Author: Len Handler

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Six-Salmon Fly Shadow Box

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I Never Loved Her (and I Always Will)

Written by Len Handler & A.J. Gundell

(Nashville Demo). Ya gotta have a swing tune on your reel! This is mine.
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The Last Day of Forever

Written by Len Handler and A.J. Gundell;

Vocal by Tanya Lea

Used as the opening credits for the film, “Sheeba” with Ed Asner and Judge Reinhold.

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Her Valentine

Written by Len Handler and John Alexander;

Vocal by Holli Jacobs;
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One Hundred Dollars

Written by Len Handler & Kim Oler;

Performed by Kim Oler; A tune about the journey taken by a $100 bill, and how it affects the lives of the souls it encounters.
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Meteor

Written by Len Handler & Kevin Briody;

Performed by Brad Blackwell;
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Bridges

(Nashville Demo) Russ Zavitson encouraged lyric changes on this tune, then signed it to Polygram Music in Nashville. He was never able to get a cut on it, but not from lack of trying. I still think it’s one of the simplest, most straightforward tunes I’ve written.
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Mickey Mantle

Written by Len Handler & A.J. Gundell: Performed by The Helium Bros.

I used to walk the railroad tracks between Westwood and Hillsdale, N.J. It was a straight line between the two towns – the only tough part was the railroad bridge by the Banana Factory. In July and August, the trip was usually punctuated by the smell of tar and creosote from the tracks. And by the sounds of cars being worked on in the garages along Broadway that paralleled the tracks. And the blare of baseball over the service station radios.

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The Favor

Written by Len Handler & Kevin Briody

Vocal by Kevin Briody; Guitar, Len Handler

This is another tune that is absolutely true. I recorded my Mom, Evelyn Handler, playing piano for her 65th Birthday. It seemed like such a milestone then, but here I am older now than she was then. Kevin Briody did some wonderful co-writing on the lyric.

Evelyn Lasky Handler, in front of Lasky Co., Newark, NJ, c1940
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Seven Days In My Heart

Written by Len Handler & Kim Oler

Piano/Vocal by Kim Oler; I wrote this about being a single parent. Even as life changes and evolves, it is as true today as it was forty years ago.