The Hollies - BBC Sessions, Volume 4 (1971-1976)

Here's the fourth and final album of the Hollies playing at the BBC. Actually, to be honest, by this time the Hollies lost some popularity and the BBC had fewer sessions for artists in general, other than full concerts. Furthermore, more of the band's BBC sessions from the early 1970s appear to have been lost. So most of the songs here are from other TV or radio shows.

There's a grand total of one song here that's been officially released: the first one, "Too Young to Be Married." That comes from the "Radio Fun" album. Five of the last six songs come from a 1975 concert that was broadcast on TV. I don't know the details about this, other than it was apparently from Switzerland, though some sources say Germany.

The sound quality is generally very good, even though most of the songs were done in front of audiences and thus have some clapping. The song "What a Life I've Led" must have been put on a vinyl LP at some point, because it was filled with pops and scratches. But I was able to edit most of them out. I also had some trouble with the last song, "Draggin' My Heels." The version I found had many microgaps of total silence in it, often less than a second long. Luckily, I discovered that if I closed those gaps in my audio editing software, no music was lost.

To be honest, the Hollies still did some TV and radio shows after 1976, but my interest in the group rapidly wanes after that. They were hit by the dreaded disco bug in the late 1970s, and generally followed some musical trends that didn't fit well for them. So this series ends here.

01 Too Young to Be Married (Hollies)
02 Hold On (Hollies)
03 What a Life I've Led [Edit] (Hollies)
04 Long Dark Road (Hollies)
05 The Day that Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee (Hollies)
06 Long Cool Woman [In a Black Dress] (Hollies)
07 I Can't Tell the Bottom from the Top (Hollies)
08 Another Night (Hollies)
09 4th of July, Asbury Park [Sandy] (Hollies)
10 I'm Down (Hollies)
11 The Air that I Breathe (Hollies)
12 Draggin' My Heels [Edit] (Hollies)

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The cover art photo shows the band playing on the "Top on the Pops" TV show in 1974.