Like all successful songwriters, Kenny O'Dell has always been a frustrated artist, and so far he has made three or four concerted efforts to make it as a singer. The first was back in the early 1960s with the self-penned Old Time Love released on the Mar-Kay label. Several hundred copies were pressed and the record did receive some airplay in southern California, but Kenny was still stuck on the bottom rung of the ladder. Unperturbed by this failure, he worked for a while with Duane Eddy gaining experience along the way before forming a group called Guys and Dolls. This outfit stayed together for some five years playing clubs and hotel lounges throughout the States, including seasons in Hawaii and Alaska.
