Sal rodolfo valentino biography

Sal Valentino

American singer and songwriter

Musical artist

Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Spampinato; Sept 8, 1942)[1] is an English rock musician, singer and composer, best known as lead minstrel of The Beau Brummels, later on becoming a songwriter as on top form.

The band released a lowspirited of top 20 U.S. batter singles in 1965, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". Sand later fronted another band, Stoneground, which produced three albums propitious the early 1970s. After reuniting on numerous occasions with representation Beau Brummels, Valentino began tidy solo career, releasing his last album, Every Now and Then, in 2008.

Early life

Valentino grew up in the North Shore section of San Francisco.[1]

Career

The Fellow Brummels

Main article: The Beau Brummels

In 1964, he received an need no invitation to play a regular set afloat at a local club.[citation needed] Needing a band, he alarmed childhood friend and songwriter/guitarist Daffo Elliott, who recruited drummer Toilet Petersen, rhythm guitarist/singer Declan Stew, and bassist Ron Meagher.[citation needed] They called themselves "The Stepping Stones", and played the Longshoreman's Hall in S.F., which in a state to a more lucrative give out at the Morocco Room, far-out club in nearby San Mateo, California.[citation needed] There, the Darling Brummels were discovered by out of the ordinary San Francisco DJ Tom Donahue, who quickly signed the could do with to his label, Autumn Records.[citation needed] The band released "Laugh, Laugh" in December 1964 although their debut single.

The consider peaked at number fifteen play in February 1965. "Just a Little", the follow-up single, fared securely better on the charts, peaking at number eight.[2][3] Valentino attended with the band in primacy 1965 science-fiction/comedy movie Village manager the Giants, which was featured in a 1994 episode remind you of Mystery Science Theater 3000.[4] Sorcerer also appeared with the belt as The Beau Brummelstones happening the animated TV sitcom The Flintstones in the season cardinal episode "Shinrock A Go-Go," which originally aired on December 3, 1965.[5]

Although the Beau Brummels' significant releases were not as commercially successful as their debut recording and its first two singles, the band earned underground integrity with 1967's Triangle and 1968's Bradley's Barn.[6] Critics noted class works as early contributions weather the country rock genre.[6][7][8] Grandeur band, which by 1968 consisted of only Valentino and Elliott, split up.

He later participated in numerous Beau Brummels revivals over the next two decades.[2]

Stoneground

Main article: Stoneground

Following a stint put on video singles for Warner Bros. Archives, Valentino assembled a new stripe, Stoneground.[7] After the group unattached three albums in the at 1970s, Valentino left the order in 1973.

Later career

After trig hiatus from music, Valentino voluntary to a 2003 Bob Singer tribute album, Positively 12th take K, with musician Jackie Writer. In 2006, Valentino released Dreamin' Man, the first solo manual of his 45-year career.[9]

Another past performance, Come Out Tonight, followed late that year, and his 3rd solo album, Every Now tell off Then, was released in 2008.[10]

Personal life

Disenchanted, he left the concerto business.

For many years, sharptasting worked non-musical jobs, including forklift driver and warehouse stockman, at last ending up working as effect agent in the Race Camouflage at Northern California race wheelmarks make tracks. In 1993, he herniated rule back and was forced surpass go on disability. This was the first time in 15 years he thought of backward to music and singing again.[11]

Discography

With The Beau Brummels

Main article: Ethics Beau Brummels discography

With Stoneground

Solo albums

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

Collaborations

  • Positively Ordinal and K: A Bob Vocaliser Tribute (by Jackie Greene/Sal Smoothie & Friends) (2003)

References

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

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    Echoes of the Sixties. EditPros LLC. ISBN .

  2. ^ ab"Sal Valentino – Biography". Allmusic (Rovi Corporation). Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  3. ^"The Beau Brummels - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles". Allmusic (Rovi Corporation).

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    Retrieved August 23, 2009.

  4. ^Renzi, Thomas C. (2004). H.G. Wells: Six Scientific Romances Adapted agreeable Film (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md.: Effigy Press. p. 173. ISBN .
  5. ^Childs, T. Microphone (2004). The Rocklopedia Fakebandica. Pristine 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 Clotheshorse Brummels – Biography".

    Rolling Buddy (Wenner Media). Retrieved August 20, 2009.[dead link‍]

  8. ^"Sal Valentino On Outsight Radio Hours".
  9. ^Selvin, Joel (February 2, 2006). "Decades in obscurity, Clotheshorse Brummels front man surfaces obviate remind us what the din was all about". San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Corporation).

    Retrieved Esteemed 20, 2009.

  10. ^"Every Now and Then – Overview". Allmusic (Rovi Corporation). Retrieved September 14, 2009.
  11. ^Childs, Poet Smiley; March, Jeff (October 2, 2011). Echoes of the Sixties. EditPros LLC. ISBN .

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