50 At Fifty

CD1

1. (Ain't That) Just Like Me (1997 Remastered Version)
2. Searchin' (1997 Remastered Version)
3. Stay (1997 Remastered Version)
4. Just One Look (1997 Remastered Version)
5. Here I Go Again (1997 Remastered Version)
6. We're Through (1997 Remastered Version)
7. Yes I Will (2003 Remastered Version)
8. I'm Alive (2003 Remastered Version)
9. Look Through Any Window (2003 Remastered Version)
10. If I Needed Someone (2003 Remastered Version)
11. I Can't Let Go (2003 Remastered Version)
12. Bus Stop (2003 Remastered Version)
13. Pay You Back With Interest (2003 Remastered Version)
14. Stop Stop Stop (2003 Remastered Version)
15. On A Carousel (2003 Remastered Version)
16. Carrie Anne (2003 Remastered Version)
17. King Midas In Reverse (2003 Remastered Version)
18. Jennifer Eccles (2003 Remastered Version)
19. Listen To Me (2003 Remastered Version)
20. Sorry Suzanne (2003 Remastered Version)

CD2

1. He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother (2003 Remastered Version)
2. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top (2003 Remastered Version)
3. Gasoline Alley Bred (2003 Remastered Version)
4. Hey Willy (2003 Remastered Version)
5. The Baby (2003 Remastered Version)
6. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) (2003 Remastered Version)
7. Magic Woman Touch (2003 Remastered Version)
8. The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam Mcgee (2003 Remastered Version)
9. The Air That I Breathe (2003 Remastered Version)
10. Lonely Hobo Lullaby (2003 Remastered Version)
11. I'm Down (2003 Remastered Version)
12. 4th July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (2003 Remastered Version)
13. There's Always Goodbye
14. Boulder To Birmingham (2003 Remastered Version)
15. Too Young To Be Married (Live; 2003 Remastered Version)
16. Daddy Don't Mind (2003 Remastered Version)

CD3

1. Hello To Romance (1996 Remastered Version)
2. Amnesty (1996 Remastered Version)
3. Soldier's Song (2003 Remastered Version)
4. Heartbeat (1995 Remastered Version)
5. If The Lights Go Out (First Version / 2003 Remastered Version)
6. Take My Love And Run (First Version / 2003 Remastered Version)
7. Stop In The Name Of Love
8. Let Her Go Down (2003 Remastered Version)
9. Too Many Hearts Get Broken (2003 Remastered Version)
10. Laughter Turns To Tears (2003 Remastered Version)
11. So Damn Beautiful
12. On A Carousel (Live)
13. Then, Now, Always (Dolphin Days) (Live)
14. Skylarks (New 2014 Recording)

The Hollies are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band’s 1964 debut album with a tour, as well as a new 50-track collection that spans the British hit-makers’ entire career, including “Skylarks,” an unreleased track that was recorded just this year.

Pop pioneers known for their distinctive three-part harmonies, The Hollies (Allan Clarke, Bobby Elliott, Tony Hicks, Graham Nash and Eric Haydock,) released their debut album on Parlophone in 1964. A familiar fixture on the music charts during the Sixties and Seventies, The Hollies scored almost two dozen hits in the U.S. and even more in the U.K. In recognition of the band’s achievements, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted The Hollies in 2010.

50 AT FIFTY tells the band’s history in song, beginning with The Hollies’ first single (Ain’t That) Just Like Me and ending with the newly recorded Skylarks.  The music spans 1963 to 2014 and spotlights all of the group’s best-known songs, including the top 5 UK hits: Look Through Any Window, Bus Stop, Stop! Stop! Stop! On A Carousel, Carrie Anne, He Ain’t Heavy,  He’s My Brother, The Air That I Breathe, the platinum-certified smash, Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) and I Can’t Tell The Bottom From The Top.

In addition to the hits, the collection also spotlights gems like Hey Willy, and Lonely Hobo Lullaby as well as covers of Emmylou Harris’ Boulder To Birmingham and Bruce Springsteen’s 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy). The set also features several live recordings, including performances of the 1967 single “On A Carousel” and “Too Young To Be Married, from Confessions Of The Mind (1970).

The new song Skylarks was recorded this year by the band’s current line-up, which includes long-time members Hicks and Elliott along with Peter Howarth, Steve Lauri, Ray Stiles, and Ian Parker. Skylark was written by Elliott and Howarth, produced and arranged by Steve Lee Vickers, and mixed by Grammy® award winner Paul Hicks. To mark the golden anniversary of the band’s debut album, this version of The Hollies will embark upon a European tour in September.

“It’s over fifty years since I first wrote a Hollies song, it was the B-side of ‘Just One Look,’ and I shared the writing with Tony. Today I feel quite privileged to be writing the 50th track on this compilation, which contains some of our best work. I’m in good company with my buddies Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks, and Graham Nash, who, throughout our career, have written some outstanding Hollies material.” says Elliott.   ‘Skylarks’ takes us in a new direction - nothing new for The Hollies. It’s back to our inventive roots in many ways.”