The SMS Trivia Question of the Week 11/2

Yessir! It’s Trivia Tuesday for Nov. 2nd. Brought to us each Tuesday by All The Groovey People at Omnivore Recordings! Your “must see” destination for all the music you didn’t know, you didn’t know! But, before we reveal this week’s all new trivia quiz, we’d like to recognize all the brilliant readers who weighed in on last week’s question, which was: We gave you a list of 10 songs about death or dying and asked you to identify the one title that didn’t belong on the list! First in with a near perfect answer was our old colleague Mr. Jeffrey Conroy! Followed as a close second is a long time SMS reader was the ultra knowledgeable Mr. Steven Winogradsky We’ll done, congrats and thanx to both you brilliant gents!

But now, it’s time for this week’s new Trivia question: This weeks trivia quiz is about a record producer! Now, if you’re unclear as to what a producer does, well here’s how Wikipedia defines the role…

A music producer or record producer is a recording project’s creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song’s very sound and structure.^[1][2][3] The music producer, or simply the producer, is likened to a film director.^[1][3] The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology.

Varying by project, the producer may also choose all of the artists,^[4] or openly perform vocals with them.^[3] If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist.^[3] Conversely, some artists do their own production.^[3] Some producers are their own engineers,^[5] operating the technology across the project: preproduction, recording, mixing, and mastering. Record producers’ precursors were “A&R men”, who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, creative, and technical roles,^[2] but often exercised scant creative influence,^[6] as record production still focused, into the 1950s, on simply improving the record’s sonic match to the artists’ own live performance.^[3

Ya got that ? Great! So now let’s put your new wealth of information to good use by correctly answering this week’s new trivia quiz! And since you’ve done your homework, we’ll keep it simple! In the mid Sixties one of our favorite bands was The Beau Brummels ! Hailing from San Francisco, although many of us believed they were from The U. K. Their sound was oh so British and beautiful… giving them two back to back hits with “Laugh Laugh” and “Just a Little,” and all you have to do is tell us who produced The Beau Brummels ? He also was a huge part  of The “Bay Area” music scene! In addition to his name we need the name of HIS band as well. Lastly and for SMS Super Genius status, give us the names of at least two other Sixties artists he produced ?

In summary, here’s what we need:

.1) Tell us who produced T he Beau Brummels ?

.2) Tell us the name of his band ( Also from The Bay Area) ?

.3) Give us the names of at least two other 60’s artists he produced ?

While you’re pondering The Sixties San Francisco Scene, why not click on the link below and browse Omnivore Recordings catalog of the coolest music in the known world and beyond!

Here’s Laugh Laugh:

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