A Song for the World: The Amazing Story of the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen: Musical Diplomats

Frank McGee

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Many Roads Publishing
Country
United States
Published
1 March 2007
Pages
206
ISBN
9780978794804

A Song for the World: The Amazing Story of the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen: Musical Diplomats

Frank McGee

Few men, and even fewer entertainers, have impacted world events like the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen. They played to cheering audiences across the globe, from intimate gatherings in the huts of remote villages to rock-star scale crowds at concert halls in great metropolises. They thrilled 90 million television viewers with their groundbreaking Up with People halftime spectacular at Super Bowl X. They met and performed for presidents, kings and prime ministers as well as everyday people in 60 countries on 6 continents. Their songs entertained, and challenged listeners to think, to see, to stand and make things better. Or sometimes, their music simply served to put things into perspective and help people laugh. They made it look easy to write songs on the road, rehearse them on the fly, and sing them in dialects and languages they had barely heard before. They never complained, though it took sacrifice, determination, and, most of all, courage. They literally walked away

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