Tag Archives: Allan “Jake” Jacobs

Andrea “Bunky” Skinner and Allan “Jake” Jacobs met in 1962 at the institution of Visual Arts in NY and became area of the Greenwich Community folk scene from the period. In 1965 Jake became a member of the folk-rock music group the Magicians, with Garry Bonner, Alan Gordon, and John …

Although they’re rather mistakenly considered a ’60s garage band because of the inclusion of the good 1965 single “An Invitation to Cry,” on the initial Nuggets compilation, the Magicians were an all-around pop/rock and roll group that also drew from folk-rock, blues, and soul. That they had a pretty complex …