Herman's Hermits (album) Tour", MGM released "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" in April, 1965. It immediately went to #1 on the US Billboard chart. The album itself peaked on the Billboard 200 chart at #2, and remained on the chart for 40 weeks. The album was not released in the UK until September, 1965. As was customary at the time, UK album releases did not have any singles on them. The UK version peaked at #16, and was only on the charts for two weeks. In his retrospective review of the album's release, Richie Unterberger for AllMusic gave the album a
How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins is a Sri Lankan fairy tale collected by H. Parker in "Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon". It is Aarne–Thompson type 982, Ungrateful Heirs. A man marries a rich woman who did not help his mother. He gives his mother a bag full of pottery shards. The mother contracts leprosy, but since she shakes the bags where the daughter-in-law can hear and announces that whoever cares for it will have, the daughter-in-law tends her. After the mother dies, the woman realizes it was shards, not coins. The tale is widespread,