Thursday, May 13, 2010

Dave Fisher, the leader...

...of the folk music group the Highwaymen, died at age 69. The group was probably most famous for its 1961 hit song, "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore." What? You've never heard it?

But what you may not know about the Highwaymen is that they were probably the best educated pop group in recent memory. Besides Fisher, who remained in music, two of the other four went to Harvard Law School, one to Harvard Business School and one to graduate school at Columbia.

Remember that next time your teenager is practicing with his band in the basement.

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