“Any Words You Can Say” Click on the link above to hear this original Orton/Ludtke song from the 1976 “Handle With Care” album by Silver Laughter. To date, this is the only live recording I’ve found of this song in… Read More ›
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Silver Laughter Plays Doc Holliday’s in Shakopee, MN
Another popular venue that has been documented here several times is Doc Holliday’s in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Fortunately, Carl saved one of the advertisements from our job from November of 1978. It appears it was a fold… Read More ›
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for October 1978
The end of September put us in Hastings, MN at the Ivanhoe. Our tenure there ended on Sunday, the first day of October. On the second day, we packed up and played one night at The Mermaid Club. I have… Read More ›
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for July 1978
Here is another solid month with only ONE day off! Whew, makes me tired just looking at it knowing all the work we did to play these places along with the rehearsals we probably did during the daytime. The month… Read More ›
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for June 1978
Finally, a very busy month with only 5 days off! If you remember, we started the last day of May at a place called the Briarwood… sounds like the name of the club in Caddyshack! After 5 nights there, we… Read More ›
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for April 1978
Okay, where was I? Oh, yes, we started the month by finishing up a week at the Kongo Club in Mitchell, SD on Saturday the 1st, then took two days off before starting a week at the Viking Bar… where… Read More ›
Revisit of Silver Laughter’s Booking Calendar for February 1978
As I stated before, more and more information has come to light about places we played. Fortunately, the booking calendar I kept through 1978 survived, so when I posted these pages before, I had not found the newsletter or realized… Read More ›
A Late 1979 Silver Laughter Photo of Kim Ludtke’s BIG Drum Set
Around January of 1979, Kim Ludtke returned to Silver Laughter and bought this huge set of drums. He had sold his Rogers drums to pay for school tuition. Here he is playing the TAMA kit he bought in Minneapolis. That’s… Read More ›