For a follow-up, the group released the Ron Elliot - Robert Durand composition called 'Just A Little'.

The melancholy, minor-key original sounded so much like the British bands flooding the airwaves that many listeners initially mistook the Brummels for an English act. just a few months after they had played their first show together. With Sly Stewart (later Sly Stone) as their producer, the band's first single, Ron Elliot's 'Laugh, Laugh' soared to number 15 in the U.S. Before the hits started coming, Mulligan quit the band, a decision he would later regret. Spotted by local DJ Tom Donahue in a club in San Mateo (just south of San Francisco), the group was signed to Donahue's small San Francisco-based label, Autumn Records in 1964. Playing a steady diet of current hits, the quartet enjoyed a committed following within the city's Irish community prior to adding guitarist Declan Mulligan to the line-up. (Beau Brummel was a dashing young Englishman who lived from 1778-1840 and was known for his wit and fancy clothes). Guitarist Ron Elliott, bassist Ron Meagher and drummer John Petersen joined him in a new act, taking the name Beau Brummels in deference to their love of British beat music. Vocalist Sal Valentino had previously led his own group, Sal Valentino And The Valentines, which issued a flop single called 'I Wanna Twist' in 1962. Formed in San Francisco, California in 1964, The Beau Brummels were the first nationally successful Rock group to emerge from the Bay area.

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