“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 ›
Ken Wiles
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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
Silver Laughter’s Mick Orton Meets Gregg Allman
I met Gregg Allman about 20 years ago when we played in Mill Valley. Our trio, Ed Bergquist on guitar, Dave Dewey on drums and me on bass were playing in the lounge at Strawberry Joe’s when I got to… Read More ›