Fapardokly returns: Group’s song on CD

[Dave Monroe]

FIVE CITIES  NEWS
Fapardokly returns: Group’s song on CD
Official release of ‘LA Nuggets’ set for Tuesday
By Mike Hodgson/Associate Editor/mhodgson at timespressrecorder.com


Rhino Entertainment’s boxed CD set “Where the Action Is! Los Angeles
Nuggets 1965-1968,” which contains a song by a Central Coast group, is
scheduled for official release Tuesday, said Merrell Fankhauser of
Arroyo Grande, who wrote the song, “Tomorrow’s Girl.”

Fankhauser said the box set contains songs by some of the biggest
groups from that time, including Spirit, the Byrds, Buffalo
Springfield, the Doors, the Turtles, the Mamas and the Papas, the
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Nilsson and the Beach Boys.


It also contains “Tomorrow’s Girl” by Fankhauser’s 1966 group
Fapardokly, also known as Merrell & The Exiles.

In 1966, the song won the “Rate a Record” contest on Dick Clark’s
“American Bandstand” TV show.

Fankhauser said the self-titled Fapardokly album went on to become one
of the most sought-after records of the 1960s, and a sealed copy today
is worth about $1,000.

People often wonder about the origin of the band’s odd name.

“We didn’t have a name for the group at the time, and when the
(record) label asked what we were calling the group now, I said
‘Fapardokly,’” Fankhauser said. “I took the first two letters from
everyone’s last name FA — Fankhauser; PAR — Parrish, a bass player we
had at the time; DO — Dodd; and KLY, rhymed with Dick Lee, the
drummer.

“It turned out to be so different, I think it made the group stick out
in the ’60s psychedelic era.”

Fankhauser said a ’60s-style video of the song was posted on
youtube.com the first week of September.

Fapardokly has retained a place in the cultural fabric. In his new
book, “Inherent Vice,” author Thomas Pynchon has his main character
listening to the group’s album at one point in the story.

Fankhauser said syndicated disc jockey Scott Shannon of True Oldies
radio New York programmed “Tomorrow’s Girl” into his show broadcast on
almost 2,000 True Oldies stations last week.

It began playing on 185 stations, including college stations, in
August as a build-up to the in-store CD release Tuesday.

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Fapardokly

Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter
and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands
including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty,
Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on
Fapardokly's 1966 album Fapardokly; "triple-tongue highway classic"
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http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F

Fapardokly - 'Tomorrow's Girl' (1967)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0