Bob Flanigan (singer)

Robert Lee " Bob" Flanigan ( born August 22, 1926 in Greencastle, Indiana; † 15 May 2011) was an American jazz musician ( vocals, bass, trombone) and music manager. He was a founding member of the vocal ensemble The Four Freshmen.

Life and work

Flanigan was known when he appeared founded with the beginning of 1948 at Butler University in Indianapolis vocal band The Four Freshmen. With Flanigan, the cousin of the band members Don and Ross Barbour, a more oriented to jazz harmonies singing style of the existing previously under other names Quartet developed. Flanigan took over in the band next to singing bass and trombone. Among his few albums as trombonist ( and beyond the Four Freshmen ) togetherness, which he recorded in 1959 for Capitol Records with guitarist John Gray, bassist Don Bagley and drummer Bob Neel heard. 1992 Flanigan retired from the stage, lived in Las Vegas and managed the persisting Four Freshmen. In 2008 he Butler University awarded an honorary doctorate.