Just read his bio.......very accomplished! Went by Frank DeVol as an actor, and simply DeVol as a musician.

Why is that important?

I think he composed the theme to the Brady Bunch. Great musician

@@williamrowlett740He did! It's possible he made ton of money from that alone.

Amen!!!

Pure genius.

My Uncle Herb Fox played in his band when he still lived in Canton Ohio. Small world.

Did Happy have a “Keep off the grass” sign on his lawn? Was he generous on Halloween?

Creative writing at its best. 😅

I first saw that look from Martin Mull in either late 1971 or early 1972 when he played my college large "coffeehouse" in Massachusetts as "Martin Mull and his Magic Midget Band." Which consisted of Martin and 3 or 4 very short male musicians. They were actually a most capable band, he was a good blues-country-rock style lead guitarist and singer. But the sarcasm between songs, and also the similar looks he gave his fellow-musicians was the best part of the act. Just what you see in this video. As to the college gig, he probably got the booking because his younger sister was a fellow student of ours-he was then unknown except to maybe a few. His first music-comedy recordings came a year or two later.. And at least at the time I knew his sister, when she was maybe 19 or 20, she seemed like a very sweet person. There was probably no room for two who were that sarcastic in the same family.

I think I remember him from Get Smart.

So sad to hear that Colin passed away today. May he rest in peace.

I just learned that he played with the Vince Guaraldi Trio in the 1960s and played for the soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

@@steverino3447 I just learned it :( I was lucky enough to get to speak to him on the phone back in 2002. I sent him an email telling him I always wanted to know about his character, since he was the only band member not to ever be introduced, he gave me his number and told me I could call him and we could chat about the show. So I called and we chatted about an hour or so... I cannot believe how nice he was.... I know he'll be missed

@@jonnaking3054 I emailed him 4 or 5 years ago and asked him about it and he emailed me about back, told me some things about it, said it was the most fun he ever had with his pants on. 🤣 I still have the email, it may even be longer than that but yes, he seemed like a very nice guy.

Incredible. Thanks for your post.

Pure genius

I always felt they reminded me of The Wrecking Crew

He was no genius. lolol That is just lame.

Yes, but not Frank Sinatra.

It was so sad what happened to Anissa Jones.

You know, if I'm not mistaken, and I don't think that I am, Frank de Vol also helped with several Ted Nugent songs in the middle 1970's. Among the songs were "Cat Scratch Fever," "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang," " One Eyed Worm," "Hot Frothing Frosting," "Stinky Finger," "Hurtin' for a Squirtin'," "Juicer," "Honey Cakes," and "Crusin' for a Splugin'." Frank really pushed Ted to write some of his finest and most romantic love songs of his career.

@superfly3990 Yeah Ted is well known for being a true gentleman who always kept it classy. (POS)

Wow! And if you're an Arcade Fire fan, you're familiar with the work of two of Alvino Rey's grandsons.

Frank was from Canton, OH.

I concur

Ian Curtis' spectre As do I.

And the Young Pnes and Benny Hill!

I loved this show and Mart Hartman, of course. Ok, I'll add Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Monty Python, Benny Hill, and The Rutles, too.

If anyone asks who wrote the songs that Bette Davis and Diana Ross made famous, it's Frank.

AND ... Devol !

Yeah, that was what Martin Mull did. DUH!

Oh, those bands are NOT like this! These guys are satirizing those groups. And they do a hilarious job of it!

I was lucky enough to speak to him on the phone once, I sorta interviewed him about his experience on Fernwood 2Night. He was the only band member who was never introduced, he told me he was supposed to be in an cigarette ad on the show, but the woman writing the skit, got sick and it never happened.

@Narciso Duran Such "weird" long-term memories seem to be a wondrous curiosity of the human brain. Perhaps it is precisely because they are so odd that they become indelibly stamped in our brains. If they were ordinary, they wouldn't stand out. That whole show was so bizarre. It was like a misfit version of Lawrence Welk, which, come to think of it, was pretty strange itself...American TV-viewer gold!

Yup. you could never get something like this on TV today.

Ditto.

Brenda Lane 70s TV just the way I remember it - innovative and kitschy.

Great example:Jo Stafford and Paul Weston(aka :Johnathan and Darlene Edwards)Check them out on KZfaq

Helium. It was done with helium.

@@foobarmaximus3506 I think I read that it was just a goofy voice he could do, no helium needed.

@@monkeyb1820 Colin was a huge Spike Milligan fan and almost definitely picked up that crazy voice from Spike.

Jake Hanna and Nick Ceroli were also regular drummers, for particular stretches, in The Tonight Show band in the Carson years.

I saw this same question on a video of Jerry Granelli drumming to "Linus and Lucy," and did a little digging. According to *Colin Bailey’s* Wikipedia entry, “Bailey also performed with Guaraldi on the Peanuts television specials _A Charlie Brown Christmas_ (1965), _It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown_ (1966) and _He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown_ (1968). However, *Jerry Granelli’s* Wikipedia entry states, “[Granelli] was best known for playing drums on the soundtrack _A Charlie Brown Christmas_ with the Vince Guaraldi Trio.” So…I guess Bailey drummed on the TV special version, and Granelli drummed on the albums? Coincidentally both drummers died in 2021, but _Bailey_ - the older of the two jazz drummers - died two months after Granelli.

This has to be sarcasm. 😂🤣

And they did mediocre renditions of current Disco tunes but were all extremely accomplished musicians. Read the bios on these guys; WOW!