Featured Playlist
- 15 Songs
- Introducing the Beau Brummels · 1965
- Introducing the Beau Brummels · 1965
- Triangle · 1967
- Laugh, Laugh (Original Stereo Version) - Single · 1965
- The Beau Brummels, Vol. 2 · 1965
- The Beau Brummels: Volume 2 · 1965
- Cry Just A Little - All Time Greatest Hits · 2000
- Introducing the Beau Brummels · 1965
- Good Time Music · 1965
- The Beau Brummels: Volume 2 · 1965
Essential Albums
- Though The Byrds or The Lovin' Spoonful might have come closer to being America's Beatles in terms of mainstream impact, San Francisco's Beau Brummels were musically much nearer to taking the U.S. Fab Four title (though there were five of them). Their 1965 debut album, produced by Sly Stone, held two hits ("Just a Little," "Laugh, Laugh") that married haunting, minor-key melodies with irresistible pop hooks, revealing guitarist/songwriter Ron Elliott's sophisticated palette. They were early riders on the country-rock train, rocking up Don Gibson's "Oh, Lonesome Me," and they lent a garage-rock touch to Jimmy Reed's blues grinder "Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby." But for much of the album, they fly the flag of mid-'60s U.K.-style beat pop boldly into American territory.
Albums
Singles & EPs
- 2005
About The Beau Brummels
In the ’60s, The Beau Brummels were widely viewed as the American answer to The Beatles. Led by songwriter/guitarist Ron Elliott and singer Sal Valentino, the band formed in San Francisco in 1964 and found early success with the 1965 Merseybeat-inflected hits “Laugh, Laugh” and “Just a Little.” Their debut LP appeared that same year, but the Brummels matured at a remarkable rate, and by 1967’s Triangle they were spinning a hypnotic web of psychedelic folk. Their creativity increased as their commerciality declined, and they followed up with the pioneering country rock of the Nashville-recorded 1968 LP Bradley’s Barn. By that point, the band was just Elliott and Valentino plus session players, and they split in 1969. But the whole classic lineup returned for a self-titled 1975 reunion album with a strong, rocking sound. They split again soon after yet would reconvene sporadically for shows over the next couple of decades, and their swan song arrived with 2013’s Continuum.
- ORIGIN
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1964
- GENRE
- Rock