1971: My Seminal Songs

Hi, I’m Frank Clark and I’m recording stories from my life in my words for my grandchildren, because you never know how much time you have left.

Today I am telling them about my seminal songs from 1970. In this recording I sing and play the guitar. The songs are:
Inner City Blues by Marvin Gaye
Carey by Joni Mitchell
Sam Stone by John Prine

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Enjoy!

I have been many things in my life, from a trash man in Stone Harbor, New Jersey to a police officer in Philadelphia, to a revenue officer at the Internal Revenue Service. I retired in 2019 as a front-line manager in the IRS Appeals office after almost 40 years of government service.

I graduated from Park College in 1977 with a BA in Management and from the University of Miami in 2012 with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. My thesis is titled “Maximón: The Shape Shifting Trickster.” I am the author of “Run for YOUR Life” on Apple Books and I teach “One Small Step: Efficiency for Managers” on Udemy.

I surf, scuba dive, have run 46 marathons, ferment foods, bake bread, brew beer, have a 1981 VW camper-van, am a throat cancer survivor, am married and have a son, daughter and two grandsons, with a granddaughter on the way. I am currently 69 years old.