“Good Day Sunshine” This song was cut from the Beatles Tribute Show #1 so it is an abbreviated version. During the interludes where the Beatles are talking, we would switch instruments; Jon from 6 string to 12 string, Ken from… Read More ›
Jon Ludtke
“Don’t Want To Lose” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Don’t Want To Lose” This song was very hard to do live since we really did it so well in the studio. There were lots of layered effects, but we did our best to perform this energetic composition by Ken… Read More ›
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“We’ve Got To Get You A Woman” Here is a song on which Ken sang lead. One of his favorite artists has always been Todd Rundgren. I think we did two of his songs. This one had me playing the… Read More ›
BMI Royalties Statement for Silver Laughter
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›