Herman's Hermits
No Milk Today
- Statistieken
- 16 weken
- 1 piekpositie
- 513 punten
- 1966
Artiestinformatie
| Land | Verenigd Koninkrijk |
|---|
Herman's Hermits is een Britse popgroep, opgericht in 1963 in Manchester. Oorspronkelijk heette de groep Herman & The Hermits. De groep speelde simpele maar aanstekelijke, vrolijke, melancholieke muziek, waarmee veel succes werd geoogst. Een van de bekendste nummers van de groep was No Milk Today, dat werd geschreven door Graham Gouldman van 10cc.
In hun glorietijd was de samenstelling van de groep:
Herman (echte naam: Peter Noone), zang
Derek Leckenby, gitaar
Keith Hopwood, gitaar
Karl Green, basgitaar
Barry Whitwam, drums
De manager van de groep was Mickie Most, die veel Britse artiesten onder zijn hoede had.
Herman's Hermits bereikten in 1964 de top van de Engelse hitparade met I'm into Something Good. In de VS deden ze dat zelfs twee maal: in 1965 met Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter en in hetzelfde jaar nogmaals met I'm Henry the VIII I am.
In Nederland haalden zeven platen van Herman's Hermits de Top 40. Daarvan haalden er twee de Top-10: No Milk Today (hoogste notering nr. 1) en Dandy, dat trouwens geschreven was door Ray Davies van The Kinks en ook door The Kinks op de plaat is gezet (hoogste notering nr. 3).
In 1971 viel de groep uit elkaar mede omdat Peter Noone een solocarrière wilde opstarten.
Een deel van de groep ging nog een paar jaar door en noemde zich soms 'The Hermits' en dan weer 'Herman's Hermits'. De band van de drummer Barry Whitwam bestaat nog steeds en noemt zich nu 'Herman's Hermits starring Barry Whitwam'. Ook Peter Noone treedt nog steeds op, meestal als solozanger, maar soms in een groep. Die groep heet dan Herman's Hermits.
Songtekst
No milk today, my love has gone awayThe bottle stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why
How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know the palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen
No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down
No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
As music played the faster did we dance
We felt it both at once, the start of our romance
How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen
No milk today, my love has gone away
The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down
No milk today, my love has gone away
The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why
How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen
No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Oh all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Oh all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Songinformatie
| Artiest | Herman's Hermits |
|---|---|
| A-kant | |
| Titel | No Milk Today |
| Lengte | 02'53 |
| Componist(en) | Graham Gouldman |
| Producer(s) | Mickie Most |
| B-kant | |
| Titel | My Reservation's Been Confirmed |
| Lengte | 02'47 |
| Componist(en) | Derek Leckenby & Keith Hopwood & Charles Silverman |
| Producer(s) | Mickie Most |
| Platenlabel | Columbia |
| Catalogusnr | CH 3098 |
| Hoogste positie UK | 7 |
| Hoogste positie US | 35 |
| Album | There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World |
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