Romany is an album by The Hollies

The Hollies

The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...

, the first not to feature distinctive, tenor-range lead singer Allan Clarke

Allan Clarke (singer)

Allan Clarke is a retired British singer who was one of the founding members of The Hollies. He retired in 1999.-Career:...

, who had left to try a solo career and was replaced by a Swedish singer with lower vocal register, Mikael Rickfors

Mikael Rickfors

Mikael Rickfors was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 4 December 1948. From 1968 he was the lead singer and bass guitarist in popular Swedish band Bamboo. The band released two singles before breaking up in 1970. Rickfors would later perform with the British rock group The Hollies for about two years....

---prompting a somewhat radical reshaping of their trademark vocal harmony style. It was also the first Hollies album to feature only one song written or co-written by lead guitarist Tony Hicks

Tony Hicks

Tony Hicks is a guitarist and singer who has been a member of the British pop group The Hollies since 1963.-Career:...

, a member of the band's two in-house songwriting teams, Clarke-Hicks-Nash

Graham Nash

Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...

 and Clarke-Hicks-Sylvester

Terry Sylvester

Terry Sylvester , was the guitarist/singer with The Escorts, The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Hollies...

. Hicks was the only member of those teams to contribute a song to the album; Rickfors was the only other band member to contribute an original composition to it. The U.S. Epic version which reached #84 on the U.S album charts,
omits the track "Lizzy and the Rainman", and has a slightly altered side one track order. "Courage of Your Convictions" was the one song that sounded most like their previous smash hit "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress", but was inexplicably never issued as a single. The cover of "Romany" shows exactly the same scene as the previous album, but in the winter time as opposed to the summer scene on Distant Light

Distant Light (Hollies album)

Distant Light is the 1971 released album by The Hollies. It was the last UK albumby the band to feature lead vocalist and founding member Allan Clarke, till the 1974 album...

.

Tracks

UK Version

Side 1

1. "Won't We Feel Good" (Leslie/Day)
2. "Touch" (Mikael Rickfors
   Mikael Rickfors
   Mikael Rickfors was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 4 December 1948. From 1968 he was the lead singer and bass guitarist in popular Swedish band Bamboo. The band released two singles before breaking up in 1970. Rickfors would later perform with the British rock group The Hollies for about two years....
   
   )
3. "Words Don't Come Easy" (Jennings)
4. "Magic Woman Touch" (Jennings / Watt-Roy)
5. "Lizzy and the Rainman" (Henley / O'Dell)
6. "Down River" (David Ackles
   David Ackles
   David Thomas Ackles was an American singer-songwriter. He recorded four albums between 1968 and 1973.Describing Ackles's style in 2003, critic Colin McElligatt wrote, "An unlikely clash of anachronistic show business and modern-day lyricism...deeply informs his recorded output...
   
   )

Side 2

1. "Slow Down" (Leslie/Day)
2. "Delaware Taggett and the Outlaw Boys" (Jennings)
3. "Jesus Was a Crossmaker" (Judee Sill
   Judee Sill
   Judee Sill was an American singer and songwriter. The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released two albums, then worked briefly as a cartoonist before dying of drug abuse in 1979.Her eponymous debut album was released in late 1971 and was followed around eighteen months...
   
   )
4. "Romany" (Jennings)
5. "Blue in the Morning" (Kenny Lynch
   Kenny Lynch
   Kenny Lynch, OBE is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s...
   
   , Tony Hicks
   Tony Hicks
   Tony Hicks is a guitarist and singer who has been a member of the British pop group The Hollies since 1963.-Career:...
   
   )
6. "Courage Of Your Convictions" (Rush/Cullers)

US Version

Side 1

1. "Magic Woman Touch" (Jennings / Watt-Roy)
2. "Touch" (Rickfors)
3. "Words Don't Come Easy" (Jennings)
4. "Won't We Feel Good" (Leslie/Day)
5. "Down River" (Ackles)

Side 2

1. "Slow Down" (Leslie/Day)
2. "Delaware Taggett and the Outlaw Boys" (Jennings)
3. "Jesus Was a Crossmaker" (Judee Sill
   Judee Sill
   Judee Sill was an American singer and songwriter. The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released two albums, then worked briefly as a cartoonist before dying of drug abuse in 1979.Her eponymous debut album was released in late 1971 and was followed around eighteen months...
   
   )
4. "Romany" (Jennings)
5. "Blue in the Morning" (Kenny Lynch
   Kenny Lynch
   Kenny Lynch, OBE is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s...
   
   , Tony Hicks
   Tony Hicks
   Tony Hicks is a guitarist and singer who has been a member of the British pop group The Hollies since 1963.-Career:...
   
   )
6. "Courage Of Your Convictions" (Rush/Cullers)

Remastered CD

The album was released on CD by EMI in 2007, featuring the (remastered) 12 tracks from the original UK release plus the following bonus tracks:

1. "The Baby" (2003 Digital Remaster)
2. "Magic Woman Touch" (Acoustic Version) (2007 Digital Remaster)
3. "Indian Girl" (2007 Digital Remaster)
4. "If It Wasn't For The Reason That I Love You"
5. "Papa Rain"
6. "Witchy Woman"
7. "Oh Granny" (Terry Sylvester Version) (2007 Digital Remaster)
8. "I Had A Dream"