Vocalist and guitarist Nick Reynolds was born Nicholas Wells Reynolds on July 27, 1933, in Coronado, CA, and thanks to his father's passion for guitar, spent his childhood surrounded by music. By the time he enrolled in Menlo College in Palo Alto, CA (he had previously attended San Diego State and the University of Arizona) in 1954 as a business major, Reynolds was a proficient guitar player, and meeting Bob Shane in an accounting class turned out to be a major turning point in his life. Shane had been playing on and off with his friend Dave Guard (both were born Hawaii and pl...