Bob Frank ('62) and John Murry, songwriters (
http://bobfrankandjohnmurry.com/) of their current cd World Without End, with special guest Jim Dickinson, will be playing in Memphis at the Hi Tone Cafe(
http://www.hitonememphis.com/about.htm)
on December 7 [2007], and in Oxford, MS, on December 8 [2007], at Proud
Larry's. (They will also be on a radio show from Square Books in
Oxford, on December 6.)
This would be a good time to see one of our classmates who we haven't
seen in 5 years. Let's have a good turnout for Bob like we did a few
years ago when he performed at Huey's. Maybe some out-of-town
classmates will show up. Shows usually start at 8 or 9 pm. Check Hi
Tone's calendar later for actual times.
The Hi Tone Cafe is located at
1913 Poplar near the west end of Overton Park
Here is an interesting story about one of his songs "With Sabers in Our Hands."
A funny story about this song is the one where Bob and some of his high
school buddies went to Biloxi, Mississippi, to a Key Club convention
back in 1962. Bob didn't take his guitar on this trip, because it
was only for one weekend, and he figured he could live without it for
that long. As it turned out, there was a talent show at the convention,
and Bob's friends urged him to enter it. "But I don’t
have a guitar," he said. "Don’t worry," they
said. "We’ll get one." They went to a pawn shop and
bought this little old handmade piece of crap that had some sort of
picture painted on the front of it. It was only about half the size of
a real guitar, but it was all they had. It cost about eight dollars and
fifty cents. When they got to the talent show, Bob was ready to go on
and do his thing, little old piece of crap or not. Then, he noticed
that the guy who was going on right after him had this really nice gut
string classical guitar. Bob talked the guy into letting him use it,
"just for one song. I’ll give it right back after I do my
song," he told the guy. The guy was very reluctant to let this
stranger use his prize instrument. "I won’t hurt it,"
Bob said. Finally, the guy relented. "Go ahead," he said, "but don’t mess with the tuning." "Don’t
worry," said Bob, "I won’t." Bob went out there
and the first thing he realized was, the audience was cold. They needed
warming up. Like the fella said, first you gotta get their attention.
So Bob told them a good joke. This got them laughing. Then, before they
had a chance to regroup, he hit 'em with "Sabers."
Seeing as how this was a convention down at the southernmost tip of the
southernmost state in the Union, and seeing as how all these boys were
Southerners, of course they just naturally were wildly enthusiastic. Bob got a
standing ovation.
Does anyone know who his "high school buddies" were??? I may have to look in my annual to see who was in the Key Club that year.
Courtesy of Glen Stewart
in his own time. During the
two years he led the Mustangs to championships, he also led in the imagination of every
Prep League fan.