Herman’s Hermits were enormously popular in the 1960s and had a string of hits but this is my favourite of their songs as it was that my Auntie Sheila had on a 45rpm single, which we always played when we visited her maisonette on the
St. Matthew’s Estate in Leicester in the 1970s. It was on the Columbia record label and came in a bright red sleeve.
My mother and her sister were very close and shared that flat for a time after my mother had come home from teacher training college and had nowhere to live and the two of them had a fun time together before my mother got married, moved out and eventually had me. Whilst my mother was raising my brother and me she took some time out from her job as a teacher and we would sometimes go over to Sheila’s flat during the day. Sheila had a Stereo radiogram and her collection of records sat on a shelf in a brass ‘singles’ rack covered by a tea towel to stop them getting dusty! As I child I loved to go over and to play her records.
At home my parents had a MFP record LP entitled “Herman’s Hermit’s – Greatest Hits’ but ‘Something’s Happening’ wasn’t on it as I don’t suppose it was great enough, but I loved that song and poor old Sheila was pretty much forced to play it every time I came around.
My parents tell a tale of how, as a child I used to sing this song around the house, and being a youngster had misheard the line ‘As soon as you started to kiss me, something knew suddenly hit me’ as ‘As soon as you started to kick me!’ which (needless to say) they found hilarious!
I don’t know why I love this song so much but it is one of my all time favourites and it is as old as me as we were both brought to life in 1968. I love the Xylophone, the production, the sound, the music the lyrics – all together it is a joyous song that reminds me of many happy times as a child in the 1970s.
Now listen to this song…..
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