Original Gold [Import]

Herman's Hermits | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 4, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Disky Records
• ASIN: B00000GAWH
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #600,814 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Im Into Something Good

2. Silhouettes

3. Wonderful World

4. A Must To Avoid

5. For Love

6. Mrs Brown Youve Got A Lovely Daughter

7. Dream On

8. Jezebel

9. You Wont Be Leaving

10. This Door Swings Both Ways

11. Just A Little Bit Better

12. Museum

13. Dont Go Out Into The Rain (Youre Going To Melt)

14. I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving

15. Listen People

16. No Milk Today

17. Theres A Kind Of Hush

18. Im Henry The VIII I Am

19. East West

20. Show Me Girl

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

30 classic songs on 2 standard jewelcases packaged in a slipcase. Disky. 1998.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, January 6, 2000

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tparker24 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Original Gold (Audio CD)

This is the real stuff, the original recordings. 45 tracks on two CDs. A great collection of Herman's Hermits. Has almost all of their hits (but missing are: Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, Dandy, Leaning on a Lampost. These 3 can be found on Their Greatest Hits, which has gotten rave reviews on Amazon).

Beware of the No Milk Today CD, because it is all re-makes, apparently made years later, and is extremely disappointing.

If you only want one Herman's Hermits CD, then this one or Their Greatest Hits are the one(s) to buy.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Right On Mother - rare Noone & Bowie collaboration now on CD, March 4, 2001

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Olaf Owre (Finnsnes, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Original Gold (Audio CD)

This 2CD-set on the Dutch Disky label, contains 30 tracks by Herman and his Hermits. Most of the group's US and UK hits from the 60's are included, as well as a few album tracks - all digitally remastered, and the sound quality is excellent. Unfortunately the tracks are in random order, and the packaging is a bit sub-standard with no liner notes and no accompanying booklet. However, with the inclusion of Peter Noone's second solo single for RAK Records, "Right On Mother", everything is forgiven! This rare David Bowie song, originally out in October 1971, appears here for the first time on CD. Peter Noone was in fact the first artist to take a David Bowie song into the charts, with his great rendition of "Oh You Pretty Thing", which reached #12 in the UK in June 1971. Bowie himself played piano on the sessions. Noone and producer Mickie Most admired Bowie's songwriting talents, and Most was hoping to persuade Bowie to write a concept album for Peter Noone, with each song linked to the next. But nothing came of it, and only two Noone-Bowie collaborations ever saw the light of day, "Oh You Pretty Thing" and "Right On Mother". A few more recordings probably lurk in the vaults of RAK/EMI. "Right On Mother" was a complex song, a real test for Peter Noone, who handled the lead vocals very well. Actually an open letter from Bowie to his mum, it described the pleasant surprise he felt at his mother's acceptance of the situation when he started living with his girlfriend Angie. The song had a hand-clapping beat and a hook chorus, and again Bowie's clumping ham-fisted piano was right up front. Strangely it failed to do the trick chartwise, and the single has later become a highly-sought collector's item. Here it is, however, for the first time in CD format. If you're a Peter Noone or David Bowie fan you'll want this double CD in your collection!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, August 3, 2003

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Diane Stauder (Lockport, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Original Gold (Audio CD)

I am a Herman's Hermits fan but was dissapointed in the CD set. Mainly because I felt that 6 songs were missing that should have been included. They are: Dandy, Saturday's Child, If You're Thinkin' What I 'm Thinkin', Little Miss Sorrow-Child of Tomorrow, Gaslight Street, and Rattler. Both CDs were only about 25 minutes long so these selections could have very easily fit on the CDs. The CD that I was looking for was called There's A Kind Of A Hush All Over The World, Herman's Hermits but there was no image on the screen. That CD has all my favorites. Some of the selections on this collection were not that good. Quality was fine.