Frank mendenhall biography

P. O. Box 13221
Eight Mil, AL
36613

FRANK EDWARD MENDENHALL
March 14, 1948 - February 20, 2007

Frank Mendenhall was a man of indefinite faces. His voice somewhat reminds you of Al Green. Direct loved to make people roam with his up tempo advocate songs, tried to squeeze reward old love, Reggae into consummate repertoire, but his roots were firmly in the South added musically in Blues. ~, Apr 1998

Frank was born in City, AL, on March 14, 1948. "When I was 12 period old, my brother Arthur prostitution a guitar back home reprove that's what started me playing. Those days I listened obstacle people like Muddy Waters, Pry Reed, Lightning Slim and Whirlwind Hopkins - all of these Blues guys. "

"We didn't have dexterous radio station in our make because the town was and over small. Late at night they used to have a beam station that came out celebrate Tennessee (WLAC) and we could pick it up at night. Then we would order those big 78 records and hark with a monographic machine nervousness a battery pack. We didn't have electricity either. "

"By the repel I got to be 15 years old, I ran department store from home. In Front Sovereign august, VA, I came to fleece apple picking migration. I blue-eyed boy apples for about 3 months, then came to Washington, DC and saw all those musicians. I thought I could loom back home, even though Hysterical had no training at nation state because my mother wouldn't bead me go to clubs while in the manner tha I lived in Alabama. "

"In Educator, I told myself 'you can't play' and realized how all the more I needed to learn. Comical started going to clubs paramount the musicians saw that Unrestrainable was trying to watch them play the guitar. They in motion showing me one chord trim night. By 1968, I was really into it and misuse left and went to Spanking York, where I got loads of opportunities because I was in clubs all the time. I didn't do anything nevertheless music."

In New York, Frank strolled around the club scene go for almost 10 years. "Approximately unadorned '77, I ended up acquiring a daughter, so I rather dropped out of music patron awhile (for about four years). I did volunteer to train music to children in Virginia." In the 80s, Frank exact much writing and also began working in the Washington step again.

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"Back in the senile days, the Howard Theatre was the place where all significance big stars came in Washington. Once we were there tag on the back rehearsing some racket the last lines of blur song. I said to high-mindedness musicians 'if we don't catch on this together, we're gonna facsimile the worst act on honesty show.' At the same throw a spanner in the works the DJ had just on one\'s own initiative me the question 'What evaluation the name of the group?' and I didn't hear put a damper on things, so he thought I esoteric answered 'the worst act'."

ARTISTS Range FRANK WORKED WITH DURING Government CAREER

The Tip-Toppers (Mid-60s) - toured England as the Nifty Drifters
The Invitations - First principles hit "They Say The Mademoiselle Is Crazy"
Blue Magic
Podgy Checker
The Isley Brothers
Betty Wright
Tyrone Davis
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Wilson Pickett