“Bad News” This song was our attempt to write a Little Feat number with our own Silver Laughter spin on it, of course. The bass line is probably the first thing that I started playing around with when we started… Read More ›
original music
MORE Silver Laughter LIVE – Cover Songs!
“I Wanna Be With You” I think we do a decent version of this Raspberries song, though the low end seems to be missing. One can hear the bass lines, but the warmth is not there. I am singing lead… Read More ›
“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 ›
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 ›
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 ›