitar riff so dirty it needs penicillin." which sums it up perfectly. LOVE IT!
I started playing guitar when I was real little! I was born in '68 and all I could really learn was country music cuz that's what my dad played on the guitar and banjo but when I would hear this song on the radio man it would blow me away I always wanted to learn how to play it! The song is very haunting!! It has like a pedal tone in it so it's melodic and you catch it but the way those notes are played so it resonates and it just sticks in your brain! One of the coolest guitar riffs ever sort of reminiscent of blue oysters Cult Don't fear the reaper. That song has a recurring open G note third string that makes it haunting! Long story short I finally got to learn this song had a hog roast party! I had my Randall snakeskin stacked there and another guitar player and kid had his crate amplifier and we were having like a duel! Ironically the only song he knew how to play was Long Cool woman in a Black dress and I learned it off of him so that was really cool! Take care and keep rocking!🐢🐢
That string slap in the second riff (the response) is the little touch that makes this song a masterpiece. It is such a challenging part that sets apart great guitarists from good ones.
45 years ago, my band recruited another guitarist just so we could play this song. It's still one of my favorites. And I chopped the opening riff to use as my ringtone for my wife
But you found THIS. So you absolutely can find music like this. It isn't going anywhere. This particular song was created in 1971. It has survived for the last 49 years. It will be here for another 49.
Saw him in concert in Nashville years ago. He was at the top of his game with a dozen hits to his name ... But he was humble & talked to the audience like he knew all of us... He told a few stories & one was about an uppity mother & daughter who told his daughter (Toby's) that she was white trash with money ... He overheard it & told the mother , my next album is gonna be called "white trash with money" in honor of you lady... Rest in peace old friend.. Your music will live on ...
Who do you think would be a great Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress: 1-Christina Hendricks 2-Charlize Theron 3'Catherine Zeta-Jones Douglas 4Marcia Cross
I was 21-22 years old, my best friends sister was hospitalized for leukemia and about to go through with the bone marrow transplant. Needless to say, the night before the transplant she had an adverse reaction to the anesthesia and went into cardiac arrest. She had just had her 18th birthday days before she passed. Her death destroyed her families lives. It was such a great loss that my best friend, her older brother, never got over it. He died the week of Hurricane Sandy. This song brings me back 3 decades to the funeral home for her viewing. She was such a great girl. A very beautiful girl. A star amongst us I can't help but be reminded of her and my best friend whenever I hear this song .....
@@Martell-XOnope. CCR was a band from a rich part of San Francisco. They imitated blues from the bayou. And I love their music, and perhaps they developed as contemporaries but never copied.
Bin Dein Bruder im Geiste...geboren1954 mochte ich immer damals Musik von zb.Troggs,Stones,Kinks,Hollies,Who ,Walker brothers,status quo,Small Faces,usw .mehr als Beatles Musik.heutzutage mit 70 hat das nur seine Bestätigung gefunden.- Der Sänger von The Hollies hat es im übrigen voll drauf! Der kann alles bestens interpretieren: von knackigem rockn roll bis Ballade und Bombast!!
My mother and grandmother both used to jam out to this classic! Mom would dance with me and the dogs! Now her and Nana are up dancing with the Good Lord, hopefully he can keep up!
can't even make a song like this anymore. a timeless yet heavy dated sound the predates the band that created it.... truly a master piece just like air that i breathe!
I’m 24 and love this old music it’s crazy to see how this new day stuff is called rock after hearing stuff like this I love the old stuff led zeppelin AC/DC blue oyster cult ZZ Top etc
Plain and simply the baddest white boy jam of all time. The only thing wrong with this post is this isn't the longest version of the cut. This is one of those songs where one and only one version should be available to the public. The long version, because that's perfection
