The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels
	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
Singing , tambourine	Sal Valentino
Lead guitar , vocals	Ron Elliott
Bass , vocals	Ron Meagher
Rhythm guitar , harmonica	Declan Mulligan
Drums	John Louis Petersen †
Banjo , guitar	Dan Levitt (1974/75)
former members
Guitar , vocals	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
01/02/1965	Laugh, Laugh	15th	12
04/17/1965	Just a little	08th.	12
07/24/1965	You Tell Me Why	38.	07th
10/09/1965	Don't talk to strangers	52.	08th
December 25, 1965	Good Time Music	97.	01
06/04/1966	One Too Many Mornings	95.	03

US discography

Vinlyl singles

From page	Catalog no.	published
	Autumn
Laugh Laugh / Still in Love With You Baby	08th	12/1964
Just a Little / They'll Make You Cry	10	04/1965
You Tell Me Why / I Want You	16	07/1965
Don't Talk to Strangers / In Good Time	20th	09/1965
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
Introducing The Beau Brummels	Autumn 103	04/1965	024.
The Beau Brummels, Volume 2	Autumn 104	08/1965
Beau Brummels '66	Warner Bros. 1644	07/1966
Triangle	Warner Bros. 1692	07/1967	197
Bradley's Barn	Warner Bros. 1760	10/1968
The Beau Brummels	Warner Bros. 2842	04/1975	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