 Herman and the Hermits with I'm Henry VIII, I am. I don't know how many people would have thought all the way back in 1965 that one half of one of America's favorite couples would someday be a United States Senator. But it worked out that way. I'm speaking, of course, of United States California Senator, the late Sonny Bono. But back in 1967, he was one half of that dynamic duo known as Sonny and Cher. He goes.