Herman's Hermits on Tour

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Their Second Album! Herman's Hermits on Tour
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Studio album by
Herman's Hermits
ReleasedJune 1965
StudioKingsway Recording Studio, London
Genre
Label MGM (US/Canada)
Producer Mickie Most
Herman's Hermits American chronology
Introducing Herman's Hermits
(1965)		Their Second Album! Herman's Hermits on Tour
(1965)		 When the Boys Meet the Girls
(1966)
Singles from Herman's Hermits on Tour
  1. "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat"
    Released: January 1965
  2. "Silhouettes"
    Released: March 1965
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Herman's Hermits on Tour (also called Their Second Album! Herman's Hermits on Tour) is the second album released in the US and Canada by MGM Records for the band Herman's Hermits. It was released in 1965. The cover drawing was by Jim Spanfeller and the design was credited to Michael Malatak.

Contents

Recpetion

Billboard magazine reviewed the album saying "The current hot British group performs numbers they offered during their recent concert tour of the U.S. Included are their singles hits", noting that "In addition to the rockers, Herman displays much warmth sensitive reading of 'The End of the World'." [2]

Joe Viglione on AllMusic called the album a "highly listenable album created in a day when albums were secondary to hits." In his long review he would add that "The genius of Mickey Most is that he packs the punch into all these songs in a solitary moment - every one of them clocks in at three minutes and under. "Silhouettes" is three seconds shy of two minutes, "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" an amazingly succinct one minute and 49 seconds. These are short little pop blasts - you could really fit the 26 minutes on one side of a long-player - and the young Peter Noone brings each melody home." [1]

Chart performance

Billboard also called the album a "A chart buster LP", and that it was. On the Billboard Top LP's it peaked at No. 2 during a thirty-nine-week run on the chart. [3] The album debuted on the Cashbox Top 100 Albums in the issue dated 19 June, 1965, peaking at No. 2 during a thirty-four-week run on the chart. [4]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" (John Carter, Ken Lewis) – 2:15
  2. "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" (Fred Murray, R. P. Weston) – 1:49
  3. "The End of the World" (Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee) – 2:57
  4. "For Your Love" (Graham Gouldman) – 2:21
  5. "(I Gotta) Dream On" (Gary Gordon) – 2:04
  6. "Don't Try to Hurt Me" (Keith Hopwood) – 2:04

Side 2

  1. "Silhouettes" (Bob Crewe, Frank Slay) – 1:57
  2. "Heartbeat" (Bob Montgomery, Norman Petty) – 2:45
  3. "I'll Never Dance Again" (Barry Mann, Mike Anthony) – 3:00
  4. "Tell Me Baby" (Hopwood, Derek Leckenby) – 2:12
  5. "Traveling Light" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett) – 2:31

Personnel

Herman's Hermits

Technical

References

  1. 1 2 "Herman's Hermits on Tour – AllMusic Review". AllMusic .
  2. ↑ Billboard magazine, "Album Reviews" page 56, June 12 1965
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 67. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 164. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
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