Post by gee on Feb 1, 2023 23:52:16 GMT
Presumably this interview with Allan Clarke must be already posted on here (just can't locate it looking quickly) so here is a fresh posting of AC's interview from a while back - posted in 2021 so no doubt most on here will have seen it but for any newcomers
Allan is here in a very happy, open, relaxed mood - but I must admit the interviewer guy (from BBC ?) gets on my nerves a bit, dragging The Beatles into it (of course) and massively 'over-swooning' like a 'gushing fanboy' in places plus he unfairly belittles Nash, King Midas in Reverse (damn cheek!) and The Rickfors Hollies (after Allan quite fairly states they had two hits, naming both and stating they were hits ... the interviewer rather scornfully says AC is being too kind and just dismisses them as nothing more than merely 'tiny, tiny,tiny' hits !)
he goes on about Long Cool Woman not doing much in the UK chart...well that was really down to Allan having left the group, and The Rickfors Hollies having just been introduced to the UK public re 'The Baby'...and them not being able to promote LCW on UK TV at all minus Allan - it's no.32 placing was purely down to radio airplay alone (which this interviewer should have known)
the USA success was also based upon radio airplay but probably it was alot more 'plugged' stateside than it was here in the UK where it was just played without any real promotion as such
- the American audiences (who had also got 'Long Dark Road' as a Hollies USA single sung by AC) were it appears surprised when The Hollies arrived to tour without Allan (per Terry Sylvester)
a somewhat similar thing occurred back in 1966 when EMI's HMV label put out 'You Gave Me Somebody To Love' by Manfred Mann sung by Paul Jones....after PJ had left to go solo (just like Allan later on) and new lead singer Mike d'Abo came in for 'Just Like A Woman' (no.10 in the UK) - while PJ had his first solo hit with 'High Time' that year - the older EMI Manfred Mann recording was an unfinished track but they got in session players and female backing vocalists to complete it...but it only reached no.36 in the chart as the older version of the group was not there to plug it...indeed the current MM group were furious and Tom McGuinness wry linear notes even said;
'Manfreds disown new single' on the cover of their new album 'As Is'
so while the interviewer guy is not the greatest AC makes up for that here !
Allan is here in a very happy, open, relaxed mood - but I must admit the interviewer guy (from BBC ?) gets on my nerves a bit, dragging The Beatles into it (of course) and massively 'over-swooning' like a 'gushing fanboy' in places plus he unfairly belittles Nash, King Midas in Reverse (damn cheek!) and The Rickfors Hollies (after Allan quite fairly states they had two hits, naming both and stating they were hits ... the interviewer rather scornfully says AC is being too kind and just dismisses them as nothing more than merely 'tiny, tiny,tiny' hits !)
he goes on about Long Cool Woman not doing much in the UK chart...well that was really down to Allan having left the group, and The Rickfors Hollies having just been introduced to the UK public re 'The Baby'...and them not being able to promote LCW on UK TV at all minus Allan - it's no.32 placing was purely down to radio airplay alone (which this interviewer should have known)
the USA success was also based upon radio airplay but probably it was alot more 'plugged' stateside than it was here in the UK where it was just played without any real promotion as such
- the American audiences (who had also got 'Long Dark Road' as a Hollies USA single sung by AC) were it appears surprised when The Hollies arrived to tour without Allan (per Terry Sylvester)
a somewhat similar thing occurred back in 1966 when EMI's HMV label put out 'You Gave Me Somebody To Love' by Manfred Mann sung by Paul Jones....after PJ had left to go solo (just like Allan later on) and new lead singer Mike d'Abo came in for 'Just Like A Woman' (no.10 in the UK) - while PJ had his first solo hit with 'High Time' that year - the older EMI Manfred Mann recording was an unfinished track but they got in session players and female backing vocalists to complete it...but it only reached no.36 in the chart as the older version of the group was not there to plug it...indeed the current MM group were furious and Tom McGuinness wry linear notes even said;
'Manfreds disown new single' on the cover of their new album 'As Is'
so while the interviewer guy is not the greatest AC makes up for that here !
