Another great Graham Gouldman composition! Poor guy wrote massive hits for others, like Hermans Hermits, The Hollies and The Yardbirds, but never had a hit for himself until he and the 10CC lads rocketed into the charts! Tony Hicks is so under-rated as a guitarist! Loved this band!
What's so amazing about ALL the band's of that era, is there was so little "technology"... they sounded just as they played & sang. Quite incredible talent.
Love the Hollies, fabulous sounds across the board and so many super hits. Tony a great guitarist and somewhat under rated but a superb player, a lot of talent here....
you can tell Dave Gregory from XTC listen to him :P, for some reason the guys in the Hollies arent taken very seriously on a musical level, Prob because they were talked into doing soem corny and now very dated things by EMI producer Ron Richards. Tony is way underrated and Bobby Elliot has to be the best drummer in the early Brit Invasion scene
The truly fantastic Bobby Elliot on drums. Never seems to get the respect & appreciation he deserves. Whenever some poll announces the 100 best drummers its always the tired old names that get banded about.
Agreed, the drummer has a pulse and touch of silk in each beat above most of that Age in bigger billed bands that became legends. Easy to overview? His timing too was impeccable, you cant get better than that. What made others shine above I can't conceive, unless it was the material played or being in a band with songwriters like Lennon-McCartney.... Because he has more chops and the stuff to outbeat any Ringo or Charlie or Ian et al. _in their own bands and own songs. This is a drummer that leaves his own skin on those skins
@@pendragonU I've heard that both John and Paul joked about replacing Ringo with a Manchester drummer (obviously joking but...) I felt they were really after Bobby since McCartney wanted to steal Elliott from The Hollies in The 70s to be in the drummers job when he formed "Wings" lmao
Great song , the music arrangement to this song is awesome. Bobby Elliot is a magician on those drums , Tony Hicks guitar opening is excellent, nice bass line from Bernie and of course Allans great vocals complete the picture
The song was written by Graham Gouldman, who also wrote another Hollies' song "Bus Stop." Gouldman wrote "For Your Love" by the Yardbirds, "Listen People" by Herman's Hermits, and eventually moved on to 10CC, co-writing "I'm Not in Love" and "The Things We Do for Love." Quite a songwriting résumé.
The Hollies had the Sound of the '60s! Nailed it, in fact! There were a Lot of great bands in the '60s, but few had the "60s Sound" that the Hollies had. At the local Stock Car Races on a Saturday night, and they'd play "Riding around on a carousel" to those of us in the bleachers, and it just "felt like 1967!!" Nothing like it.
Bobby Elliot is one of the top drummers ever and Tony Hicks was/ is an amazing guitarist. Add the sensational vocals of Allan Clarke and the overall genius of Graham Nash and you've got yourself a handsome good band!
@@neilcrowesongs9768 oh, indeed. Eric Haydock was a fine bass player but Bernie Calvert had a melodic touch to his playing that perfectly suited the Hollies!
@@jackthebassman1 Bobby Elliott may be the finest most versatile drummer in poprock. His work on those early Hollies beat classics was impeccable and as the 60s progressed, The Hollies became more intricate and experimental and I've always felt a strong jazz vibe to Bobby's drumming.
@@thomasmarthinussen8978 absolutely agreed. Elliot can put in brilliant, intricate fills and it is never cluttered - the mark of a truly great musician.
RIP Eric Haydock, unbelievable bass player, listen to the low, low bass line at 2:36 combined with the powerful drumming of Bobby Elliott, Hollies rhythm section so amazing.
That's,when music was music,the 1960,was an era,that.will never ,realest it self god bless all those bands,that,made all possible,lm 70years old, still rock on.
Hollies performance on the German TV show "Beat Club" on 5/28/1966. Luckily, the Germans did not erase their programmes, so almost all these performances by classic bands can still be viewed. Unfortunately, in England far too many programmes were erased, including early Beatles.
That's why you can't find the historic Beatles footage from the Palladium, the shows where the term Beatlemania was coined, plus you can't find any Stones footage from 1963, or the ready steady go episode that was entirely the Who, plus countless others. Whatever you see & hear on Google is a miracle someone had the foresight to preserve....
@@doctorinsomnia5410 indeed! i would forgive the person for mistaking the difference in color, as only a few hullabaloo tapes that exist today still have color. although all episodes of hullabaloo survive(if i remember correctly) only 5 of them still has the color left.
I love the Hollies. I may no secret of it in my comments. But...one of the things I really like--that I haven't seen any comments on in any song on RU-vid-- is how much they look like they're really ENJOYING themselves when they perform--refreshing--especially in view of modern groups who strive to be so angry and tough, etc. (Yeah, you can deride me as an old fart, I don't mind)
I didn't realize that this song by the Hollies was trying for the Byrd's vibe. I DO hear it now in the 12 string lead guitar and the harmonies. It's an awesome tune no matter what the inspiration was.
Nobody said that at the time because quite simply the Hollies were virtually unknown in the States and the Byrds were hardly known in the UK. The Hollies were sort 3 to 4 in the pecking order of UK groups.
I have always loved the hollies music but never bought any. It is only through you tube I have bothered to find out anything about them like Mister Nash was in this group before Crosby Stills and Nash. This type of information just blows me away. Then I get to listen to the music and all is well with my world.
The Hollies were incredibly famous in the 60s. "Long, Cool Woman..." was, in many ways, on their "downslope", and several years after Graham Nash had left the group, even, to join and to become part of the historic group Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young).
It's been something like 25 years since the Hollies performed in the U.S. (a limited engagement in small venues). I saw saw them in "66. They were one of my favorite groups back then, and they still are. Eight to the bar (whoever you are) THANK YOU for these videos!
+Michael Powell Thank you for your comment. I saw them back in 1968 in Japan when Graham was with them. That was an excellent performance, I still remember.
Guitar rundown: Graham Nash - White Blonde Vox New Escort (which the guitar is a knockoff of the Fender Telecaster) Tony Hicks - Framus 12 String Texan acoustic-electric guitar. Bernie Calvert: Fender Jazz Bass
I love the old videos that actually capture live sound & not singing to a sound track. I wish I could find just ONE Dave Clark Five video playing live. (I own some CDs of live "recordings" but never have I seen them live on video.)
DC 5 was my very first concert in 1964 at the old Minneapolis Auditorium. Sister drove us from Wisconsin since I was only 15. Roy Orbison was at our local high school that year too...
US version of Hear Here on Imperial records which is different from UK version is no doubt one of the finest albums ever. Probably my all time favorite LP. Was a life saver for a 10 year old boy growing up in the Oklahoma countryside pretty much alone in 1965.
Art Prince that's why they call them "underrated" or "underappreciated" okay, everyone knows that The Beatles or The Stones even the Herman's had hits but none the hits from others -. at the same time. so when you go listen for the first time you think of it as a potential huge hit whether or not it was.
@@b_uppy I looked it up: "'Look Through Any Window' was The Hollies' first American Billboard Top 40 hit, peaking at #32 on January 22, 1966." If it had been regional it wouldn't have made the national Top 40. Maybe your local radio DJs at the time just didn't play it. Some stations were more adventurous than others.
Like Herman's Hermits, the Hollies used other writers songs; also like Herman's Hermits, because of this, too many people didn't give them enough credit for how good a band they still were, polishing the songs to perfection.
He is clearly one of his early influences-talked about Hicks' guitar sound by listening to a copy of Hollies' Greatest which his parents played on and on. (Set The Boy Free)
Yes I do love the Hollies but how about some love for Graham Gouldman!!!! After all he wrote it- plus "Bus Stop", "For Your Love", "No Milk Today", "Listen People" and on, and on!
Heightened, enlightened, lucid and frightened Better roll on, try to tighten up the game Cause everyone’s got something to say Stay out, laid out This heart is played out And I’m made out like some wild bird of pray And everyone’s got something say Goodbye all you dealers The cold ones and the feelers Dreaming just gives glory to the grave And everyone’s got something to say Seems like everyone’s got something to say
0:37 Allan claims their first nine singles hit the UK top ten: Per "The Complete Book of the British Charts" (an actual book - its info matches the Wikipedia Hollies discography page), "Look Through Any Window" was their ninth UK single and the seventh to make the top ten. The first two, "(Ain't That) Just Like Me" & "Searchin'," peaked at #25 and #12.
Written by songwriting legend Graham Gouldman, along with Bus Stop, and For Your Love and Heart Full of Soul for the Yard Birds, No Milk Today for Hermans Hermits.. and more.. still touring his 10cc now, highly recommended, and his EP Play Nicely and Share. www.grahamgouldman.info/events/
A bit earlier, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, which Tony was inspired by his 12 string, was also the banjo player for The New Christy Minstrals. I wonder if that inspired Tony to play the banjo on Hollies song "Stop Stop Stop" around that time?
Good old Hollies recorded this in French too "Regardez par des fenêtres", which is on the Hollies rarities album. "Regardez par des fenêtres, YEAH, qu'est-ce que vous voyez?", only for the French record company to reject it!
Super mobile.. France had a law,still does, that states,akin to this, that about 75% must be of French origin, Ilive with a French female, and she has never heard of the late 60ties to 74, music,only jacques brel and Serge gainsborough etc. Aaaaaaarrŕggggg. They were sure word beaters !!!!! No this is true,mention grateful dead et all who????? , that's why the hollies did this in French... now who are the beach boys then.... o.k Serge and jacques were good...to the French only...and growing very slowly on me as time goes bye.
