Vernise Elaine Pelzel emailed to identify her father, Vern Yocum, as the gentleman on the left in the foreground of the photo of the "Tone Poems of Color" session. To quote his biography on her website "Yocum is best known for the 17 year association with Nat King Cole and his thirty plus year collaboration with Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle. Yocum assisted trumpeter Cecil Reed in organizing The Musician's Guild in 1955, resulting in union reform." At the end of the biography Vernise has added a link to see the Vern Yocum Library Collection at the University of Arizona.
Vernise's site also has a biography of her uncle, Clark Yocum, who was a member of The Pied Pipers, Capitol Records' first star vocal group, best remembered for their cover of Johnny Mercer's "Dream" and for having the first album released by Capitol, "Songs by Johnny Mercer", released in 1944.
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