[FLNittany]

The Hollies owned this song obviously. The video says it's 1975. I think the song was released in 1969. I have a file of Rolling Stone Rag's top 500 songs of all time, and I was surprised this song isn't amongst them.

[joma89]

This is a popular phrase with marines.

[Paladin2]

Thanks for kicking me off talk radio to music for the start of the w/e.

Went to Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks pretty quickly.

[BobL]

Powerful.

[Steely Tom]

Never liked this song, but I have to give credit where it's due: The Hollies were a remarkably versatile and creative band. I liked every other song of theirs, at least the ones that were on Top 40 radio where I lived.

I always kind of half-way thought that Long Cool Woman was done by CCR. At that age, I wasn't really paying attention to the names of the bands on the radio.

A great band that spawned other great bands, as we all know.

[mfish13]

18 year old Elton John on piano

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fascinating background to the title of the song. Thanks for providing that — I had no idea about that history of the phrase.

[Fiji Hill]

When they were surfing the charts, I saw the Hollies as a bubble-gum group. “Long Cool Woman,” which is unlike any of their other hits, is my favorite.

[Inyo-Mono]

The Hollies owned this song obviously. The video says it's 1975. I think the song was released in 1969. I have a file of Rolling Stone Rag's top 500 songs of all time, and I was surprised this song isn't amongst them

Probably released in late 1969, the song reached number 2 on the Billboard charts in March 1970.