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Stoneground's original formation played their final concert on January 6 at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. [12] The performance was released as an album, The Last Dance: Live January 6, 1973, by Dig Music in 2001. [12] Within weeks of the concert, Sal Valentino left the group [15] and moved on to a short-lived Beau Brummels reunion. [12]
Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Spampinato; September 8, 1942) [1] is an American rock musician, singer and songwriter, best known as lead singer of The Beau Brummels, subsequently becoming a songwriter as well. The band released a pair of top 20 U.S. hit singles in 1965, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little".
Stoneground is the debut studio album by American rock band Stoneground, released in 1971 on Warner Bros. The album featured seven different lead vocalists , including Sal Valentino (formerly of The Beau Brummels ) on four of the album's ten songs.
Bob Koch of Isthmus wrote that album track "From a Sad Man into a Deep Blue Sea" is possibly Valentino's finest Stoneground composition. He also claimed that Stoneground 3 is the band's "most coherent-sounding album due to the more unified sound," but was unsure "whether that coherency is an improvement over their earlier more free-wheeling ...
[1] [2] Musically, Stoneground combined rock and roll, blues, country and gospel. [3] It features Stoneground originals, cover versions of songs by such artists as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Swamp Dogg, as well as compositions by Sal Valentino's former Beau Brummels bandmate Ron Elliott, who is credited as co-producer on the ...
The Beau Brummels were an American rock band. Formed in San Francisco in 1964, the band's original lineup included Sal Valentino (lead vocals), Ron Elliott (lead guitar), Ron Meagher (bass guitar), Declan Mulligan (rhythm guitar, bass, harmonica), and John Petersen (drums). [1]
Following the 1973 release of Stoneground 3, frontman Sal Valentino quit to start his own band. Cory Lerios and Steve Price left and formed a new group, Pablo Cruise.Five other band members also departed, leaving only founding member Tim Barnes and vocalist Annie Sampson.
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