User:Gene Jacobs

Gene Jacobs, Eugene Walter Jacobs (January 4th,1935 - July 17th,1993), Buffalo New York. Best known as Manager of "The Enemy's" and Bonnie Bramlett as well as others.

Life and career Gene was raised in Lackawanna NY, the backyard of the Steel making giant Bethlehem Steel. He was Quarterback for his High School football team and enjoyed acting. After graduating high school he married his High School sweetheart and had three children (Two girls and a boy). His desire to pursue acting soon set in and he headed out west to Los Angeles to try his hand at acting in the newly budding TV industry. He played small parts here and there including the "pilot" for a series that launched the career's of Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, "I Spy." Coming so close to landing that part he then returned to Buffalo, NY to gather his family and return to Los Angeles as the city was ripe with opportunities in entertainment. While in Buffalo, his brother-in-law asked him to check out a band he was playing in called "The Vibratos" in which future Three Dog Night singer Cory Wells was lead singer. After hearing Cory sing and the group play, he suggested that if they really wanted to make it in the music industry, their best chance would be in Los Angeles, where all the Big Record Companies were. The Vibratos changed their name to "The Enemy's" and took his advice. They all left for Los Angeles in August of 1964. During there move to Los Angeles they had a break down in St. Louis and happened to stop in a club where a singer named Bonnie Bramlett was performing. Gene offered her the same advice as Cory Wells and the Vibratos and soon Bonnie was in Los Angeles as well. Gene wound up managing both The Enemy's and Bonnie Bramlett as his hands were somehow diverted into the music business. He managed to get The Enemy's signed to MGM and on hit TV shows and Motion Pictures with some of the Industries Biggest Stars. Bonnie Bramlett went on to form Delaney Bonnie and Friends which worked with such talent as George Harrison, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and many many others as well as in motion pictures and TV. Cory Wells went onto super stardom as Lead Singer of the supper successful group Three Dog Night.