16 Facts About Beverly Bivens

Beverly Bivens attended Santa Ana High School, where she was a direct contemporary of actress Diane Keaton, and Orange Coast Junior College.

Beverly Bivens had been recommended to Mike Stewart by Terry Kirkman, later of The Association, who was then the boyfriend of her sister Barbara.

Beverly Bivens' voice gave We Five its distinctive and memorable sound.

Beverly Bivens was said to have inspired Jefferson Airplane's original vocalist Signe Toly Anderson, who was already well established on San Francisco's jazz and folk scene before joining the Airplane, originally a folk-rock band, in 1965.

Beverly Bivens' influence was apparent too in recordings by some male bands: for example, the Turtles' single Happy Together and the Cowsills' The Rain, the Park and Other Things.

Beverly Bivens was sometimes mistaken for the actress Barbara Feldon, co-star of the television series Get Smart, who had a bob.

In October 1965 KYA, a leading San Francisco radio station, used a large photographic portrait of Beverly Bivens to draw attention to its inaugural International Pop Music Awards.

Beverly Bivens appeared barefoot on the cover of You Were On My Mind, walking along a beach in a reddish-orange tunic, accompanied by her male colleagues, all fully shod and wearing matching turtlenecks.

Beverly Bivens enjoyed sunbathing: she was once admitted to hospital on tour with second degree burns after Burgan, who had been called to her room, found her in considerable pain, wearing only the lower half of a bikini.

Beverly Bivens was not the only member of We Five who abandoned a performing career prematurely.

Beverly Bivens was the only female member of We Five, while the four men all went to college together: Stewart, Jones and Burgan were graduates of the University of San Francisco, and Fullerton knew Stewart and Burgan from their days at a junior college in Los Angeles County, Mt.

The academic background of each was recorded prominently on the sleeve of You Were On My Mind, together with the information that Beverly Bivens had attended junior college.

Beverly Bivens' documented recording career lasted less than two years and extended to little more than two dozen tracks.

On February 13,1966, at the age of 19, Beverly Bivens married jazz bassist Fred Marshall.

Until Beverly Bivens and Marshall divorced in 1978, the couple raised two children in Berkeley, California: the saxophonist Joshi Marshall, who was born in Berkeley in 1971, and a daughter, Zoe Terry Marguerite.

However, it appears that, when Marshall fell ill, Beverly Bivens stepped in to care for him.