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My First Time in Variety: Simon and Garfunkel’s Late Manager Mort Lewis On His Brush With Civil Rights History
In the '60s, booking music acts in the South was a dicey affair due to horrific Jim Crow-era laws discriminating against minority artists
Mort Lewis was a veteran music manager whose client list included Simon and Garfunkel, Dave Brubeck and the the popular folk outfit the Brothers Four. She was studying at Mills College in Oakland, and she called up and said, “Four young guys from the University of Washington are coming down to do a show at UC Berkeley. So I called up Frank Werber, who was managing the Kingston Trio, and they were making more money than Dave Brubeck.
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