They needed another song to finish their next album. Lead singer and guitarist Allan Clarke suggested “Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress),” a rockabilly-noir he had co-written weeks earlier ...

But when it came to writing "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" with Allan Clarke and Roger Greenaway, Cook was trying to tap into American drinking culture — specifically, the Prohibition era.

Jimmy Johns' Super Bowl ad shows depictions of mob life in pop culture with a bit of help from the Hollies' hit "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)." In "Meet the King," actor Brad Garrett ...