The Laughing Dogs were an American rock band, active in the 1970s and associated with the rock/punk scene of New York's

CBGB CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in Manhattan's East Village. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar. The letters ''CBGB'' were for '' Country'', '' BlueGrass'', and '' Blues'', Kri ...

. They released two albums on Columbia.

History

The Laughing Dogs first became popular in the New York underground music scene at

's in 1974. They released two albums on Columbia Records, ''The Laughing Dogs'' and ''The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers'' (both reissued in 2009 on American Beat Records), and several indie CDs, besides three singles, "Get I'm Outta Town", "Reason for Love", and "Johnny Contender". They toured extensively with the

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Group,

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, and Blondie. "Get Outta My Way" is in the soundtrack of the 2013 film

. An interesting coincidence is that the first The Laughing Dogs album from 1979 re-used the cover for the unreleased debut album from the band

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, that later morphed into

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. Ten years later, The Laughing Dogs member Carter Cathcart co-wrote a song ("Remember Me") with Kiss member

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on his solo album Trouble Walkin'.

Band members

*Ronny Carle (a.k.a. Ronny Altaville) – bass, harmonica, vocals *James Leonard (a.k.a.

Jimmi Accardi James Leonard "Jimmi" Accardi is a musician, songwriter, and music producer. Career Accardi has been in various bands, including, Mud In Your Eye ("Million"- Mandala Records 1972), The Laughing Dogs, and Jimmi Accardi & The Wild Cats. He also tour ...

) – guitar, vocals *

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(a.k.a. James Carter Cathcart) – guitar, keyboards, vocals *Skip Reed (a.k.a. Paul Reed) – drums *Moe Potts (a.k.a. Marc Potocsky) – drums

Discography

*''The Laughing Dogs'' (Columbia, 1979) *''The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers'' (Columbia, 1980) *''Live at CBGB's: The Home of Underground Rock'' (1976) – two songs by The Laughing Dogs, later released as a CD on Atlantic Records *''Punky But Chic . . . The American New Wave Scene'' (Sony) *''The Long Lost Night'' (live in NYC; Laughing Bear Records, 1992) *''Great Italian Love Songs of the '50s'' – (Molehill, 1992) *''Hidden Bones'' – (unreleased 1970s songs; Molehill) *''When Do We Eat?'' – Molehill *''The Laughing Dogs Live at The Village Underground'' (DVD) – Molehill * ''CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' –

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References

External links

The Laughing Dogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Laughing Dogs Rock music groups from New York (state) Musical groups from New York City