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  • The Hollies three part harmonies are still the best harmonies recorded!! i was driving with my daughter (who is in her 30's and loves music ) , and she said ''Wo ow who is this group singing they sound better than The Beatles!?" Well it was The Hollies Greatest Hits that we were listening to ,and I've been singing Hollies songs in my band for many years . I grew up on their music and I love them!! I'm going to their concert here in South Africa tomorrow. I can't wait!!!

  • Why is Graham on this 1968 version but not the black and white one from 1967?

  • I love that song :p

  • @Locofoco123, I was very young at that time. However, I had an older brother who wasn't. Thank you for your comment. R.I.P bro.

  • Sorry- $600 billion.

  • Love this song, love Graham Nash. when this came out I was 14 years old. Too young to serve in Vietnam, I remember Cronkite announcing each week how many bodybags would be sent home, I think 200+. The communists were a major theat? 58,000 boys and $6 billion (1970 dollars) later I 've got a closet full of 'nam stuff and they've got most favored nation trading status. It's all about money,greed. God bless everyone involved in that mess Vietnamese and American and my sisters fiance who gave all.

  • A belated Happy Birthday to Bobby Elliott! I'll always cherish the day in 1983 when you sang 'Hey Mary Ann,' instead of Carrie Anne, to me. You were so nice & funny.

  • How come there are no bands doing this harmony nowadays?

  • @twoslices Because today's bands are not talented enough to harmonize! :)

  • @sactiger I dont know,I think its more like they dont want to, probably they think its 'uncool' . Most bands today are into this attitude thing and 3 part harmonys probably sound too happy to them as 'Happy' music is dead and burried.

  • @twoslices Yeah, you may be right. As for me, I miss the happy music. Happy music might make for a happier world...maybe? Just a thought... :)

  • Fantastic Vocal Harmony, real music from real musicians..

  • Hey Graham Nash, what's your game now...

  • man does that bring me bk to when i was a kid..had the 45!!!!!(the band is playing to a tape,but live singing!!!

  • So like who's playing the steel drum solo???

  • wow maravillosa cancion!

  • Allen Clarke, Tony Hicks, Terry Selvester, Bernie Calvert and Bobby Elliott are deffinatley the greatest members of the Hollies

  • @TheHillbillyHermitt1 that's crazy, anyone with an ear for music knows there is one phenomenal voice in this group, and you didn't name him

  • @philsteakfreeman Graham Nash?

  • @TheHillbillyHermitt1 UMMMMMM.... GRAHAM NASH????

  • my name too...my mum wasn't sure if she heard while she was in labor or not..i've always thought it is a rather mean song..

  • That's my name to

  • GRAHAM NASH LOOKS VERY YOUNG

  • happy birthday marianne!

  • @pacmanindy the Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a rip-off of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", and "Carrie Anne" is the Hollies' own song, the only similarity is they are both in related keys. That's why they sound alike, but I fail to see how they are identical.

  • @SuperCameronb & pacman. . . tony himself says that he started writing the song about the same time of the byrds' tambourine man, so the song was an inspiration for him. but it is definitely not a rip-off or identical. and also that 'carrie-anne' was the nearest girl's name they could think of to fit in with the lyrics. . . just sayin'!!

    kc

  • @SuperCameronb The Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a cover of the Dylan tune.

  • Um...This is from July 1967 Telecast. The only thing correct is the smothers brothers show! But with that withstanding, Love me some hollies. Fantastic 60's pop. Amazing harmonies!

  • "Carrie-Anne" is a rip-off of the Byrds's "Mr. Tambourine Man." They both sound so identical! No wonder Nash joined up with Crosby and Stills.

  • It might be lip synced but the vocals have been re-recorded, though whether it was for this show or another reason isn't knowm

  • @Quiverbow1 Listen to the 'break', this version has 'steel drums' , there is a YouTube UK version with violins.

  • too bad the video is all lip sync, a great band but too go on live show and go through the motions, if it was me i would not allow it... you would think they would atleast plug the guitars it too make it look more realistic, but what a great song this is, even better today.

  • Great clip a pity it wasn't live ! Regards.

  • Sorry for the typo. It should be 'wasn't'. Just woke up.

  • @rush623112, he wasen't with the group yet. I believe he took over when Nash left.

  • 60's pop was the best 

  • Where's Terry sylvester ?

  • what a drag - it's a lip sync

  • Bogus, my comment about Nash looking like a mix between Doug Benson and this dude Tim I used to buy pot off of was removed. Weak =/

  • I liked em better in the beatles fase!

  • Top selling band in '70? Didn't know that. Thanks. Love these guys.

  • Please take my cute lima bean comment off , It's been on far to long and I was only lamenting on a comment made by someone else. Never meant it to be on this long as it is embarrassing to want to hear this song and see my dumb comment, which was meant for people from my generation, who actually watched the Smothers Brothers on B/W T.V. Sincerely, Jim Lima III. President of the Lima Bean Promotional Council.

  • If anybody here is on Facebook, please join my recently created Hollies page- The North American Society for Hollies Appreciation (N.A.S.H.) I am trying to garner more attention for this band, which is vastly superior to many of the more well-known bands from the era. Despite the recent induction into the HOF, the Hollies still don't get much airplay, even on 60's channels... and when they do, it's always one of a few songs, and we fans know that there is more to them than that.

  • Dedicated to my friend Carrie Anne who just lost her job. I pray she will find employment soon.

  • My sister was named Carrie Ann and although I was adopted, my name would have been Dawn (Frankie Valli) Page (Patti Page). Although we are a true "Oprah" story, my sister and I are truly a pair of muses!

  • wheres the steel drum?

  • I took too many drugs, next incarnation I'll stick to pot

  • oh my god......our 7th grade science teacher loved the oldies and the hollies, beatles, etc....

  • @Flowermat22 It's very cool that your science teacher was discussing great music with you...now that's what I call education!

  • you have to have drugs.l thats the 60's man. i wish i was alive in this time but i was born in 1990. sucks. really bad. god bless CLASSIC ROCK!

  • Love this version! Thanks for posting it.

  • Notice how harshly Alan Clark (lead singer in green vest) ages from this video (1967), compared to the clip wherein they're singing "Long, Cool Woman" in 1972. It's the clip where Clarke plays guitar. Clarke seems to have aged 15 years in a mere 5 years!

  • @LarryRickenbacker  I noticed that too.

  • Actually named our daughter Carrie Ann. It helped that Carrie is a name from my family and Ann is common in my wife's family but it wasn't until I ran across this song title while looking through my album collection that the name just clicked. And the rest is history.

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  • Did Graham leav the Hollies to form Crosby, Stills and Nash?

  • @TimFrith24 yep!!

  • I was 16 when this came out! You are correct! Music today has no SOUL! That's why so fix it! Get out there and fix it! You can play, write, and show them of today they are CRAP!!! Lynne AUSTIN,TEXAS

  • Cool song .

  • I refuse to believe this performance is BEFORE the one in black/white that comes up first in the search results (at Golders Green)

    Just look at Tony Hicks. They look at least 5 or so years apart.

  • @SpyroPyro This version has Graham Nash (guitar player on left with beatnick-like beard and 3rd soloist) who was a founding member of the band and subsequently left later that year. He is not in the black and white version of the song where he is replace by Terry Sylvestor who sings the third solo.

  • @skierbarry Good point. It's just strange, then, because the band members do appear to be older in this one.

  • Yes. it was said in "The Girl in the Song."

  • i just love how they changed their clothing style over the years :P

  • Boy, Graham has great teeth.

  • @zowlik *S* Graham has great EVERYTHING

  • A JANITOR AND A MONITOR???

  • @faroutlindsey I think that's a British term for a teacher.

  • @RayNDeere OK THANK YOU...I READ OR HEARD THIS SONG WAS ABOUT MARIANNE FAITHFUL,BUT THEY WERE TOO SHY TO NAME IT AFTER HER...

  • @RayNDeere Actually, no... A "monitor" is like a "hall monitor". A "master" is an old-fasihoned British term for "teacher"...

  • @faroutlindsey A "monitor" is like a "hall monitor", and a janitor is (wow) a janitor.

  • i can relate to jimbamboozled.... i got the same bs for canned peas ....damn i can still taste them!!

  • The bass player has HORRIBLE technique..

  • This is a crazy little thing called musica

  • This is a little crazy thing called music

  • A ti prestani da izigravas direktora.

  • Glad I grew up in the 60s! Loved these guys and most of the British Invasion bands. Tony is just too cute!

  • An awesome memory of my year in 5th grade.

  • I had the biggest crush on Tony Hicks.

  • While we were munching on mushrooms and taking down the windowpanes to see how they fit in our heads-TV producers were trying to integrate that feel into what would ' translate to small screen entertainment and draw in the youth movement' thereby helping their ratings. And these were the adults that weren't totally fucked up. Lite another bowl-I'm going back for a closer look.

  • Those are some wild fucking outfits!!

  • .They can actually sing ....on key ! But isn't that illegal ?

  • @TumbrelJockey thats becasue they were lip syncing lol

  • Thanks Seymouro---I just wish we could go back to that era of endless possibilities---or at least it seemed like it was!

  • This is supposed to be viewing from some kind of trip? Man, they were way better than that!

  • There will never, ever be a more memorable decade in the history of the world then the "60's". It was that one golden moment when anything seemingly could have been accomplished. It's been downhill ever since, great technology and all.

  • @chuckbuckbobuck YOU are right on the mark chuck...so much incredible material in music in possibly the most turbulent decade since the "other" 60's (1860) and the "Civil War"...

  • MY REQUEST: Could someone out there PLEASE upload the promo film that The Hollies made for this song?! It's really groovy for it's time!

  • i love thiss ong i heard it on time lifes flower power collection and loved it ever since this si the video clip they showed on it to

  • Where the hell is the steel drums in this great song.

  • But some of the most bizarre lyrics in any pop song ever.

  • @notvalidcharacters Makes perfect sense to me. Listen to Lucy in the sky or a day in the life. Real bizarre stuff.

  • @paulvenom9 Lucy's a description of a child's drawing and Day in the Life is based on newspaper stories- that I understand. But I've never heard one human say to another "you played the janitor, I played the monitor" in real life. I have yet to figure that one out.

  • I think its the love games of kids, kissing and playing milkman and lonely housewife. That is what I take it to mean, though I like the soft cute upbeat music on this song, and the steeldrums in it. but they still dont bring it like the association band with the six man harmonys or sly and the family stone to me

  • @notvalidcharacters - Actually, the legend is that Graham Nash had a crush on Maryianne Faithful, but could never bring himself to realize it.

    Britt women=ColdAsIce. Stiff upper lip and all that rot.

  • @Informed104 Marianne took an intellectual shine to the married Graham, and fooled around with the married Allan.

  • Damnnn Nash is sooo young. I just saw csn in concert last friday night... soooo good still... could only keep it up for an hour and a half though... i guess age does that though lol.

  • Luv the positive sound, and them drums

  • Impressive how they got the guitars to sound like steel drums.

  • This was the Hollies first single for Epic in the States, after leaving Imperial Records. They lost nothing in the transition. It's great!

  • Nash looks like he has spilt pie on his face

  • Hey this is the only one of Carrie Ann that has the Steel Drums doing a solo. That is William (Bill) Smiley he is also on the album.  They did not show him but I wish they had. He died of Cancer 2005 and I have his Steel drums in NM

  • Why did they want to tell Marianne Faithfull "You lost your charm as you were aging"? Did they think that would work on her?

  • I didn't know this was KISS> Wow they do look different. Paul stanley and Gene look werid, but you gotta start at the bottom.

  • One of the best KISS songs they recorded. Detroit rock city and shout it out loud were good. Look at Gene simmons and paul stanley, wow they had werid hair. Ace frehley looks cool.

  • @XYtruck25

    Please could you help me understand your comment? I'm sure it made sense to you when you wrote it.

  • @Poopaloo55 you country hick. He or she stated the band performing here in this video is KISS. You know Gene simmons, paul stanley, Ace and peter

  • @char675

    No call for insults. I have lived in cities all my life. I know Kiss and still fail to see their connection with this Hollies video. Oh, and don't bother responding if you can't be polite.

  • con Grahan nash me gustaba mas

  • No big deal. Just remember seeing the Hollies on the Smothers Brothers Show when I was a kid and it brought back some memories. Although I do twitch when I see a can of green lima beans.

  • True story: this song was originally titled "Marianne" as in Marianne Faithfull. They chickened out.

  • im carrie ann

  • Tony on a Rckenbacker..

     How cool is that!

  • Screw you guys, you want to hear a real hard luck story? I heard "finish your lima beans or you can't watch the Smothers Brothers". I hated green lima beans so I had to swallow or pocket pounds of disgusting green lima beans for two years. Fortunately I am still alive to tell my story.

  • @jimbamboozled

    Forcing down a hated food in order to watch the Smothers Brothers??

    ...Sounds more like poor judgement than hard luck!!

  • wow... you did have it bad man.

  • @jimbamboozled Oh poor boy! They feed you that "poor starving children in India " bs too?

  • Wow, I thought my uncle's stories about being in 'Nam in 68 were rough!

  • @jimbamboozled you have my sympathies! I was forced to finish canned vegs,tough steaks and milk before I was allowed to watch Batman. Of course, to speed things along there were all those trips to the bathroom, and once buried a cache of cold spaghetti under a cushion!

  • @jimbamboozled lol I couldn't help,,, The things we had to do to watch TV.

  • @jimbamboozled I feel the pain of your terrible sacrifice. Truly you are one of the great unsung martyrs of popular music.

  • Good song, just enjoy the music.

  • Graham Nash was a founding member of The Hollies until he split in 1968...soon to hook up with David Crosby and Stephen Stills...and eventually Neil Young to form The Monkees.

    (...k, I'm kidding about The Monkees..)

  • You know how many people have reached for the reply button before reading your final comment?  LOL

  • @alienhuman Just making sure that folks are payin' attention...thanks, A!!

  • @geoffreydlang I watched a video of The Hollies before Nash left and he gave credit to Bobby Elliott as the founder.

  • @geoffreydlang that was funny u remind me of me

  • British Rock!!

  • @dahur - Oh, you are so right!  Even when the Hollies appeared during the "British Invasion", their music sounded so NEW and FRESH! Still does.

  • Monitor: a student with disciplinary or other special duties during school hours : "show the hall monitor your pass."

    Prefect: (chiefly British) in some schools, a senior student authorized to enforce discipline.

  • @MrTwinclarinets Thank you for your definitions! Useful even for Anglophiles who don't know that yet.

  • @tambourmn & linden56 - Sure does look like Graham Nash wearing a yellow outfit at 0:44

  • This song is actually about Marianne Faithful but they didn't have the guts to call it Marriane so they called it Carrie Anne a name they made up that they never heard b4. Don't think I am bad mouthing them when i say "they didn't have the guts" because that is Graham Nash's own words, he says it on the movie "History Of Rock: The British Invasion"

  • It's interesting...when you see this band playing in black and white in this same time period, they're dressed more conservatively, usually in suits. During the transition from b&w to color, did people deliberately dress differently depending on whether the performance would be in color or not?

  • No, I think it was just a coincidence. Fashion got more psychedelic around the same time color TV got popular.

  • @tig2007ger Good question. Coincidentally, the move in TV, from B and W, to color took place within the same few years as was the move toward to a new look in clothing. I can't think of anyone in 1968, who wore suits, whereas up until sometime in 1966, they often did. I have viewed thousands of videos, and know music history.

  • el look y la voz de topny hicks s bonito

  • Doesn't Graham Nash look groovy here. I wish I could go back to this time and start over---only this time no drugs!!!

  • yeah! yeah!

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  • god I would like to sing with them but just this one song, my daughter is named the same she is 11 now :)

  • Did you name your daughter in honor of this Ballad, I assume?

  • Actually, this episode was aired in 1967.

    Nash left The Hollies in '68 and went to perform

    for CSN/CSNY in '69.

    I dig this song, with some groovy steel drum solos and psychedelic effects.

    Thank you so much for posting. :)

    Cheers!

  • Alan Clarke retired in his late fifties which was a good move as so many singers go on way to long. Look at that Whack Job Mike Love of the Beach Boys he almost 70 and has no voice left.

  • They're cuter than the Beatles and I like their music more.

  • SOOO much better than the rap crap out today!

    Today's music is mostly junk. I sure miss the 60's.

  • @dahur I wholeheartedly agree with ya' 100%.

  • i was not around then but i enjoy 60's music

  • @dahur

    I wish for the "renaissance" or "rebirth" of the 1960's too.

  • When we were at school ..

    our games were simple..

    I played a janitor, you played a monitor,

    then you played with older boys and prefects

    what's the attraction in what they're doing..

  • It's "mommy-tor"...not monitor.

  • when i thought seening Grahan Nash with the group Crosby and Stills, i see how Grahan was younger at that time with this song carrie Anne.

  • Great song by an incredible group. Good to hear they are finally being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.....it's long overdue. Congrats guys!

  • The big ???? who will show up at the R&R Hall of Fame induction Graham or Terry or maybe even both...

  • Hollies will be entering the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame :) Best to the Hollies and all the fans that know how great they are.

  • "You lost your charm as you were aging,

    where is your magic dissappearing?"

    Where indeed.

  • awsome ending

  • i m realizing that time was cruel to the singer.

  • OK who's playing the steel drums?

  • Me. How do I sound?

  • Mariann Faitful hates this tune

  • i think what you meant to write was "faithful" and not "faitful."

    how strange ... this evening, i've just seen a film where she plays - plays - a matronly figure who makes a huge amount of dosh from wanking blokes off in a so-ho sex club ... go figuure.

    a great tune, regardless.

  • I think what you meant to write was "figure" and not "figuure"

    Great song by a great group, one of the best.