Herman's Hermits [Import]

Herman's Hermits | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Disky Records
• ASIN: B00004T88A
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #317,362 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm Into Something Good

2. Silhouettes

3. Wonderful World

4. Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter

5. I'm Henry The VIII, I Am

6. Just A Little Bit Better

7. A Must To Avoid

8. This Door Swings Both Ways

9. Dandy

10. No Milk Today

11. East West

12. There's A Kind Of Hush

13. I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving

14. Sleepy Joe

15. Sunshine Girl

16. Something Is Hapening

17. My Sentimental Friend

18. Years May Come, Years May Go

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection of original hits, August 5, 2000

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Olaf Owre (Finnsnes, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Herman's Hermits (Audio CD)

This 18-track CD on the Dutch Disky label contains the original Herman's Hermits' hits in chronological order. The title «Best Of The 60's» is actually slightly inaccurate. The CD gives you the group's biggest US hits from the 1964-67 period, but also includes their run of hits from 1968 to 1970, when they proved far more successful in the UK and Europe than in America. A little minus for a rather cheap CD-insert and lack of liner notes, but this is still an excellent hit collection!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The "Fluffier" Side Of The British Invasion, September 21, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Herman's Hermits (Audio CD)

Among the many elements of the notorious "British Invasion" which got into full steam in 1964, the most famous, of course, would be The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Then would follow groups such as The Animals, Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, and Gerry & The Pacemakers. Among the "fluffier" artists would be the likes of Freddie & The Dreamers and Herman's Hermits.

But even though their music was not in the same class as some of the major groups from the U.K., they still managed to chalk up 19 Billboard Pop Hot 100 hits from 1964 to 1968 for the MGM label.

On this offering from Disky of Holland, combined with their Original Hits release in their basic series, you get 17 of those 19 hits, although most are repeated on the two volumes. What the Original Hits album has hat is not included here are: Can't You Hear My Heartbeat? (# 2 in early 1965 and their second North American hit; Listen People (# 3 in spring 1966); and Leaning On The Lamp Post (# 9 in May 1966 from their movie Hold On!).

There are also three in this volume not included in the other Disky release: This Door Swings Both Ways (# 12 in August 1966); East West (# 27 in December 1966); and I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving (# 22 in early 1968 and their second-last hit just before Sleepy Joe).

Both contain four tracks that were not hits in North America, although they may well have been in the U.K.: Sunshine Girl; Years May Come, Years May Go; Something Is Happening; and My Sentimental Friend. Neither release contains any of the North American B-sides. The two hits not included in either volume are: Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt), which reached # 18 in July 1967; and Museum (# 39 in September 1967 and written by Donovan).

Unlike the other volume, which has a page of liner notes, this has none. The sound quality on both is good.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Into Something Good, April 14, 2001

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Nadav Har'El (Haifa Israel) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Herman's Hermits (Audio CD)

If you ask a random person on the street if they've ever heard of the group "Herman's Hermits" they would look at you baffled and say no. But the British 60s group actually has a number of very well-known songs. "No Milk Today" and "There's a Kind of Hush" are very well-known 60s masterpieces that are still played on some radio stations today. "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" is another masterpiece (in my opinion), albeit less well-known. "Wonderful World" is also well-known, and most other songs on this CD are fun to listen to. "I'm Henry the VIII, I Am" is a really amusing song. In short, this is a very good cd...I would recommend it to anybody who likes 60s music.