Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"
Cover of the 1972 French single
Single by the Hollies
from the album Distant Light
B-side	"Cable Car" (UK) "Look What We've Got" (US)
Released	17 April 1972[1]
Recorded	16–30 July 1971[2]
Studio	AIR, London[2]
Genre	Swamp rock
Length	3:15
Label	Parlophone (UK) Epic (US)
Songwriter(s)	Allan Clarke Roger Cook Roger Greenaway
Producer(s)	The Hollies Ron Richards
The Hollies singles chronology
"The Baby" (1972) "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" (1972) "Magic Woman Touch" (1972)

"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.

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.