Tom Finn

Thomas Joseph Finn (November 21, 1948 – June 27, 2020) was an American musician and DJ. He was a founding member of the 1960s baroque pop group The Left Banke, on bass and vocals.

Musical career

At age sixteen, Finn was a founder member of The Left Banke in Manhattan, New York City in 1965, alongside Michael Brown, Steve Martin, George Cameron and Lisa David-Schierhorst. The members of the group were all members of other groups, but were put together by Harry Lookofsky, a jazz violinist who was the father to Michael Lookofsky, known as Michael Brown, who was the band's keyboardist.

After initial success with the songs "Walk Away Renée" and "Pretty Ballerina", the group split up, though Finn was involved in later reformations of the band. "Walk Away Renée", along with many other songs released by the Left Banke, were inspired by Renée Fladen-Kamm, who at the time was Finn's girlfriend.

Finn was the DJ for the White House Millennium Gala, hosted by President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

In 2006, he appeared in the November issue of Town & Country magazine in a five-page spread called "The Party Masters". Finn was featured in a New York Times (December 16, 2006) article "The D.J. Who Moves the Movers and Shakers". He was the last surviving member of the original The Left Banke, as Michael Brown died in 2015, George Cameron died in 2018, and Steve Martin Caro died five months before Finn, in January 2020.