Hollies (1965 Album) - Love N' Flowers (Canadian Version)

Love N' Flowers (Canadian Version)

In 1967, The Hollies transferred the U.S. and Canadian rights to all new material to Epic Records. Unlike Imperial Records in the U.S., Capitol Canada had opted not to issue a version of Hollies when it was released in 1965, choosing instead to release an edited version of the almost year-old album In The Hollies Style. However, even though all of the Hollies' master rights were owned by Capitol Records' parent company, EMI, Capitol Canada decided to counterprogram against The Hollies' first Epic release, Evolution. In November 1967, one month after the release of Evolution, Capitol Canada repackaged Hollies with a "flower child" cover (a later picture of The Hollies standing amidst tree branches under a title bar with flowered wallpaper, as shown) and issued it under the name Love N' Flowers. Capitol Canada had previously released two tracks from Hollies ("Very Last Day" and "Too Many People") on the Canadian version of Bus Stop, and a third track ("Mickey's Monkey") had been included on In The Hollies Style, leaving nine tracks from the album unissued in Canada. Capitol Canada added one of the tracks that it did not use from the U.K. version of In The Hollies Style ("I Thought of You Last Night") to make up the ten songs included on Love N' Flowers.

This was the last new release in The Hollies catalog from Capitol Canada.