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The Little Gest of Robin Hood: A Translation That’s Not Really a Translation of a Song Nobody Can Sing

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 06/28/201806/30/2018
  • Uncategorized

  I first came across the Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode back in 1973, in James P. Child’s The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. I was trying to write a story about Robin Hood, and […]

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Live, on Memphis Television

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 12/04/201706/29/2018
  • Live Shows

See raw footage of Bob, captured live, high on the bluff overlooking the Mississippi River! “Live at 9,” Channel 3, Memphis.

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Vivian O’Blivion

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 10/26/201606/28/2018
  • Live Shows

Here’s the Grandfather of Grunge, playing his famous song, “Vivian O’Blivion,” at a live performance in Memphis, at The Otherlands, on South Cooper, June, 2015. It’s another authentic song, written by Bob in the early 1980’s, […]

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“Love Turns the Wheel” – Bob’s new hit single!

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 07/27/201603/05/2018
  • Singles

Here’s the latest hit single from the same guy that brought you the Little Gest of Robin Hood and other classic sagas of the working man — this one was produced by  John Murry (the same as […]

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Live, at the Hotel Utah, San Francisco

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 11/02/201412/04/2017
  • Live Shows

The lyrics of this song were written on the battlefield by Dylan Hartsfeld, a soldier from North Carolina who served two tours, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and then came home and got […]

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Song on the Barroom Floor

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 12/15/201106/30/2018
  • Song on the Barroom Floor

That’s a photo from 1973, in Gnashville. That’s the Exit/In at the far right. If you get a magnifying glass and look at the marquee, it says “Bob Frank.” That Chevy in front of the […]

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Bob Frank’s Six Fans — Letters to a guy, they didn’t know if he was alive or dead.

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 12/14/201106/29/2018
  • Fans

Don McGregor and Bob, at Huey’s Midtown, Memphis, 2002. <> Bob– I’ll have to tell you the truth, since you ask, but it’s strange. I had a dream in which the name “Bob Frank” was […]

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Other Artists Singing Bob Frank Songs

  • by bobfranksongs
  • Posted on 12/01/201112/05/2017
  • Other Artists

  “Red Neck, Blue Collar” — sung by Jim Dickinson, on his CD Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger, Memphis International, 2006. He’s joined here by his usual cast of characters, including his sons, Luther […]

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  • The Little Gest of Robin Hood: A Translation That’s Not Really a Translation of a Song Nobody Can Sing
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