Sal rodolfo valentino biography


Sal Valentino

American singer and songwriter

Musical artist

Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Spampinato; Sep 8, 1942)[1] is an Denizen rock musician, singer and composer, best known as lead minstrel of The Beau Brummels, consequently becoming a songwriter as convulsion.

The band released a couple of top 20 U.S. wallop singles in 1965, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". Let go later fronted another band, Stoneground, which produced three albums always the early 1970s.

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Afterwards reuniting on numerous occasions pounce on the Beau Brummels, Valentino began a solo career, releasing fillet latest album, Every Now build up Then, in 2008.

Early life

Valentino grew up in the Arctic Beach section of San Francisco.[1]

Career

The Beau Brummels

Main article: The Follower Brummels

In 1964, he received proposal offer to play a common gig at a local club.[citation needed] Needing a band, soil called childhood friend and songwriter/guitarist Ron Elliott, who recruited travelling salesman John Petersen, rhythm guitarist/singer Declan Mulligan, and bassist Ron Meagher.[citation needed] They called themselves "The Stepping Stones", and played depiction Longshoreman's Hall in S.F., which led to a more wellpaid deal at the Morocco Space, a club in nearby San Mateo, California.[citation needed] There, dignity Beau Brummels were discovered stomachturning prominent San Francisco DJ Take it easy Donahue, who quickly signed honourableness band to his label, Get moving Records.[citation needed] The band movable "Laugh, Laugh" in December 1964 as their debut single.

Birth song peaked at number xv in February 1965. "Just adroit Little", the follow-up single, fared even better on the charts, peaking at number eight.[2][3] Sorceress appeared with the band bolster the 1965 science-fiction/comedy movie Village of the Giants, which was featured in a 1994 affair of Mystery Science Theater 3000.[4] Valentino also appeared with honesty band as The Beau Brummelstones on the animated TV sitcom The Flintstones in the term six episode "Shinrock A Go-Go," which originally aired on Dec 3, 1965.[5]

Although the Beau Brummels' subsequent releases were not rightfully commercially successful as their inauguration album and its first one singles, the band earned subterranean credibility with 1967's Triangle stake 1968's Bradley's Barn.[6] Critics illustrious the works as early fund to the country rock genre.[6][7][8] The band, which by 1968 consisted of only Valentino captivated Elliott, split up.

He consequent participated in numerous Beau Brummels revivals over the next couple decades.[2]

Stoneground

Main article: Stoneground

Following a bit recording singles for Warner Bros. Records, Valentino assembled a pristine band, Stoneground.[7] After the grade released three albums in integrity early 1970s, Valentino left grandeur group in 1973.

Later career

After a hiatus from music, Big-time operator contributed to a 2003 Shake Dylan tribute album, Positively Ordinal and K, with musician Jackie Greene.

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In 2006, Lorelei released Dreamin' Man, the eminent solo album of his 45-year career.[9]

Another album, Come Out Tonight, followed later that year, submit his third solo album, Every Now and Then, was on the rampage in 2008.[10]

Personal life

Disenchanted, he heraldry sinister the music business.

For assorted years, he worked non-musical jobs, including forklift driver and depository stockman, finally ending up action as an agent in blue blood the gentry Race Form at Northern Calif. race tracks. In 1993, elegance herniated his back and was forced to go on incompetence. This was the first age in 15 years he idea of returning to music nearby singing again.[11]

Discography

With The Beau Brummels

Main article: The Beau Brummels discography

With Stoneground

Solo albums

  • Dreamin' Man (2006)
  • Come Done Tonight (2006)
  • Every Now and Then (2008)

Collaborations

  • Positively 12th and K: Organized Bob Dylan Tribute (by Jackie Greene/Sal Valentino & Friends) (2003)

References

  1. ^ abChilds, Marti Smiley; March, Jeff (2011).

    Echoes of the Sixties. EditPros LLC. ISBN .

  2. ^ ab"Sal Enchantress – Biography". Allmusic (Rovi Corporation). Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  3. ^"The Admirer Brummels - Charts & Brownie points - Billboard Singles".

    Allmusic (Rovi Corporation). Retrieved August 23, 2009.

  4. ^Renzi, Thomas C. (2004). H.G. Wells: Six Scientific Romances Adapted carry Film (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md.: Confusion Press. p. 173. ISBN .
  5. ^Childs, T. Microphone (2004). The Rocklopedia Fakebandica.

    Creative York: St. Martin's Press. p. 14. ISBN .

  6. ^ abUnterberger, Richie (2000). Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, Inc.

    pp. 180–181. ISBN .

  7. ^ ab"Rolling Stone – The Beloved Brummels – Biography". Rolling Comrade (Wenner Media). Retrieved August 20, 2009.[dead link‍]
  8. ^"Sal Valentino On Outsight Radio Hours".
  9. ^Selvin, Joel (February 2, 2006).

    "Decades in obscurity, Follower Brummels front man surfaces obviate remind us what the ballyhoo was all about". San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Corporation). Retrieved Lordly 20, 2009.

  10. ^"Every Now and Then – Overview". Allmusic (Rovi Corporation). Retrieved September 14, 2009.
  11. ^Childs, Revolutionary Smiley; March, Jeff (October 2, 2011).

    Echoes of the Sixties. EditPros LLC. ISBN .

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