I'm 42 years old my parents played the hollies a lot growing up and I've always loved them my wish would be to see them like this ,they are an absolute class act of a band and I know it's been said before but they don't make them like this anymore ,for me it's so about how a band sounds live and the hollies nail it every time Allan Clarke had a real gift and so did the others even with this line you without Graham Nash they are superb.
This just flat out rocks, but it does more than that...it truly cooks. There are a lot of tunes that rock, but few of them cook. The fantastic Allen Clarke can do it all. Bobby's drumming is a real unique treat, and Tony's guitar playing is always very very tasteful. Together as a unit, they are still tops and always but always so very musical. I can't get enough of these guys, and I try to make sure I hear a bit of them every day. The Hollies are a real upper!
Great looking band just pure talent have a big crush on Tony Hicks and his smile just melts me .Play their songs every day ,I like them better than the Beatles ❤
This is just a fun and cool song!! You can tell they’re all really enjoying performing it as well!! Each person is perfecting their part to come together for a fun masterpiece!! I have to have a daily dose of The Hollies too!! ❤❤
Adore the Hollies and was lucky enough to have met them when I bought one of their guitars. Currently playing their greatest hits in the car but keep going back to this track as it has in my opinion one of the greatest intros ever. So simple but so joyful the way it builds. Thank you for so much great music 🙏🎸
I genuinely cannot recall the make as I sold it on years ago to a memorabilia company but it was a classical guitar and used for the solo on ‘Too young to be married’ & ‘We’re through’ as well as an album they recorded as a tribute to Buddy Holly 😊
Always played this rocker when people asked me to play "Long Cool Woman." Never got any complaints and it saved me from having to hear "Long Cool" for the ten hundreth time!
Man, i wish the hollies kept making songs in this style, they could have picked up where CCR left off, and we could had another 4 or 5 more years of great music
This is brilliant far better than anything out today ,a class act, and harmonies fantastic , This line up was probably the best since nash left maybe even better .
Better known as Shot Down, for those of us who always thought the complete title was a bit much. That notwithstanding, and despite the inevitable howls of indignation from the purists, for my money, this remains the Hollies' finest moment. Some will say, "It's a copy of their previous two singles!!" Not really. It's more like those two earlier singles were rehearsal for this shining example of absolute, utter perfection!
@@brandoncolis3841 Good question. They weren't the immediate previous two singles, but there was a common thread perceived among some with Long Cool Woman and (to a lesser extent) Long Dark Road. For my money, this track (which some of us know as Shot Down) has it all over both of those singles. Allan Clarke is on fire vocally, and the guitar work is just far more commanding here.
Great song and even better clip from top of the pops!! Many thanks for including Noel Edmonds's bits at the beginning and end, he was probably at the peak of his powers at Radio 1 then, I think he was doing the Breakfast show and was 2 or 3 years away from Swap Shop. Anyway, I've really come to appreciate this song - I'm not sure if it's the stomping chorus or Tony's guitar playing that keeps bringing me back to it. Like Gasoline Alley Bred, I'm surprised that it wasn't a much bigger hit in the UK as it has all the constituent parts of a very successful song (catchy tune/lyrics coupled with brilliant harmonies and musicianship). It's a shame that the Hollies 1970's stuff is often overlooked in favour of the Nash era recordings IMHO.......
GREAT, GREAT song! Never heard it back in the day, but I love it, thanks so much for the post. Happy, great looking band playing here. It may seem similar to Long Cool Woman to others, but I think it is only because of guitar intro. Other than that, it is a rocking fun,fun song. I'm thrilled with this!
I'm still listening! This should have been a much bigger hit. In response to one DJ's prediction that it would go "up and up and up" it actually went "down and down and down" (chart positions 24, 26, 28 and 30 in successive weeks).
Just discovered this even though I've always liked the Hollies, what happens though is that I overdo listening to it and end up being sick of the sound of it
fred dell pudieron, pero se empezaron a pelear y todo se fue al carajo, por eso, pienso que cuando Graham Nash salió de la banda... la armonía que los caracterizaba también se rompió....
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One of my all time favourite songs, brilliant those were the days !
I'm 42 years old my parents played the hollies a lot growing up and I've always loved them my wish would be to see them like this ,they are an absolute class act of a band and I know it's been said before but they don't make them like this anymore ,for me it's so about how a band sounds live and the hollies nail it every time Allan Clarke had a real gift and so did the others even with this line you without Graham Nash they are superb.
This just flat out rocks, but it does more than that...it truly cooks. There are a lot of tunes that rock, but few of them cook. The fantastic Allen Clarke can do it all. Bobby's drumming is a real unique treat, and Tony's guitar playing is always very very tasteful. Together as a unit, they are still tops and always but always so very musical. I can't get enough of these guys, and I try to make sure I hear a bit of them every day. The Hollies are a real upper!
The best!!!!I have my daily fix too!!!
Not heard this in donkeys years.
Demasiado bueno..
New release on #totp abandoned after awhile as a feature
These five are the HOLLIES. FABULOUS. Thank you for this beautiful music.
Allen Clark is simply an amazing singer...
Allan Clarke's voice: sharp as a razor, I love it!
And Tony...
Great looking band just pure talent have a big crush on Tony Hicks and his smile just melts me .Play their songs every day ,I like them better than the Beatles ❤
Me too!!❤
first time I have heard this song. I have been a Hollie's fan since the 60's and this song is absolutely amazing. Love it!
The B- side of this record is good as well.
This is just a fun and cool song!! You can tell they’re all really enjoying performing it as well!! Each person is perfecting their part to come together for a fun masterpiece!! I have to have a daily dose of The Hollies too!! ❤❤
Tony Hicks, what a singer and guitarist!
Allan Clarke is the lead singer here. And his voice is The Hollies.
Never heard this one before; what a friggin' rocker!
This was Allan Clarkes comeback single with the band. After he briefly left about eighteen months before.
So much better than Long Cool woman because its got the "Hollies Harmonies" (in my opinion ) :+)
me gustan las dos- A like both-
First single I ever bought - and I'm not ashamed of it......
Shows you have good taste !
Adore the Hollies and was lucky enough to have met them when I bought one of their guitars. Currently playing their greatest hits in the car but keep going back to this track as it has in my opinion one of the greatest intros ever. So simple but so joyful the way it builds. Thank you for so much great music 🙏🎸
Which one did you buy?
I genuinely cannot recall the make as I sold it on years ago to a memorabilia company but it was a classical guitar and used for the solo on ‘Too young to be married’ & ‘We’re through’ as well as an album they recorded as a tribute to Buddy Holly 😊
Always played this rocker when people asked me to play "Long Cool Woman." Never got any complaints and it saved me from having to hear "Long Cool" for the ten hundreth time!
Man, i wish the hollies kept making songs in this style, they could have picked up where CCR left off, and we could had another 4 or 5 more years of great music
Gave me the chills........
Sheer class and it rocks big time. Tony Hicks fantastic guitar playing.
OMG, the better group of all the time!!! Regards from Siberia!
The Hollies were the best rock band of the 1970s...js
This is brilliant far better than anything out today ,a class act, and harmonies fantastic , This line up was probably the best since nash left maybe even better .
Best lineup! Awesome. Great clip with Allan Clarke providing a "live" vocal.......
Terry gave too much to The Hollies.
Absolutely Killer.
Tony is brilliant !!
Never heard this before today!! They were awesome
Better known as Shot Down, for those of us who always thought the complete title was a bit much. That notwithstanding, and despite the inevitable howls of indignation from the purists, for my money, this remains the Hollies' finest moment. Some will say, "It's a copy of their previous two singles!!" Not really. It's more like those two earlier singles were rehearsal for this shining example of absolute, utter perfection!
wow that was well put.
Totally agree, its my all time favorite Hollies guitar work
What other previous song? It sounds like Long Cool Woman, but I do not know another song by them that is a soundalike.
I thought this was better known as Curly Billy :D
@@brandoncolis3841 Good question. They weren't the immediate previous two singles, but there was a common thread perceived among some with Long Cool Woman and (to a lesser extent) Long Dark Road. For my money, this track (which some of us know as Shot Down) has it all over both of those singles. Allan Clarke is on fire vocally, and the guitar work is just far more commanding here.
Great song...deserved to be a bigger hit.
Yes, I came in here to say exactly the same thing.
That's REAL ROCK and ROLL......
Great song and even better clip from top of the pops!! Many thanks for including Noel Edmonds's bits at the beginning and end, he was probably at the peak of his powers at Radio 1 then, I think he was doing the Breakfast show and was 2 or 3 years away from Swap Shop. Anyway, I've really come to appreciate this song - I'm not sure if it's the stomping chorus or Tony's guitar playing that keeps bringing me back to it. Like Gasoline Alley Bred, I'm surprised that it wasn't a much bigger hit in the UK as it has all the constituent parts of a very successful song (catchy tune/lyrics coupled with brilliant harmonies and musicianship). It's a shame that the Hollies 1970's stuff is often overlooked in favour of the Nash era recordings IMHO.......
Well it's not called " Curly Billy" is it ?
it is " The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee".
ps , the young girls there are nearly 70 now.
Yess, Phillip.
But the whole title was tooo long.
And I wanted to let being seen the: *T*O*T*P*1973
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Btw:
"Bluevelvetglove" is my 2. YT -Channel.
I love this song... I love The Hollies...
2 Telecasters and a Coral Baby Sitar?!?
Long cool woman has same style. Great song though
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Vocalista sensacional
GREAT, GREAT song! Never heard it back in the day, but I love it, thanks so much for the post. Happy, great looking band playing here. It may seem similar to Long Cool Woman to others, but I think it is only because of guitar intro. Other than that, it is a rocking fun,fun song. I'm thrilled with this!
Love it, love it, love it. Tony HOT, HOT ,HOT. This is a song that has to be cranked up to appreciate how good it is.
One of my all time favorites❤
Rock gods standing above the female mortals laying down the licks to kingdom come.
Is it me but sounds like long cool woman in a black dress bass and guitar
Very similar indeed!
Another of my favorites of The Hollies!! 😊👍🏼👍🏼
Best Hollies-song !
Stoned2072
ABSOLUTELY (Y) :-)
@@Raindropser3 not really.
"Curley Billy" could be the story to a movie !! Great rock song !
Brilliant !!!!
The world is not the same without Top of the Pops these days.
COOL WOMAN AND THAT SONG is almost the same
Cracking song always liked this one, funky bit of drummimg from Bobby too
At the very beginning when he hits the bass drum with his stick....cool...
ya know, I think they probably sounded better after Graham Nash left
Bought this on a single back in 73 cost 45p great song .
I still have my copy !!
I love, love, love this song! 💕💕
Great the song has an American setting, US intonation throughout, except for "hotel clerk" prounounced "hotel clark" - totally awesome!
I'm still listening! This should have been a much bigger hit. In response to one DJ's prediction that it would go "up and up and up" it actually went "down and down and down" (chart positions 24, 26, 28 and 30 in successive weeks).
It's the first time I heard this song...fantastic!
Sounds like a rewrite of Long Cool Woman, but I like it.
The real deal
Ese riff es la locura..amo a The Hollies
Still a class act - even with just two originals, Tony and Bobby, left!
Que temazo!
Allan Clarke now 71
un.temazo.de.la.decada.del70-muy.bueno.y.muy.bailable
Isaiasvicente.da.cruz
Muito.Bom
Eu.gistou
Pop.Rock
Esse.video.essa.musicas
Bom. De.mais
Temazo🇨🇱
Art Music!!
To rip off Baloo the bear....man what a beat!
Credence song similar they play they pushed the limit different time they were trying to change direction. Imitating the American music seen .
Super Song!!!!
Hi folks don,t try to find à Word hoy great this Guy is he is 12 steps higher of how we can qualifie him
Beautiful Sound
Love all the songs but this is my favourite ❤
estos si que son genios
Jesus christ this rocks
Love this song. Recently discovered it. should have been a no 1 hit for them
brilliant, one of the best songs ever recorded.
No one ..only The Hollies..4 ever and ever
A hand hovering, ready to slide.
Is tony plating an electric sitar
That voice and voices wow
me gusta ese riff
canciones inoxidables !!!
👍🙋💐😀
🆗🆗🆗🤩
Sorry to be pedantic but surely the lyric at 1.35 should be "knocking on "my neighbour's back door?" Instead of "My back neighbour's door?"
Super Exito The Hollies año 1973
Often wondered what James May did before Top Gear.....
The title is "the day that Curly Billy shot down crazy Sam McGee".
Absoulete Classic,,,the best song in my top twenty greatest songs of all time...
Dougie🎸🎸🎸W.Australia
Just discovered this even though I've always liked the Hollies, what happens though is that I overdo listening to it and end up being sick of the sound of it
Really good for live great band
Er gaat iets mis in het eerste refrein, ik mis een halve seconde, of ben ik de enige die dat hoort? 😂
Brilliant seen them like that
Temazooooooo
Dobrá skladbička
HOLLIES, los amo mucho 😍
Would've been good to hear them with their guitars plugged in
Saw them do it live.....amazing !!!
haateerrrrr
fred dell pudieron, pero se empezaron a pelear y todo se fue al carajo, por eso, pienso que cuando Graham Nash salió de la banda... la armonía que los caracterizaba también se rompió....
love the Hollies , didn't think much of this song .. yet the harmonies keep me interested