Jon Ludtke

Happy Birthday to Jon Ludtke of Silver Laughter

By The Silvers on February 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

As it turns out, today is the birthday of Silver Laughter’s founding member, Jon Ludtke. I jumped the gun a few weeks ago, much to my embarrassment. What kind of friend is that? So to celebrate here are two photos… Read More ›

Promo Picture of Silver Laughter From Around 1974

By The Silvers on February 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

As Jon said somewhere on this site in his comments, the band was four piece, then five, then four, then… Well, you get the idea. This is either before or after John Carstensen was in the band. I am guessing… Read More ›

Silver Laughter Newsletter from May 1977 – Page 1

By The Silvers on February 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

I need to break these up by pages which will not only give me more material to post, but make it easier to comment. This front page of the May 3 newsletter has all the ramblings of the four Silver… Read More ›

Silver Laughter Promotional Picture

By The Silvers on February 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

Here is a promotional picture of Silver Laughter when they were a five piece band. From left to right are Steve Elliott, Kim Ludtke, Jon Ludtke, Denny Walton and John Carstensen. It looks like it was taken outside the Ludtke’s… Read More ›

Old Silver Laughter Song List

By The Silvers on February 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

During the early days when the band’s lineup was Jon Ludtke, Kim Ludtke, Steve Elliott, John Carstensen and Denny Walton, Silver Laughter had quite a varied song list. Looking at this old document, you can see they did everything from… Read More ›

Four More Silver Laughter Performance Photos

By The Silvers on February 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

The first three of these four pictures look like they were taken in the same venue… wherever that was!

Silver Laughter “Don’t Feel Bad” Station Request Cards

By The Silvers on February 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

Art “Smart” Stenstrom was a very enterprising guy. As I have stated before, it was a mistake for us to dump him in the last days of Silver Laughter’s existence. Jon agreed. Stenstrom released singles from “Sailing On Fantasies” (probably… Read More ›

Silver Laughter 1978 - Paul, Ken, Mick and Jon

Silver Laughter’s “I Can’t Believe In You” from “Sailing On Fantasies”

By The Silvers on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

“I Can’t Believe In You” Today we have already had visitors from the US, Canada, Russia and South Africa who may have never heard either of our LPs. Click on the link above to hear one of the more popular… Read More ›