''Hollies'' is

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' third studio album for

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. It is also referred to as ''Hollies '65'' to differentiate it from the similarly titled 1974 album. It went to No. 8 in the UK album charts. Originally available in mono only, it was reissued in stereo under the title ''Reflection'' in 1969. In 1997, British

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put both mono and stereo versions of this album onto a single CD. Of the twelve tracks on this album, only "So Lonely" was issued on 45 in Great Britain; even then, it was the B-side to the 1965 hit "

Look Through Any Window "Look Through Any Window" is a song by the British beat group the Hollies. It was their follow-up single to their first UK chart-topper, " I'm Alive", and reached No.4 in the UK Singles Chart at the beginning of October 1965. "Look Through A ...

", a song recorded concurrent with the rest of this album. On the original album, only five of the twelve songs are band originals, attributed at the time to the pseudonym "L. Ransford" but actually written by Allan Clarke,

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and

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. The rest were covers. In Scandinavia "Very Last Day" and "Too Many People" were issued on 45, with the former becoming a major hit in Sweden. The song "Put Yourself in My Place" (written by Clarke, Hicks and Nash) was also recorded by

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and became their 1966 debut single.

Track listing

*Note: All songs written by the bandmembers were attributed to the pseudonym "L. Ransford".

Hear! Here! (US version)

More than a year after the release of the Hollies' US debut album, ''Here I Go Again'', the success of "Look Through Any Window" (The Hollies' first

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hit in the US) inspired

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, the Hollies' US label, to finally release another Hollies LP. In November 1965, Imperial released ''Hollies'', with a slightly different track listing, as ''Hear! Here!'' in the US. Imperial removed "Fortune Teller" and "Mickey's Monkey" from ''Hollies'' and added the singles "I'm Alive" and "Look Through Any Window". The track listing was then re-arranged so that the singles started each side. Although the album is clearly a US repackaging of the ''Hollies'' album, the cover uses the photo from the UK '' In The Hollies Style'' LP, which was never released in the USA. "Mickey's Monkey" later appeared in 1966 on the forthcoming "

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" album, but "Fortune Teller" was never issued in the US until the 1990s. In 2010, the mono version of this LP was reissued on 180 gram vinyl in the US by

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Track listing

Love N' Flowers (Canadian version)

In 1967, the Hollies transferred the US and Canadian rights to all new material to

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. Unlike

in the US, Capitol Canada had opted not to issue a version of ''Hollies'' when it was released in 1965, choosing instead to release an edited version of the almost year-old album '' In The Hollies Style''. However, even though all of the Hollies' master rights were owned by

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' parent company,

, Capitol Canada decided to counterprogram against The Hollies' first Epic release, ''

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''. In November 1967, one month after the release of ''Evolution'', Capitol Canada repackaged ''Hollies'' with a "flower child" cover (a later picture of The Hollies standing amidst tree branches under a title bar with flowered wallpaper, as shown) and issued it under the name ''Love N' Flowers''. Capitol Canada had previously released two tracks from ''Hollies'' ("Very Last Day" and "Too Many People") on the Canadian version of ''

'', and a third track ("Mickey's Monkey") had been included on ''In The Hollies Style'', leaving nine tracks from the album unissued in Canada. Capitol Canada added one of the tracks that it did not use from the UK version of ''In The Hollies Style'' ("I Thought of You Last Night") to make up the ten songs included on ''Love N' Flowers''. This was the last new release in the Hollies catalogue from Capitol Canada.

Track listing

Side 1 # "You Must Believe Me" # "Put Yourself in My Place" # "Down the Line" # "That's My Desire" # "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" Side 2 # "When I Come Home to You" # "

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" # "So Lonely" # "I've Been Wrong" # "I Thought of You Last Night" (Ralph Freed) – 2:18

Personnel

The Hollies * Allan Clarke – vocals, harmonica *

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– drums *

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– bass guitar *

– lead guitar, vocals *

– rhythm guitar, vocals Additional personnel * Ron Richards –

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– piano on "Put Yourself in My Place"

References

External links

The Hollies Official Website.
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