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Herman’s Hermits - There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World (1967/2001)

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1 	There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World 	2:32
2 	East-West 	2:57
3 	You Won't Be Leaving 	2:15
4 	Saturday's Child 	2:35
5 	If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' 	2:23
6 	No Milk Today 	2:56
7 	Little Miss Sorrow, Child Of Tomorrow 	2:30
8 	Gaslight Street 	2:26
9 	Rattler 	3:11
10 	Dandy 	1:58
11 	Jezebel 	3:18
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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 	The George And The Dragon 	
20 	Wild Love 	
21 	Gotta Get Away 	
22 	Make Me Happy

Karl Green - Bass, Vocals
Keith Hopwood - Guitar
Derek Leckenby - Guitar, Vocals
Peter Noone - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Barry Whitwam – Drums

 

The general impression is that Herman's Hermits were a singles band, but this 11-song LP (issued in England by EMI-Columbia and in America on MGM Records) shows the group to be rather more substantial than that -- not only does it show off elements of their sound that never made it onto their singles, but such attributes as their own songwriting, for which they seldom received any regard. There's a Kind of a Hush All Over the World reached number 11 in the United States and made the British Top Ten in the early months of 1967, and that was not entirely on the strength of the hits that were included. "No Milk Today," "Dandy," and "East West" were selling points, to be sure, along with the title cut, but the other tracks also proved very appealing -- "Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow" and "Rattler," both authored by Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, show off a folkier side of the group (and it's a pity they didn't explore it further), while the ethereal "Gaslite Street," an original by guitarists Derek Leckenby and Keith Hopwood, is pretty and memorable enough to stand alongside anything here, and "Jezebel" is a hard-rocking number totally out of character for this group, with an edge to Peter Noone's singing and the playing that's very close to garage punk of the period in spirit, and includes a dash of flamenco-style guitar, a beat lifted from Henry Mancini's "Theme from Peter Gunn," and modulations right out of the Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown standard "Temptation." All of these elements, in the singing, composition, and performance, show off a group that was not only greater than its reputation, but also more than the obvious sum of its parts -- though they're usually associated with the British Invasion, the spirit of There's a Kind of a Hush (All Over the World) is equally close to that of the Monkees circa 1967, and closer to them than to anything the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and others were doing in 1967. Indeed, one highlight of this album is the version of "Saturday's Child," a David Gates-authored song that had been popularized by the Monkees in late 1966; it's not only nicely sung but has an arrangement very different from that of the Monkees, featuring a lean, string-orchestra accompaniment that is similar to some of the string work on the Graham Gouldman Thing LP by Graham Gouldman, which was co-produced around the same time by Herman's Hermits' Peter Noone. [The 2001 reissue from Repertoire Records features state-of-the-art sound (which does wonders in bringing out the craftsmanship behind these songs) and adds 11 numbers to the original's 11 tracks: four single A- and B-sides, some odd EP and LP cuts, and a pair of tracks off the U.S. Hold On! album. Some of it is too cute and sweet for words, but other tracks are surprisingly good -- Keith Hopwood's "Marcel's," which has a solid beat and an aggressive guitar sound; the breezy "(I Gotta) Dream On" and "Make Me Happy"; Hopwood's "Don't Try to Hurt Me"; a tight and very effective rock adaptation of George Gershwin's "Biding My Time"; and the hard-rocking "Wild Love" and "Gotta Get Away," which all deserved exhumation and a new chance to find an audience.] ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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