Post by Gralto on Jun 4, 2019 15:19:03 GMT
Not sure if anyone saw this on eBay this past week but there was a listing for an acetate of Long Cool Woman b/w Do It Again. If an EO board lurker managed to purchase this, I will be very interested to hear what they discover after a playback.
These sort of listings are extremely irritating and frankly, the vendors should be called to account by eBay. I contacted the chap and asked if the disc was indeed The Hollies or not. Clearly 'Do It Again' threw up a conundrum - was this one side by The Hollies, the other by the Beach Boys? Maybe 'Do It Again' was the song by Steely Dan (another A-Side) released a year after LCW? So I asked the vendor to listen to LCW and tell me if it was our faves? He said the results were "inconclusive"? Er...how so? Arguably the most distinctive Hollies song of all. After pressing him further, nothing else was forthcoming - silence. Then I see the totally BS statement at the bottom of his listing:"please use your own judgement & knowledge to ascertain who is performing on this acetate".
Please. Do me a favour. 5 seconds of googling will find the original, for anyone who has never heard the song. Comparison would be over in less than 20 seconds. The bloke clearly knows but he ain't telling. So the listing remains open to interpretation, inviting those of us possibly prepared to take that risk.
Clearly 5 bidders were up for the chase - the final figure was £138 ( = $175US/$250 Aussie) - big biscuits for anyone. I've probably spent more than this amount on a Hollies disc less than 10 times in my 30 years chasing their back catalogue and rarities. Long Cool Woman was covered by a good many artists too, so there's every chance the winning bidder paid a top price for a cover version.
Hopefully it is The Hollies (though very doubtful) and whoever was the winning bidder has got themselves a genuine rarity.
If you were the winning bidder and are reading this, any updates on the disc's content would be most appreciated by us all.
cheers
Simon
LCW 020619 eBay listing.tiff (545.76 KB)LCW acetate.tiff (830.58 KB)Do It Again acetate.tiff (616.04 KB)
These sort of listings are extremely irritating and frankly, the vendors should be called to account by eBay. I contacted the chap and asked if the disc was indeed The Hollies or not. Clearly 'Do It Again' threw up a conundrum - was this one side by The Hollies, the other by the Beach Boys? Maybe 'Do It Again' was the song by Steely Dan (another A-Side) released a year after LCW? So I asked the vendor to listen to LCW and tell me if it was our faves? He said the results were "inconclusive"? Er...how so? Arguably the most distinctive Hollies song of all. After pressing him further, nothing else was forthcoming - silence. Then I see the totally BS statement at the bottom of his listing:"please use your own judgement & knowledge to ascertain who is performing on this acetate".
Please. Do me a favour. 5 seconds of googling will find the original, for anyone who has never heard the song. Comparison would be over in less than 20 seconds. The bloke clearly knows but he ain't telling. So the listing remains open to interpretation, inviting those of us possibly prepared to take that risk.
Clearly 5 bidders were up for the chase - the final figure was £138 ( = $175US/$250 Aussie) - big biscuits for anyone. I've probably spent more than this amount on a Hollies disc less than 10 times in my 30 years chasing their back catalogue and rarities. Long Cool Woman was covered by a good many artists too, so there's every chance the winning bidder paid a top price for a cover version.
Hopefully it is The Hollies (though very doubtful) and whoever was the winning bidder has got themselves a genuine rarity.
If you were the winning bidder and are reading this, any updates on the disc's content would be most appreciated by us all.
cheers
Simon
LCW 020619 eBay listing.tiff (545.76 KB)LCW acetate.tiff (830.58 KB)Do It Again acetate.tiff (616.04 KB)
