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This was one of the cuts that the days of motor-mouthed DJs talking over the first 20 seconds of the song drove me straight up a wall because they drowned out that beautiful opening. Google for the lyrics, you'll get dozens of sites. I was a senior in high school when this song hit the air waves. At an all Native American boarding school, it was easily mastered. It was a hit with all the bands here at Flandreau Indian School, So.Dak.
A double-entendre and a pun in the same line ... Now if I can just figure out the lyrics to "Brass In Pocket" by the Pretenders.... 3 I'll have to listen to CCR again, off the top I dont hear the similarity... Even if its there I doubt it apporoaches the "My Sweet Lord/He's So fine" coincidence level. The Hollies were born too late, and on the wrong side of the Atlantic, to have visited a speakeasy. They lived in the Beat Generation, but their focus was Beat Music, and the actors in this song don't particularly behave like Beatniks.
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Whoever wrote it probably just liked those old 20's-30's detective novels and movies where some hardboiled gumshoe solves a case and gets the girl. The song draws a picture and creates a certain atmosphere in a few broad strokes and leaves the listener to fill in the details according to his/her own perception of that era. Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. This will always be for me one of those songs that when I hear it on the radio, I listen all the way to the end. Different than the other hits of the Hollies, there is a great beat on it.
In concert, rhythm guitarist Terry Sylvester did a fine job singing " Long Cool Woman". Me too, I love this song, so different than the other hits of the Hollies, there is a good beat on it. This is my least favorite of The Hollies most popular hits. It surprises me The Hollies actually sang it. They have so many other beautiful songs this one really isn't so special to me.
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This song is now used by BP to help sell gasoline in a TV spot showing two cars, one that uses another brand and the green SUV that goes farther on its tank. After careful consideration I still do not quite get the connection between the love-struck FBI-man and gasoline. On July 4th 1975, the Hollies performed "Long Cool Woman " on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'... Steve if you ever see him tell him thanks for all the music and for this song. Heard he no longer sings because of voice problems.
Even wonder what that The Hollies lyric was? Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content. A founding member of the band War, Harold gives a first-person account of one of the most important periods in music history. The song "Without You," a hit for Nilsson in 1972 and Mariah Carey in 1994, was written and originally recorded by Badfinger in 1970.
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I am now 52 years old and it still is magic to me. I have a "Songs of the 70s" CD that has this song just before "Don't Fear the Reaper." Perhaps just a coincidence, but both have opening guitar riffs that are pretty similar. By the way, my friend suggested "Well a shotgun was pumped in my left hand" for the beginning of the last verse. With careful listening, we knew it was incorrect, but we both thought it was cool.
I never heard the CCR connection...I thought people were crazy to hear them..nothing like them...musically or vocally. I can see where people have trouble figuring out the words. They are sung by a native Brit who is trying to sound like an American and he horribly mangled the "accent." I like the song, but I get pissed off every time I hear it.
Most are the same as the accepted versions but there are some differences. I suggest, printing my lyrics and reading them along as you listen to the song. Anyway...this isn't meant to cause an argument, I'm just proposing this version after a long time analyzing the words. General CommentWanted to add, I don't think this song has any deeper meaning.
One of my first fav rock songs, this was my favorite on that album and I always turn it up on the radio. So far, I've seen no intelligent comments on the story of this song. The DA was pumping his left hand while the long cool woman held his right. Traditionally, one shakes hands with the right. Love rock and roll when it tells stories, but would like to know if anyone knows what the story is.
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