Hi Ho Silver Lining is a rock song written by Scott English and Larry Weiss. It was first released as a March 1967 single by The Attack, and a few days later by Jeff Beck, whose version became a top 20 hit in the UK that year and again on a 1972 reissue, while The Attack's version did not chart. Beck's recording runs 2 minutes 53 seconds and sits in the psychedelic pop/bubblegum pop vein; it was produced by Mickie Most, recorded January 19, 1967 at De Lane Lea Studios in London, and released on Columbia DB 8151. The song did not appear on Beck's 1968 album Truth but was added as a bonus track on the 2006 reissue. In the United States, Beck's single peaked at No. 123 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. The tune is popular with British football fans, who often substitute the club name for "silver lining" in the chorus, with teams such as Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday and Wolverhampton Wanderers among those chanted. A well known background anecdote is that Mickie Most urged English and Weiss to finish the verses, after which Most supposedly liked a parody lyric about flies in pea soup. The Beck version features Jeff Beck on guitar, with John Paul Jones on bass, Clem Cattini on drums, and Rod Stewart on backing vocals.
