Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180017 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording reissued

Album Description
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.

Customer Reviews

Hush! - Herman's Hermits 1967 album finally available on CD!
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, go and buy it immediately!

The last decent album from Herman's Hermits with an equal number of bonus tracks
By now we are familiar with the fact that record albums from the 1960s (or earlier) were so short that when they are released again on DVD you will get either two records combined on a single disc, or the original album with bonus tracks. They took the latter approach with "There's a Kind of a Hush All Over the World," a 1967 album from Herman's Hermits, but with a couple of unusual twists. First, in addition to the original eleven tracks of the album there are another eleven bonus tracks (usually there are just two to five extra tracks with an album like this). Second, and quite strange, the eleven original tracks do not appear in their proper order at the start of this CD, which is what you would expect.

I have heard the argument that Herman's Hermits were to Great Britain what the Monkees were to the United States, and this fourth album could be the best evidence for fostering such a comparison. After all, "Saturday's Child" by a pre-Bread David Gates was recorded by the Pre Fab Four as well, and then you have "If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'", which was written by the team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who wrote the "(Theme From) The Monkees" along with their hits "The Last Train to Clarksville," "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone," and "I Want to Be Free." Then there is the sneaky suspicion that despite the credits on the album that Peter Noone (i.e., "Herman"), is singing but the leads but that somebody other than the Hermits are playing the instruments.

This was rally the last successful album for the group, the last one that went gold and which made it to #13 on the Billboard album chart. As was often the case in those days the album follows up on a hit single, in this case the title track, which went all the way to #4. But there two previous singles, "Dandy" (#5), which was written by Ray Davies of the Kinks, and "East West" (#27) are here, as well as another song that charted in "No Milk Today" (#35). But some of the other songs are of interest as well. Bruce Woodley of the Seekers contributed both "Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow" and "Rattler," a pair of songs that show Noone could have been part of the British folk scene without much problem. The one original track by the group, "Gaslite Street," is in a similar mode. "Jezebel" is the song that stands out, because it is a hard rocker that stands out like a sore thumb, but is better than you would think.

This reissue from Repertoire, in addition to be remastered, doubles the number of tracks by adding the A and B sides of a couple of single, including "I Can Take or Leave Your Loving" (#22), some assorted album cuts, and four tracks off the the "Hold On!" album released in the U.S., "The George and the Dragon," "Wild Love," "Gotta Get Away," and "Make Me Happy." The middle pair of that quartet are also more in the rock mode than we are used to hearing from Noone and the boys, but the bonus song that you will do the big double-take over is "Biding My Time," which is actually a Gershwin tune. The original album by itself is at least a solid four, and these bonus tunes are worth another star. But then fans of the Hermits are probably just happy that the original albums are all out on CD.

Finally, if you want to program the first eleven tracks in the correct order, then this is what you need to program into your CD player: (1) "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)"; (4) "Saturday's Child"; (5) "If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'"; (3) "You Won't Be Leaving"; (10) "Dandy"; (11) "Jezebel"; (6) "No Milk Today"; (7) "Little Miss Sorrow, Child Of Tomorrow": (8) "Gaslight Street"; (9) "Rattler"; and (2) "East West."

A Sixties Gem from Herman's Hermits
This record is an example of British Beat Music from the mid to late sixties at its best. Herman's Hermits typified a sound of that era that was very melodic, heavy on rhythmic guitars, with focus on delightful harmonies and impeccable arrangements (see Hollies, Tremeloes, Mindbenders etc.). All songs were originals, except for the frantic "Jezebel", and were written by the top professional songwriters of that era - G. Gouldman, Stephens-Reed, Boyce-Hart,T.Hazzard, R. Davies. What makes this record outstanding is not only the craft of the tunesmiths involved, but the marvelous arrangements. Just listen to the tasteful arrangement in "No milk today", a minor scale guitar intro followed by hard pounding bass and drums, and all the while Peter Noone's voice is counterpointed by exquisite harmonies, and somewhere in the background and the bridge some stirring strings and bells. Even the lyrics are intelligent, and it is a minor masterpiece. All the songs are terrific. The original album can very well stand up on its own, and adding the bonus tracks diffuses the unity of sound of the original. This record was from the later, "British",period of Herman's Hermits, after they stopped making American covers. It was also a time when melody had its last breath, and bands started turning psychedelic, including the Beatles. And then we had glitter rock, soft rock, hard rock, disco, new wave, ..., rap, hip hop. Hey, what happened to pitch, melody and harmony? Give me back the Fab Four.