The Midas Touch

The Midas Touch Artist: The Hollies
Label: Sony Special Product
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 079892120424
EAN: 0079892120424
ASIN: B000002YGC


Release Date: 1995-12-01

The Midas Touch


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Tracks:

  1. Carrie-Anne
  2. Promised Land
  3. Pick Up The Pieces Again
  4. King Midas In Reverse
  5. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)
  6. Isn't It Nice
  7. Hold On
  8. Bus Stop
  9. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
  10. Sandy

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  1. Distant Light

Album Description

Digitally remastered 1997 reissue of their 1965 album for the label in a digipak. 12 tracks, including covers of 'DownThe Line', 'Fortune Teller', 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' and 'Mickey's Monkey'.

Album Details

Original Hollies Album, First Time Available on CD. 12 Songs, Recorded in 1965 and Digitallly Remastered in 1997. Part of EMI'S Dorig Series, Packed in Digipack Sleeve.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Disregard the earlier reviews of this album........2005-02-15

The information provided by both the professional and customer reviewers for this album does not pertain to this specific title. Although I recommend Distant Light instead of this title, this one features the vocals of Allan Clarke in a similar vein and context to two albums that appeared a few years earlier: the aforementioned Distant Light and Romany.

Clarke's vocal work here is admirable; the group itself appears to have shed its Top Pop radio persona (although The Air That I Breathe did do well on the charts), and offer a more mature and thoughtful collection of tunes.

3 out of 5 stars Hollies made many albums called "Hollies".......2003-08-19

The Hollies made numerous albums titled "Hollies" or "The Hollies".First there was "The Hollies"(their 3rd UK album from 1965,presently availableon EMI/UK CD with both the mono & stereo album on one CD),then there was the 1973 album "Hollies"(including the hit "The Air That I Breathe",available on both U.S. EPIC & UK EMI CD's),then there was a 1985 British L.P. compilation "The Hollies" on EMI/Music For Pleasure(including 1964-66 hits + previously unreleased tracks "Little Bitty Pretty One","Zip a Dee Doo Dah" and a rendition of "Poison Ivy" which is different than the one on the group's Australian debut album).This EMI/MFP compilation later turned up on CD in Australia on EMI 432005-2.However,the CD pictured here on Amazon's website is a 1988 UK EMI/Compacts For Pleasure budget priced CD-only compilation whose unique feature is an accidentally released, rejected,previously unreleased take of the group's 1963 UK single "Searchin'",in which lead singer Allan Clarke growls the lead vocal(as if trying to sound black),and when Graham Nash takes lead vocal on the middle eight of this old Coasters hit,he accidentally sings "Sherlock Holmes and old Sam Sneed...and old Blackie",instead of the correct "Sherlock Holmes and old Sam Spade and old Boston Blackie".As a rarity for avid fans,it warrants Amazon's ... asking price...if they can find it for you.

5 out of 5 stars Hollies 1974.......2002-12-07

I read the other reviews of this item, and I'm totally lost. I had this on original vinyl and absolutely LOVED it, and some of the tracks mentioned in the first review did NOT exist on the original LP, which was correctly issued in 1974. I consider this LP to be one of the best the Hollies ever did, as it showcased the musical style they developed far better than most of their previous work, which sometimes included covers of other persons' material. True, it's not the stuff one may expect, if they consistantly think of the Hollies as doing only songs like Stop, Stop, Stop, or Carrie Anne, but I doubt anyone could honestly say this LP/CD is not one of their best.

4 out of 5 stars You're Both Wrong.......2002-10-02

This is neither a reunion LP or a reissue of the 1965 album/ This is compilation CD based on a 1987 cassette release on tyHour of Pleasure series. I have it, the cover matches the picture and the track list set forth above is accurate. Don't be misled.

Kusically. it's a mixed back of singles, B-sides, album cuts and EP tracks, with a few cignificant hits and a bunch of early covers. A real smorgasbord.

When, oh when will someone come out with a definitive box set for this group? The three disc set is out of print, and you have to find what you can where you can in a piecemeal fashion...like this.

5 out of 5 stars

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