We spent last night in Clinton, Iowa at the Frontier Best Western. They had a local paper in the lobby called Clinton County Tidbits and it had an interesting article on Herman's Hermits.
They were one of my favorite groups of the sixties. As a matter of fact, Friday Peter Noone the front man of the group, was playing at Waukegan, Illinois' historical Genesee Theater along with the Grass Roots and Buckinghams. I had to choose between that and the Groundhog Day Dinner Dance.
I think that the very first album I ever bought was either the Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits or Beatles' Rubber Soul. I had to choose between the two and HH won, believe it or not, but they had more big hits on their album.
Some interesting facts:
*** The singer of the Heartbeats failed to show up at a show, and 17-year-old Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone was invited up on stage to sing a couple songs. The Manchester group invited him to join the band. The name was changed to Herman and the Hermits, but usually called just Herman's Hermits.
*** Peter changed his name to Sherman when someone mentioned that he resembled Mr. Peabody's boy on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. However, the name was misunderstood and Herman it became (you know those British accents).
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