Name: The Very Best Of Herman's Hermits by Herman's Hermits
Brand: Herman's Hermits
SKU: 724347732157
Price: 9.9 USD
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Volume 1

Volume 2

There are so many Herman's Hermits collections out there now -- including at least two prior "Very Best Of's" from 1980 and 2001 -- that judging the relative worth of all but a tiny handful of them is an exercise in futility; assuming that one avoids re-recordings and stays away from old remasterings (prior to the late '90s), there's going to be some similarity and overlap. That said, this double-CD set does deserve special attention, owing to the fact that it offers a whopping 56 songs in state of the art sound; encompasses every U.S. and U.K. hit single and its B-side, and augments the collection with a few important album cuts -- and all for about the same price as the domestic single-CD collection of the group's work from ABKCO Records. Casual fans may appreciate the range and breadth of this set's programming for the slightly edgier sound that creeps into their work on B-sides such as "For Love" or "My Reservation's Been Confirmed," or simply for the startlingly long chain of excellent 45's represented here. Everything for this Very Best of Herman's Hermits was chosen with the assistance of Peter Noone, and backed up with some good notes by Dave McAleer (although his fudging on the question of instrumental credits -- that "some" of the recordings have musicians other than the group members playing -- gives one pause). The whole package makes an excellent hits companion to Repertoire's expanded reissues of the group's original albums.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo

The Very Best Of Herman's Hermits

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. I'm into Something Good

2. Your Hand in Mine

3. Show Me Girl

4. I Know Why

5. Silhouettes

6. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat

7. Wonderful World

8. Dream On

9. Just a Little Bit Better

10. Take Love Give Love

11. A Must to Avoid

12. The Man with the Cigar

13. You Won't Be Leaving

14. Listen People

15. This Door Swings Both Ways

16. For Love

17. No Milk Today

18. My Reservation's Been Confirmed

19. East West

20. What Is Wrong What Is Right

21. There's a Kind of Hush (All over the World)

22. Gaslite Street

23. Museum

24. Moonshine Man

25. I Can Take or Leave Your Loving

26. Marcel's

27. Sleepy Joe

28. Just One Girl

Volume 2

1. Sunshine Girl

2. Nobody Needs to Know

3. Something Is Happening

4. The Most Beautiful Thing in My Life

5. My Sentimental Friend

6. My Lady

7. Here Comes the Star

8. It's Alright Now

9. Years May Come Years May Go

10. Smile Please

11. Bet Yer Life I Do

12. Searching for the Southern Sun

13. Lady Barbara

14. Don't Just Stand There

15. Oh You Pretty Things

16. Leaning on a Lamp Post

17. Hold On

18. I'm Henery the Eighth I Am

19. The End of the World

20. Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter

21. I Gotta Dream On

22. Dandy

23. Don't Go out into the Rain (You're Gonna Melt)

24. Heartbeat

25. For Your Love

26. Bus Stop

27. Wings of Love

28. The London Look

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