The Beau Brummels Laugh Laugh Live 1975
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- I am slipping this in because it has been in my queue for a long while. I am curious if it has staying power. This was taped single camera by me and Howard Lamden on a warm day in June of 1975 at Trod Nossel Studios in Wallingford, Connecticut for a live broadcast. There was a studio audience on the floor and I believe it went out live on WPLR 99.1 FM in New Haven. We were called in for free by Dick Kalt marketing executive at WPLR who a friend, Michael Smith, not sure but may have contacted. The Beau Brummels had re-formed in 1974 with the five member original line up. They had released a self titled studio album on Warner Brothers in April 1975 with original member Ron Meagher who left during production. On this tour appearance he was replaced by Daniel Levitt. I shot the main camera and Howard shot cutaways on another 1/2” reel to reel some of which may be in this edit. Audio was a feed from the mixing board and maybe mono on this tape. Laugh, Laugh, was from their first album written by Ron Elliott. We taped ten songs most of them from the 1975 album. Limitations of single camera and video audio glitches are evident.
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Sal Valentino - lead vocals, tambourine
Ron Elliott - lead guitar, backing vocals, occasional lead
John Declan Mulligan - rhythm guitar, harmonica, backing vocals, occasional lead (died 2021)
John Peterson - drums, occasional lead vocal (died 2007)
Daniel Levitt - banjo, guitar
Been years since I heard this song - I remembered almost all the words and timing - I'm now 75 and can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday! Thanks for the memories.
Thank you for your reminiscence and great comments - if you haven't already, take a look at the other videos I have posted from this same session.
Great music has a way of sticking around in our minds and memories. No wonder we love it. .
73 and totally with you.
I second that!
Music lovers love the Beau Brummels. Thank you. Never enough Beau Brummells
Thank you for your kind remarks.
@@afewgoodideas big tom donahue knew a thing or two
Yes he did!
Yes, short-lived window of fame but produced two all-time classics with this song and "Cry Just a Little."
I have posted "Just A Little" and today I just posted one of the two unrecorded songs from this set called " I Lost That Melody" by Ron Elliott.
That's my 'stepdad' Dec Mulligan on bass. RIP Dec.
Thank you for reaching out and letting us know.
Someone just commented yesterday "My sister went to sixth grade with the bass player's sister. He got them tickets to the last Beatles concert in Candlestick Park." also I just posted "I Lost That Melody" an unrecorded song.
Are you kidding? This song definitely has staying power; a great song! Thanks so much for posting this for all the enjoy!
one of the best songs to come out of the sixties
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Without a doubt, my biggest regret in over50 years of going to concerts was choosing to see the Stones in '75 and NOT the Beau Brummels at the Main Point. The rumor was this might be the Stones last tour and since the Brummels had just reformed.... I ended up walking out on the Stones and the Beau Brummels broke up again!
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I agree, never saw the stones & would not walk across the street to hear old saucer lips & living human cadaver if you paid me $10K
Last Tour Rumor.? Stones have never floated last tour talk.
Re: Beau Brummell saw them at the Whiskey a go go in the mid sixties and they were terrific.
I just saw the Stones don't regret who you picked just enjoy the memory of who you saw 😊
I still love the Brummels. Sal is a great singer. I came across him a few times in Sacramento. Nice guy.
Thank you for your kind comments re: Sal and the Beau Brummels
The Beau Brummels were the 1st American Rock Group to transition to the British beat sound. Other groups found this quite challenging but no problem for the Beau Brummels. They found a way to not only fight back musically but stay in the forefront of American Rockers. This is their 1st hit song and it’s as though they were fighting fire 🧯 with fire 🔥 against the British Groups . Laugh Laugh 😆 😅😊is a great 👍 song and back in the late ⏰ 70’s I had this song 🎵 on a greatest hits Lp. The Beau Brummels were an American group that defined the 60’s. Fellas, if you all are still performing out there…Keep Rocking!!!
Thank you for your kind remembrance. Sal is still with us and may read your comments.
This is still one of my top 10 faves from the 60s.
Thank you for your comment. If you haven't already, take a look at the other Beau Brummels videos I have posted from this same session.
@@afewgoodideas Thanks. I will.
these guys deserved a lot more recognition than they got , thank you for the video its awesome.
Thank you for your comments on the video and the group!
Thank you for your comments on this video and the group.
This was even sang on the Flintstones !
Yes it was! Thank you for your comment. If you haven't already, take a look at the other Beau Brummels videos I have posted from this same session.
thanks for uploading this! I had no clue they had reformed in the 70"s....Between his work with The Beau Brummels and Stoneground, I always thought that Sal Valentino was a criminally underrated artist.
Thank you for your comments and appreciation for Sal Valentino.
A great song they did not too many people have heard before "Still in love with you baby". I just discovered it myself.
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Love these guys ! Good memories.
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I saw this version of The Beau Brummells in a small club in Cleveland in 1975. I even have a rather crudely recorded tape of them from a cassette recorder I snuck in. They were absolutely wonderful. Besides many tracks from the reunion album on Warner Brothers, they played at least two other newer compositions that didn't make the LP, "Melody" and "It's Been a Lousy Day."
By the way, as pointed out below, Declan Mulligan played bass on this tour. He was originally the BB's rhythm guitarist, but switched to bass when original bassist Ron Meagher dropped out of the reunion project.
Thank you for your reminiscences and additional information on the 1975 tour, much appreciated.
I just posted one of the two unrecorded songs from this set called " I Lost That Melody" by Ron Elliott which is most likely what you saw and heard in Cleveland!
Deserves more views. A great band.
Thank you for your comment, see the newest video I just posted from this same session "You Tell Me Why"
They are really good live. Exceptional musicianship and all
I'll always remember this song from the scene in "Uncle Buck" where Buck dances to it with Marcy the neighbor and they bump heads!😆
Just posted another tune from this live session for a total of seven with the final three coming soon.
Loved thier song "Woman" from the Village Of The Giants movie. The guitar solo was pretty amazing for its day.
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Great song!!!
I just posted another tune from this live session for a total of seven up here now on RUclips with the final three coming soon.
Yes truly live. I wish more "live" videos were as honest as this one.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Never realized how much I missed hearing this song until I heard it again. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for your kind comment. I have 5 Beau Brummel videos from this session posted to date and hope to have another soon.
I wish I was there. I lived in Wallingford CT, and I heard this on WPLR. This is the only other time I heard it. 49 years ago!
This is great to hear live performance. All I'd heard for decades was the studio version. 70 yo now.
I wish you had been there as well! I am working to post two -five more cuts from this session of ten, two of which may have never been recorded. I try not to think of how many years ago!
This song has always had such a cool vibe to it. I always thought the harmonica on the original recording gave it a special “I told you so” touch. I’ve always loved this song. I didn’t know they were an American group until recently. Wish I could have seen them live at some point in my life. Thank you for this video. ❤🙏
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Special video! Great song! Love it!
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10th time watching simply beautiful
Thank you for your views.I just posted another tune from this live session for a total of seven with the final three coming hopefully soon. I am not large enough to make income from my RUclips channel yet !so please consider a tip at ko-fi.com/afewgoodideas
Saw them in Denver at Ebbets Field! They kicked ass!
Thank you for your comments. I am working to post two -five more cuts from this session, two of which may have never been recorded.
Wow, been a fan since their 1st album and 1st time i've seen them live. Thank you.
Thank you for your comment - much appreciated. I just posted "You Tell Me Why " from this session.
It always amazed me that girls like this song.
Thank you for your cogent comment.
@@afewgoodideas Indeed. By today’s woke standards it would be considered misogynistic. Same with “Run for Your Life.” Yoko shamed into disavowing that song.
great job Sal!!
Thanks for your comment for Sal.
Thanks for posting this!
Thank you for watching. Just posted another tune from this session.
This is wonderful! Thanks.
Thank you for your comment on The Beau Brummels Live 1975
Way cool. Other takes from the best hits are always so great to hear!
Hi Mark, I have posted 9 of the 10 cuts from this live Beau Brummels 1975 session including two unrecorded songs!
Original studio version produced by Sylvester Stewart (the future Sly Stone)
Thank you for notes and please check out other videos from this session I posted if you haven't already.
SUPER KEWL !
Thank you!
Wonderful, love it!
Thank you. I just posted one of the two unrecorded songs from this set called " I Lost That Melody" by Ron Elliott.
It's a pity they didn't get more of a push from their record company. Every kid of a certain age knew Laugh, Laugh from the Flintstones if only we would've known they were a real band as opposed to the Beau Brummelstones, I think they would have done much better as those kids came of age?.
A nice insight and thank you for the comments.
Saw them live. Great!
great vocalist
Thank you for your comment for Sal!
Only band to ever do The Flintstones!
The Beau Brummellstones.
Thank you for your comments. A few have mentioned the Flintstones!
Rock Quarry Ann Margrock ! What was the name of the teen show Brimmelstones played on in Flintstones... Shin Rock ?
Tremendous memories of being old enough to know this group when they first came out with their music. The clip used on the original Meet thr Flintstones with the Beau Brummelstones is also a classic. Good relaxing music- thank you.
Also to the posting of seeing BB in Clevelamd in 1975, would this have been in an area known as the Flats at a place called Jimmy's perhaps? Just curious.
Thank you for your kind comments. I have 5 Beau Brummel videos from this session posted to date and hope to have another soon. Cleveland commenter would have to answer your question.
Pooka shells!"!"!"!"!
I just posted another tune from this session for a total of five Beau Brummels up here on my youtube channel. Thanks for your comments!
I was nervous about hearing a 1975 version of this on a no-budget night. I was delighted. I'm also a fan of Levitt & McClure and I'm wondering if this band was playing the song "Paradise", co-written by Elliot and recorded by L&M.
They did not play that song during this set. Thank you for your comments!
WPLR! Hey, New Haven!
Thank you for your comment! New Haven was always the intersection of I-91 to I-95 in our drives from Boston to NYC and back in the 1970's or the train stop on the overnight ! It was only in a recent year my wife and I stopped for Pizza! If you haven't already take a look at the other BB videos I posted from this session.
Praise the almighty algorithm. This is so cool .
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Thank you for your support.
Things were so different then. The music biz had no corporate backers. Music was regional, San Francisco had their bands, LA had its bands. The musicians were realizing that the weekly race with other bands was an artificial bunch of hype.
The Beau Brummels were in the “fancy pants” category with the Left Banke because of their clothes. The Kinks were getting out of that category after Dave’s sword fight in a bar. “Laugh, Laugh” was a strong song, somewhat sounding like it had been written by Gene Clarke of the Byrds… I am just now listening to their later songs, catching up…. It sounds like they are trying to confirm to something different than their original vision….
Thanks for your comments much appreciated.
Will be 74 next month. Also remember the lyrics too. Shows what's important.
I am of a certain age as well!
Sal did some nice work with Stoneground.
Yes very much so. Thanks for your comments.
❤️
Thank you for your heartfelt comment!
People have forgot the great importance and influence doowop and its reliance on group vocals had on early rock bands. It is what is missing today. Replaced by tired synthesizer sounds.
Thank you for your insight. I just posted another tune from this live session for a total of seven with the final three coming hopefully soon.
Does anyone remember the Flintstones Beau Brummelstones? They used this song.
Yes a few have made the reference. Thanks for watching.
Don Irving?
Don Irving was not here at this session. Thanks for viewing.
Ahh..the Flintstones...
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@@afewgoodideas anytime!!
This was evidently a reunion--this group was from the mid-'60's. Sounded better then, too. ruclips.net/video/xzTlgjkIXxs/видео.html
Yes a reunion. See the description on Laugh Laugh.
Starting @ 1 min mark
Okay
Who is the singer?
Sal Valentino
Bradley's Barn album a forerunner to the Cosmic American music Gram Parsons envisaged, such a great album.
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Thank you Gary for answering patm5086 and your brilliant comment on the Beau Brummels 1968 Bradley's Barn album.
Sorry Bruce, thank you for answering patm5086's question about Sal
Sal Valentino is flat but a good effort.
Thanks for your interest. Flat may be my recording from 1/2" reel to reel video 49 years ago!
Lovely
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