REDISCOVERED
THE BEAU BRUMMELS
Uncovering the underrated and overlooked
Turn Around: The Complete Recordings 1964–1970 NOW SOUNDS
7/10
Eight-disc collection from ’Frisco’s Brit-beat adventurers
A SIGN of how quickly the folk, country and “baroque and roll” of The Beau Brummels entered mainstream consciousness came with their appearance in a 1965 episode of The Flintstones. Billed, almost inevitably, as “The Beau Brummelstones” and sporting plumcoloured, turtleneck prehistoric garb, the San Francisco five-piece had been together less than 18 months when their animated versions took to the stage of the Bedrock A-Go-Go nightclub to perform “Laugh, Laugh”.