.....;Posted on 01/18/2014 8:26:37 PM PST by virgil283
"The Beau Brummels crafted a terrific pop song :"Laugh, Laugh" which went to No. 15 during the first five months of 1965"... The Beau Brummels may very well have been the best rock vocal quartet to find themselves in the right place at the wrong time. Their recording career spanned the years 1964 through 1968, a time when radio air play meant just about everything and groups that couldn't be conveniently classified as rock/folk/country/whatever had a time getting played. Unfortunately, the country-flavored rock style of the Brummels was too smooth and too vocally sound for them to be portrayed as revolutionary, so this tremendously talented foursome slogged along with moderate success "...
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Wow!! thanks for posting this. Shindig ...brings back memories of high school. Manfred Mann, The Kinks, Ian Whitcomb and the British invasion. memories.....
In the same vein, from the same era, one of the absolute best ever:
The Zombies-She’s Not There
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pX0yBJ5z8A
Don’t remember the Beau Brummels.
But who could ever forget the fabulous Beau Brummelstones!
Long were the hours I spent in front of the TV watching Shin-Rock...
;-)
Great thread. Thanks.
Not bad, but I definitely prefer the Vogues’ version. Glen C sounds a little like Gene Pitney on that. GP I think would have done a great version.
— . Music went straight down hill after the 80s. 50s, 60s, 70s, some 80s, were fantastic. Today’s music is a total embarrassment. ...
That’s the way I feel. I thought it would last forever. How on earth has rap lasted?
Brummel was a “mens’ fashion icon” of the early 19th century who started the practice of clothing merchants giving socially prominent people free stuff for the publicity. He was in the Prince Regent’s social circle but ended up dying debt-ridden and from syphilis...sad story.
Turn Around, Look at Me--The Lettermen (1962)
I saw Beau Brummel in Houston, Texas in 1965. Fairly small concert. Could hear the music very well. They were good.
Beau Brummel was an actual person. He was a British gadfly type of guy. Google his name.
When the Beau Brummells first made the playlist on KRLA late in 1964, I knew who Beau Brummell was, and a lot of my fellow teenagers probably did so as well, since the group found success with the name. Today's young people may be far more tech savvy than we were--or are today--but we probably knew more about the humanities, history, etc.
Yeah, Beau (my cousin’s cousin, as it happened) played the rhythm guitar with the band.
You don’t have to be “old” to recognize and appreciate quality music. I get positive responses all the time from kids when I’m pumping out tunes from the 50s, 60s and 70s on my Altec-Lansing boombox. Even some pajama boys seem to like it.
Apparently Joel is not even referencing the 1960s band but the 19th Century British "fashion dandy" who excessively dressed himself - he would take 5 hours to dress each day and he even polished his shoes with champagne. I Googled a picture of him and he looks sort of like that guy who played Mozart in that Amadeus movie.
Getting back to Beau Brummels, the band, I think they might have suffered image problems by giving themselves that name (apparently another reason was that they would have their records alphabetically placed next to The Beatles in the record stores.)
Speaking of which, they really tried too hard to be another Beatles in my opinion. Just look at the video linked here with the drummer shaking his hair (like Ringo) and two other members doing the whole "John and Paul" thing with the microphone. Even when they were animated for that Flintstones episode, they were eerily Beatle-like in appearance.
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