"Whitaker relocated to Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the autumn of 1972 to study at the James Madison University. Kennell arranged for him and Bach to meet his former musical accomplices, Beck and Fortney, who quickly moved to Virginia to start rehearsals. It was now early 1973, and
Whitaker’s elder brother, Ken, having elected to become the band’s sound engineer, suggested the name Happy The Man, a reference to Goethe’s "Faust", and the Bible, rather than the obscure Genesis single which, at the time, nobody in the band even knew existed."
from:
http://www.happytheman.com/AL%20Bio%20and%20History.htm
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