Herman's Hermits
LEAD SINGER----PETER NOONE
I AM HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM , HENRY
Peter Noone lead singer for the Hermits recently had his own TV show on Vh_1 called "My Generation " and is presently touring with Davy Jones and Bobby Sherman. Peter has a new cd out which you can purchase from his website.Peter was trully the heart of rock'n roll and still till this day is a great act to see!
MRS BROWN , YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER !!
THERE IS A KIND OF A HUSH ALL OVER THE WORLD!!
By being so cheerful, playful, clean, charming, friendly, and cute, they epitomized perfectly the "British Invasion" of 1964-1967. They were British to a fault. Even their musical style, unlike other groups (such as the Rolling Stones and The Beatles), was based equally, if not more so, on British pop music, rather than American rhythm & blues. The Hermits owed at least as great a musical debt to English music hall, and to vaudeville. On stage Herman often acted more like a corny vaudevillian than the lead singer in a rock band. Two of their biggest hits, "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" and "I'm Henry the VIII, I am" were new arrangements of old pub songs. They achieved seven Top Ten singles in 1965, and nine consecutive Top Ten singles in 65-66. Altogether, they had eleven singles reach the Top Ten and fifteen singles reach the Top Twenty between October 1964 and June 1967. Fifteen hits in thirty-two months, or approximately one every eight weeks!
Practically every song that Herman's Hermits recorded reflected teen-age life. Listen to teen-age love, teen-age desires, and teen-age frustrations in "I'm Into Something Good" and "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat". Pretty ballads like "There's A Kind of Hush" were particularly suited to Herman's soft voice and and the Hermits sparse instrumental accompaniment. Their bright and cheerful outlook on life, being young and all, is reflected in songs like "This Door Swings Both Ways" and "Just a Little Bit Better".
It isn't often that a greatest hits package is so chock full of hits. It isn't often that one group records so many hits, especially in such a short period of time.
Hermans Hermits Links
Peter Noone's Page - http://members.aol.com/noonepage/pnfan1.htm
Official page - http://www.peternoone.com
E-mail peter noone - NO.ONE@prodigy.net
Above is Peter Noone New Cd Which is availbe to order from his Homepage . It includes many of hit songs which he has recorded in concert !!
Above is one of my favorite albums by Herman Hermits which includes such songs as :
There is a kind of Hush ,Saturday's Child, No Milk Today, Gsalight Street , East-West,
Dandy and my all time favorite song : Jezebel.plus many more great songs!!!
Now Available from Peter Nonne's website!
Information
Formed in Manchester England in 1964. Named after a cartoon charactor in TV's "The Bullwinkle Show" . Consisted of Peter "Herman" Noone,Derek Leckenby , Keith Hopwood, Karl Green and Barry Whitman. The group was first called The Heartbeats. Noone left the group in 1972 to continue his career with his solo act. The group had 18 top 40 Billboard hits. The groups first hit was in 11/14/64 with the song I'm Into Something Good. In 1965 the group out sold the Beatles and sold seventeen million records between 1964 and 1967. The group recorded on MGM record label and had serveral hit albums and many many hit singles and even went on to a small movie career with their movie called HOLD ON. In the later part of the sixties the group continued on with such hits as Kind of A Hush/ No Milk today /Dandy/ and Listen People . The band broke up in the early sevenites however the group tries to tour without peter which by the way I was able to see one of these shows in a resturant in The Empire State Building in NYC. They were a good tour group however they did not conitinue on with this life. Peter Noone however who was the lead singer did continue with his solo career and has some of his solo cd's available at his website and also still continues to tour the world!!
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