Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

"Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
Single by Herman's Hermits
from the album Herman's Hermits
B-side "I Gotta Dream On"
Released April 1965
Format 7", 45rpm
Recorded De Lane Lea Studios, London, 1 December 1964
Genre Beat, pop
Length 2:45
Label MGM
Songwriter(s) Trevor Peacock
Producer(s) Mickie Most
Herman's Hermits singles chronology
"Silhouettes"
(1965)		 "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
(1965)		 "Wonderful World"
(1965)

"Silhouettes"
(1965)		 "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
(1965)		 "Wonderful World"
(1965)

"Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" is a popular song written by British actor, screenwriter and songwriter Trevor Peacock.[1] It was originally sung by actor Tom Courtenay in The Lads, a British TV play of 1963, and released as a single on UK Decca.[2]

The best-known version of the song is by Herman's Hermits, who took it to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in May 1965, and number one in Canada the month before. The single debuted on the Hot 100 at number 12 — the third highest debut of the decade (after the Beatles' "Hey Jude" and "Get Back").[3] The Hermits never released the track — or their other US 1965 number one, "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" — as a single in their native Britain. "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" was recorded as an afterthought in two takes and featured unique muted lead and rhythm guitar by Derek Leckenby and Keith Hopwood and heavily accented lead vocals by Peter Noone, with backing vocals from Karl Green and Keith Hopwood. The band never dreamed it would be a single let alone hit number one in the US. According to Noone the song was well known to British bands; it would often be performed at birthday parties, substituting the surname of the girl whose party was being celebrated, i.e., "Mrs. Smith" or "Mrs. Jones" instead of "Mrs. Brown".

Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1965 album Chipmunks à Go-Go.

An answer to the song, titled, "Mrs. Jones, Your Son Gives Up Too Easy," was released on the Recording Industries (RIC) label as a single in 1965, performed by a group named Lynn and the Mersey Maids.

The song was released in Japan on Odeon Records, a subsidiary of Toshiba, as OR-1272. It was backed by the song "Wonderful World".

It was recorded by Nellie McKay for her 2015 album My Weekly Reader.

References

  1. ↑ "Herman's Hermits: Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  2. ↑ "Tom Courtenay – Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  3. ↑ ”Billboard Hot 100 Charts – The Sixties/The Seventies”, Record Research Inc, 1990


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