Penned, like most of the album, by the Hollies' Clarke-Hicks-Nash songwriting triumvirate.
Apparently the Hollies provided the instrumental backing tracks for most of the album as well, although Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones are rumoured to be in there too.
Oh, and because I love you all more than food, here's the Hollies themselves doing the song, as it turned up a year later as the b-side to their classic "Carrie-Anne."
I actually got a copy of that 45 (from the fabulous Sam Goody record store in Paramus NJ) practically the day it came out, and if truth be told I played "Signs" more often than I played the hit (estimable as it was); when people talk about great double-sided singles this one really should get props. 😎
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The magic of a great B Side!
I prefer the Hollies recording. They sound more engaged.
Back in the sixties and early seventies that Sam Goody's in Paramus was a great record store.
Captain Al
for me there are echoes of Carrie Ann heard in this song too especially the Everly's version.
rs
The psychedelic ending/fadeout on the Hollies version is to die for. 😎
Hollies and Searchers don't get the respect they deserve.
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