The Polaras released a good instrumental 45 “Cricket” / “Breaker” on Pharos PR 100. Harry Baldwin wrote both songs, published by Bevlynn. Cashbox reviewed the single on July 11, 1964.
My copy is inscribed by Harry Baldwin and Don “Pickle” Nadow. Copyright registration from September 21, 1964 shows the band’s names for an unreleased pair of songs, “Polara 500” and “Pickled Drums”, with music by Les Peterson, Harry Baldwin, Arden Fennell, and Don Nadow. Bevlynn Music Corp. also published these songs. I hope they exist on a demo.
Assuming these are the members of the group, the lineup might be:
Harry Baldwin – guitar
Arden Fennell – guitar
Les Peterson – bass
Don Nadow – drums
Arden Fennell is the only member I can find further info on. Arden had a 1969 single on Evolution, “Baby” b/w his original song “Smile A Little Smile”.
Arden was also guitarist and vocalist in other groups: The Daniel Paul Revelation with Sam Haughland, John Kerns, Rich Tiley, and Randy Tiley; and The Tryb with Ralph Gonzalez, Jerry Lawson, Tim Rock, Leroy Shuster, Bill Shuster, both of which recorded unreleased songs at Norman Petty’s studio.
Pharos was based in Hollywood, mainly releasing records by TV actress Rosemary Prinz, and a jug-band type single by the Nomads, produced by Jackie DeShannon.
Don Nadow left the group in 1965 and got married. He went on to be a disc jockey in Colorado and Nebraska. In 1980 he left radio and joined the Sterling, Colorado police department. He’s retired now and lives in Loveland, Colorado. Les Peterson and Arden Fenell got a new drummer and lead guitar player and continued to perform. Not sure when Harry Baldwin left the group. He moved to Arazona. He passed away a few tears ago.