The Beau Brummels
The Beau Brummels | |
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General information | |
origin | San Francisco , United States |
Genre (s) | Folk rock , pop rock , psychedelic folk , country rock , psychedelic rock |
founding | 1964, 1974 |
resolution | 1968, 1975 |
Last occupation | |
Sal Valentino | |
Ron Elliott | |
Ron Meagher | |
Declan Mulligan | |
John Louis Petersen † | |
Dan Levitt (1974/75) | |
former members | |
Don Irving (1965/66) |
The Beau Brummels was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1964 . Her music spanned styles such as folk , pop , country , beat and psychedelic rock . The band name refers to the English dandy Beau Brummell .
history
The band was formed in San Francisco in 1964 in response to the "British Invasion" . This meant the fashion wave, which at the time swept masses of beat bands from Great Britain across the Atlantic to the USA . The founding engines were songwriter Ron Elliott and lead singer Sal Valentino (actually Salvatore Willard Spanpinato). The Beau Brummels' first single was released in late 1964 on the Autumn record label, entitled Laugh Laugh . It was produced by Tom Donahue and Sylvester Stewart, who would later go down in music history as Sly Stone . The song Laugh Laugh reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Later, the song was inducted into the list of the 500 songs that have shaped rock and roll the most, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
After this recording, the guitarist Dec Mulligan had to leave due to labor problems and the formation continued as a quartet . After five singles on Autumn, with which the Beau Brummels each got into the Hot 100, the band switched to the Warner Brothers record company in 1966 , where another seven singles were produced by 1969. Of them only the 1966 title One Too Many Mornings came into the charts.
In 1966 the group disintegrated for the first time. In the line-up of Elliott, Valentino and Meagher, The Beau Brummels attempted a comeback with the two more complex albums "Triangle" (1967) and "Bradley's Barn" (1968), separated from the beat format. Although both were well received by critics and connoisseurs and are still considered reference records today, the sales figures remained in the basement and the band split again. There was one last sign of life in 1975 from the Beau Brummels, this time with the original line-up. But the dilemma persisted, despite favorable reviews, it was not successful.
Ron Elliott worked as a musician with Van Morrison , Randy Newman or the Everly Brothers before a diabetes disease forced him to largely end his musical career. Sal Valentino sang with Stoneground for a few years , later in local bands and only released a solo album in 2006 (Come Out Tonight).
Members
Between 1964 and 1968 the band consisted of the following members:
- Sal Valentino alias Salvatore Willard Spanpinato (born September 8, 1942 in San Francisco, California, USA) - vocals, tambourine
- Ronald Charles Elliott (born October 21, 1943 in Healdsburgh, California , USA) - guitar, backing vocals
- Ronald Meagher (born October 2, 1941 in Oakland , California, USA) - bass, backing vocals
- John Louis Peterson (born January 8, 1942 in Rudyard, Michigan , USA, † November 11, 2007 in San Francisco ) - drums
- Declan Mulligan (born April 4, 1938 in County Tipperary , Ireland ) - guitar
- Don Irving (* 1946 ) - guitar, backing vocals (only 1965/66)
Between 1974 and 1975 Dan Levitt (guitar and banjo) was a regular member of the group.
US charts on Billboard
Started | title | Hot 100 | Weeks |
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01/02/1965 | Laugh, Laugh | 15th | 12 |
04/17/1965 | Just a little | 8th. | 12 |
07/24/1965 | You Tell Me Why | 38. | 7th |
10/09/1965 | Don't talk to strangers | 52. | 8th |
December 25, 1965 | Good Time Music | 97. | 1 |
06/04/1966 | One Too Many Mornings | 95. | 3 |
US discography
Vinlyl singles
From page | Catalog no. | published |
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Autumn | ||
Laugh Laugh / Still in Love With You Baby | 8th | 12/1964 |
Just a Little / They'll Make You Cry | 10 | 4/1965 |
You Tell Me Why / I Want You | 16 | 7/1965 |
Don't Talk to Strangers / In Good Time | 20th | 9/1965 |
Good Time Music / Sad Little Girl | 24 | 12/1965 |
Warner bros. | ||
One Too Many Mornings / She Reigns | 5813 | 4/1966 |
Here We Are Again / Fine With Me | 5848 | 9/1966 |
Don't Make Promises / Two Days Till Tomorrow | 7014 | 3/1967 |
Magic Hollow / Lower Level | 7079 | 9/1967 |
Lift Me / Are You Happy | 7204 | 6/1968 |
Long Walking Down to Misery / I'm a Sleeper | 7218 | 8/1968 |
Cherokee Girl / Deep Water | 7260 | 1/1969 |
Long-playing records (vinyl)
title | Catalog no. | published | Top 200 |
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Introducing The Beau Brummels | Autumn 103 | 4/1965 | 24. |
The Beau Brummels, Volume 2 | Autumn 104 | 8/1965 | |
Beau Brummels '66 | Warner Bros. 1644 | 7/1966 | |
Triangle | Warner Bros. 1692 | 7/1967 | 197 |
Bradley's Barn | Warner Bros. 1760 | 10/1968 | |
The Beau Brummels | Warner Bros. 2842 | 4/1975 | 180. |
Individual evidence
literature
- Pareles, Jon / Romanowski, Patricia (Eds.): The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll . London: Rolling Stone Press / Michael Joseph, 1983, pp. 35f