This was the perfect song one day when I'd just climbed out of our backyard aboveground pool and stretched out on the lounger in the shade with a gigantic glass of sweet iced tea. I was a teenager and life was good. 🧓😎
Alan Clark is the lead singer. Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress, He Ain’t Heavy He's My Brother, Bus Stop are a few more to react to. Nash left The Hollies in 1968 to form Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young) and launch his solo career, while Clarke himself left the group in 1990 for health reasons and to care for his wife.
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The Hollies have so much good stuff. But they do have a lot of different sounds. One of my absolute favorites, which a lot of people end up confusing with CCR, is Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress. It's such a great groove and the story is absolutely hilarious and the whole feel of it is just so cool. For something much earlier on, and yet it is so catchy like a Beatles song, Bus Stop. And it is an absolutely charming story.
My best friend and her husband played this as their wedding dance. I love this song! Thanks for the memories. Love your videos, so diverse🙂. Keep them coming. Love your channel✌️
I really appreciate your videos. I learn something new every time. I grew up with this music and you always give me info that I never knew. Thanks 👵🏼💜☮️
@@TheGsjoberggood ear ...what else is good? I have nuttin...my knees and my shoulders are falling off ..I have to come back to the US to get new ones ..I don't want to go! I live in paradise Puerto Vallarta!!
Hollies had several hits, some with Graham Nash as a member. They include Long Cool Woman and He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother). Love Hurts was originally made by the Everly Bros. and then covered by Roy Orbison, Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, The Who and then Nazareth and Cher.
Good call on Radiohead! Back in the day of rock music magazines like Circus and Creem, I can't tell you how many bands said in interviews they were influenced by The Hollies. Courtney Love once called "Pay You Back With Interest" her favorite song of all time.
Wikipedia: Radiohead took elements from the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe" by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. Following legal action, Hammond and Hazlewood were credited as co-writers.
The hollies have a song called I Can’t Let Go, which has a driving guitar part no distortion. Because distortion isn’t a thing yet. Very cool song that had an influence on music.
Sometimes considered the 'other Beatles', these guys had many really good tracks. This one is a particular favorite. Reminds me of a girl I knew in the 7th grade back in the late 60s.
Shawn, the time and effort you put into your reactions shows. it's truly appreciated👍 the way you break down and analyze the songs!... if you take requests Shawn you need to listen to the group Tower Of Power. the horns are Amazing, and they're still touring. check out the audio versions of "You're Still a YoungMan"(the horn intro blows me away) and"What is Hip".
Hollies were quite prolific in the 60s churning out pop hits like Here I go again, Look through any window, and loads more. Their biggest hit was He ain't heavy, he's my brother, which when it was rereleased for a charity shot to number 1. It's worth reviewing. Later tracks like Gasoline alley bred, and I can't tell the bottom from the top, are also pretty good. Alan Clarke was the lead singer with very distinctive vocals, you could always tell it was a hollies track when he started singing, just a hint of a rasp. Albert Hammond who wrote Air that I breath only had one hit - Free electric band. Again it's well worth reviewing.
Dude, you've got to watch a couple beginning drum tutorials on youtube. It is the best way other than actually playing drums, to understand what's going on and I love the fact that you're interested in it because I absolutely promise you that it will enhance your enjoyment of listening to bands buy an order of magnitude. I can basically say that about all the instruments and the singing, but you have to take each one on its own and the whole history of and the way drums are used in the way they are physically played? And the psychologically effect of four-way Independence where you get all four of your limbs to operate in a connected way but able to operate independent of each other, it really kind of splits the brain until you get used to it. And if you're singing while you are drumming, well then that is five way independence.
This lovely, sentimental song joined by The Beatles' "Something" and Bobby Hatfield's live version of "Unchained Melody" (Andy Williams Show) make the best love-song trilogy ever. Can y'all cobble together more 3-song heart-tuggers, tear-jerkers?
For checking out drums sounds and the drum kit try Phil Collins duet with Chester Thompson. Neil Peart has a spectacular kit and uses it. Lots to see and hear!
Love hurts is a cover tune 1974 Nazareth but it’s from the Everly Brothers, 1960 or 1962 can’t remember. You should listen to both versions Nazareth is Excellent… the Original album filler not their best.
The Everly Brothers best version is from their 1983 reunion concert. Part of what makes it great is seeing the love they have for each other despite a very rocky relationship. When they went to Albert Hall in Britain for the concert they hadn't spoken to one another since 1973. Somehow Albert Lee managed to convince them to do the reunion concert (he also played guitar as part of the backing band). You could tell it was very emotional for them and that really added another dimension to the performance.
My patents were great fans of the Hollies here inthe Netherlands in the sixties. We, their children were raised up with the Hollies, Neil Diamond, the Fortunes, Demis Roussos, van Morrison, Dusty Springfield, etc. Real great artists. Today, sorry it,s most shit what i hear of music. Back then you must be a great singer or band otherwise you had no podium
It's a minor point and I find it to be weird that it is this way but the pronunciation of "orchestra" and "orchestral" is a little different. With "orchestra", Americans put the accent on the first syllable but with "orchestral", the accent is on the second syllable. I don't know why it is that way; I guess it's just one of those things.
Todays music is so, so terribly overproduced and soaked in effects (like auto-tune) that is comes off sounding mechanical and sterile. I much prefer the real sound of musicians and singers without all the crap they add on in the studios today which makes it just sound so fake and machine-like.
U nailed it with radiohead. Radiohead was sued for their song creep being stolen from this one & radiohead lost that lawsuit but nothing intentional bands love & honor the music they grew up listening to
