“Lady Madonna” In June of 1978 we were playing at The Ranch & Co. in Port Byron. This clip from our Beatles Tribute #2 features me on lead vocal and piano (plus kazoo!), Ken on bass, Jon on guitar and… Read More ›
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CORRECTED: Silver Laughter in Late 1974
Here is a very rare photo of the band after one of its early personnel changes taken on the Ludtke farm (I think) in Davenport. Thanks to Steve Elliott for sending me this one. Featured on top of the structure… Read More ›
“Another Girl” from Silver Laughter’s Beatles Tribute
“Another Girl” Here is a very good Silver Laughter rendition of this Beatles song which appeared on the “Help” album as well as the movie of the same name. The Beatles thought it was a throw away song, but… Read More ›
Correction to Silver Laughter History
Since I was not in the band from the beginning, I was a bit sketchy on the origin of Silver Laughter. The real story is the original band which featured Jon and Kim Ludtke, Steve Elliott, and John Carstensen was… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Huge Influence – The Beatles
Art sent me a note this morning: I was digging around this morning on the internet and found this interesting website with a story about KIOA Des Moines and the Beatles. Click below and page down to the section entitled… Read More ›
Another Silver Laughter Cover of the Beatles “She Loves You”
“She Loves You”was one of the finale songs from both our Beatles Tributes. In set 1 we ended with “She Loves You”, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “Sergeant Pepper – Reprise”. In set 2 we ended with… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Paul Staack and Mick Orton Play on The Contents Are: Original
“If You Follow Me” This was another one of my favorite Craig Hute songs. I found a live version of this one on those tapes of The Contents Are: live performances. But several months later a friend, Wade Calvert, sent… Read More ›
CBS Sunday Morning Celebrates The Beatles 50 Years Later – A Silver Laughter Influence
Today the CBS Sunday Morning show spent some time celebrating one of Silver Laughter’s influences, The Beatles, 50 years later. What I remember after they came out was that every teenage boy in the Quad Cities was in a band… Read More ›
About Silver Laughter’s Influences – New Beatles Book
As I have said before in posts, there was not much we didn’t know about the Beatles, as long as it was in a book or movie or documentary. But this new book by their personal assistant, Freda Kelly, is… Read More ›
The Silver Laughter World Gets Smaller! Tom Kelley from TODD Beat Group Touches Base!
I absolutely LOVE the Internet. When it first started getting popular, I was in IT and saw the potential of being able to connect to other people so far away. But I had no idea that programs like Facebook would… Read More ›