He was in the "Ash Alley Singers", a folk music group in Tucson, AZ, in
1962-1963. Another member of the group, Bob Kimmel, went on to form The
Stone Poneys (without Alan, who was a theater major at the University
of Arizona and not out of school yet), Linda Ronstadt's first group. They had
one hit, "Different Drum", and put out two albums. The song "Different Drum" was written by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees.
