 Meet Sal
Valentino!
Born: Sal
Spaminato September 8, 1942
Grew up in
North Beach San Francisco, California.
Played
baseball growing up, but made the switch to Football as a
receiver.
He met Ron
Elliott in elementary school.
Sal enjoyed
Country Music he met singer merle travis when he was 18.
He also was a
fan of Elvis.
In 1961 Sal
made the record "I wanna twist & Lisa Marie". During the
process of recording those two songs Sal changed his last name to
Valentino.
When the
Brummels begin they started playing the morocco room, where they would
play four nights a week. Sal was also working as a Life-guard.
Sal's
father picked "Valentino" as that was the name of his
favorite boxer Pat Valentino.
You can find
a interview with Sal at "Sundazed
Records."
After The
Beau Brummels, Sal worked with a band called "Stone Ground". Here is a
link to a interview with one of the members, Tim
Barnes
Read
the
"Spectrum Newspaper" interview with Sal.
Buy Sal's music
at www.beaubrummels.com |
