Beau Brummels - "Just a Little" - Shindig

[ricjan58]

THE BEAU BRUMMELS were the first american band to respond to the british invasion,and an original and creative response it was.Check out their two wonderful late 60"s albums TRIANGLE and BRADLEY'S BARN.

[jcgu1tar]

One of my favorite groups and songs from the 60's. Thank you for posting. Please see my Tribute to Sal Valentino and The Beau Brummels. Thankyou.....JC

[thorshammer1348]

Thanks for posting these lovely classics,its before my time i was born in 64,but these should never be forgotton.

[vcx9dfne]

I liked this stuff when I was in, I think, 5th grade. Thought they were British (the name, for one, the sound for another). CA band. A couple hits. good memories.

[olhobbler]

i see he is singing live, but do you think they are playing to a pre recorded track? they have no cords, amps...the drums arent really being heard?...any one technical out there, lets hear from you.

[RobbiesVideoArchives]

@olhobbler, Yes, they're all singing live to their pre-recorded track (boom mics were over their heads just out of camera range). This was quite common on Shindig as well as a lot of other 60's shows.

[MermaidPrincess9]

I LOVE THIS BAND. I LOVE THE LEAD SINGERS VOICE.. ITS SO BEAUTIFULLY DARK AND HAUNTING.. THEIR SOUND IS DARK AND HAUNTING. I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE BRITISH... FROM THE INVASION DAYS.. AND WHEN I FOUND OUT THEY WERE AMERICAN..I WAS SHOCKED..THEY REALLY FOOLED ME... GREAT BAND AND WHETHER THEY ARE BRITISH OR AMERICAN.. IT MATTERS NOT GREAT MUSIC IS GREAT MUSIC.. NO MATTER WHAT COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM. /. I THINK THEY ROCK. / THEY JUST HAVE THEIR OWN SOUND.. DARK/HAUNTING MELODIES.

[ecb2]

@MermaidPrincess9 Well said. Couldn't agree more. And btw, I thought

they were British too!

[MrKite053]

Great tune! I actually liked the arrangement "The Young Rascals" did on this. It was on their first album.

[Babyhowdy233]

Has there ever been a song more hauntingly beautiful than this one, and a singer more underrated than Sal Valentino!

[luv2aptnz]

I loved the Beau Brummels. I remember Shindig and the great bands on that show. No fancy electronic equipment to make them sound better, just plain good talent on stage and on TV.

[Gauraonline]

America's version of the Beatles ?

[CalandrielAurealin]

Such good music! I grew up listening to wonderful stuff like this. My dad used to deliver papers and we'd listen to good '50s and '60s music along the way; as a result, I've always called "oldies" "Paper Route Music." I can't help but feel good listening to it!

[37382677]

Touch !Touch!

[Beatleboy1968]

BEST SONG

[aimeemannfan2010]

@farone100, I agree with you. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've tried to be open minded and listened to a few rap songs. All I heard was obscenities!!! What a shame.

[simley16]

No top-rated comments?? How peculiar!

[jankbass]

Man! Does this ever take me back. I remember when this used to be on the a.m. radio. So much good music back then.

[v86kd]

yes more cow bel please lol. great song. Why don't artist sing like this anymore; with heart, with soul and passion.

[brucejamesthomas]

though they didn't have a great many hit, their music was good

[nofortunatesonII]

At least the screaming bimbos quit screaming once the song started, unlike one of the Kinks videos on youtube that is almost unlistenable due to screaming.

[VeriSheri]

More tambourine!

[aimeemannfan2010]

...don't forget me! What the hell happend. I just don't get rap music. Can someone explain it to me!

[farone100]

@aimeemannfan2010 there's no answer to that-----Rap isn't music just people with no talent getting very rich and calling it "art"--makes me sick

[dedberg146]

And now we have hip-hop/rap. Shot me now, please...

[bassbob42]

What a great version, much less canned than the studio version

[mysaug]

One of my favorite 60's songs...timeless in the sense that it resonates with anyone that has to leave someone they loved either by design or by circumstance.

[TheParamountPrincess]

I agree and modern "musicians" need to go back to polishing their craft, perfecting their music first and stop throwing out junk chasing money first. There are too many out there who can barely even play and yet they are on Billboard.

{this needed repeating}

[L1S91]

Beau Brummels very haunting song!

[musefan69]

great tune...

[finnemccool]

I wish the songs of the Beau Brummels would quick being removed. This song would have four or five hundred thousand hits by now. It is only going to help the band and record company in the long run by the exposure.

[bayingofhounds]

This is music.... It's so sad seeing so many musicians, if you want to call them that, over polishing all of the music they make. It needs to go back to basics, where it's just the instruments and a mic.

[finnemccool]

@bayingofhounds good point

[PaladinMC8]

@bayingofhounds I agree and modern "musicians" need to go back to polishing their craft, perfecting their music first and stop throwing out junk chasing money first. There are too many out there who can barely even play and yet they are on Billboard.

[37terraplane]

One of the all-time coolest guitar parts!

[panam7471]

pure genius. one of a kind. thanks for posting. listen to that bass.

[RobbiesVideoArchives]

@bobyoung53, Eko's are cool (I have a 60's Eko bass that I absolutely love) but these guitars were correctly identified as the Vox Clubman and the Vox Meteor. If you check out Google Images you'll see both of 'em there!

[valeriemci1]

I met these guys way back in 1967? 68? They are all really cool nice people.

[MrPrimergray]

TV in the '60s very rarely incorporated live audio for music segments, and the sound stages weren't equipped for live audio mixing. Artists always lip-synced to prerecorded tracks. You'll notice if you compare, the taped TV segments are always identical to the records, with the addition of "canned", -- and sometimes live recorded -- applause and screaming.

[lordkoos]

@MrPrimergray Right, but the bands would cut a quick live two track in a studio for the TV show, they wouldn't always be doing it to the record.

[silverdollar3]

I love this song, it's from my High School days, reminds me of a lover. Song is etched in my mind forever. Yes, great guitar work, w/unique sounds ! Notice guitars, not plugged in ! There were no cordless guitars back then, but is he really singing, I think so.

[jolati]

Happy Birthday Sal.

[verdict4me]

Does anyone know what aproach was used in Just a Little to create that echo fuzz on the lead guitar??Just curious,inpute thanx!!

[Illogicalcaptain]

@verdict4me Well there isn't any fuzz but it's flatwound strings, spring reverb, `sounds like tremolo during the chords in the solo, perhaps someone is switching it on & off out of the shot & some of it is the acoustics of the room. Really cool for sure. I may have to try a set of flatwounds sometime.

[RobbiesVideoArchives]

@Illogicalcaptain, Once you try flatwounds you may never wanna use anything else ever again. That's what happened to me anyway!

[planetoftheapez]

the guitar's amazing!

[GLXgrove]

These guys go way back but looked great even on ugly black and white analog TV GLXgrove

[primercord]

the guitars were fender jazzmasters.....

[kurskss]

@primercord Both guitars are not Fender products..

[feb091964]

@kurskss you are correct  VOX "Clubman: bass VOX " meteor" guitar

[saleasylum]

I know guitars but what the hell are they?

[feb091964]

@saleasylum The BASS is a VOX "Clubman" and the guitar looks like a VOX " Meteor" both Italian

[hyperbottler]

What maker were this guitar and the bass made in?

[freqazoidiac]

thanks for sharing! Still blows my mind that Sly Stone was involved in these recording session back in 1965. Amazing folk rock band! SHINDIG !

[oldtones]

DAM GREAT BAND FROM THE 60>S

[noargos]

For me - this song defines a quintessential moment in my childhood and the nostalgia embedded therein brings me back to a much simpler place in time; a memory of waking up in the middle of the night,. There was a radio hidden under my pillow softly playing. First they played "Red Rubber Ball" by "the Circle" Then this song, "Just a Little" by the Beau Brummels and followed it up with an "oldie" by Peggy Lee, "Is that all there is". For some reason, I've never forgotten that moment.

[Lonestarry]

@noargos Wow...I can totally relate to your "moment" noargos. May that memory of a kinder, gentler time always remain in your heart.

[TheMustangsally75]

@noargos

Oh yeah. I had an old clock radio!!! Still remember the songs I listened to at night with the volume turned way down!!!

[feb091964]

@noargos WOW WOW WOW....you must have listened to the radio at the exact time I did way back then.............I GOT CHILLS ......EERIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LightSnowOvernight]

loved them in the 60s and this vid still looks/sounds great

[blueblazer68]

Great guitar and great group. Must have taken hours to comb their hair, but that's the way it was back then.

[tomk773]

Dig that guitar..

[ryantunks]

Terrific band! One of my all time faves!!

[todd7416]

Looks like he tried to get a Beatle cut and ended up looking like John Fogerty.

[cablonde320]

Great song and video!!

[bassiehd]

This & "Laugh Laugh" were produced by Vallejo resident Sylvester Stewart, later to rise to fame as Sly Stone.

[MegaRubbersoul]

To bad there manager was incompatent. I feel they were far more talented than alot of english groups. Anybody remember the beau brummelstones. There manager must have been smoking crack!

[manluvsthe60s]

@MegaRubbersoul of course the beau brummelstones from Flintstones!!! I remember it quite well!!!

[superspymarco]

anyone remember "Stoneground" ? it's the band Sal valentino formed after the Beau Brummels. approx. 8 hairy hippies who toured the world and were in a movie

"Dracula AD 1972" with Christopher Lee.

[saltcitysuesey]

learned this from a teacher (acoustic Guitar version). Gentle Wandering Ways is another good one. glad to see this video. A close up of the singer reminds me of Jim Morison. Turn Around from Bradley's Barn is another great Beau Brummels song.

[salemst]

This and "Laugh Laugh" were far and away two of the top 60's tunes including the Beatles, Stones, and everyone else. I can't understand why they weren't Number 1's for weeks as I never heard anything better.

How I miss those Jr High days when we had music like this.

Bill

[frank47hammer]

@salemst I have to agree with you. Laugh, Laugh is really timeless, and Just a Little is one of the most haunting tunes of that time.

[sjb66]

Love Sal Valentino's vocal on this,..Just Great!

[Percivaldurham]

These guys are my all time favorite American band from the 1960's.

[skatechavez]

great band they should been more popular