Merrell Fankhauser and the Glenn Records Archives

merrell@merrellfankhauser.com

Kenny
The Ken Smith tape has 2 songs "Fascination"(I think that's the title? Kinda R & B) and "Long Time Comin" . Good band and fairly decent sound! Was this when you were playing bass?

I've gone thru one box today, whats written on the box isn't always whats on the tape!
I found two more of my unreleased songs from around 64 or 65 ? Two more boxes to go... Its long and tedious and splices break and I have to constantly clean the heads! Glen wasn't good about cataloging the Artist & Song!
Best,
Merrell

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 On Saturday, February 15, 2014 2:11 PM, "merrell@merrellfankhauser.com" <merrell@merrellfankhauser.com> wrote:

Kenny

This is amazing.... Carla Weston was here for 3 days with 2 boxes of tapes she picked up from Glen's son in Rosamond, and to my surprise I just opened one of the boxes and it was labeled "Ken Smith" ! Was this something you recorded at his studio? I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet. Its a long tedious process as I have to hand clean all the desert dirt off the tapes by hand before I run them over the heads! Will let you know what I find.
Best Regards,
Merrell

Merrell,
It's problem an all vocal demo with Lenny and Larry Hazlett  and myself when I was a freshman at AVHS.  I remember us justing testing the microphones.  Nothing to keep.  But it would be something for the archives - k


From: Kenneth Howard Smith [mailto:khsmith@rocketmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 09:56 PM
To: merrell@merrellfankhauser.com
Subject: Re: Your tape found in Glenn Archives!

Merrell,
Come to think about it.  It's a great find. . . Lenny is dead from a heart condition about 12 years ago, and Larry is on Deathrow for killing the Rosamond Beauty queen in 1975.  This could be something really big for the newspapers, etc. -k


Merrell, that was in my bass playing days.  the name of the group -- who knows --it would be something to listen to again.  i did several sessions with glen and brought in several bands for recording too.  song titles?  i will have to listen to them to refresh my old memory. --k

Kenny

I was really surprised when I found your tape! Finding all this stuff after 50 years is really nostalgic for me, and I never know what will come up next in between a bunch of country songs.. That's the problem Glen didn't clearly log everything on the box, so you really don't know exactly whats hidden on the tapes! Like I said its long and tedious as all the splices break, I have to re splice and keep cleaning the heads and tape, lots of desert dust on them! I'm surprised they still play!

After I've gone thru all three big boxes of tapes and I have a chance I will burn you a CD of your songs and give you the master 2 track when I see you in July. I also found 8 songs by "The Pentagram" & some by "Chapter 17". Also the mother 45 stampers for "Tomorrows Girl" & "Sorry For Yourself" and the 4 track masters of "Fapardokly" songs recorded at Gary Paxton's studio in Hollywood!

All My Best,
Merrell

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