In the UK Herman's Hermits' "There's a Kind of Hush" would reach No. The record notched two positions higher on the Silver Dollar Survey for 3–10 March 1967 on WLS, for an overall rank of #, and topped the Boss 30 for 8–22 March 1967 on KHJ. However an expedient cover by Herman's Hermits was released in the US in January 1967 to reach the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 in three weeks and proceeded to a peak of #4-affording the group their final US Top Ten hit-with Gold certification for US sales of one million units awarded that April. The first single version of "There's a Kind of Hush" was recorded in 1966 by Gary and the Hornets, a teen/pre-teen male band from Franklin, Ohio whose version-entitled "Kind of Hush" produced by Lou Reizner-became a regional success and showed signs of breaking nationally in January 1967 the single would reach No. The song was introduced on the 1966 album Winchester Cathedral by Geoff Stephens' group the New Vaudeville Band like that group's hit " Winchester Cathedral", "There's a Kind of Hush" was conceived as a neo- British music hall number although it is a less overt example of that style.
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