original music
Before Silver Laughter – The Contents Are: recorded “I Don’t Know”
“I Don’t Know” Although I didn’t appear on the “Through You” album, I was a fan of this song which was one side of a single in the late ’60’s while I was still in high school. Dave and Paul… Read More ›
Before Silver Laughter – The Contents Are: recorded “Goin’ To Be Mine” LIVE
“Goin’ To Be Mine” Click on the link above to hear this original song that I wrote this song while I was with The Contents Are:. As a rocker, it was always a pretty big hit with our audiences. I… Read More ›
Silver Laughter’s “Working Man”… our “Taking Care of Business”
As I have said before, a lot of our music for “Handle With Care” was already written for other groups before we combined them into a single album. But a few of the tunes were written after I joined the… Read More ›
Extraordinary Find – A Silver Laughter NEWSLETTER in my guitar case…
This was addressed to my sister, Marjie Orton, back when she lived in Olema, CA which is near where I now live. Every quarter (I think) we did a newsletter which went out to our fans who signed up for… Read More ›
“Turn Your Face Away” LIVE – from “Handle With Care”
Click here for “Turn Your Face Away”
“Lover” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
“Lover” Recorded live at The Ranch & Company we had to improvise the song that was arranged in the studio with strings. I can’t remember if I played guitar on stage (don’t think so) but did on the album. It… Read More ›
Silver Laughter tops the… Mountain
It’s hard to look cool when you go skiing. All that cold weather gear, ski pants, jacket, ear muffs, goggles and walking around like Frankenstein in ski boots does not add up to cool. And musicians like to be cool!… Read More ›
“Rock and Roll Game” LIVE – from “Sailing On Fantasies”
Click Here for “Rock And Roll Game” This is one of the first songs Ken Wiles wrote and sang for Silver Laughter. Jon and I were on background vocals. It is also in the first round of recordings we did… Read More ›