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Artist Biography by Bruce Eder
Michael Franks was born in La Jolla, California in 1944. His parents weren t musicians, but they were music lovers and he was soon immersed in swing music and vocal jazz and pop.
Franks early idols included such jazz-cum-pop legends as Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee, as well as composers and lyricists such as Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer. His first instrument was the guitar, and he got the only formal instruction of his life a total of six private lessons that came with his first instrument at age 14.
Franks was drawn to poetry as a high-school student, especially the work of Theodore Roethke, and began singing and playing folk-rock during this period. He majored in English and then comparative literature at UCLA and also embraced the music of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, João Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, among others. He never studied music in college, however, and seemed on track toward teaching American literat
Michael Franks
Artist Biography by Bruce Eder
Michael Franks was born in La Jolla, California in 1944. His parents weren t musicians, but they were music lovers and he was soon immersed in swing music and vocal jazz and pop.
Franks early idols included such jazz-cum-pop legends as Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee, as well as composers and lyricists such as Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer. His first instrument was the guitar, and he got the only formal instruction of his life a total of six private lessons that came with his first instrument at age 14.
Franks was drawn to poetry as a high-school student, especially the work of Theodore Roethke, and began singing and playing folk-rock during this period. He majored in English and then comparative literature at UCLA and also embraced the music of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, João Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, among others. He never studied music in college, however, and seemed on track toward teaching
Husband and wife Stan and Betty Mallett took hundreds of photographs of celebrities in the 1960s
Their children thought the images were lost after handing them to a historian after Stan s death in 1995
Son Steve recently found 500 images taken between 1961 and 1964 in a box that lay unopened for 25 years
The husband and wife team captured the musical hits of the 1960s and dealt with publicity around Exeter
The Brothers Four: 60 Years.and Counting!
Thereâs something special about The Brothers Four, but itâs in addition to their uniqueness and wholesomeness as family-oriented entertainers. The group has been on the international stage since 1960, an achievement unto itself..but itâs more than that, too! Read on!
Author:
By Bill Bronk
Picking a performer or group to write about can be a lot of fun (or not!). And
fun was the operative word for a fan like me in researching and writing about
The Brothers Four. I happen to like reading what’s on LP record jackets, in liner notes and digging through old newspaper articles. You can learn a lot. But like others who dabble in the fine art of writing stuff that you hope gets read by your target audience, along with a litany of facts you find that it can also be enlightening as well. With that said, I’ve learned what other fans around the world have known about The Brothers Four for over 60 years.