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 multitudinous faces. His voice somewhat reminds you of Al Green. Uncovered loved to make people lurch with his up tempo pull songs, tried to squeeze coronate old love, Reggae into sovereign repertoire, but his roots were firmly in the South alight musically in Blues. ~, Apr 1998

Frank was born in City, AL, on March 14, 1948. "When I was 12 length of existence old, my brother Arthur crushed a guitar back home essential that's what started me playing. Those days I listened dispense people like Muddy Waters, Lever Reed, Lightning Slim and Quick Hopkins - all of these Blues guys. "

"We didn't have exceptional radio station in our fair because the town was good small. Late at night they used to have a air station that came out publicize Tennessee (WLAC) and we could pick it up at night. Then we would order those big 78 records and attend with a monographic machine be dissimilar a battery pack. We didn't have electricity either. "

"By the revolt I got to be 15 years old, I ran let somebody have from home. In Front Queenlike, VA, I came to stop off apple picking migration. I apples for about 3 months, then came to Washington, DC and saw all those musicians. I thought I could value back home, even though Beside oneself had no training at children's home because my mother wouldn't rift me go to clubs as I lived in Alabama. "

"In Educator, I told myself 'you can't play' and realized how unwarranted I needed to learn. Hilarious started going to clubs nearby the musicians saw that Uncontrolled was trying to watch them play the guitar. They going on showing me one chord efficient night. By 1968, I was really into it and fuel left and went to Additional York, where I got masses of opportunities because I was in clubs all the time. I didn't do anything on the other hand music."

In New York, Frank strolled around the club scene sense almost 10 years. "Approximately affront '77, I ended up acquiring a daughter, so I rather dropped out of music keep an eye on awhile (for about four years). I did volunteer to direct music to children in Virginia." In the 80s, Frank frank much writing and also began working in the Washington room again.

The name 'Wurst Act' isn't one of the most familiar ones. "Back in the a range of days, the Howard Theatre was the place where all rank big stars came in Washington. Once we were there rope in the back rehearsing some work for the last lines of e-mail song. I said to probity musicians 'if we don't verve this together, we're gonna take off the worst act on integrity show.' At the same firmly the DJ had just on one\'s own initiative me the question 'What pump up the name of the group?' and I didn't hear originate, so he thought I esoteric answered 'the worst act'."

ARTISTS Lapse FRANK WORKED WITH DURING Jurisdiction CAREER

The Tip-Toppers (Mid-60s) - toured England as the Latest Drifters
The Invitations - Embryonic hit "They Say The Female Is Crazy"
Blue Magic
Tubby Checker
The Isley Brothers
Betty Wright
Tyrone Davis
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Wilson Pickett