Gene Glasco's Brown Bag Lunch Talk

Songwriter, Producer, Musician, and Artist at Arcadia Museum "Brown Bag Lunch Talk" October 15.

ARCADIA, CA.- Pat Robinson, former Arcadian-- accomplished musician, songwriter, recording artist, film producer, and sketch artist, – is Gene Glasco's featured guest at his Brown Bag Lunch Talk- "The Beat Goes On: Arcadia's Back Yard Bands of the Sixties", Thursday, October 15, 12:00 pm at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum. Samples of Robinson's music and some of his exceptional artwork will be on display. Hors d’ oeuvres and refreshments will be provided.

The multi-talented Robinson created a band in the Sixties named "Fenwyck", "that played not only in Arcadia, but all over California", says Glasco. Fenwyck’s style and four part harmony sound was known for their incredible similarity to "The Byrds", a group that invented a whole genre of folk rock who topped the 60’s music charts with their recordings of “Mr. Tamborine Man” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” and many more. After high school, Robinson formed a new band called "Back Pocket", and performed in the U.S. and Europe. Later, Robinson wrote and produced songs for fifteen years with Gene Clark (Byrds) eventually forming yet another group, "CRY" (Clark, Robinson, York). John York on 12-string, Nicky Hopkins (Stones, Beatles) on keys, Rick Danko (The Band) on bass, Michael Clarke (Byrds) on drums with Gene Clark and Robinson up front on guitars. In the 80's, Pat enjoyed a successful affiliation with Joe Cocker, writing songs that Cocker would perform both in the U.S. and abroad. Robinson's New Orleans production company, JBond Records has recorded and produced CDs for Hall of Fame blues artists Leon Russel, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, and the Benjy Davis Project. With Timothea, aptly named the "Siren of Soul", he fashioned the captivating music video, “It's Time for a Change", filmed at the historic Columns Hotel on St. Charles Place. Some of Fenwyck's early recordings will be played at the Brown Bag talk, along with some newer cuts from Robinson’s CRY and Mystery Brothers CD’s. An accomplished sketch artist in his own right, some of Robinson’s work will also be on display; which according to Eric Finzi, appraiser for the J. Paul Getty museum, is rising in value.

Rocker, Writer, and Artist Comes Home to Arcadia

Pat Robinson, whose local Arcadia band Fenwyck launched a successful career in recording and performing all over the United States and abroad, will be my guest speaker at the Arcadia Historical Society's Brown Bag lunch talk beginning at 12:00 noon, Thursday, October 15 at the Ruth and Charles Gilb museum in Arcadia.I will have more information and background in another post, please stay tuned.

Gene Glasco-Realtor, Century 21 Ludecke, Inc.Arcadia CA 91006

Gene Moves To Arcadia

My Mom and Dad moved to Arcadia in 1954! Before they selected our house in the Highlands, we temporarily stayed with some friends of theirs in the "Rancho" area of Arcadia. I remember thinking that their house on Volante was so large and beautiful. They even had a little house in the back yard where we stayed. I now know that this was their guest house. I loved the Rancho area, with its quiet tranquility and silence punctuated with ocassional exotic peacock calls. I loved watching "Ramar of the Jungle" an adventure television series, all the more exciting knowing that portions of it were filmed in the famous Arcadia Arboretum with For a short while, I attended highly acclaimedHugo Reid elementary school. I remember waiting on the corner of our host's property waiting for the yellow school bus to pick me up and transport me a few blocks away to the school. The neighborhood and surrounding environ was safe for kids back then, and it was commonplace to see kids walking to school unaccompanied by parent or guardian; something unheard of these days. The Rancho district of Arcadia has changed a little since the mid Fifties; the demographics are different, but homes there are still very well kept, and those folks who put up their homes for sale usually have no trouble in attracting good buyers.

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