THE HOLLIES import compilations on compact disc: Steve's recommended versions..

I have the EMI and Epic sets but do not have the See For Miles discs. I'll have to start watching for the other 2.

 

I was looking at the "Not The Hits Again" on Amazon - easier on the budget than the 30th Ann 3 cd set and NOT remixed. Thanks, Steve!

 

Track Listing - EP Collection (From Amazon uk)


REMOVED BY SH, wrong track listing..

 

Track Listing - Not the Hits Again (from Amazon.uk)
1. Wings
2. It's In Her Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)
3. You'll Be Mine
4. Take Your Time
5. I Am A Rock
6. Honey And Wine
7. Very Last Day
8. It's Only Make Believe
9. That's My Desire
10. So Lonely
11. Now's The Time MONO MIX
12. Hard Hard Year
13. Put Yourself In My Place
14. Please Don't Feel Too Bad
15. Nitty Gritty Something's Got A Hold On Me
16. You Better Move On
17. Take What I Want
18. Talkin 'bout You
19. Candy Man
20. Set Me Free
21. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
22. Sweet Little Sixteen

 

I think this is right:



1. Here I Go Again
2. You Know He Did
3. What Kind of Boy
4. Baby That's All
5. Look Through Any Window
6. What Kind of Love
7. When I'm Not There
8. Rockin' Robin
9. Lucille
10. Memphis
11. Just One Look
12. I'm Alive
13. Come on Back
14. We're Through
15. I've Got a Way of My Own
16. So Lonely
17. To You My Love
18. What'cha Gonna Do About It?
19. I'm Talking About You [second mix)
20. Too Much Monkey Business
21. Come on Home
22. I Can't Let Go

 

Thanks Steve!

 

Oh well I tried. The web page must have screwed it up.

 

This looks right. Here is the cover:

 

Thanks for ALL of your help! I don't need to tell you guys how great it is to discover some great music that's been "under your nose" all along. Even though I'm the right age to have been listening to them, the only Hollies songs I've ever heard are the radio hits here in the USA and my recently acquired GH cd. Judging from the song samples on the 2 Amazon sites, I'm in for a fun ride checking out thier back catalog.

 

Epic Anthology




1. Carrie-Anne
2. King Midas In Reverse
3. Dear Eloise
4. Everything Is Sunshine
5. Jennifer Eccles
6. Try It
7. To Me
8. Do The Best You Can
9. Sorry Suzanne
10. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top
11. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
12. Gasoline Alley Bred
13. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)
14. Long Dark Road
15. Magic Woman Touch
16. Indian Girl
17. The Air That I Breathe
18. Sandy
19. Another Night
20. Magic Woman Touch

 

I have the EP Collection, although I never listen to it. The only song I see listed in stereo is "Watcha Gonna Do 'Bout it"

Pat

 

No "Bus Stop"?

 

This has the later Epic stuff. The earlier stuff in the US was on Imperial, IIRC. Odd, though, because in the 70's Epic put out a comp on LP that had the Imperial stuff.

 

Yeah, didn't Epic put out the "Greatest Hits" comp back in the late 60s? It had Imperial stuff on it...like Carrie-Anne, Bus Stop, etc. Y'know...the cover with the numbers by each picture corresponding to a song.

 

That actually came out on CD, so I'm not sure what the issue is. It must be a licensing issue of some sort.

 

So there's no love for this?

 

Not the Hits Again is presently available from Amazon.uk for 7 pounds - not a bad price for an OOP disc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...1_olp_1/202-0190851-0299809?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

 

That comp came out on LP in 1973. It was reissued twice - once on the 1980's CD, the second time on the current Legacy remaster containing the bonus track "The Air That I Breathe." Unfortunately, many of the songs on that comp are sourced from futzed-with tapes (read: dupe tapes with added reverb, compression).

On the Epic Anthology comp, all of the songs are in stereo except "Do The Best You Can," which apparently has never been mixed into stereo. I've also corrected the Track 7 song listing. And the stereo "Everything Is Sunshine" may have seen a legitimate release in Germany prior to this CD comp (despite the liner notes). And though "Try It" never came out in stereo in North America prior to this comp, it was in stereo on the Parlophone UK Butterfly LP (PCS 7039, 1967).

 

This is the only Hollies comp I have...so I have love for it! I have the vinyl version, listening to it now...sounds all right. I'm sure the original UK versions sound better.