Herman's Hermits' really big breakthrough in the US came when an American DJ heard Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter on their first US album, Introducing Herman's Hermits , and persuaded their US record company, MGM, to release it as a 45. It sounded like an old music hall song (though it wasn't) with Noone's George Formby -style vocals and the banjo guitar sound, and frankly sounded corny. Realising this the group prevented its release here, but in the US the song spent three weeks on top of the Charts, earning them another gold disc. It also topped the Australian Charts and sold 14 million copies worldwide. This success coincided with the group's first full US tour. Over the next two years, when the group faced strong competition from several rivals here in the UK, they enjoyed phenomenal success.

Herman's Hermits success seems to have been partly due to the fact that many of the first wave British invasion groups had already peaked in terms of sales (with only The Beatles and Dave Clark Five consistently selling vast quantities of vinyl) and partly because, fuelled by the success of Mrs. Brown ..., they selected songs for US release that had a music hall and vaudeville edge to them. Not only did this set Herman's Hermits apart from other UK beat acts of the time, it also fulfilled the American stereotype of what British life was like. So, whilst in the UK the band enjoyed another Top 20 hit with Kenny Young's bouncy Just A Little Bit Better (which later made it to No 7 in the US), across the Atlantic another US-only single, I'm Henry The Eighth (I Am) , a revival of a 1911 music hall song, extracted from their album Herman's Hermits On Tour gave them another No 1 and million-seller.

Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits are still rockin ' the house and are a favorite at events of all kinds!