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Jennifer Eccles

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Released
  
22 March 1968 (UK)

Genre
  
Pop

Format
  
7"

B-side
  
UK: "Open Up Your Eyes" US: "Try It"

Recorded
  
3 February 1968 Chapells Studio, Bond Street

Length
  
2:40 (album version) 3:04 (single version)

"Jennifer Eccles" is a 1968 single by the Hollies. It was released with the B-side Open Up Your Eyes on the Parlophone label, Catalogue number R5680. The song reached #7 on the UK singles chart in March 1968. Around the same time, it was released in the US with a different B-side, "Try It", and reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by members of the band with input from their wives after criticism of 'King Midas in Reverse' and was a return to the popular format that had been commercially successful though not necessarily lyrically sophisticated.

Jennifer Eccles (who had "terrible freckles") also features in the song "Lily the Pink" by The Scaffold; the reference is an in-joke, as Graham Nash, who had by now left the Hollies, sang backing vocals on this recording; Nash had been married to Rose Eccles from 1964 until 1966.

Other versions

  • The independent rock band Eels released a cover on its Useless Trinkets collection of B-sides and rarities.
  • References

    Jennifer Eccles Wikipedia