[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

"The name Frank Werber may not be as familiar as that of a Bill Graham or a Brian Epstein, but judged by his legacy, he is pretty much their equal. Frank was a one-of-a kind maverick driven by the impulse to do better, and who wrought still-unacknowledged change within the entertainment industry in the late 1950s and 1960s. Werber saw how others did it and knew, instinctively, that he could improve things for both artist and audience...

Frank Werber took three boys from Menlo College on the San Francisco Peninsula, and turned them into one of the biggest popular music phenomena of the mid-20th Century. Any musician around in the late 1950s and early 1960s will have been aware of the Kingston Trio...

The candy-striped Trio topped the folk boom of the early 1960s with rackfuls of albums to their name, and were a deep musical influence upon the baby-boomer generation. As the whirlwind of activity for the group died down in the wake of the Beatles, Frank focused on developing a roster of artists, of different disciplines – at various times during the mid-1960s he signed or managed folkie singer-songwriters, avant-garde jazzers, existential performance artists, sultry R&B vocalists and pimply garage bands..."