By being so cheerful, playful, clean, charming, friendly, and cute, they epitomized perfectly the "British Invasion" of 1964-1967. They were British to a fault. Even their musical style, unlike other groups (such as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles), was based equally, if not more so, on British pop music, rather than American rhythm & blues. Hermans Hermits owed at least as great a musical debt to English music hall, and to vaudeville. On stage Herman often acted more like a corny vaudevillian than the lead singer in a rock band.
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