sentences:  He also managed the all-female band Fanny in the late 1960s and got them signed to Warner Bros. after a performance at the Troubadour.He was best known as the manager of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from 1965, arranging their first club dates and, after encouraging record producer Tom Wilson to see them perform, securing their first record deal.He and Zappa went on to set up and jointly own the Straight, Bizarre, and DiscReet Records labels.