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HERMAN - this is how we got our name. The lads in the group call me Pete and everyone else calls me Herman. My real name's Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone. In the beginning, we were stuck for an unusual name for the group. We thought of calling ourselves Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone and the Group. But . . . anyway, one night we were looking through all those Superman comics . . . and all comics with unusual names in them . . . "Flash" and things like that. We decided there was nothing in these comics that was any good to us. So we watched a television show, "The Bullwinkle Show" and we said, "There's bound to be some great names on here!" Halfway through the show there's a little cartoon about Herman and Professor Peabody. The first name we picked, actually, was Professor Peabody. But we couldn't think of anything to go with it. So we took Sherman and changed it to Herman. Someone just said "Herman!" Actually, it was some drunken fellow . . . because this was in a working man's club where we used to play. Everyone used to have a big pint pot of beer and they'd bang it on the table in time to the music. Right after this fellow said, "Herman and the Hermits!" we had little business cards printed up. If anybody came up for our autograph we'd give them one of the cards with our name and telephone number on it, so they could book us. I've still got some of the cards. They say: "Herman and the Hermits - Weddings, Dances and Private Parties."
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