Month: March 2013
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Good Day Sunshine” This song was cut from the Beatles Tribute Show #1 so it is an abbreviated version. During the interludes where the Beatles are talking, we would switch instruments; Jon from 6 string to 12 string, Ken from… Read More ›
“Don’t Want To Lose” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Don’t Want To Lose” This song was very hard to do live since we really did it so well in the studio. There were lots of layered effects, but we did our best to perform this energetic composition by Ken… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“We’ve Got To Get You A Woman” Here is a song on which Ken sang lead. One of his favorite artists has always been Todd Rundgren. I think we did two of his songs. This one had me playing the… Read More ›
BMI Royalties Statement for Silver Laughter
As you can see from this royalties statement from BMI, the song “Lover” got a little bit of airplay. Several other songs from the first album also made it to the air waves. “Lover” was released as a single before… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Dear Prudence” One of the things I liked about our Beatles tribute was that we tackled songs even the Beatles never dared do on stage live. These days Paul McCartney does some of them, but with a group of musicians… Read More ›
Half of Silver Laughter – Mick and Paul play on The Contents Are: LIVE Original “All Around”
“All Around” I love posting our music on this site. It gives people a chance to hear what we were doing back in the early to late 70’s. This song was written by me when I was with The Contents… Read More ›
From the “Handle With Care” Album – “Any Words You Can Say”
“Any Words You Can Say” Not much I can say about this opening track from our first album except I still like it a lot. It was a departure from the Beatles type music we had been doing, and it… Read More ›
Some Photos of the Ortons – Mick and Marjie
Ken was in this jam session too, but I am not sure why he didn’t end up in one of the photos. In fact, I don’t know who took these. Snapped in Marjie’s music room, which is her converted garage… Read More ›