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Artist: Herman's Hermits
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-05-23
Music Label: Emd Int'l
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I'm Into Something Good
  2. Your Hand In Mine
  3. Show Me Girl
  4. I Know Why
  5. Silhouettes
  6. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
  7. Wonderful World
  8. Dream On Dream On
  9. Just A Little Bit Better
  10. Take Love Give Love
  11. A Must To Avoid
  12. The Man With The Cigar
  13. You Won't Be Leaving
  14. Listen People
  15. This Door Swings Both Ways
  16. For Love
  17. No Milk Today
  18. My Reservation's Been Confirmed
  19. East West
  20. What Is Wrong - What Is Right
  21. There's A Kind Of Hush
  22. Gaslite Street
  23. Museum
  24. Moonshine Man
  25. I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving
  26. Marcel's
  27. Sleepy Joe
  28. Just One Girl
Music CD 2
  1. Sunshine Girl
  2. Nobody Needs To Know
  3. Something's Happening
  4. The Most Beautiful Thing In My Life
  5. My Sentimental Friend
  6. My Lady
  7. Here Comes The Star
  8. It's Alright Now
  9. Years May Come Years May Go
  10. Smile Please
  11. Bet Yer Life I Do
  12. Searching For The Southern Sun
  13. Lady Barbara
  14. Don't Just Stand There
  15. Oh You Pretty Thing
  16. Leaning On A Lamp Post
  17. Hold On!
  18. I'm Henery The Eighth I Am
  19. The End Of The World
  20. Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
  21. I Gotta Dream On
  22. Dandy
  23. Don't Go Out Into The Rain
  24. Heartbeat
  25. For Your Love
  26. Bus Stop
  27. Wings Of Love
  28. London Look

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Free Music Review: Worth a listen
Hit: 5 Stars

If you believe the insert notes to this album, and Noone and Whitwam's websites, the Hermits were third only to The Beatles and Stones in the pantheon of British sixties pop. Well, that's not how I remember it. In terms of critical acclaim and enduring public support, The Who, The Kinks, The Hollies and The Tremeloes were up there, while the Hermits were distinctly second league. That's nothing to be ashamed of, I'm just saying let's not exaggerate. They became big stars on both sides of the pond and sold over 50 million records, so they deserve attention, but let's not pretend they scaled the musical heights - they enjoyed a brief romp in the foothills.

They had just one British number 1. That was their first release, I'm Into Something Good. This Goffin/King song is very characteristic of the time, with its teen-love lyrics and catchy tune, and remains the trademark Hermits song. The other tracks are a mixed bunch. The arrangement and harmony singing on Years May Come, Years May Go are embarrassingly trite. Equally ludicrous are the ill-judged attempts to scramble onto the social comment bandwagon, with The Man With The Cigar and Here Comes the Star. But when they stick to tuneful, unpretentious pop, like I'm Into Something Good and Sunshine girl, they are well worth a listen. Track 8, disk 1 (Dream On Dream On) and track 21, disk 2 (I Gotta Dream On) is actually the same, the former being a remastered version. The Noone 1971 solo, Oh You Pretty Thing is interesting because it features the song's writer, David Bowie, on piano.

They were never Herman's Happy Hermits, as a look at the rival websites of Noone and Whitwam will testify. The Hermits were talented and wanted to progress musically. Instead, they remained the backing to Noone's frothy pop. Briefly, in the sixties, they billed themselves as Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits, betraying the behind-the-scenes disputes. Today, groups headed by Noone and Whitwam still appear separately and very confusingly as rival Herman's Hermits.

Peter Noone (Herman) was a child star of a British soap set in his native Manchester. His was a cheeky, cheerful, chirpy appeal, and any picture of him not grinning broadly would have been dismissed as a forgery. Last I heard, he was in a daytime soap stateside, and still going strong.

It was in Manchester that I saw actor Trevor Peacock in Waiting For Godot and it comes as quite a shock to learn that he wrote the Herman's hit Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter. This was one of a trio of quaintly British novelty songs - along with Leaning on a Lampost and I'm Henery the Eighth I Am - that were the mainstay of their US success but were quite rightly never released as singles in the UK. There, they would have been seen as old material that had already been performed better by other artists. George Formby fans in particular will consider the Herman's version of Lampost as nothing short of sacrilege.

It was another irritatingly cheerful Mancunian with a permanent grin and limited singing talent, Davey Jones of The Monkees, who spelled the end of the Hermits' US success. The market was not big enough for both of them.

Despite these negative comments, the Hermits were an essential part of the sixties scene and this is a comprehensive, good quality, good value collection of their work. So it gets 5 stars and a 'relax, enjoy it, but don't expect it to change your life' recommendation.

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Massively popular 60's beat combo, the Hermits were commercially only a couple of rungs below the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. They had 20 singles in the Top 40 in England and America between 1964 and 1970. This comprehensive 2 CD Collection features 'I'm Into Something Good', 'My Sentimental Friend', 'A Must To Avoid', 'No Milk Today', 'Sunshine Girl' & 'Silhouettes' to name a few. EMI Gold. 2005.

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