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He said it was an E flat arrangement and had been told that it was to whet the appetite of the diner, adding drama to the occasion: Ingredients: 2 lb. steak, 2 oz. beef suet, 2 onions, 2 cup chopped celery, 2 cups sliced mushrooms, 1 lb. spinach cut into strips, 6 spring onions, 2 cups of canned and drained bean sprouts, 1/2 cup of beef boullion, 1/2 cup soy sauce, teaspoon sugar, freshly ground black pepper to taste. Method: Slice up everything you can lay your hands on. Take a huge pan and melt the suet in it for five minutes. Throw out what's left. Fry onions for five minutes. Add celery, mushrooms, spinach and bean sprouts and cook for five minutes. Push this to one side of the pan and fry your meat, boullion, soy sauce, sugar and pepper. Mix everything together and cook for another five minutes. Serve with rice. Result: This, says Herman, should be enough to feed even Disc and Music Echo's guzzling staff. But to get the authentic touch, six handmaidens should be imported for the serving. |
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So Herman has decided to step formally into the limelight at last ... (yes dear, Peter Noone IS Herman!) And he should have a hit to celebrate. Mandolins open this almost operetta-like song. Herman double-tracks through the "Viennese Waltz" chorus and manages to overcome some very trite words. The production is lush, with flowing strings and all sorts of embellishments courtesy hitmaking Mick Most. But somehow I can't help feeling sorry for the poor Hermits. Is this what they get for six years loyal service? Pensioned off without wo much as a gold watch! |
HermanHEMAN'S HERMITS have an EP collection, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter" (Columbia SEG 8440). No one will ever beat Tom Courtenay's version of the title song, but Herman injects some charm of his own into it. The rest of the disc is enjoyable and well up to Herman standards. |