Autumn Records

Autumn Records was a 1960s San Francisco-based pop record label. Among the notable acts on its roster was The Beau Brummels, a band who released a pair of top 20 singles, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little".

Also on the Autumn Records roster was The Great Society, a short-lived Haight-Ashbury group that recorded the first version of "Somebody to Love (on Autumn's short-lived North Beach label)," which became a 1967 hit for Jefferson Airplane.

The label dissolved in 1966. Tom Donahue, a San Francisco DJ, who worked for KSAN radio, owned the record label. Donahue invented the genre "underground radio."

Rock producer/DJ Sly Stone was a producer for the label producing Bobby Freeman's "C'Mon And Swim"/"Do The Swim," a hit on the national and regional charts in 1964. Freeman had had some hits on Jubilee in 1958-60, and on King in the early 1960s, but became the first artist on Autumn to have any big-selling hits. Stone produced the Psyrcle's 45 on Lorna, which did not sell well regionally or nationally. The Psyrcle took a hiatus, rehearsed and regrouped before becoming the Rockets (later Crazy Horse, Neil Young's backing band), a band with eight members.

After Freeman, Autumn's next signing and biggest success was with The Beau Brummels, who had two big hits, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". Autumn records also had two subsidiary labels. The Great Society recorded for its North Beach label. An early version of "Somebody to Love" (as "Someone to Love") appeared on this label as the B side to "Free Advice". The band the Psyrcle (actually The Rockets) recorded a song "Don't Leave Me" for its subsidiary label Lorna records.

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