The Hollies - (Rare) Live

Look through any window performed live by the Hollies on US TV. The host is Frankie Avalon. Notice also Graham Nash in the line-up - prior to Crosby Stills, Nash and Young.
Thanks to my mate Chris who loaned me this film and now I am loaning it to you!

[@racketman2u]

This song was written by a 19-year-old kid, Graham Gouldman, who also wrote two other major hits at the same time, "Bus Stop", another smash hit for the Hollies, and "No Milk Today" which he gave to Hermans Hermits. Gouldman later went on to start his own band with some mates; the band was 10CC.

[@seancurran6727]

He didn't just do that. Gouldman also wrote Heart Full Of Soul, For Your Love, and Evil Hearted You for the Yardbirds, Listen People as well as the aforementioned No Milk Today for Herman's Hermits, Pamela, Pamela and The Impossible Years for Wayne Fontana and then he joined the Mindbenders, starting his partnership with Eric Stewart, who was both the Mindbenders lead singer and lead guitar player after Wayne Fontana went solo.

[@farber2]

@@seancurran6727 also 10 cc.

[@KatShotz]

Didn’t know! Cool.

[@billc6087]

@@seancurran6727 I will now have to do some research on Graham Gouldman, as you just named a number of my favorites songs from several of my favorite groups. Thanks.

[@squirrel1612]

Just saw Graham Nash with Crosby & Stills in concert. He looks& sounds brilliant for 67 !!!!

[@leeclark6102]

Such joy in their faces.....singing a great song!!!!

[@KingOfShine]

I actually remember seeing this on TV as it happened back in the 60's... Forty something years later I STILL crank this one up! Probably my all-time favorite Hollies song, without a doubt. It's a real shame though that Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliot couldn't make the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards. As much as it was great to see Allan, Graham and the guys, it would have been absolutely unreal to see all of them together performing...

[@ursulacosta307]

I was in the audience that day. It was the taping for the television show ’ Hullabaloo’ We got to watch all the performers rehearse, and we got to chat with The Hollies.

[@haroldhumerickhouse7904]

Wow that’s amazing! To see this video after all of these years.

[@chrisbacos]

Was it in Burbank or NYC?

[@ursulacosta307]

It was in Brooklyn, New York. 🎵

[@chrisbacos]

@@ursulacosta307 thanks 🙏

[@kevdonew1412]

I’m still amazed by this group of artists, they like the Beatles had the radio hopping in the sixties and seventies, on of the best ever !!

[@barrystedman]

Whilst it's true this wasn't live, I've seen their live performance and they really were excellent. Tony Hicks is definitely a great player, especially when you consider how young he was when they had their first hit - he was pretty incredible even then!

[@micron506]

Tony Hicks is an incredible guitar player. I agree that he was way under rated. Looking at this video, he plays effortlessly. His right hand picking is amazing.

[@richardgray8593]

If I were miming, then I could play effortless too.

[@neilcampbell643]

Tony and Graham have swapped guitars for this “performance”!

[@richardgray8593]

@@marineandairforcemom Maybe it's you who should take the closer look.

[@marineandairforcemom]

@@richardgray8593 Maybe so? It just looked real to me. If he is pretending to play, he is doing an excellent job at it.

[@carltroia6235]

⁠​⁠@@marineandairforcemomdon’t look just use your ears This is the studio recording

[@ladyjane99999]

The gorgeous, synergistic harmonies transcend the surreal set and inane introduction.

[@PsyVen]

PERFECT song -- what a way to introduce yourselves to the American audience (this was The Hollies' first big national hit here)! More hooks than a tackle box in this tune!

[@austinteutsch]

Now these were REAL musicians and singers. Great songs. And great performers.

[@7chill777]

+austin teutsch For sure! Loaded with talent. One of the best !

[@RobbyLakeMusic]

Right. They are very talented and unique musicians. But most of the performances live on TV shows had pre-recorded audio. Really up through the 1980s

[@markb9051]

Songs that tell a story having lasting power.

[@muffler245]

STANDS THE TEST OF TIME. GREAT MUSIC

[@Greg07623]

What an incredible group. To me this is really the foundation of the English sound.

[@QueenVelveeta]

Gosh, they were adorable.

[@QueenFan12]

To everyone bashing the intro: that was the 1960s; innocent fun. If your bashing it, you must not have been there.

[@stevenstewardson8613]

Oh yes the mighty Hollie's just one of the finist R&B BAND'S OF ALL TIME phenomenal music what a guitarist Tony Hick's 🎸🎸🎸

[@debiedog1]

I met Allan and Tony in Melbourne Australia many years ago - great guys and very talented

[@greenbeagle13]

One of my favorite bands...

[@RedwingsFan52]

Still one of BEST bands in the world today. My all time favorite band. There new music is just as good as their old music.

[@metalheaddread]

I love how music back in the day were happy and upbeat and music today is soppy

[@lmturmenne]

They were one of my most favorite British boy bands. What a terrific full sound they had. Absolutely brilliant!

[@benpotaka5893]

Hicks is one of the most underrated guitarists ever🎸

[@rangerrick222]

Can I just thank you for this film? It gives such pleasure to those of us who were barely old enough if at all at the time and never saw them like this. Just precious! One doesn't see this much! Grateful. -Bill

[@catimontero1038]

I love the hollies.Alan clark I love you now and forever

[@IozziEric]

Alright! I'm going back to the 60's and I'm doing it NOW.

[@jimrice4710]

I’m goin with!

[@tammybennett4193]

Rite on peace man ✌❤💯

[@billblue58]

shout out to the girls who had to stand perfectly still on stage!

[@josefelipeguimaraessilva9574]

I think they are dolls, mannequins paralyzed on stage, I don't know for sure confirming whether they are human, living people or not, but I believe there was a screen on which information was given, and indicated the positions in which they should be on stage , I say it was lip reading, mixed with physical and body reading.

[@westman720]

Forget the criticism guys, cause this was the greatest live band ever, and I know it, becasue my own brother (drummer) performed on the very same stage as they did, back in 60s during their tour here in Sweden.

[@haroldhumerickhouse7904]

This music reminds of living in England in the mid-60’s!

[@ericynot]

Great song, execrable television show.

[@AntiqueRadiodoc]

Great video! Hollies are one-of-a-kind!

[@powderfinger71]

This a great song and a great clip.Avalon having to read out the names of Northern towns that he no doubt had no clue about raises it up a notch as well

[@jeffclark7888]

Stellar tenor harmonies.

[@popeyetsm2750]

Thanks to Graham Nash... who went on to even greater fame doing the same for & with Crosby, Stills & Nash and, subsequently, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

[@petrslivinski7481]

Great group! Awesome sound and songs. Brings back happy memories.

[@westrokker]

god i miss those days

[@angelitasantos6617]

Spectacular, I loved it! Thanks.

[@wbevans6443]

One of the best bands ever

[@chippihc52]

This is why I love '60s TV music shows! Great song and great cheesy intro...like so many of that TV time. Great song and I'm still trying to play Tony Hicks's intro and outro licks on guitar half as well as he did it.

[@mothergrace1]

one of my favorite songs ever thank you

[@heatherferguson9589]

Allan Clarke is adorable!!!!

[@Denisellen]

Great to see the Hollies in their original form! Kept yelling at the screen to tell Frankie Avalon to STFU though.

[@thiaanthony]

wonderful to see them again!

[@deafsubtitles]

Nice to hear this song again.

[@xwsftassell]

What a great song.

[@beachgalsf7386]

Hullabaloo was great - mostly all live performances - some singing over the record or some pre-recording - but no groupy audience dancers - it was a new concept - wish it had lasted longer. I was hooked to it every week!

[@docmartin3344]

growing up in the 60s living with my grandma ,, my uncles were into all the rock,,, and i was lucky enough to soak in these british groups ,,, the war was going on and kids from the street were coming home with war injurys and just were different then when they left ,, but the music was always there and always the best,, the hollies ,, the beatles,, DC5,, just so many. its a shame that no other generation will ever get to experience something like that again.

[@dennysmith7862]

Brilliant talent... Brings back so many great memories of the Coynes - Yvonne & Dennis...

[@brianduncan2793]

Simply the Best Harmonies

[@ColinStuart]

The first time many of us saw instant replay, when they replayed Tony;s guitar solo.

[@aum3.146]

Frankie Avalon's spiel and the football motif plumb new depths of schlock.

[@popeyetsm2750]

True perhaps, but it was of its day for sure 😉👍🖖😎

[@robharding1957]

such a talented band and still at it,

[@Krod50]

i love this song, i think i lived in England in my former life.

[@landstrom27]

I'd have to say this is my favoriter hollies songs. To bad they couldn't let do it live. The vocals on this song are awsome.

[@supermrmotorhead7239]

You know what I love heavy metal but I love the sound of the 60's

[@___---__]

Heavy metal is rooted in the British pop sound. It's like when they have Hostess Twinkies normal and then the Halloween wrapper with a guillotine chopping a Twinkie at the neckline. 21st-Century Schizoid Man running from the DOJ. When I first heard Pay You Back With Interest when it was released in '65, I thought it said, "Pay you back with entrails " True story. I had to get the dictionary and see if "entrails" only meant guts, as I understood the word. I heard it a few more times without noticing when the DJ named the song, and I was trying to figure out the symbolism of entrails in what seemed to be an uplifting song of love. After maybe a week, I heard the title. Shit like that happened all the time before the Internet and cable TV. Entire communities might gobble up one or another myths/urban legends and live stupid on the subject for years. Access to the internet is what makes the 2010s invention of the "family" game, Cornhole, so mystifying. And when they market it, use a cartoon character named John Holmes.

[@___---__]

And please do not search [john holmes cornhole] if children or modest adults are present.

[@JuneLynn]

my favorite Hollies song, thanks so much for this great video!!!

[@Krzyszczynski]

One of Graham Gouldman's finest (though he actually CO-wrote it with Charles Silverman)..

[@Ibeannaful]

I listened to this song 100x yesterday and I am 15! I love my dad for making me watch all the old shows like Hullabaloo with him!

[@davewill0819]

Some people don't seem to realize that the band is pretending to play the song while the record is being played on the television sound track. This is not a "live" performance of the song. I had this single when I was a teenager. Must have listened to it a hundred times.

[@johnlorican]

This was from the American TV show 'Hullabaloo' in 1965. Sure, Frankie Avalon's introduction is silly by 2015 standards.....but, it's still fun and entertaining - and reflective of definitely a more innocent age. Great stuff!!

[@gaylehelen9236]

Unfortunately, I remember Hullabaloo very well. I used to love it. It only took 50 years to admit it.

[@Renfaire66]

Thanks for sharing, had not seen them live before today.

[@loZoneranger560]

They were screwin' with 'em. Good fun. Great song.

[@BTLFAEN]

Awesome

[@amexjam55]

Ah, those were the days. Cool.

[@jimrice4710]

Yep

[@MrEthanJason]

This has to be THE BEST INTRO of a rock band in history.

[@charleskuckel3173]

I DON'T THINK that this program EVER had a live performance. However, it's STILL a great song by the Hollies. Great guitars and lovely harmonies as we've come to expect from them as always.

[@nemesiobolanos]

Stupenda

[@nosharpe]

A fantastic song from a fantastic album. Thanks for sharing it.

[@philiptucci2458]

great song

[@sonney0409]

I got chills watching this--from Hullabaloo 1966 or 67 ..it was winter time, that I do remember!!!

[@nixieNICLA]

Haha...sporting some mighty fine harmonies.... musicians are winners too ...

[@ristovirtanen6396]

Hollies are famous for their superior harmonies… :-)

[@Prestonblue1]

This is brilliant

[@stephenstpierre4728]

the hollies harmonize so good. fabulous band.

[@popitinpete]

Fantastic vocal harmonies!

[@gregcnz3301]

Gold!!

[@unamckillen7125]

What those poor guys had to go through in the early days to establish their careers. Still, it paid off for them.

[@mariolucchesiazar2211]

best song the hollins is realy group fantastic

[@tinman3012]

My favorite Hollies song, but man is that a squirrelly introduction they had to go through.

[@steelbill1834]

That introduction is probably why Graham left.

[@cursino1]

@@steelbill1834 He left four years after that

[@RobbyLakeMusic]

They're not playing live. The track is pre-recorded from the studio. It may not be the original but one of the other takes.

[@RobbyLakeMusic]

What's kind of funny, obviously the band must have known this, G Nash is on the 12-string electric guitar there!. I love Graham Nash, but that's not him on 12-string. Lol

[@MyJerseybean]

What can you say about this superb Band from Liverpool that has not been said before, they are just GOLD ! The Hollies came to Fort Regent , St Helier Jersey C.I. some years ago and I do not ever recall seeing a Band work so hard , playing all their Hits so well. I can look back with such happy memories, Are they still playing together ? I heard that Alan Clarke had left for a while but rejoined. Peter B Jersey C.I.

[@MyJerseybean]

Thank you for that bit of information.

[@lesleyohare1042]

Manchester

[@smith6640]

good group, good song.

[@Peorhum]

Now who and the hell would pick football as a backdrop for the Hollies? They must have read the Hollies like football as in soccer and thought US football.

[@maggymay7827]

I would have left home for any of these chaps.

[@larrymoeller4086]

Does anyone else think the girls were absolutely gorgeous back then. Or is that just me?

[@Karloffrules]

OMG what the Hollies must have thought of American tv. I can't believe they agreed to that intro, but it still isn't as awkward as The Association's 'band as machine' number... still, the music is what counts and both bands are so fabulous. Great to be a child of the sixties!!

[@michaelatkins3819]

Karloffrules Not to mention they probably never heard of American football

[@shootfirst2097]

+Karloffrules The "band as a machine" number at Monterey was their OWN decision. What, do you think some record company executive MADE them do that?

[@RobertBlevins]

+Karloffrules You know how it is. Back in those days you did what your manager told you to do, if you were a 60's band who wanted to make it big.

[@captainsoul1953]

+Rich Ramsey yep...I like it though

[@ristovirtanen6396]

Never understand why they call underarmoval groupwrestling football…?!

[@JustaSideOrderOfLove]

AMAZING! I Just Love These Guys!:-D well TONY the most! *sigh*

[@sunnsight]

awesome

[@cards1985]

The Hollies were great.

[@eddyhailwood6151]

great stuff

[@mustang9371]

マンチェスターの星　ナッシュを初めとしたコーラスは　お見事ですね！✨

[@SuperSojourn]

Ok, I remember seeing this when it aired. Yeah, I'm that old. Compare this song to later hits and it is easy to see the evolution.

[@user-mb2cw2vg6g]

My sweet boy Tony Hicks

[@thomasmichelin7477]

I remember this episode.

[@evylysk1367]

I love this song and what a great sound the Hollies had. One thing, the background should have been store fronts with ladies in their gowns.

[@russallert]

This clip is from the show Hullabaloo, which was the most confused of the 60s rock shows. It couldn't decide if it was aiming for a teens and 20s rock audience or an older over-30 audience. That's why you hear a big band playing cheesy football music behind Avalon, and why Avalon says "Win this one for Ringo" - a reference to "Win one for the Gipper" from the film Knute Rockne All-American (starring Ronald Reagan), which probably meant little to the Hollies and their fans.

[@axiomist1076]

Love that sound. Beautiful harmonies and lovely jingly guitars. And Nash with his 12 string Vox. Can't get any better.

[@dralfredcarroll9567]

axiomist I always found it bizarre that Graham Nash's guitar was just a prop for the majority of his time in the Hollies. Only Tony Hicks played on the records (most of the records only feature one guitar line) and at concerts Nash's guitar wasn't plugged in.

[@michellelambert8729]

Nash is on the vox....usually Tony played it that I have ever seen. Interesting.

[@decemberschild1504]

@@michellelambert8729 Yeah. Nash was a gifted vocalist and a great song writer, but playing the guitar wasn't his strong suit. He often isn't plugged in even when the others are actually performing live. The Vox was more of a prop for him. And Tony had an endorsement deal with Vox, so maybe that had something to do with it. Who knows. I think they liked to mess with people too by switching things around. I feel like I read that somewhere, but not sure of the source.

[@michellelambert8729]

@@decemberschild1504 They said Nash only weighed 133 lbs! Damn. Probably none of the guys were plugged in for this.

[@decemberschild1504]

@@michellelambert8729 True! Though Bobby looked like he was really wailing away on his drums. Miming or not, I do enjoy these old videos.

[@lamarjohnson4576]

Never a group like the hollies were my favorite when i was just a young boy.

[@debradonato7363]

LOVE the Hollies🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@moemcgovern7345]

It’s great to see Frankie Avalon!

[@mjcamck]

Good day to all. I must, respectfully, disagree w/ those who dislike the intro. FYI - this show was televised the same year as SUPERBOWL #1 which featured the Green Bay Packers (who won) vs. The Kansas City Chiefs. Final Score: 35 - 10. There was a whole lot of hype around this extra special championship, therefore, this intro is a clever tie in. However, to each their own. PEACE TO ALL.

[@xigxagz]

Yea!, I remember seeing this exact show/song live myself, and back then that replay of that guitar part was pretty darn cool, imho. As I recall it was near Christmas in 1966 when it aired, but I could be off by a month or so.

[@jimrice4710]

Thanks for sharing

[@___---__]

Performed live, miraculously without instrument cables.

[@Berniewahlbrinck]

Exactly! 😃

[@syedshahsirajuddin7773]

Why am I so attracted to Allan Clarke? Oh dear, my heart races whenever I see him.

[@karenyount3531]

Mine too.

[@tiborrimay3041]

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