SDC OmniMedia Group Magazine

Santa Ana, CA - (IFS) Kenneth Howard Smith, CEO of SDC OmniMedia Group did request that an inventory be given to the songwriter’s catalog of Keristene Music. It is reported that approximately 578 compositions are now logged with Broadcast Music, Inc, Nashville and that of this group of songs, Linda Lou Kestin-Meier, since 1976 to the present has written over sixty (60%) percent of all the songs in the catalog.

It is requested that a split in the partnership is required. Kestin and Smith have been contributing over the years to the catalog at a rate of 36 songs per year. Some years produced no recordings and other years generated more then 150 songs to the catalog. Smith request that the original owners keep their 33 1/3% shares each, and as an equal owner of 33 1/3%; that Smith be granted a split to his shares to 16.66% percent and transfer these offerings to Ms. Kestin-Meier and along with Smith shall continue to have only one (1) vote together; and that upon the non-participation of Mr. Smith or Ms. Kestin that his/her remaining shares shall be transferred to the remaining participant; which will bring his/her total shares to 33 1/3% percent. The vote for administration and control shall remain with the co-partner voted by the co-partners and shall be transferred every four (4) years on the first day of the month of January.

Keristene Music Publishing - The Start of a Publishing House

History of Keristene Music Publishers, Ltd. The year was 1969 that Irene Tarbell decided she was not a great singer nor a good songwriter, but she knew where the powers lay; and the life blood of the music business was in the hands of the publisher. Not the artist. Not the producer. Not the record company. And you needed just one hit record. Tarbell believed, Kenny Smith was good for at least one (1) HIT Record.

Tarbell’s vision that was in the administration of owning her own music publishing company. It was with the birth of their daughter, Kristine that Tarbell decided to rename her little publishing company KERISTENE. K.H.Smith Music transferred it’s song catalog to Tarbell’s Keristene Music, Ltd. company with the stipulation that Smith would always write his songs for Tarbell’s publishing company and that all the shares would be split 1/3 each to Kristine, Kenneth and Irene. Her mother’s name is Irene and her father’s name is Kenneth. A combination of each of the parents and the baby’s names created Keristene. The first recordings to be licensed to the young company were written by co-founder Kenneth Howard Smith.

Tarbell’s name appears on her KHS/Futura Records label with the1972 release of “Natural People” that placed the single in the Warner Bros. Records office and the single In CashBox Magazine’s top 100. It was a turn table hit which send Tarbell her first check for airplay royalties.

The Rosamond, California group Purple Olive recorded Journey To The Center Of Your Heart which gathered a lot of listeners from their song being played on KUTY-AM, in Palmdale, California in that year when the station played local music. After all, the Antelope Valley is the home of Billy Foster, Bobby Ormsby, Kenny Smith, Captain Beefheart’s Don Van Vliet, Merrell Fankhauser, Jeff Cotton and Frank Zappa to name a few.

It’s a turn-table hit record with Captain Don Imus, Andy Barber, Jerry Stevens and Bobby Ford kept spinning the four track tape cartridge with our song on it every hour on the hour for weeks, and it was their turn in the official radio rating logging for the clearing houses. It was the most requested song to be played for an entire month. KUTY radio signal reached the upper San Fernando Valley Area to Van Nuys Boulevard in North Hollywood to the south and Canoga park to the west of the valley. The signal was very clear, and then it would disappear at various cross streets.

Today, the catalog is well over one thousand songs ranging in all styles of music. This also gives you a chance to listen to the new songs of Linda Lou Kestin. With over seven CD volumes of of her lyrics, set to songs by Kenny Smith.

Ms. Kestin’s international achievements are world renown as a school principal and an awarding songwriter. In Contents Under Pressure, the new CD by Smith, revived one of her 1977 songs written with David Hasselhoff entitled One Of Those Girls.