I posted about The Beau Brummels last week with the song Laugh Laugh. The biggest surprise to me about this song is who produced it. Sylvester Stewart…later of Sly and the Family Stone.
The song was written by guitarist Ron Elliott and Bob Durand. They had 5 songs in the top 100. Just a Little peaked at #8 in the Billboard 100 in 1965.
I mentioned in the last post about them but The Beau Brummels appeared in the Flintstones (as the animated version of themselves, the Beau Brummelstones). This time I found it…
Just A Little
Ah ah ah ah
I can’t stay, yes I know
You know I hate to go
But goodbye, love was sweet
Our worlds can never meet
[Chorus:]
So I’ll cry just a little ’cause I love you so
And I’ll die just a little ’cause I have to go
Away
Can’t you see how I feel
When I say love’s unreal
But goodbye, it’s been sweet
Even though incomplete
[Chorus]
[Instrumental break]
Every night I still hear
All your sighs very clear
Now love’s gone, gone away
As I once heard you say
[Chorus 2:]
Now I’ve cried just a little ’cause I loved you so
And I’ve died just a little ’cause I had to go
Away
[Instrumental break]
[Coda]
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I never really listened to The Beau Brummels, but they have a real nice sound.
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They did…I didn’t know how big they were…to be on the Flintstones really did mean something. They had to be really well known.
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So very cool you found the clip with them on The Flintstones. They look an awful lot like The Beatles on there. And “Just a Little” is another fondly remembered tune. Good stuff, Max 🙂
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Thank you! I read where they wanted the Beatles but they said no… they were quite busy plus had their own cartoon…
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I beg to differ. Being portrayed on a television show didn’t indicate much of anything. The Beau Brummels were a pop outfit out of San Francisco that was one of what should have been an empire under the auspices of Sylvester Stewart. The story of Sly Stone, unfortunately, is not a happy one, despite the success and importance of Sly and the Family Stone.
The Brummels recorded for a little label, had two hits (this and the “Laugh Laugh” you also blogged about) and that’s about it. Ron Elliot became one of the folks in the Warner Reprise posse of the late 60s early 70s, did an album entitled Bradley’s Barn.
F Troop had a rock band in one episode. Unless you are, like me, a Lowell George fan, you’d never know it. I think it was the Factory. Too early for Little Feat.
I’ve always held that rock and television were strange bedfellows. Yes, I watched 9th Street West and Fridays and Midnight Special, etc. But the two, at least for me, never really synched. And I still watch music on television…
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I had a strange start. In 1974 I heard the Monkees…I was 7 years old…I loved them and watched the reruns…well the next year when I was 8, my cousin played me Meet The Beatles…I was hooked completely and I still am. I grew up liking music that was older than I was…and really I still do.
I know the TV bands weren’t that serious but, like me, it influenced me to venture out to some great music. So I look at it as a bridge…it was for me anyway.
I watched SNL in the 70s as a kid and The Midnight Special…both had some good music guests but I get what you are saying. I never heard of 9th street West…I’ll have to look that up
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9th Street West was a local television show in Los Angeles. Starred Sam Riddle, one of the Boss Jocks on KHJ Boss Radio. The show ran on Channel 9, at the time KHJ TV.
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