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==History==
The idea for creating the group stemmed from [[Marcel Carné]]'s 1945 film ''[[Children of Paradise]]'' (''Les Enfants du Paradis''). [[Etienne Decroux]], the father of French [[mime]], plays the part of BaptiesBaptiste's father in the film. During the sixties, Decroux taught painting to a group of musicians. Since these musicians learned to paint so quickly, Decroux reasoned that musicians could also learn mime and apply it in some new way to create a new form. The manager of the musicians Decroux taught, Lou Futterman, decided he would implement this new concept, and 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/303423/hello-people/biography|title=Hello People|magazine=Billboard|access-date=8 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/before_there_was_kiss_there_was_mime_rock_say_hello_to_the_hello_people|title=Before there was KISS, there was 'mime rock': Say hello to The Hello People|publisher=Dangerous Minds|access-date=8 February 2015}}</ref>
Two of the original group, Greg Geddes and Ronnie Blake, were recruited from the music department at [[Western Connecticut State University]] (called, at that time, Danbury State College). They later added Peter Weston, also from W.C.S.U. Peter and Greg sang most of the lead vocals for their 1968, second album, ''Fusion''. Greg also contributed as recording engineer for the group, a career he later followed after ending his touring with [[Todd Rundgren]].
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