Side A:
1. Little Boy Sad
2. Story of My Life
3. Oo-ee Baby
4. Listen People
5. What is Wrong, What is Right
6. I Can Take or Leave Your Loving
Side B:
7. Marcel's
8. Biding My Time
9. Wait for Me, Here I Come
10. A Year Ago Today
11. The Colder It Gets
12. Big Ship
Side C:
13. Sleepy Joe
14. Just One Girl
15. London Look
16. Sunshine Girl
17. Nobody Needs to Know
Side D:
18. Something's Happening
19. My Sentimental Friend
20. My Lady
21. Here Comes the Star
22. It's Alright Now
Side E:
23. Daisy Chain (Edit)
24. Years May Come, Years May Go
25. Smile, Please
26. Bet Yer Life I Do
27. Searching for the Southern Sun
Side F:
28. Lady Barbara
29. Don't Just Stand There
30. Big Man
31. Wings of Love
32. Mum and Dad
As you can tell, I love examining these British Invasion bands like The Kinks and The Hollies, but with different albums being released in England and America, it can make their discographies confusing. In the case for Herman's Hermits, they were a band I never got into much cause some of their songs became novelties. But here's some info I found online in regards to an unreleased album by them. "The Both Sides Now MGM discography lists two Herman's
Hermits albums that were supposed to have the catalog numbers SE-4590 and
SE-4601, but were never released." Then someone else had this to say. "Herman's Hermits were supposed to have recorded an album
similar to the Beach Boys' Party album and an album of cover songs. These albums
were never released and the covers album was reported to have around 50 tracks (!!!)." But wasn't the Party album already a covers album? There was an expanded version of that one that revealed a lot of outtakes but that's its own blog post. Regardless, if this guy separated the two parts of the album's story then there must be another one out there.
Here's another bit of info that I found online. "MGM Records had scheduled a Herman's Hermits album titled
Sleepy Joe but never issued it." I don't know where this guy got this info from, but he also has this to say. "Other than the title track, I wasn't sure what should be
included on this album. I've seen no track list for it. But the band's Blaze
album was re-released in 2001 with a dozen bonus tracks, including Sleepy
Joe, and I thought aha! The only
bonus cut I didn't include was the song The Most Beautiful Thing in My
Life because it already appears on Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely
Daughter." I don't have much evidence of this, but my theory is that if they were planning on releasing two more albums before breaking up, then one would be the "party" album of covers and the other would be the "new" album of original material.
The last album they released in 1968 was a soundtrack from a movie named after a song they released three years before that. The movie wasn't great either so their album sales were on a decline. But I'm sure they would've liked to have released a final album. Like what if they combined both ideas and simply released a double album of all their unreleased outtakes? So I went through their bonus tracks on album rereleases as well as songs from their British versions of albums that didn't make it on the American versions of them and came up with 3 albums worth. So the Sleepy Joe album could be one of them but I didn't just wanna copy and paste this guy's track listing for it. As for the cover I used an AI image colorizer.
But what the guy failed to mention was that the bonus tracks for Blaze actually featured two songs from the soundtrack, plus both rereleases shared a bonus track, so basically I’m short by a song. I think I used all the tracks I could’ve so I went with an edited version of the instrumental track Daisy Chain from the soundtrack which combines both parts. I also included a couple previously unreleased songs from a box set but I stuck them on the first album despite not knowing when they were recorded. The final result is 3 half hour albums.