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The Hollies - 1966 - Would You Believe (Stereo & Mono & Bonus) (1966)

Track listing:
  1. Take What I Want 2:19
  2. I Take What I Want 2:20
  3. Hard Hard Year 2:17
  4. Hard, Hard Year 2:17
  5. That's How Strong My Love Is 2:46
  6. That's How Strong My Love Is 2:46
  7. Sweet Little Sixteen 2:24
  8. Sweet Little Sixteen 2:25
  9. Oriental Sadness 2:38
  10. Oriental Sadness (mono) 2:37
  11. I Am A Rock (stereo) 2:49
  12. I Am A Rock (mono) 2:52
  13. Take Your Time 2:22
  14. Take Your Time 2:24
  15. Don't You Even Care (What's Gonna Happen To Me) 2:27
  16. Don't You Even Care 2:27
  17. Fifi The Flea 2:08
  18. Fifi The Flea 2:10
  19. Stewball 3:07
  20. Stewball 3:05
  21. I've Got A Way Of My Own 2:15
  22. I've Got A Way Of My Own 2:10
  23. I Can't Let Go (stereo) 2:26
  24. I Can't Let Go (mono) 2:25
  25. 02 If I Needed Someone (stereo) 2:20
  26. If I Needed Someone 2:20
  27. Running Through The Night (mono) 1:50
  28. Running Through The Night 1:50
  29. She Gives Me Everything I Want [Stereo] 2:23
  30. She Gives Me Everything I Want 2:22
  31. You In My Arms [Stereo] 2:02
  32. You In My Arms 2:01
  33. I Can't Get Nowhere With You [Stereo] 1:51
  34. I Can't Get Nowhere With You [Stereo] 1:51
  35. A Taste Of Honey (version 1 ) (stereo) 2:09
  36. A Taste Of Honey (version 1 ) (stereo) 2:09

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Would You Believe? is an album by the Hollies, released in 1966. It features a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock," which displayed progression for the band at the time—the rising folk-rock nascent was on the horizon. However, Would You Believe also features a cover of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" - by 1966, R&B and blues covers were becoming passe.

Another sign of growth for the band on Would You Believe includes the Chip Taylor cover "I Can't Let Go," a major hit for the band.

The band-written songs are also considered to be among the more progressive tunes on the album: "Hard Hard Year," "Oriental Sadness," "Fifi the Flea," and "I've Got a Way of My Own." "Fifi," covered by the Everly Brothers, had lyrics outside of the band's norm; "Oriental Sadness" featured distinctly Asian-sounding chords; and "Hard Hard Year" and "I've Got A Way Of My Own" (which had previously appeared on the B-Side of "If I Needed Someone") are both folky sounding waltzes.

One of the less essential '60s albums by the Hollies, whose capabilities were arguably stretched by the two-album-a-year-pace-in-addition-to-three-hit-singles model established by the Beatles during this time. Their version of Paul Simon's "I Am a Rock" is nice, but the soul and early rock covers of Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, and Chuck Berry are pretty dispensable; the Hollies were not the Stones or the Animals, lacking their soul and interpretative imagination. Some of the originals are pretty ho-hum too (including the pathetic "Fifi the Flea," which was covered by the Everly Brothers). But every Hollies album of the '60s has some strong overlooked tracks. On this one, they're the surprisingly tough folk-rockers "Hard, Hard Year" and "I've Got a Way of My Own." The ultra-catchy "Don't You Even Care," written by Clint Ballard, Jr. (also responsible for their number one British hit "I'm Alive," as well as "The Game of Love" and "You're No Good"), is the real obscure gem here and could have well been a hit under its own steam. The album's last song, "I Can't Let Go," was a big hit in Britain (and a small one in the U.S.) and one of the Hollies' best performances. The record was issued in America, in a slightly amended version, as Beat Group!

01."I Take What I Want" (David Porter, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, Isaac Hayes)
02."Hard Hard Year" (Ransford)
03."That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison)
04."Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry)
05."Oriental Sadness" (Ransford)
06."I Am a Rock" (Paul Simon)
07."Take Your Time" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty)
08."Don't You Even Care" (Clint Ballard Jr.)
09."Fifi the Flea" (Ransford)
10."Stewball" (Bob Yellin, Ralph Rinzler, John Herald)
11."I've Got a Way of My Own" (Ransford)
12."I Can't Let Go" (Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni)