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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Oct 17, 2022 14:20:49 GMT
Further on the discussion of the songs included on the late 70s albums...
During the 60s, so many songs by Clarke, Hicks & Nash were covered by others, from the Guess Who to the Searchers to Four Jacks & A Jill to, of course, the Everlys...
Not so much post-Nash...although Gordon Waller did a great version of "My Life Is Over With You". But Percy Sledge's "Lonely Hobo Lullaby" from a few years ago is cracking, as he gives it a melancholy soul twist that works beautifully and it makes me wonder whether some of the 70s songs might have worked just as well or better with another artist covering them?
I'll just leave that seed of an idea there as I haven't finished my morning coffee yet so my imagination is still asleep...
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Post by gee on Oct 17, 2022 23:20:26 GMT
Lyn Paul of The New Seekers fame covered 'Give Me Time' from the 'Another Night' album on her solo album 'Give Me Love' - track four
it is approx 8 mins 20 secs into this full album posting;
Lyn did a nice version keeping largely to The Hollies arrangement and featured herself doing Terry's both high harmony vocal and co-lead vocal part besides singing the main Allan Clarke lead vocal
- perhaps significantly when talking about this album she mentioned how much she loved The Hollies song...but then she added;
'whatever became of The Hollies...?'
a good question Lyn...!
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Post by gee on Oct 17, 2022 23:25:33 GMT
Marmalade singer Dean Ford did his own version(s) of his song written with Terry Sylvester 'Mr Heartbreaker'
they wrote the song a year before The Hollies recorded it as Dean's first version credited as with Marmalade dates from 1972
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Post by gee on Oct 17, 2022 23:27:51 GMT
Dean Ford then re-cut a solo version for EMI in 1975 on his self titled solo album;
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Post by gee on Oct 17, 2022 23:31:10 GMT
this is the other way around - the original version of 'Magic Woman Touch' by The Greatest Show On Earth
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Oct 19, 2022 14:11:35 GMT
Lyn Paul of The New Seekers fame covered 'Give Me Time' from the 'Another Night' album on her solo album 'Give Me Love' - track four it is approx 8 mins 20 secs into this full album posting; Lyn did a nice version keeping largely to The Hollies arrangement and featured herself doing Terry's both high harmony vocal and co-lead vocal part besides singing the main Allan Clarke lead vocal - perhaps significantly when talking about this album she mentioned how much she loved The Hollies song...but then she added; 'whatever became of The Hollies...?' a good question Lyn...! I saw a photo of her and Allan Clarke together from an early-70s magazine article recently... |
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Post by calvertbesseralseric on Nov 23, 2022 13:53:52 GMT
There are a few more I'm aware of - Allan in particular seems to have done a lot of co-writing in the early 70s:
The Fantastics - Something to Remember You By (Co-written by Allan)
Blue Mink - It Just Goes to Show (an Allan co-write with Cook and Greenaway)
Lynsey De Paul - Rainbow (a co-write with Lynsey, and not difficult to tell who did what with Allan's trademark octave jumps in the verses!)
D,B,M,T - Sarah (another Cook-Greenaway collab)
Allan also produced his hero Gary Walker's single Hello, How Are You, on which his backing vocals become prominent in the last minute.
I'm also sure you're aware of the Hicks-Lynch track for Cilla Black, Faded Images.
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Post by cameron on Nov 23, 2022 18:47:21 GMT
How about this one - Kenny Lynch recorded his version of 'A Better Place' (co-written by Tony Hicks) a year before the Hollies recorded their version on the cancelled 'Out On The Road' LP.
Controversially, I prefer the Kenny Lynch version, but this comes with a large caveat that the Hollies play uncredited on the track. Their harmonies are unmistakable, as is Tony's lead electric sitar part, which he'd just used when they recorded 'The Baby' around the same time.
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Post by cameron on Nov 23, 2022 18:51:00 GMT
Also, Elton John cut a solo version of 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top' for a budget LP (I believe it was actually the 'Top of the Pops' LP) offering popular hits re-recorded by studio artists. It would have been the last such project that Elton John undertook before his solo career really took off. And of course, he played piano on the original Hollies recording...
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Post by gee on Nov 23, 2022 23:30:28 GMT
Not a Hollies composition, tho' of course a famous big hit and probably better known otherwise by the Phil Everly version here is a nice TV show rendition of 'The Air That I Breathe' by the sadly tragic ill fated but very strong vocalist Lena Zavaroni
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Post by gee on Nov 23, 2022 23:34:52 GMT
Also an instrumental cover of 'He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother' by The Shadows
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Nov 24, 2022 13:52:45 GMT
Also an instrumental cover of 'He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother' by The Shadows Blocked here in Canada, but I'm sure I have we have it somewhere... |
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Post by gee on Nov 24, 2022 22:47:10 GMT
Probably posted before but here is Denny Doherty's 1973 cover of Terry Sylvester's song 'Indian Girl'
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Post by gee on Nov 24, 2022 22:52:04 GMT
is this posting of The Shadows cover of 'He Ain't Heavy' available in Canada ?
A nice thought provoking well put together posting...
...and great that in tribute The Hollies were included as a part of it...!
Ironic The Shadows do a nice guitar instrumental version of the piece as Terry Sylvester once pointed out The Hollies classic hit version actually had NO guitar featured on it at all...!
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Post by gee on Nov 25, 2022 0:12:11 GMT
A decade before covering 'He Ain't Heavy' The Shadows had also done a rather more complex guitar cover of 'The Air That I Breathe' featuring the twin lead guitars of Hank Marvin and Australian 'Shad' John Farrar (who of course also was a key part of Marvin Welch & Farrar and Olivia Newton John's producer - who back in the mid sixties had sung his Aussie group The Strangers cover of The Hollies number 'Put Yourself in My Place')
The version was at the time in 1975 left unreleased due to their six 'songs for Eurovision' vocal tracks instead being included on their album 'Specs Appeal' but it was later released on a Shadows 'At Abbey Road' rarities and unissued tracks EMI compilation set.
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Post by gee on Nov 25, 2022 0:30:00 GMT
Like 'Magic Woman Touch' here is the original 1968 Bamboo version of Mike Rickfors song 'Touch'
here it was more The Hollies later covering it with Mike but still worth a listen as the original arrangement is so different and quite a mixture of song styles...!
ironic the single was released on Parlophone The Hollies original record label
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Post by gee on Nov 25, 2022 0:39:45 GMT
Whilst not written by The Hollies they did of course cover this song earlier in 1972
here is Tanya Tucker's later 1975 version of 'Lizzy And The Rainman'
this song always makes me think of the Gunsmoke season twelve episode 'The Drought' (1966) - where, after Marshall Matt Dillon has struggled to keep some kind of order as the relentless heat begins to make people crack up, despite the claims of a rainmaker ... right at the very end a crash of thunder heralds a downpour...saving the folks of Dodge City !
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Post by sandy on Nov 25, 2022 18:28:04 GMT
Like 'Magic Woman Touch' here is the original 1968 Bamboo version of Mike Rickfors song 'Touch' here it was more The Hollies later covering it with Mike but still worth a listen as the original arrangement is so different and quite a mixture of song styles...! ironic the single was released on Parlophone The Hollies original record label I love to hear it this way around- the original song, then to see how the Hollies re arranged for their version of songs. I think it was a very underrated skill of theirs. I wonder if it was Tony who re imagined the songs they covered? We know he could hear the potential in many songs he heard in publisher's offices. |
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Post by sandy on Nov 25, 2022 18:30:18 GMT
Dean Ford then re-cut a solo version for EMI in 1975 on his self titled solo album; It was a pleasant album,I remember having it. Very much in the style that Terry went with his solo recordings. |
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