"I Can't Let Go" by the Hollies, Classic or the best song of the sixties?

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Okay. maybe I'm exaggerating a bit.

But seriously listen, totally A Hard's Day Nightish chord ptogression, soaring chourus. cool instrumental break. Power pop before it existed.

― ColinO, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

Evie Sands...what a writer.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly a classic. One of their many great singles. There's a lot of competition but definitely one of the best singles bands of the time and they seem one of the most purely pop bands, never successfully making the transition to being a 'rock' band like many of their contemporaries. Hence Nash leaving. At least that's the way I see them.

― cheasyweasel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

Not too fond of the chooging guitars at the start, but it's one of many good Hollies singles. Not their best though IMO.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

The Hollies' version is OK, but Evie Sands' slower, more wrenching one is the bomb.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

OTM. The original is much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvfnUEKdv5s

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 September 2023 10:39 (two years ago)

I believe I may have told you I met one of the guys who wrote and produced that.

― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 September 2023 10:52 (two years ago)

Well, if you did I didn't hear you

― Mark G, Saturday, 2 September 2023 11:20 (two years ago)

It was on another thread. Let me see.

― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 September 2023 12:22 (two years ago)

Here: Astrud Gilberto - c/d, s/d

― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 September 2023 13:00 (two years ago)

yeah evie sands original is all time great <3

― fpsa, Saturday, 2 September 2023 16:38 (two years ago)

As I said on the other thread, I believe it was another victim of the Red Bird fiasco.

― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 September 2023 16:43 (two years ago)

Love the original, pretty sure it’s on the One Kiss box

― Stoned Wheat Thing (morrisp), Saturday, 2 September 2023 17:09 (two years ago)

Evie Sands so underrated. I was listening to a sampling of her records from several decades of recordings from the 1960s to the present a few years back and it's consistently strong and inventive (Any Way that You Want Me and Estate of Mind are good starting points). As for "I Can't Let Go", I've never heard the Hollies version but Linda Rondstadt's hit rendition from the Mad Love album is excellent.

― Lee626, Saturday, 2 September 2023 19:21 (two years ago)

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