Here I Go Again (The Hollies song)

"Here I Go Again"
Cover of the single released in Sweden
Single by the Hollies
B-side"Baby That's All"
Released15 May 1964 (1964-05-15)
Recorded13 April 1964[1]
StudioEMI, London
GenreBeat
Length2:19
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Ron Richards
The Hollies singles chronology
"Just One Look"
(1964) 		"Here I Go Again"
(1964) 		"We're Through"
(1964)

"Here I Go Again" is a song by British band the Hollies, released as a single in May 1964.

Background and release

"Here I Go Again" was written by Mort Shuman and Clive Westlake. It was recorded on 13 April 1964 at EMI Studios and released as a single a month later by Parlophone with the B-side "Baby That's All", written by the Hollies' Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash under the pseudonym Chester Mann.[1][2] The US release by Imperial Records in June 1964 saw it paired with a different B-side, a cover of Little Richard's "Lucille".[3]

It was their first original single, with their previous four singles having all been covers. An EP including the song was later released in October 1964, also entitled Here I Go Again. In the US, an album entitled Here I Go Again was released in June 1964 and was largely based on the UK album Stay with the Hollies.

The single performed well in the UK, continuing their success there, and peaked at number 4 on the Record Retailer chart.[4] It performed particularly well on the Mersey Beat chart, topping it in the final week of June 1964.[5] However, in the US, "Here I Go Again" failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 or Cash Box Top 100 charts, instead bubbling under on both.[6][7]

Reviewed in Record Mirror, "Here I Go Again" was described as "[having] a "Just One Look" flavour, and there's a grow-on-you melody on the vibrant beat ballad. Maybe not as powerful as their last few, but a huge hit on their name".[8]

Track listings

7": Parlophone / R 5137

  1. "Here I Go Again" – 2:19
  2. "Baby That's All" – 2:16

7": Imperial / 66044 (US)

  1. "Here I Go Again" – 2:17
  2. "Lucille" – 2:20

Charts

Chart (1964) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] 24
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)[10] 5
Sweden (Kvällstoppen)[11] 17
Sweden (Tio i Topp) 8
UK Disc Top 30[12] 3
UK Melody Maker Top 50[13] 3
UK Mersey Beat Top 20[5] 1
UK New Musical Express Top 30[14] 4
UK Record Retailer Top 50[4] 4
US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 (Billboard)[6] 107
US Cash Box Looking Ahead[7] 118

References

  1. ^ a b Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years: The Complete Hollies April 1963 – October 1968 (booklet). Parlophone. 2011. 5099909624221.
  2. ^ "The Hollies - Here I Go Again". 45cat. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  3. ^ "The Hollies - Here I Go Again". 45cat. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b "HOLLIES | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  5. ^ a b Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine different magazine charts!". Dave McAleer's website. Archived from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  6. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1992). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100, 1959–1985. Record Research. ISBN 0-89820-082-2.
  7. ^ a b "Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Looking Ahead – Week ending August 22, 1964". Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Hollies – An original" (PDF). Record Mirror. 9 May 1964. p. 13. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  9. ^ Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  10. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search lever". www.flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  11. ^ Hallberg, Eric (1993). Kvällstoppen i P3 (1st ed.). Sweden: Drift Musik. ISBN 91-630-2140-4.
  12. ^ "Disc's Top Thirty". Disc. 13 June 1964.
  13. ^ "National Chart". Melody Maker. 13 June 1964. p. 2.
  14. ^ "NME Top Thirty". New Musical Express. 19 June 1964.