Laugh, Laugh was the San Francisco-based group's first single to chart, making it all the way to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Fen 1965. Their follow up single, Just a Little, did even better, zooming all the way to #8 on the Billboard chart in May of that same year.
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The Beau Brummels Laugh Laugh Live 1975
A Few Good Ideas
Feb 7, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6zB1TbXYhk

I am slipping this in because it has been in my queue for a long while. I am curious if it has staying power. This was taped single camera by me and Howard Lamden on a warm day in June of 1975 at Trod Nossel Studios in Wallingford, Connecticut for a live broadcast. There was a studio audience on the floor and I believe it went out live on WPLR 99.1 FM in New Haven. We were called in for free by Dick Kalt marketing executive at WPLR

The Beau Brummels had re-formed in 1974 with the five member original line up. They had released a self titled studio album on Warner Brothers in April 1975 with original member Ron Meagher who left during production. On this tour appearance he was replaced by Daniel Levitt. I shot the main camera and Howard shot cutaways on another 1/2” reel to reel some of which may be in this edit. Audio was a feed from the mixing board and maybe mono on this tape. Laugh, Laugh, was from their first album written by Ron Elliott. We taped ten songs most of them from the 1975 album. Limitations of single camera and video audio glitches are evident.

Viewer comments:

@garthtiffen319
thanks for uploading this! I had no clue they had reformed in the 70"s....Between his work with The Beau Brummels and Stoneground, I always thought that Sal Valentino was a criminally underrated artist.

@grouchosays
It always amazed me that girls like this song.

@BigStar303
I saw this version of The Beau Brummells in a small club in Cleveland in 1975. I even have a rather crudely recorded tape of them from a cassette recorder I snuck in. They were absolutely wonderful. Besides many tracks from the reunion album on Warner Brothers, they played at least two other newer compositions that didn't make the LP, "Melody" and "It's Been a Lousy Day."

By the way, as pointed out below, Declan Mulligan played bass on this tour. He was originally the BB's rhythm guitarist, but switched to bass when original bassist Ron Meagher dropped out of the reunion project.