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January 6, 2009

I'm Henry VIII, I Am - Herman's Hermits

NOTE: Original vid was taken down by YouTube, sorry.

4 comments:

Alison said...: Oh I liked Hermans Hermits even though I was barely out of the cradle, but this song I have never heard it before , well I had to go and search it on Wiki and saw it was only released ( and got to Number 1 ) in the US and not Britain , oh and the original song was done in 1911 so my Grandma was just out the cradle then .
catchy tune and I love that Northern accent ; ); January 7, 2009 at 5:51 AM
Alison said...: Listening to this song again , it sounds more like they sing with a cockney accent even though they were from Manchester !? maybe just for this particular tune; January 7, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Mike said...: I guess I wasn't much more than eight or nine when they were hitting the US airwaves. My big sister liked 'em, I know.

I remember "Battle of the Bands" on the radio; one night it might be The Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones, or Herman's Hermits vs. Paul Revere and the Raiders.

I think there's a vid of "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" in here, but who knows if it's still valid?

My British friend elle could differentiate between the various types of accents, and while I knew about cockney (Liza Doolittle), even cockney rhyming slang, I hadn't realized there were so many different accents in England.

Elle was from Oxford, and her lilt was sweet, but she could talk "posh" (like the royals, I guess) as well as some other accents. She even had one "Upstairs Maid", and while I couldn't have known the way she spoke, I knew what she was referencing, the old TV show "Upstairs, Downstairs", not that I ever watched it much.

What accent would you call how Ozzie Osbourne speaks?

Mumbo-jumbo? rofl

He's a walkin' poster child for "Don't Do Drugs", y'know?; January 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Mike said...: Something else I just now remember: There was some to-do in one of my sister's teen magazines, something about Peter Noone still having one of his baby teeth.

For some reason, I have it in my head as a memory that they raffled that tooth off for charity.; January 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM