The British beat boom of the 1960s was firmly rooted in the Merseybeat sound of
Liverpool, but Herman's Hermits emerged from rival city Manchester to present a
cheery, clean-cut, more family-orientated alternative. It worked, too, when they
went to Number 1 in the UK (and Number 13 in the US) with their upbeat cover of
the Goffin-King song I'm Into Something Good. It was to be their only
chart-topper, although there were plenty of other hits like Can't You Hear My
Heartbeat, There's A Kind Of Hush (later covered by The Carpenters), Silhouettes
and No Milk Today; while they underl...