This life-improving performance by Herman’s Hermits, in addition to its intrinsic Uplift Program-inducing sheer pop wonderment, packs more hand-clapping---and by quite a great margin, at that---into 2 minutes, 27 seconds, or any other length of time, than any other such endeavor undertaken in human history. There is a **lot** of clapping of the hands, by vocalist Peter Noone, by the audience, by the backup singers, by anyone or anything that moves. I am very much in favor. 1966 begat this extremely winning live rendition of their hit, I’m Into Something Good. Noone turned 19 on 5 Nov. And. There’s the clapping.
A Shindig production, circa 1/13/1965, of another fine performance of Something Good by Noone, at this time a shambling, Methusalean figure at 17, and the lads. To be sure, any live performance that one comes across featuring this band, is gold. And, lo & behold, this more than qualifies. A Mood Elevator of the most efficacious variety, and a card-carrying Uplift Program member (yes, videos can, and do, carry cards)(and can qualify for certain memberships) like its preceding brethren (yes, “brethren”; maybe said predecessor contains vast multitudes, in which case {it *is* the case}, a collective noun is called for, y’see), I, for one, flipped upon initial and subsequent viewing. True, there’s not as much hand-clapping, but still it abounds---just not at quite the preposterous degree of the 1966 version. And that’s OK.
