Herman's Hermits - There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World
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Artist: Herman's Hermits
Album: There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World + Bonus
Released: 1967 / 2001
Repertoire (REP 4849)
Genre: Rock, Pop
Full title 'There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World'. Digipak reissue of the British Invasion act's 1967 album. Includes the hits, 'There's a Kind of Hush', 'Dandy' (Ray Davies), 'East West' and 'No Milk Today' (both penned by Graham Gouldman who went on to co-found 10CC). Includes 11 bonus tracks, 'This Door Swings Both Ways', 'What Is Wrong - What Is Right', 'I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving', 'Marcel's', '(I Gotta) Dream On', 'Don't Try To Hurt Me', 'Biding My Time', 'The George And The Dragon', 'Wild Love', 'Gotta Get Away' and 'Make Me Happy'. 2001 release.
Allen Klein, who owns the release rights to the entire Herman's Hermits back catalog on US MGM, has restricted his re-issue program to one "Greatest Hits" CD on ABKCO in 1987. For a group who sold more than 50 million records during the 1960s, it's a real shame that their original albums haven't been made available on CD in the US. Last year, however, saw the German Repertoire label release "Both Sides Of Herman's Hermits" from 1966 and the "Mrs. Brown" soundtrack album from 1968, both with several bonus tracks and nice digipak covers with informative booklets. Now Repertoire has done it again, with the release of the Hermits' excellent 1967 album "There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World" plus 10 bonus tracks. Apart from the title track, which was the group's last top ten hit in the States, the original album also contained such gems as "No Milk Today" and "East West", both written by Graham Gouldman of 10cc-fame. The run of songs owes a bit to the "English whimsy" tradition of 1967, and if it hadn't been for the preconceived lightweight, teenybopper image of the group, numbers like "Rattler", "Little Miss Sorrow, Child Of Tomorrow" and the Hopwood-Leckenby penned "Gaslight Street" (the Hermits' own "Penny Lane") might have gathered cult status. Most noteworthy among the bonus tracks are the group's great rendition of "I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving", a Tamla-Motownish number also covered by The Foundations at the time, and the Hopwood-Gouldman-Noone-Lisberg collaboration, "Marcel's", for the first time available on CD. This is an excellent CD album!
Track List:
1. There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
2. East West
3. You Won't Be Leaving
4. Saturday's Child
5. If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'
6. No Milk Today
7. Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow
8. Gaslight Street
9. Rattler
10. Dandy
11. Jezebel
12. This Door Swings Both Ways
13. What Is Wrong, What Is Right
14. I Can Take or Leave Your Loving
15. Marcel's
16. I Gotta Dream On
17. Don't Try to Hurt Me
18. Bidin' My Time
19. George and the Dragon
20. Wild Love
21. Gotta Get Away
22. Make Me Happy
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