Fran Minkoff
Frances "Fran" Minkoff (5 February 1915 - 22 April 2002)[1] was an American lyricist.
She is best known for her songs co-written with Fred Hellerman of The Weavers. These include the anti-war song "Come Away Melinda" - first recorded in 1963 by Harry Belafonte,[2] and later by Judy Collins, Tim Rose, Bobbie Gentry, and rock bands UFO, Uriah Heep, and Velvett Fogg, among others - together with "Poverty Hill", "The Borning Day", "First Day Of Forever" and "Sunflower", also first recorded by Belafonte.[3]
Her husband, Harry Minkoff, died in New York on 4 June 2011.[4]
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