Here are the lead sheets for our song, “Rock & Roll Game” which Ken wrote for the “Sailing on Fantasies” album. As you can see it was published by Love Street which was Art’s endeavor. This was one of the… Read More ›
Memorabilia
Cello Chart to Silver Laughter’s “Lover”
Another piece of memorabilia from Art is shown here. It is a chart for the cello part which was played on the “Lover” track of “Sailing on Fantasies”. I am not sure if it was Art or Bob Parker who… Read More ›
VERY RARE Find – Art Discovers Silver Laughter Chord Charts from “Sailing on Fantasies”
Art “Smart” and I talked last week on the telephone, and I discovered he still had a bunch of negatives from the Silver Laughter band days. Fortunately for us he also found some other very rare stuff which I will… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Plays the Cavern – 1975
Mark Zaputil found and scanned this 1975 flyer that was done to promote our job at the Cavern located in Rock Island, IL (not Moline as previously noted). Page 1 details all the members of the band. For some reason… Read More ›
Time to Revisit Silver Laughter’s Beatles Tribute
Art “Smart” (Gus) Stenstrom put together all the promotional material for our shows after he became our manager. While we were busy perfecting our music for the live performances, Art was busy working on the promo stuff. This page from… Read More ›
Calculation of Silver Laughter’s Hours On The Road
Attached is a scan of the back page of our late November 1977 newsletter. It shows all the places Art had us booked at the time of the printing. I did a quick calculation and came up with about 100… Read More ›
Silver Laughter 7″ Vinyl Singles Still Available
Okay, time for a shameless plug. I still have in my possession the following singles available for sale: “Don’t Feel Bad”/”Turn It Down” – from “Sailing on Fantasies” – FANFARE – both promotional and non-promotional labels “Sing Me Your Love… Read More ›
B Side of Silver Laughter’s “Don’t Feel Bad” 45 Cover; “Turn It Down”
As I have said elsewhere on this website, I think “Turn It Down” is the stronger song of the two on this record and the most interesting. It is also a departure from the Beatles sound we had been producing…. Read More ›
Silver Laughter – An Effort To Look Professional
Actually, Art had the idea to put these labels on our records before they went out. I do not think he did this for “Handle With Care” but did for “Sailing On Fantasies”. The idea was to have a few… Read More ›
Repeat Memorabilia – Silver Laughter Brochure
A lot of towns we played didn’t make this list. These listed here were mostly repeat performances in most cases. We often would play a place two or three times in a year depending on how Art booked us. He… Read More ›