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 ›
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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 ›
Silver Laughter’s Jon Ludtke and Steve Elliott – Class of ’99
Back in 1999 a bunch of Davenport musicians got together and did an album for what I am assuming is the local FM station KFMH – 99. On this album were two Silver Laughter founding members, Jon Ludtke on vocals… Read More ›
Thank You – Everyone Who Has Visited The Site
To date, we have had 6.730 visitors to the site so far. I wanted to thank everyone from every country who has dropped by to visit and spent some time with us. It is very gratifying to have so many… Read More ›
Silver Laughter Tries To Do Nashville
Art “Smart” tried everything to promote us. Jon’s uncle, Bobby Fischer, is a country star in Nashville. I don’t remember this, but Jon and Art thought we should try to promote “Whiskey Heaven” from the “Handle With Care” album as… Read More ›
BMI Royalties Statement for “Turn It Down”
Apparently the song got 85 plays during that quarter of 1978. We received a whopping check for $2.55! Mick Orton