I'll be getting this! Many tracks being released in stereo for the first time.

And looks who involved:
compiled by Ron Fermanek
mastering Mark Mathews
liner notes Andrew Sandoval

You know this is going to be a winner! (Even has Jimmy Page featured as session musician.)

John Paul Jones says that "No Milk Today" featured John McLaughlin on guitar.

Rick A.

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Added by Linda:

Description
2-CD DigiPac (6-plated) with 140-page booklet, 66 tracks. Total playing time approx. 172 minutes.

•Herman's Hermits were one of the most successful artists of the beat music revolution.
•First comprehensive audio documentation covering their entire career.

•Classic recordings, demos, first time true stereo mixes and session ephemera.
•Considerably comprehensive booklet with liner notes, biographies, photos, and Herman's Hermits discography.

In a recording career which began in 1964 and spanned seven hectic years, Herman's Hermits registered more than 30 worldwide chart entries. Led by vocalist, Peter Noone, Herman's Hermits became one of the most consistently successful artists of the beat music revolution. Although hugely popular in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Holland, Australia, Japan and the Philippines, their legacy has never been fully documented until now.

This compilation produced and compiled by respected Grammy nominated producer Ron Furmanek gathers together more than 60 of Herman's Hermits' classic recordings, alongside demos, first time true stereo mixes and session ephemera making this a one-of-a-kind audio anthology.

Among the highlights are I'm Into Something Good, Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter, Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, Wonderful World, Just A Little Bit Better, Listen People, A Must To Avoid, Hold On!, Leaning On A Lamp Post, This Door Swings Both Ways, Dandy, No Milk Today, East-West, There's A Kind Of Hush, Museum, I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving, Sleepy Joe, Sunshine Girl, My Sentimental Friend and Something's Happening.

Presented in a digipac format, this collection features all the usual high standard Bear Family trademarks; a 104-page bookl...

Tracklist
CD1:
1 Only Last Night (Feb 1964 Demo)
2 I’m Into Something Good
3 Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter
4 Kansas City Loving
5 Sea Cruise
6 Walkin’ With My Angel
7 Show Me Girl
8 I Understand (Just How You Feel)
9 Mother-In-Law
10 Your Hand In Mine
11 Thinkin' Of You
12 Wonderful World
13 Just A Little Bit Better
14 Hold On!
15 Leaning On The Lamp Post
16 A Must To Avoid
17 My Reservation’s Been Confirmed
18 The Story Of My Life
19 There’s A Kind Of Hush
20 Saturday's Child
21 If You’re Thinkin' What I’m Thinkin'
22 You Won’t Be Leaving
23 Dandy
24 Jezebel
25 No Milk Today
26 Little Miss Sorrow, Child Of Tomorro
27 Gaslite Street
28 Rattler
29 East West
30 What Is Right - What Is Wrong
31 Mum & Dad
32 My Sentimental Friend
33 Years May Come, Years May Go

CD2:
1 Thinkin' Of You (Feb 1964 Demo)
2 Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat
3 I’m Henry VIII, I Am
4 The End Of The World
5 For Your Love
6 I Gotta Dream On
7 Don’t Try To Hurt Me
8 Silhouettes
9 I’ll Never Dance Again
10 Tell Me Baby
11 Listen People
12 Bus Stop
13 Little Boy Sad
14 This Door Swings Both Ways
15 Museum
16 Upstairs Downstairs
17 Busy Line
18 Moonshine Man
19 Green Street Green
20 Don’t Go Out Into The Rain (You’re Gonna Melt)
21 I Call Out Her Name
22 The London Look
23 The Colder It Gets
24 A Year Ago Today
25 I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving
26 Sleepy Joe
27 Just One Girl
28 Sunshine Girl
29 Something's Happening
30 Here Comes The Star
31 It’s Alright Now
32 Smile Please
33 Bet Yer Life I Do

Amazon USA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T97AGMC/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00T97AGMC/?tag=imwan-21

Looking forward to it!

I owned the vinyl LP with that cover photo when I was a little boy.

Not real interested due the very nicely done Abcko SACD (same series as the Stones catalog & the Animals Best Of)

I'm in for this.
Rare demos, plus TRUE STEREO.

this interests me.
2 discs or 3?

2 discs according to label on album cover.

Ah, it's great to see this with this cover. I can't wait. The original MGM release, with this cover, was one of my first albums ever. Of course, there were only 1/6 as many songs. I wonder if Bear Family will include the Gloria Stavers (16 Magazine) original liner notes.

Bear Family has the track listing up.

I wonder if they re-mixed these tracks from the multi-tracks - I wouldn't be surprised. I never owned any of the Hermits albums in stereo, so I don't know what they sounded like.

That cover reminded me that this was the first LP I ever owned, and I dropped the record the first day I owned, causing it to crack along the edge. Still playable, but not the first track on each side. I've been waiting for those stereo mixes, and hopefully the version of "Leaning on the Lamppost" is the one I remember from the radio, not the one on the current best-of....

https://www.bear-family.com/herman-s-he ... -2-cd.html

a little pricey, i must say.

Sadly to say, for Bear Family that's cheap. While not dicey like Rhino Handmade (they don't reissue "limited editions" at 1/4 the price 5 years later like Rhino does), they're pricing is similar-worse.

Bump: Amazon pre-order links are now in the first post, and the tracklist has been brought in-house.


My Bear Family rule of thumb -- if you can bear (no pun intended) to wait, Amazon third party sellers will have better prices than the Bear Family site itself. The risk here is that BF's titles tend to go out of print quickly.

(And somehow I never expected to see Geff in a Herman's Hermits thread.)

I bought the USA LP with that cover when I was a pre-teen in the early 60's.

I stayed with bubblegum through the first couple Monkees, Tommy James & the Buddah stuff. (Until about 10 YO)

Bump: Changed the thread title to reflect the new general release date, which is April 7th.

I'm in for this one.

Amazon USA pre-order price has dropped by $6 and is now better than Bear Family's own price:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T97AGMC/?tag=imwan-20

66 tracks is probably 3/4ths of everything they ever recorded.

The Bear family releases that go OOP quickly are the big box sets.

Darryl

Just writing to let you all know that this is an absolutely fantastic production--whether you're a Herman's Hermits fan or not. The sound quality far surpasses any compilation or reissue previously/currently on the market. The packaging is beautifully done. This is the definitive collection. Remixed in stereo, to perfection, by the great Ron Furmanek. If you want to hear this British Invasion band's recorded music at it's best, this is the ticket.

I have been playing this for the past week, non-stop in my car. I totally agree with the above post.