Thanks Joe. There are several on-line references, but all I could find are (1) discogrophies; and (2) notes of a few events in his honor, or where he appeared. Nothing on his life.

It was only hearsay that Earl Robinson was involved in a group which was retrieving all the (types of) birds Francis of Assisi had spoken to. That sounded like a curious, but not impossible, shift in emphasis. Maybe that was a different Earl?