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Bassist, vocalist and co-song writer for THE SILVERS! What have we done?
1) NEW HIT SINGLE (2 songs)
2) FREE What are You Christmas?
3) After The Laugher (14 songs including 2 above)
4) End of Summer EP (6 songs)
5) FREE Sing Another Christmas Song
6) PLAY! (14 songs)
7) Another summer EP (7 songs including re-recording of Running Away)
8) FREE Silvers Bells (4 Christmas songs)
9) Soul surrender (14 songs to be released May 2018)

And don't forget the animated videos of some of these songs!

• Silver Laughter’s “Working Man”… our “Taking Care of Business”

  By The Silvers on February 1, 2013 • ( 1 )

  As I have said before, a lot of our music for “Handle With Care” was already written for other groups before we combined them into a single album. But a few of the tunes were written after I joined the… Read More ›

• From the Silver Laughter Booking Calendar for November, 1978

  By The Silvers on January 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• After Silver Laughter… after Double Shot… There was Island Fever

  By The Silvers on January 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  After Ken and I arrived in California following the demise of Double Shot, my sister, Marjie Orton, was busy writing and performing her own original songs with a band called Honey Creek, a three piece all girl acoustic group. Eventually,… Read More ›

• MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!

  By The Silvers on January 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  “Some Kind of Wonderful” When we learned this Grand Funk Railroad song, Jon and I decided to trade off vocals. It was one of the few songs that started with my bass line. I sang the first verse, and Jon… Read More ›

• Worthington, MN and Silver Laughter

  By The Silvers on January 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I seem to remember we were popular in a lot of clubs we played. If you look at our booking calendar and the itinerary that’s on the newsletter, you can see we were invited back to a lot of the… Read More ›

• Milwaukee Friend of Silver Laughter responds to an e-mail I sent

  By The Silvers on January 28, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Thanks Mick! The Thin Lizzy cover sounds great!  Really looking forward to hearing more of your cover versions on the site.  It’s great to keep returning to find more updates!  Always look forward to checking back. Take care, Paul Milwaukee,… Read More ›

• MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!

  By The Silvers on January 27, 2013 • ( 1 )

  “Let ’em In” For this cover of Paul McCartney and Wings selection I switched to piano and Ken played my bass. I sang the lead vocal. We simulated the flute parts by Jon, Ken and I whistling and the trumpet… Read More ›

• Martin from Quebec reviews Silver Laughter music!

  By The Silvers on January 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Hey you got my email that says I did receive the records, right? Been jamming these constantly since then and gotta say they both rule hard. As a whole I prefer “Sailing on Fantasies” but there are some killer jams… Read More ›

• Changing Times and Guitars…

  By The Silvers on January 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The other Silver Laughter guys each had several guitars they used on stage and in the recording studio. Up until “Sailing on Fantasies”, I only had my Hofner Beatle Bass. It was nice and light and sounded good for our… Read More ›

• Extraordinary Find – A Silver Laughter NEWSLETTER in my guitar case…

  By The Silvers on January 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  This was addressed to my sister, Marjie Orton, back when she lived in Olema, CA which is near where I now live. Every quarter (I think) we did a newsletter which went out to our fans who signed up for… Read More ›