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 for 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". From left: Ron Elliott, Declan Mulligan, Sal Valentino, Ron Meagher, John Petersen.Īutumn, Vault, Warner Bros., Bay Sound Records YOU TELL ME WHY/DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS: VOLUME 2Ģ7 SOMETIME AT NIGHT (Sal’s vocal version)ġ1 MRS BROWN YOU’VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTERġ6 ELEVATORS aka LOWER LEVEL (alternate version)* 17 ANOTHER (demo)ġ9 HAPPINESS IS FUNNY aka BITTERSWEET (version 1)*Ģ1 LIFT ME (alternate take) 22 ANOTHER (alternate demo)Ģ3 I LOVE YOU MAMA (version 1 – master) 24 BITTERSWEETĢ5 LIONEL REEVES & STELLA PARKER – 42ND STREETĢ6 TRIANGLE (alternate vocal)* 27 GLASS (backing track)Ģ3 I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT (alternate take)Ģ4 LOVE CAN FALL A LONG WAY DOWN (alternate mix)ġ1 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE (demo version 1)*Ģ7 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE (demo version 2)ģ1 STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY (Gold Star demo)ġ0 LITTLE GIRL aka TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY*ġ LAUGH, LAUGH (mono promo single version)Ģ STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY (mono single mix)ħ GENTLE WAND’RIN’ WAYS (mono single mix)Ĩ FINE WITH ME (version 1) (mono single mix)ĩ DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS (mono single mix)ġ3 ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS (mono single mix)ġ6 FINE WITH ME (version 2) (mono single mix)ġ7 TWO DAYS TIL TOMORROW (mono single edit)Ģ3 LONG WALKING DOWN TO MISERY (mono single mix)ġ9ĚIN'T THAT LOVING YOU BABY (alternate vers.The Beau Brummels in Village of the Giants (1965). 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.Īll 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.ġ9 AIN’T THAT LOVING YOU BABY (alternate vers.)Ģ3 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE (instrumental)Ģ4 HERE I AM IN LOVE AGAIN (backing track)Ģ6 JUST A LITTLE (alternate backing track) 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.Īssembled, 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.īoasting 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.