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  • Audio CD (16 May 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI Gold
  • ASIN: B0008G2ESC
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Disc 1:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. I'm Into Something Good (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:34£0.69
Listen  2. Your Hand In Mine (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:00£0.69
Listen  3. Show Me Girl (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:35£0.69
Listen  4. I Know Why (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:03£0.69
Listen  5. Silhouettes (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:58£0.69
Listen  6. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:14£0.69
Listen  7. Wonderful World (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:59£0.69
Listen  8. Dream On (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:03£0.69
Listen  9. Just A Little Bit Better (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:54£0.69
Listen10. Take Love Give Love (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:53£0.69
Listen11. A Must To Avoid (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:55£0.69
Listen12. The Man With The Cigar (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:33£0.69
Listen13. You Won't Be Leaving (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:21£0.69
Listen14. Listen People (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:28£0.69
Listen15. This Door Swings Both Ways (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:08£0.69
Listen16. For Love (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:45£0.69
Listen17. No Milk Today (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:53£0.79
Listen18. My Reservation's Been Confirmed (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:48£0.69
Listen19. East West (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:00£0.69
Listen20. What Is Wrong What Is Right (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:32£0.69
Listen21. There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World) (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:35£0.69
Listen22. Gaslite Street (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:29£0.69
Listen23. Museum (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:41£0.69
Listen24. Moonshine Man (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:32£0.69
Listen25. I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:33£0.69
Listen26. Marcel's (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:54£0.69
Listen27. Sleepy Joe (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:57£0.69
Listen28. Just One Girl (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:35£0.69


Disc 2:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Sunshine Girl (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:37£0.69
Listen  2. Nobody Needs To Know (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:35£0.69
Listen  3. Something Is Happening (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 3:07£0.69
Listen  4. The Most Beautiful Thing In My Life (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:52£0.69
Listen  5. My Sentimental Friend (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 3:12£0.69
Listen  6. My Lady (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:42£0.69
Listen  7. Here Comes The Star (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 3:22£0.69
Listen  8. It's Alright Now (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:27£0.69
Listen  9. Years May Come Years May Go (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 3:37£0.69
Listen10. Smile Please (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:41£0.69
Listen11. Bet Yer Life I Do (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:36£0.69
Listen12. Searching For The Southern Sun (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:37£0.69
Listen13. Lady Barbara (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits/Peter Noone 3:40£0.69
Listen14. Don't Just Stand There (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 3:42£0.69
Listen15. Oh You Pretty ThingsPeter Noone 3:06£0.69
Listen16. Leaning On A Lamp Post (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:32£0.69
Listen17. Hold OnHerman's Hermits 2:07£0.69
Listen18. I'm Henery The Eighth I Am (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 1:51£0.69
Listen19. The End Of The World (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:58£0.69
Listen20. Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:46£0.69
Listen21. I Gotta Dream OnHerman's Hermits 2:02£0.69
Listen22. Dandy (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:00£0.69
Listen23. Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Gonna Melt) (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:13£0.69
Listen24. Heartbeat (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:49£0.69
Listen25. For Your Love (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:26£0.69
Listen26. Bus Stop (2002 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:29£0.69
Listen27. Wings of LoveHerman's Hermits 3:17£0.69
Listen28. The London Look (2003 Digital Remaster)Herman's Hermits 2:06£0.69

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One of the most readily accessible groups of the British Invasion, Herman's Hermits, led by charismatic vocalist Peter Noone, became highly successful in the mid-1960s with a sunny pop tune ("I'm Into Something Good") and lighthearted cockney-tinged ditties ("Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "I'm Henry the VIII, I Am"). While these hits are presented on this 25-track collection, THE VERY BEST also includesother gems such as "Dandy", a jaunty Kinks cover, and the buoyant "There's a Kind of Hush", making it one of finest Herman's Hermits compilations on the market.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Completeist collection - Mind the B-sides, 14 Jul 2005
By Mr. R. B. Ager "Ronald Ager" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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Although they were hardly at the cutting edge of pop Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits managed to plough a highly successful furrow with no less than 16 UK chart hits between 1965 and 1971, and even more in the USA where they were second only to The Beatles in terms of singles sales over that period.

While not exactly bubblegum their songs were on the soft and sugary side, and from a variety of sources - Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote their first hit (and only UK No 1) "I'm Into Something Good", Graham Gouldman supplied "No Milk Today" well before his 10CC days, and the British hit factory that was Geoff Stephens and Les Reed penned "There's A Kind Of Hush", subsequently covered by the Carpenters. Whatever else they were, they were hugely catchy and sing-along.

The Americans went overboard for them, and particularly liked the jokey, British music-hall stuff such as "I'm 'Enerey The Eighth, I Am" and "Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter", both No 1 hits there but largely ignored over here (in fact they weren't released as singles here - producer Mickie Most thought they were "too British"!).

This collection gives us, in chronological order, all 22 British A-sides and all the Bs as well except that for "Oh You Pretty Thing". The B-sides all fall into the Unremarkable category, with the exception of "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat", which was a hit in the US in its own right; some of them, written by the Hermits, do, however, suggest that they may have been closet rockers at heart.

Then follow the singles released only in the States, and finally five bonus tracks, including rather tame versions of famous Buddy Holly, Yardbirds and Hollies hits.

Nearly all the tracks have been digitally remastered - this helps with consistency of sound volume level if nothing else; surprisingly, only three of the tracks are in stereo.

As a complete record of the single releases of one of Britain's most successful pop groups of the 1960s, this album will not be bettered. The relatively weak B-sides mean that there's a lot of filler here, though, and I suspect that, when it comes to be played, most people will make much use of the shuffle/skip/program facility on their players.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars At least they improved, 25 Nov 2006
By Richard "Alice Collector" (Blackpool England) - See all my reviews
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The 60s were times of English covers of American songs outselling the originals and probably Earl Jean and the Cookies original had bubbled under-in spite of the Beatles covering Chains there was no demand for their records and eventually they stopped selling altogether.
It was of course damned easy to knock Hermans Hermits just on the strength of I'm into something good but Goffin & King actually wrote his follow up Show me girl.
Eventually Kenny Young wrote songs just for them and they all charted-Just a little bit better and Don't go out into the rain were a couple.
The songs written by the group can be discarded but the ones by fellow Mancunian Graham Gouldman were excellent especially No milk today.
By the time of the Monkees the Herman voice was echoed in Davy Jones,also from Manchester-both had been in Coronation Street.In fact Manchester did better in terms of No 1s than Liverpool groups when there were others by Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders and Freddie & the Dreamers though Herman's Hermits would be the most consistent through the 60s both here and in America.
Album tracks would provide a couple of other chart toppers which gave Herman a George Formby image-the Lancashire movie star and singer was unknown of in America and had passed away the year the Beatles made their first single.But Leaning on a Lampost and the music hall song from the 1910s-I'm Henery the Eighth- I am were up there as massive chart hits and as much an influence on anything else at the time.Not however issued as singles in the U K
Mrs Brown you've got a lovely daughter was though a pastiche of Noel Coward and first recorded in England by the writer Trevor Peacock.
Probably a very smart move to push Herman's Hermits into this area.
A few of the covers were,though,no improvement on the originals-Wonderful World and Silhouettes especially but This door swings both ways-a song which had totally failed for black singer Amanda Ambrose-was at least as good.
Seen in retrospect Herman's Hermits were pure High School Pop-no way were they even close to the new breed of rock star.
Though the hits ran out by the early 70s the group lived on in various forms-either the Tremblers or just the Hermits with Peter Noone at times as a solo star.
It could never happen again but in the late 80s there was a vague link of sorts when the son of the producer Mickey Most (Michael Hayes) had a group called Johnny Hates Jazz and they topped the American chart with a very Hermanesque song
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It might not be trendy but it's classic pop music, 24 Oct 2005
By Oscillator (Carluke) - See all my reviews
This is the pop music that I grew up with. Revisiting it I'm slightly suprised that I still like it so much. It is simply melodic pop with a few nods to rock. Apparently Jimmy Page features on some of these sessions which doesn't surprise me as some of the musicianship on these recordings is impeccable. I'm not sure what the actual Hermit's input was but who cares, it's the songs that count. I am perhaps over familiar with this material as, being a child of the sixties, two of my first LPs were the "Best of Herman's Hermits" and "The Most Of Herman's Hermits" (I wasn't aware of the pun on producer Mickie's name at the time). Some of the songs were, and still are, quite good. The cover of "Wonderful World" was my first introduction to this song long before I heard the Sam Cooke version so, and I know this is bizarre, for me the Hermit's version is the definitive one. Of the other tracks "Must To Avoid" and "Just A Little Bit Better" are almost power pop and the version of "Kind Of Hush" cannot be beat and is actually verging on atmospheric. Then there is Graham Gouldman's "No Milk Today" which is another Hermits classic. True there are some dodgy songs like "Sleepy Joe" and "Sunshine Girl" although the Formbyesque "Mrs Brown you've Got A Lovely Daughter" is better than I remember. The even more Formbyesque "Leaning On A Lampost" and "I'm Henry the 8th I am" (pronounced Henery) are strictly for battle hardened fans though. As the other reviews have noted this is a fairly comprehensive compilation but where's the version of "Sea Cruise" that I know so well. Ah well, you can't please everybody.

I owe this group a lot as the LPs I had featured the composers names in brackets after the songs and this fostered a lifelong interest in who wrote songs as well as who recorded them. So much so that I now get edgy if I buy CDs and it isn't immediately obvious who actually wrote the material. Anyway, at the age of eight Herman's Hermits were my favourite group and I vaguely remember keenly watching a Royal Variety Performance in order to see the group perform (probably for all of two songs). My parents bought me later singles such as "My Sentimental Friend" and "Years May Come Years May Go". Then there came the RAK singles such as "Lady Barbara" and the grittier "Bet Yer Life I Do" which, unless my memories playing tricks, had a photograph of a boat/yacht on the label. I also later bought an album by Peter Noone's band The Tremblers which I'm horrified to say I can't recall anything about.

To sum up, nostalgia aside, this is an excellent comprehensive compilation and probably all the Herman's Hermits you're ever going to need. Great value for money.
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