The Hollies - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1971-1972

Here's the fourth and final album of the Hollies playing at the BBC.

There's a grand total of one song here that's been officially released: "Too Young to Be Married." That comes from the "Radio Fun" album. That came from a "Top of the Pops" BBC studio session. All of the unreleased tracks also come from "Top of the Pops" sessions, with one of them even from the same session as the released song.

These "Top of the Pops" recordings come from transcription discs sent to overseas radio stations at the time. For those discs that have survived, the sound quality is excellent. For instance, you can't tell the difference between the released song and the others.

My thanks goes to my musical associate Marley for providing me these recordings.

Surprisingly, even as late as 1971 and 1972, there was still a lot of BBC DJ talk over the music. I've noticed that the more poppy a band is, the more likely their songs get talked over. So I did the usual thing of using the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe out the talking and keep the underlying music. Eight out of the 12 songs here have "[Edit]" in their names due to this problem.

This album is 40 minutes long.

UPDATE: On December 8, 2022, I reuploaded the mp3 download file, due to drastically changing this album. Previously, this dealt with a time period from 1971 to 1976. But everything past 1972 wasn't actually from the BBC. Once I found a bunch of new actual BBC stuff, thanks to Marley, I narrowed the time period of this one. Then, most of that later material came from one particular televised concert in 1975, so I've made a separate post of that concert. I slightly changed the cover art, because of the different years mentioned.

01 Hey Willy [Edit] (Hollies)
02 Survival of the Fittest [Edit] (Hollies)
03 Too Young to Be Married (Hollies)
04 Hold On (Hollies)
05 Look What We've Got [Edit] (Hollies)
06 The Baby [Edit] (Hollies)
07 Oh Grannie [Edit] (Hollies)
08 What a Life I've Led [Edit] (Hollies)
09 Blue in the Morning (Hollies)
10 Magic Woman Touch [Edit] (Hollies)
11 Won't You Feel Good That Morning [Edit] (Hollies)
12 Slow Down (Hollies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15122423/THollis_1971-1972_BBSessionsVolume4_atse.zip.html

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