youtube the beau brummels you tell me why

In some ways, the Beau Brummels were the Brian to the Byrds and the Beatles’ Jesus. But the curious thing about the band (or duo) is that they continued to put out material of a consistently high quality, experimenting with style and genre very similar to other more famous bands of the time, though, sadly, to an indifferent public. For the rest of their tenure, the group was essentially a revolving door of musicians built around the core of guitarist/songwriter Ron Elliott and singer/songwriter Sal Valentino. However, unlike the Fab Four, the Beau Brummels quickly fell off the charts and never returned in any significant fashion. Without even realizing it, both groups laid the ground for a growing folk-rock subgenre. Their sole big hits “ Laugh, Laugh” and “ Just a Little,” off their debut album Introducing the Beau Brummels, utilized arrangements and instrumentation very similar to those employed by the Beatles on A Hard Day’s Night: acoustic guitars, minor key melodies, harmonica and tales of love and loss. So, they simply co-opted the Mersey-Beat sound, and to great initial success. Shooting to the top of the charts during the British Invasion boom wasn’t an easy task for an American band. While many of these fleeting brushes with success were appropriate (John Fred & His Playboy Band comes to mind), some were unfairly relegated to the footnotes of pop-music history. Possibly more than any other decade, the 1960s was riddled with a myriad of one- or two-hit artists.

Youtube the beau brummels you tell me why