Thursday, June 14, 2012

No Milk Today

Real world concerns (nothing serious -- just irksome) are preventing me from posting promised stuff today and tomorrow. Until I return on Monday, please enjoy Herman's Hermits and the great Graham Gouldman's ode to bittersweet vacations.

I thank you.

7 comments:

TMink said...

HDtracks.com is an internet company that sells high resolution digital music. You can pick up some Hermans Hermits (a 20 plus song Retrospective) there in glorious blu-ray definition (music files only.) I would not have considered that purchase prior to wandering over to this blog. Now, it is probably only a matter of time.

Thanks guys!

Trey

Voxtron said...

Graham Gouldman wrote some GREAT songs. I know all the hits, and i even bought an old solo album hoping for some more gems. Did he write any geat songs i may not know about?

JZ said...

I love this song, been looking for a stereo mix of it for ages.

Graham wrote tons of great songs, "Look Through Any Window" comes to mind, but he never did have a hit with his own band, The Mockingbirds. Go figure.

Anonymous said...

Herman's Hermits music holds up really well, in part because they or their manager were seriously good at picking covers. They also did "music hall" before the Beatles got to it, with Mrs. Brown. Respect the Hermits!

Anonymous said...

PS: they played their own instruments on recordings, says wiki

steve simels said...

Let's try this again but with the link this time.

Gouldman wrote this one, which I'm inordinately fond of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWaQyVnNZHw

I also think he's playing on most of it; the Ohio Express in the video were some bar band that Kasenetz and Katz sent out on the road to pose as the mythical group.

But still a pretty neat bubblegum song...

steve simels said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

PS: they played their own instruments on recordings, says wiki


Not always. The guitar on "Silhouettes," for example is either Jimmy Page of Big Jim Sullivan, if memory serves.