| Hello People | |
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| Genres | Rock, Power Pop |
| Associated acts | Todd Rundgren |
| Past members | |
| Ronnie Blake Greg Geddes Michael Sagarese Bobby Sedita Larry Tassi W. S. "Sonny" Tongue |
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One of the most unique rock groups of the 1960s, Hello People, was created during late 1967 in New York by producer Lou Futterman.
The idea for creating the group stemmed from Marcel Carné's film Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis). Etienne De Crux, the father of French mime, plays the part of Bapties's father in the film. During the sixties De Crux taught painting to a group of musicians. Since these musicians learned to paint so quickly, De Crux reasoned that musicians could also learn mime and apply it in some new way to create a new form. The manager of the musicians De Crux taught, Lou Futterman, decided he would implement this new concept. He then put together a new group of musicians who would perform in mime makeup and do mime routines between songs, never speaking a word to the audience.
The group played as Todd Rundgren's back-up band and background vocalists on some of his early tours in the 1970's. They also were part of his Back to the Bars tour, singing background vocals.
In 1975 the Group's album "Handsome Devils" charted in Billboard Magazine at #145. The 1975 single "Future Shock" charted at 71. [1]
The original Hello People were: W. S. "Sonny" Tongue - vocal, guitar (stage name "Country") Greg Geddes - bass, vocal (stage name "Smoothie") Bobby Sedita - guitar, vocal (stage name "Goodfellow") Larry Tassi - keyboards, vocal (stage name "Much More") Michael Sagarese - flute (stage name "Wry One") Ronnie Blake - drums (stage name "Thump Thump")
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