After recording an album of cover songs, Beau Brummels '66, the band released a pair of critically acclaimed albums: Triangle in 1967 and Bradley's Barn in 1968. The group's commercial success declined by the following year, at which time the financially struggling Autumn label was acquired by Warner Bros. The band's popularity continued with the subsequent album, 1965's Introducing The Beau Brummels, and the Top 10 single " Just a Little". The Beau Brummels broke into the mainstream with their debut single, " Laugh, Laugh", for which they would later be credited with setting one of the aesthetic foundations for the San Francisco Sound, along with other bands such as the Charlatans the song is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".
Solo works, other projects and reformation (1969–2013). Beau Brummels '66, Triangle and Bradley's Barn (1966–68). Introducing the Beau Brummels and The Beau Brummels, Volume 2 (1965). Initially, the band's musical style blended beat music and folk music and typically drew comparisons to the Beatles, while their later work incorporated other music genres such as psychedelic rock and country rock. They were discovered by local disc jockeys who were looking to sign acts to their new label, Autumn Records, where Sylvester Stewart-later known as Sly Stone-produced the group's early recording sessions. Formed in San Francisco in 1964, the band's original lineup included Sal Valentino (lead vocals), Ron Elliott (lead guitar), Ron Meagher (bass guitar), Declan Mulligan (rhythm guitar, bass, harmonica), and John Petersen (drums). The Beau Brummels were an American rock band. Sal Valentino Ron Elliott Ron Meagher Declan Mulligan John Petersen Don Irving From left: Ron Elliott, Declan Mulligan, Sal Valentino, Ron Meagher, John Petersen.Īutumn, Vault, Warner Bros., Bay Sound Records The original stereo album masters are accompanied by a comprehensive assortment of out- takes, alternate mixes and 45 RPM versions, and are further enhanced by rarities and unreleased demos drawn from the band’s own archives.All the members of the Brummels also contribute to the instructive and heavily – illustrated history of the recordings, housed in a deluxe, handsomely appointed booklet art directed and designed by Steve Stanley.Īin't That Loving You Baby (alternate Vers.The Beau Brummels in Village of the Giants (1965). The group remained popular and influential in the US long after their 1965 chart successes with ‘Laugh, Laugh’ and ‘Just A Little’, and once the act had devolved to the duo of Valentino and Elliott in 1967, the Beau Brummels moved to the forefront of Warner Brothers’ late 1960s pop renaissance with the albums ‘Triangle’ and ‘Bradley’s Barn’, the latter a visionary country-rock masterpiece.Assembled, annotated and mastered by longtime Brummels’ aficionado Alec Palao, this major refurbishment of The Beau Brummels’ catalogue leaves no stone unturned. ‘Turn Around: The Complete Recordings 1964-1970’ is the exhaustive overview of their legacy has so long deserved presenting the band’s classic Autumn and Warner Brothers recordings in definitive fashion.Boasting the stellar songcraft of Ron Elliott and the unique voice of Sal Valentino, the Brummels were amongst the first American units to respond to the British Invasion with innovation rather than imitation. With their brilliant synthesis of folk and country, baroque and roll, San Francisco’s Beau Brummels made a major and lasting contribution to the lexicon of American popular music in the mid-1960s. 88 PAGE BOOKLET WITH DETAILED LINER NOTES AND RARE PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA FROM THE BAND’S PERSONAL COLLECTIONS. 24 UNRELEASED CUTS, WITH MANY TITLES NEW TO CD AND AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PERIOD MONO OR FRESH STEREO MIXES. 228 NEWLY REMASTERED TRACKS ACROSS EIGHT JAM-PACKED COMPACT DISCS IN REPLICA SLEEVES.
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