Help in Identifying the Steel Player in Dick Bills Band

Jay Kantor · Post by **Jay Kantor** » 4 May 2020 6:53 am

Hi and thanks for allowing me to post in your forum. My name is Jay Kantor and I am co-owner/admin of www.glencampbellforums.com That site is the only searchable medium on the web for Glen and his legacy. An important part of that legacy is his time in New Mexico. Little by little, we are obtaining accurate information and capturing it.

There are several pictures of Glen with Dick Bills and the Sandia Mountain Boys that we are trying to accurately ID. The Bills family has been extremely helpful in this endeavor, but we are not sure about the steel player in the following photo.

Some have claimed it is Jimmy Chalker ... who may be the brother of Curly Chalker...another said he was Kenneth Morris...who went by KEMO. Dick was in Dallas for a time and knew Curly from the Dallas circuit...so there is a (remote) link there.

Hopefully, someone here can help me out with a positive ID. I certainly would be grateful. I know the Bills family would love to know also. I WAG would be this picture was taken in 56, give or take a year.

Thanks again for allowing me to post this on your forum.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 4 May 2020 7:07 am

Jay,
I understand that Glen Campbell's first wife was Dick Bills daughter, is that right?

Erv

Jay Kantor · Post by **Jay Kantor** » 4 May 2020 7:16 am

Erv...Glen's first wife's name was Diane Kirk and they were married (young)in 1955 for a couple of years.
Dick Bills was Glen's uncle.

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 4 May 2020 7:20 am

Is that Bobby Koefer on steel?

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 4 May 2020 7:21 am

Jay,
Thanks for clearing that up.
I never knew that Glen and Bill were related.
My cousin and I were on Dick Bill's radio show way back when.

Erv

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » 4 May 2020 8:43 am

According to this 2012, page 3 post on the Tele Forum, it's Kenneth "Kemo" Morris.

Check out post #52 by "Bolida" identifying Kenneth as his uncle.

https://www.tdpri.com/threads/glen-camp ... 488/page-3

Roy Carroll · Post by **Roy Carroll** » 4 May 2020 8:46 am

Why is "Dick" written on his tie?

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 4 May 2020 10:42 am

He's playing for "Dick" Bills.

Erv

Jerry Jones · Post by **Jerry Jones** » 4 May 2020 10:45 am

Looks like the ties say either "Dick" or "Bills"

Jay Kantor · Post by **Jay Kantor** » 6 May 2020 6:19 am

Doggone...should have been more interested about the Dick tie.

Thanks Jerry, I had found that post about KEMO on this forum through a search...That is why I thought I might post the question here, as this was the only site that had offered any info on him in that picture. But there have been a couple of folks in ALB that have said it is Chalker.

Sometimes old bait doesn't attract fish.