DeVol, Frank
Frank DeVol was born in Moundsville, WV in 1911 but was raised in Canton, OH. His father, Herman Frank DeVol, was band-leader in Canton and his mother, Minnie Emma Humphreys De Vol, had worked in a sewing shop. He attended Miami University.
DeVol began composing music as a teenager, and at age 14, he became a member of the Musicians' Union. After playing violin in his father's orchestra he joined the Horace Heidt Orchestra in the 1930s, becoming the staff arranger. He later found work touring with the Alvino Rey Orchestra. In his late teens he was writing arrangements with considerable ease and skill.
From the 1940s on, DeVol worked with many notable singers of the day including: Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Vic Damone, Jaye P. Morgan, and in the early 1960s, Ella Fitzgerald. One of his most famous works is the beautiful and stirring string arrangement of "Nature Boy", which was a number one hit for Nat King Cole in 1948.
He arranged and composed the music for the 1967 comedy film The Happening starring Anthony Quinn and co-produced The Supremes #1 American pop hit "The Happening."
The early success of "Nature Boy" led to an executive position at Columbia Records. He embarked on a series of mood music albums under the studio name "Music by DeVol." The album Bacchanale Suite (1960) is perhaps his best received work in this vein. Throughout the 1950s DeVol's orchestra frequently performed at the Hollywood Palladium under the concert name "Music of the Century." DeVol wrote and arranged for many television shows and perhaps is best known for The Brady Bunch Theme, composed in 1969. He also composed the musically complex My Three Sons theme, which became a hit single in 1961.
DeVol was married twice, first for 54 years to Grayce Agnes McGinty (married in 1935) then to big band singer Helen O'Connell, from 1991 until her death in 1993. He has two daughters from his marriage to McGinty. DeVol died of congestive heart failure on October 27, 1999, in Lafayette, CA.
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