Herman's Hermits resources and references I've found on the WWW:

BIOGRAPHICAL / HISTORICAL:

• Peter Noone's fantastic HermansHermits.com site, launched in 2000.
• Peter Noone's Solo Site.
• An excellent Herman's Hermits biography is found in the online pages of Vernon Joynson's book The Tapestry of Delights. You'll find a separate entry for Peter Noone here, too.
• The group is mentioned in Saki's Capsule History Of Britpop.
• Remember Andy White? He played with The Beatles during their first professional recording session, and he played with Herman's Hermits, too. If you can find his now-missing page, please email me.
• Presenting Strawberry Recording Studios, where Herman's Hermits and The Mindbenders once recorded demo tapes. There are some nice historical tidbits on this page.
• HH is covered on the Sixties Britpop Culture page.
• As famous Mancunians, HH is covered on the Virtual Manchester pages. The linked article is about the city's pop music history.
• A Herman's Hermits Biography, written in German.

THE RECORDS / THE SONGS:

• HH was nominated for three Grammys in 1965. "Best New Artist," "Best Performance by a Vocal Group" for Mrs. Brown..., and "Best Contemporary (Rock & Roll) Performance By a Group (Vocal or Instrumental)," also for Mrs. Brown.
• Graham Gouldman was involved with Peter and the Hermits in the 1960s & 70s. Graham wrote such gems as No Milk Today and Listen People. Here's a Graham Gouldman Discography, including notes to indicate his playing on other folks' projects.
• Did he or didn't he? Was it Jimmy Page who played guitar on early Herman's Hermits recordings? If you can find any documentation on the Web, please email the link to me.
• Collins Crapo's Herman's Hermits Page mostly contains reviews of a HH Greatest Hits CD.
• Gerry Goffin & Carole King wrote the Hermits' first hit, I'm Into Something Good.
• No Milk Today made a list of Songs About Food.
• You can look for original Herman's Hermits vinyl LPs and 7" singles at these sites: California Albums | Golden Apple Comics | Hot Platters | In Your Ear | Krohn's Boulevard Records | Last Vestige | Midnight Records | Millennium Records | Stardust Classic | Time Warp Record Store | Vinyl Vendors | Vinyl Vinyl and more Vinyl | Whirlin' Disc | World Wide Wax.

MISCELLANEOUS:

• The Internet Movie Database entry for Peter Noone, which lists his many film and TV credits.
• Original Hermits guitarist Keith Hopwood currently runs a music company called Pluto Music and writes music for TV, film, and animation. Projects include Roald Dahl's "The B.F.G." and "Wind in the Willows," both of which have been shown around the world. Another recent project was Terry Pratchett's "Discworld."
• Here's the TV Motion Picture Database review of the 1966 Herman's Hermits film Hold On! You may need to define a user name and password (it's free) to get at this page.
• See a list of Herman's Hermits movies and others on the Rock and Roll Movies page. Look on the 1960s list, of course.
• Here's trivia for you: The grandmother of the Liverpool band Cast used to tailor suits for Herman's Hermits, according to an article I found, but the link has since disappeared.
• No Milk Today was one of the Top 40 songs in the Netherlands for the period of 1965-1969 according to Chart Holland (link is gone).
• In an interview with John Entwistle of The Who, he says he's writing a book that will contain a chapter on Herman's Hermits (link is gone).
• A page of Elvis Movie Trivia notes that Peter Noone recorded an interview with Elvis on the set of one of his movies in 1965 (link is gone).
• The band appeared in the film Pop Gear.
• Herman's Hermits appeared on the Hullaballoo and Ed Sullivan television shows in the 60s. Links to pages where you can buy videocassettes of them have vanished.
• Indie pop star Lois Maffeo says "Herman's Hermits are great" in this interview (link is gone).

Main

Okay, so they were a considered, even in their day, to be a bit lightweight, and weren't composers of most of the music they recorded, but a whole lot of the tunes still stand up very well today. The British Invasion group Herman's Hermits were major stars in America, scoring eleven Top Ten hits from 1964 through 1967, by which time they'd sold 40,000,000 records worldwide.

Let me know if you have anything to add or if links expire.