Herman has done it again! As you all know, Herman has made a habit of releasing albums which receive enough air play to force MGM to pull off at least one of the tracks for release as a single.      He started the ball rolling with "Mrs. Brown," followed it up with "Henry The VIII" and now, of course, he has "Listen People" flying up the charts. But this time Herman didn't do it alone - he was unwittingly helped by BEAT reporter Susan Frisch.      Way back in September one of the Frisch family's friends, an executive at MGM, sent Susan a dub of "Listen People." It was scheduled for part of the sound track album from the film "When The Boys Meet The Girls."

However, the MGM executive had his doubts about the song's appeal to teens so he sent Susan the dub and asked for her honest opinion as a teenager. Susan was immediately knocked out by "Listen People" and lost no time in telling the MGM executive that it was one of the best songs Herman had ever recorded, a sure-fire hit.      He obviously valued Susan's opinion and decided not to chuck "People" after all. The song was included on "When The Boys Meet The Girls" LP but was not scheduled for single release.      But since the record began getting air play, distributors took for granted that it would be a single and began ordering it. After over 600,000 copies had been ordered MGM took the hint and shortly released "Listen People" as a single.      So, thanks to Herman's Hermits, Susan Frisch and you, we have a fab new Herman single. We all did pretty well for ourselves, don't you think?      Susan is so proud of herself that she is currently strutting around here on cloud nine. We all tease her but we figure she does have a right to be proud - after all, if it wasn't for her we might have never have heard "Listen People." Of course Herman and his Hermits had a bit to do with it too!

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