His best known work is Under the Blood Red Sun, a historical novel that features a Japanese-American boy and his family during World War II.

As a session vocalist and musician, he performed on hit recordings by such bands as The Association, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Tommy Roe and many others.

The album met with tepid sales and disappeared for many years before it was rediscovered by Sunshine Pop enthusiasts and grew to become a cult classic.

[citation needed] After the demise of the Millennium, Salisbury pursued a solo career, with Boettcher producing, on Gary Usher's Together Records label.

Children's novels by Salisbury, illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers, and published by the Random House imprint Wendy Lamb Books; set primarily in Hawaii.