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The Laughing Dogs
12+ albums
new waveAllbfrpower pop
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The Laughing Dogs first became popular in the CBGBs Punk/New Wave scene. This energetic group has two albums on Columbia Records, "The Laughing Dogs" and "The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers", songs on Atlantic Records' "Live at CBGB's: The Home of Underground Rock" CD and Sony's "Punky But Chic . . . The American New Wave Scene", and many indie CDs. The two Columbia albums have been reissued on CD in 2009 by American Beat Records. Members of the group: James Leonard Accardi - lead guitar, vocals; Ronny Carle Altaville - bass, vocals; Skip Reed - drums; Moe Potts - drums; Carter Cathcart - keyboards, guitar, vocals. One writer describes The Laughing Dogs: "Take Revolver-era Beatles, Steely Dan, and the Rascals, put 'em in a blender---and do NOT skimp on the garlic and onions." - Mike Fornatale The Laughing Dogs first became popular at CBGB's in New York and went on to release two critically-acclaimed albums on Columbia Records, The Laughing Dogs and The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers. Known for being musician's musicians, The Laughing Dogs have had songs in the Billboard picks and toured extensively with The Patti Smith Group, Cheap Trick, and Blondie. They toured as the band behind the popular voices of Mickey Dolenz and Davey Jones of The Monkees. Most of the songs are written by songwriting team Ronny Carle / James Leonard, with occasional contributions from Carter Cathcart. The band members lived together very frugally in a loft in Brooklyn where they totally immersed
