Hollies (1965 album)

Hollies
Studio album by
the Hollies
ReleasedSeptember 1965[1]
Recorded10 November 1964 – 13 July 1965
StudioEMI, London
Genre
Length28:36
LabelParlophone EMI PMC 1261 (Mono)
ProducerRon Richards
The Hollies chronology
In The Hollies Style
(1964) 		Hollies
(1965) 		Would You Believe?
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Record Mirror[4]
Uncut[5]

Hollies is the Hollies' third studio album for Parlophone. 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 EMI 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", 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, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash. 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 Episode Six and became their 1966 debut single.

  1. ^ Unterberger, Richie. Hollies at AllMusic
  2. ^ Unterberger, Richie. Hollies at AllMusic
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (25 September 1965). "The Hollies: The Hollies" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 237. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  5. ^ Huxley, Peter (February 1998). "Sixties". Uncut. No. 9. p. 86.