Post by gee on Oct 27, 2022 21:47:30 GMT
Just as we bemoan the total LACK of any action being taken re The Hollies back catalogue so Bear Family release a 66 track 2CD Anthology re the 50th Anniversary of their fellow Manchester sixties pop colleagues Hermans Hermits - with tracks appearing in true stereo for the first time - compiled by a certain Ron Furmanek !
surely such a project devoted to The Hollies,prelude to a proper long overdue sonic overhaul of The Hollies catalogue might be an idea too...??
IF this 2CD set at least can be done for Herman...well surely a new Hollies such set is an idea ?
my copy arrived today - and while Ron has done a pretty thorough job of work on this project I must say that TWO notable track omissions rather surprised me
first up HH final UK hit single 'Lady Barbara' (which reached No.13 in 1970, also No.7 in New Zealand) is absent from the set...which concludes with 'Bet Yer Life I Do' (that made no.22 in 1970, a hit only in the UK)
- so missing out a BIGGER UK chart hit baffles me - while it's even included in the accompanying CD booklet discography
this is somewhat like me say compiling the DEFINITIVE Hollies Anthology....and omitting 'Gasoline Alley Bred' from it...!
also an annoying (to me) omission is Graham Gouldman's superb song 'It's Nice To Be Out In The Morning' - which was both in the film and on the soundtrack of 'Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter'
this GG gem 'namechecks' places and areas of his native Manchester...it's another of his 'observational' songs (as was 'Look Through Any Window' of course)
Gouldman even salutes Sir Matt Busby's famous Manchester United football team of that mid sixties era...and it's three most famous players - (Sir) Bobby Charlton, Georgie Best, and Denis Law (an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman - which sounds like the beginning of a joke...) - but was certainly NO joke for the opposing teams and the famous legendary trio are immortalised together in statues facing across to Sir Matt's statue at United's ground 'Old Trafford'
Graham Gouldman's verse dedicated to them is:
'United's ground where the Champions score a hundred goals and the Red stands roar...
Bobby Charlton, Best, and Law...
it's a most fantastic day when they play...'
combined with a nifty guitar hook this 'flowing' song is a delightful piece of social comment re Manchester and the sixties times Gouldman knew so well..
Surely this song, which exists in a true stereo version, was more worthy of inclusion than the weak comedy cover of the old George Formby 1930's era song; 'Leaning On A Lamp Post' which DOES appear on the 2CD set...
For strangely missing off those two stronger songs yet including a few lesser ones, I can't really call this a DEFINITIVE HH collection...but otherwise it is a pretty strong effort
surely such a project devoted to The Hollies,prelude to a proper long overdue sonic overhaul of The Hollies catalogue might be an idea too...??
IF this 2CD set at least can be done for Herman...well surely a new Hollies such set is an idea ?
my copy arrived today - and while Ron has done a pretty thorough job of work on this project I must say that TWO notable track omissions rather surprised me
first up HH final UK hit single 'Lady Barbara' (which reached No.13 in 1970, also No.7 in New Zealand) is absent from the set...which concludes with 'Bet Yer Life I Do' (that made no.22 in 1970, a hit only in the UK)
- so missing out a BIGGER UK chart hit baffles me - while it's even included in the accompanying CD booklet discography
this is somewhat like me say compiling the DEFINITIVE Hollies Anthology....and omitting 'Gasoline Alley Bred' from it...!
also an annoying (to me) omission is Graham Gouldman's superb song 'It's Nice To Be Out In The Morning' - which was both in the film and on the soundtrack of 'Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter'
this GG gem 'namechecks' places and areas of his native Manchester...it's another of his 'observational' songs (as was 'Look Through Any Window' of course)
Gouldman even salutes Sir Matt Busby's famous Manchester United football team of that mid sixties era...and it's three most famous players - (Sir) Bobby Charlton, Georgie Best, and Denis Law (an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman - which sounds like the beginning of a joke...) - but was certainly NO joke for the opposing teams and the famous legendary trio are immortalised together in statues facing across to Sir Matt's statue at United's ground 'Old Trafford'
Graham Gouldman's verse dedicated to them is:
'United's ground where the Champions score a hundred goals and the Red stands roar...
Bobby Charlton, Best, and Law...
it's a most fantastic day when they play...'
combined with a nifty guitar hook this 'flowing' song is a delightful piece of social comment re Manchester and the sixties times Gouldman knew so well..
Surely this song, which exists in a true stereo version, was more worthy of inclusion than the weak comedy cover of the old George Formby 1930's era song; 'Leaning On A Lamp Post' which DOES appear on the 2CD set...
For strangely missing off those two stronger songs yet including a few lesser ones, I can't really call this a DEFINITIVE HH collection...but otherwise it is a pretty strong effort