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Hollies in the 70's
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:22 pm
by jdhogg
Re: Hollies in the 70's
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:35 pm
by Casey H
I've been wondering about this listing too. Those bands were much more known in the 60's. The Hollies did have 1-2 hits in the 70's but overall that list is a 60's list. Someone should call Taxi and ask for clarification.

Casey
Re: Hollies in the 70's
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:14 pm
by jdhogg
I'd like taxi to clarify how this happened.
Do the libraries write them and taxi put them up or do taxi write them for the libraries? I guess the libraries write them.
Re: Hollies in the 70's
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:04 pm
by paulshamell
Take a look at the "submit your music" page version of this listing. I think it was changed to "60s" there, just a day or two after the listing originally came along.
As an aside to this, I was musing on what I've always thought to be the simplicity of the chorus to "Carrie Ann". At a glance It reads kind of like a placeholder lyric that never got replaced.
But, I realized its very cleverly constructed-
The first and last words rhyme (master of the obvious!), but it keeps rhyming and/or alliterating as it moves into the sentence from both ends, like a palindrome.
Its an abcdefggfedcba scheme, in a single sentence.... Whether it was that way by accident, or on purpose, it'll never sound like a throwaway line to me again

Re: Hollies in the 70's
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:06 pm
by Casey H
The way I understand it is the libraries
define the listing requirements with Taxi A&R helping them as best as they can to clarify what they want.
Unless you contact Taxi, you won't know what the scoop is here. It could be that those acts had some early 70's hits and that's more the sound being sought. Or it could be a typo... The Hollies had a hit with Long Cool Woman in the early 70's, for example, and that had a different sound than their mid-60's hits. If you are concerned and are thinking of submitting, give Taxi a shout.

Casey
PS I just read Paul's post after I posted this... Looks like problem solved... Yay! I have a 60's a la Hollies in my catalog too!
