Fact #125104
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With advance orders of 600,000, Herman's Hermits soar to the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA No1 slot for the first of three-weeks, with Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter. Meanwhile, their previous single, Silhouettes is still at No5.
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Peter Noone (Herman) : There never was a daughter. The song was written by Trevor Peacock, the playwright. His one and only song. He apparently got the idea from a play, in which the parson said "Mrs Brown, you've got a lovely daughter". I was attracted to the song because it has no rhyming sequence which is totally unique in popular music, and when I first starting performing it at The Cavern in Liverpool, all the other bands were copying American accents, so in my attempt to be different, I always sang with an English accent.
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