Just One POLL: The Hollies 1960s Singles

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The Hollies 1960s UK singles:

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Look Through Any Window	7
Bus Stop	6
King Midas in Reverse	4
Carrie Anne	4
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother	2
I Can't Let Go	2
Stop Stop Stop	1
On a Carousel	1
Sorry Suzanne	0
Listen to Me	0
Jennifer Eccles	0
Searchin'	0
Stay	0
Yes I Will	0
After the Fox	0
Just One Look	0
Here I Go Again	0
If I Needed Someone	0
We're Through	0
I'm Alive	0
(Ain't That) Just Like Me	0

― late adopter, Sunday, 29 August 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

Bus Stop is all kinds of awesome...what a chorus

― funky brewster (San Te), Sunday, 29 August 2010 04:22 (fifteen years ago)

I love the beautiful 12-string in "Look Through Any Window," the fantastic harmonies, and the Richard Scarry minutiae of everyday life conceit.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HbxfX4sSsyM/Sfmo_RUpIiI/AAAAAAAACs4/TLXOfYpPrXs/s400/Richard_Scarry_s_What_do_people_do_all_day.jpg

― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Sunday, 29 August 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

~~the air that i breathe~~ ...oh, i see

― meisenfek, Sunday, 29 August 2010 07:54 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, voting 'look through any window', though they had some amazing singles.

― Stevie is a bit lame, if you hate fun (stevie), Sunday, 29 August 2010 09:10 (fifteen years ago)

Stop Stop Stop is my favourite. Carrie Anne a close second!

― zeus, Sunday, 29 August 2010 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

voted "Look through any window" w/ "King Midas" a close second. but my favorite Hollies song is "Long Cool Woman" from 1972.

― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Sunday, 29 August 2010 12:23 (fifteen years ago)

King Midas!

― chromecassettes, Sunday, 29 August 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Long Dark Road is the best, but it is seventies...?

― SYNTAX ERROR (remy bean), Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:59 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 3 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

best poo: bus stop
worst poo: jennifer eccles

― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:01 (eleven years ago)

my mum, whose name is jennifer, LOATHES jennifer eccles, despite being a massive hollies fan.

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Saturday, 2 August 2014 19:47 (eleven years ago)

that song has no redeeming qualities, i loathe jennifer eccles

― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 2 August 2014 23:14 (eleven years ago)

Missed the clarification at the top, so I was puzzled by the absence of "Pay You Back with Interest"--that's the only song of there's I really love. "Carrie Anne"'s good, though, "I Can't Let Go" too (didn't even know that one till recently, when I was led to it via Linda Ronstadt's cover).

― clemenza, Sunday, 3 August 2014 01:56 (eleven years ago)

the hollies' "i can't let go" was itself a cover, fwiw. evie sands did the original.

― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Sunday, 3 August 2014 02:10 (eleven years ago)

Yes...I even have that on my hard drive, duh.

― clemenza, Sunday, 3 August 2014 02:41 (eleven years ago)

i think i can't let go is probs my fave hollies jam, though look through any window and carousel and king midas and too young to be married are all jams

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Sunday, 3 August 2014 07:26 (eleven years ago)

didn't mean to say 'jam' twice there, soz

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Sunday, 3 August 2014 07:26 (eleven years ago)

I've often opined that "Bus Stop" is one of the best, briefest story songs ever. "Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say" and "someday my name and hers are going to be the same" are bits of songwriting genius afaic. Can anyone think of other lyrics in this vein?

― Both Jandek and Authenty (Dan Peterson), Monday, 4 August 2014 14:03 (eleven years ago)

"Here's the way that the story ends, well we invited a few close friends"

― Mark G, Monday, 4 August 2014 18:31 (eleven years ago)

The first one I thought of was "No Milk Today"; both that and "Bus Stop" were by Graham Gouldman, maybe I need to investigate what all else he was writing back then. I appreciate the short-story-writerly details like the umbrella and the milk bottle in these.

― Both Jandek and Authenty (Dan Peterson), Monday, 4 August 2014 19:03 (eleven years ago)

God, my Hollies jag on sunday got my other half playing No Milk Today on youtube, as her mum and dad always played that in the car, and she can't get it out of her head now. She was singing it to the baby yesterday. She hates the song, too!!

― The beer was cold, but so was the glass, which drives me crazy. (stevie), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 10:21 (eleven years ago)

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