Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
1972 single by the Hollies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" (also titled "Long Cool Woman" or "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)") is a song written by Allan Clarke, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, and performed by the British rock group the Hollies. In an interview with Johnnie Walker on BBC Radio 2 on Sounds of the 70s in April 2023, Clarke said it had been written by himself and Cook. Cook had a long-standing agreement with Greenaway that any songs written by one of them should be credited to both.
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Single by the Hollies | ||||
from the album Distant Light | ||||
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Released | 17 April 1972[1] | |||
Recorded | 16–30 July 1971[2] | |||
Studio | AIR, London[2] | |||
Genre | Swamp rock | |||
Length | 3:15 | |||
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Originally appearing on the album Distant Light, it was released as a single on 17 April 1972 (on Parlophone in the United Kingdom),[1] selling 2 million copies worldwide, including 1.5 million in the United States.[3] It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1972 for two weeks, behind Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)". Billboard ranked it as the No. 24 song for 1972.