Beatles
Open Letter To The Editor – Quad City Times – Silver Laughter
Note: Here is a copy of the letter I sent to the Quad City Times in Davenport, our hometown’s newspaper. They haven’t printed it yet… =========================== Editor, I was born and raised in Davenport and graduated from West High School… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“Eight Days A Week” Here is another cover version of the Beatles song we did in our tribute. All the songs in the tribute were shortened to include the most important parts. We also worked on putting them together… Read More ›
ReverbNation has Silver Laughter songs from “Sailing On Fantasies”
I created an account on ReverbNation on the recommendation from my daughter who is interested in promoting Silver Laughter. This week we sent out CDs to her friend who is on a television show up in Canada and wanted to… Read More ›
Long Lost Recordings of The Contents Are: Found
If you click here you can get a sample of my recent find. On a couple of old reel to reel tapes of my first band, The Contents Are:, we were able to save 14 live original songs from the… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton Makes A Boating Mistake
Keep in mind, we are new to boating; this is the first boat we have ever owned. Though I have been boating and water skiing with friends out here and on the Sacramento Delta, we have never owned our own… Read More ›
Incredible Find! Original Outtakes from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Don’t Feel Bad” This is the last of the outtakes that I have in my possession from the “Sailing On Fantasies” album. The title of the album itself was a play on words. The original working title was “Sailing Ships… Read More ›
Some History Before Mick Orton Joined Silver Laughter
Here are some photos out of the archives. Fortunately for me, my mom saved everything. This first photo is of me in my bedroom at 2103 N. Ohio Ave. in Davenport, Iowa where I lived since I was 7 years… Read More ›