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FAB Company was a national performing and recording act based in Denver, Colorado in the 1970’s and ‘80s. It’s members included Frank Bruen, Ralph Achilles, Bonnie Ellison and Jerry Jacobs. The group recorded four albums of mostly original material and performed their special brand of live music and comedy in concerts, nightclubs and on radio and television appearances...
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Achilles & Frank was a national performing and recording act based in Colorado. They started in Fort Collins, CO in 1965. Their hits, "The Two Peddler Men," and "Watermelon is a King's Delight" received significant airplay. The were well known for their hilarious Gasamat radio commercials.
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Albums
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The FAB Company (1970)
Take Time (1971)
Our Songs for You (1977)
An Evening with FAB Company (1979)
Achilles & Frank
Cache La Poudre / Bridgers Song (1964)
The Two Peddler Men / Watermelon Is a King's Delight (1966)
As We Do Today / Somebody's Knockin' (1966)
Compilation
MS Entertainer (2010)
Bootlegs
Achilles & Frank, One More Time, Live at Swallow Hill (2009)
Songs
Folks
A Child in Years
The Breath of Winter
The Colorado Sky
Easy Lovin' Day
Life Is Just a Puff of Dreams
Lord You Didn't Need to Make It Rain
On a Cloudy Summer Afternoon
Take Time
The Two Peddler Men
Watermelon Is a King's Delight
What Will I Do When I'm Old?
Worth the Time
Covers Eleven and Ten
It's Great to Be Alive
Little Friend
Funny Ones
I'm in It for the Money
The Mafia
Sorry, We're Closed
The Story of the Two Truckers
Stick It
Covers Norma Loves Ketchup
You Didn't Call Me
Love Songs
As We Do Today
I Can't Love You Enough
Love Me 'til the Rain Goes Away
Covers It's Time (Young Hearts, Young Hands)
She Believes in Me
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Ballads
Beds and Bars
Fences
Covers Daniel
Me and Bobby McGee
Mr. Bo Jangles
Ruben James
Cookers
I Never Made It in the Fifties
Y'all Put Your Shoes On
Covers Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
Chickasaw County Child
I Am the Entertainer
I Got a Woman
Kansas City
Rhumba Girl
Two More Bottles of Wine
Gospel
Covers Put Your Hand in the HandThis Train
Sad Ones
I Don't Believe in Love Anymore
Covers Send in the Clowns
Sunday Mornin' Coming Down
Night Songs
The Night Belongs to the Entertainer
Seance
Appearances
Achilles & Frank
FAB Company
Blinky's Fun Club, "Ralph and Jake the Piano Movers", 1978cRoxborough Park TV Commercial, 1971-1987c
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Achilles & Frank
1964 October CSU Harvest Moon Ball, Fort Collins, CO1966-1967 Playboy Club Tour
1966-1967 Far East Tour
1968 May 2,3 CSU Student Center Theatre, Fort Collins, CO
1968 June 26 "An Evening with Achilles & Frank," CSU Student Center Theatre, Fort Collins, CO
FAB Company
1969 September 29 Concert run at Tiger's Lair, Denver, CO1970 June Tiger's Lair, Denver, CO
1981 September 9-19 Ralph and Jerry, Maxie's on the Boulevard, Denver, CO
1984 July 10 Fiddler's Green Premiere Season - Grand Opening Concert, Fiddler's Green, Greenwood Village, CO
1988 July 29,30 Maxie's on the Boulevard, Denver, CO
1988 October 30 Casey Anderson Benefit, Dundee's, Greenwood Village, CO
2009 January 17 Reunion Concert, Swallow Hill, Denver, CO
Setlist
Achilles & Frank
This Train
Folk Medley
On a Cloudy Summer Afternoon
The Two Peddler Men
Gasamat and other Commercials
The Night Belongs to the Entertainer
Kansas City
Colorado Sky
Stick It
Worth the Time
The Mafia
FAB Company
Take Time
It's Great to Be Alive
Me and Bobby McGee
I Got a Woman
Ralph
Jokes
Friends
..
The Enchantment
FAB Company
Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
Put Your Hand in the Hand
Watermelon Is a King's Delight
News
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"Folk-Comedy Team Combines Humor and Song for College Days Audience," The Rocky Mountain Collegian - CSU Fort Collins, Volume LXVII, Number 104, May 6, 1968
"Love is in the Air on Two New Albums," The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 113, Number 31, May 23, 1971
"Best Acts in Denver Clubs," The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 118, Number 29, May 21, 1976
Bonnie, who used to be the "B" of F.A.B., writes: "Frank Bruen has worked for the last three years with a talented musician-vocalist, Jerry Jacobs, calling their duo Canyon. Together they have formed a commercial production company, Canyon Productions, and are now building an eight track demo recording studio that can be used for some finishing work at their home in Bellvue . . . They plan to have the studio ready for use by winter.
RALPH ACHILLES has also become more familiar with recording studios. He released his own album, "Achilles," on the Falls River recording label. Then in September, Achilles hosted his own hour long television special on Channel 2. He is presently performing locally at Joe Neddo’s Mercantile Co. in Littleton, accompanied by Warren Fey on acoustic, electric and steel guitar and Bob Arthur on bass and Fender Rhodes piano. When he's not on stage, Achilles works at the club in a management capacity.
Bonnie has chosen a slightly diffferent direction. She has concentrated on writing original country music while singing country-blues with Judy Eaton and performing with Tecumseh, a bluegrass band. She has continued to sing on both television and radio commercials and also performed on Achilles’ TV special. Bonnie has recently written a book entitled 'Ms, Entertainer,' and is now submitting her manuscript to potential publishers.
"Nightlife," The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 118, Number 162, October 1, 1976
"Folk-Comedy Team Combines Humor and Song for College Days Audience," The Rocky Mountain Collegian - CSU Fort Collins, Volume LXVII, Number 104, May 6, 1968
"Love is in the Air on Two New Albums," The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 113, Number 31, May 23, 1971
"Best Acts in Denver Clubs," The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 118, Number 29, May 21, 1976
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Bonnie Lynne Ellison wrote this week to bring us up to date on what has happened to the members of the FAB Company, the group that had one of the biggest followings on the night scene until it dissolved a couple years ago.Bonnie, who used to be the "B" of F.A.B., writes: "Frank Bruen has worked for the last three years with a talented musician-vocalist, Jerry Jacobs, calling their duo Canyon. Together they have formed a commercial production company, Canyon Productions, and are now building an eight track demo recording studio that can be used for some finishing work at their home in Bellvue . . . They plan to have the studio ready for use by winter.
RALPH ACHILLES has also become more familiar with recording studios. He released his own album, "Achilles," on the Falls River recording label. Then in September, Achilles hosted his own hour long television special on Channel 2. He is presently performing locally at Joe Neddo’s Mercantile Co. in Littleton, accompanied by Warren Fey on acoustic, electric and steel guitar and Bob Arthur on bass and Fender Rhodes piano. When he's not on stage, Achilles works at the club in a management capacity.
Bonnie has chosen a slightly diffferent direction. She has concentrated on writing original country music while singing country-blues with Judy Eaton and performing with Tecumseh, a bluegrass band. She has continued to sing on both television and radio commercials and also performed on Achilles’ TV special. Bonnie has recently written a book entitled 'Ms, Entertainer,' and is now submitting her manuscript to potential publishers.
"Nightlife," The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), Volume 118, Number 162, October 1, 1976