Smothers Brother

[GenuineRisk]

Sweet Jesus; your thread title made me think one of them had died. Don't do that!

My dad had their "Live at the Purple Onion" album on LP. My brother and I played it and played it and played it. I have their Best Of on DVD. Great commentary from them on the episodes and on the parts that were censored.

I know they retired a couple of years ago because Tommy Smothers was having memory issues, and one of my great regrets is never seeing them live.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Sweet Jesus; your thread title made me think one of them had died. Don't do that!

My dad had their "Live at the Purple Onion" album on LP. My brother and I played it and played it and played it. I have their Best Of on DVD. Great commentary from them on the episodes and on the parts that were censored.

I know they retired a couple of years ago because Tommy Smothers was having memory issues, and one of my great regrets is never seeing them live.

Is that the Purple Onion club in SANFRAN?...if so been there way back when in the AF...saw George Shearing one nite...loved it...

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Is that the Purple Onion club in SANFRAN?...if so been there way back when in the AF...saw George Shearing one nite...loved it...

I assume so? I was a seven-year-old kid in PA playing my dad's old LPs. I had no idea what a nightclub even was.

It's an interesting album in that several of the songs are folk songs just performed straight. But it's still a great album. Their intro to "They Call the Wind Maria" is a hoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85H9dv0j5Zk

[cal828]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I assume so? I was a seven-year-old kid in PA playing my dad's old LPs. I had no idea what a nightclub even was.

It's an interesting album in that several of the songs are folk songs just performed straight. But it's still a great album. Their intro to "They Call the Wind Maria" is a hoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85H9dv0j5Zk

I can remember one of their albums with a song on it called Marching to Pretoria and they had a skit about the "applechain" mountains. Was that the same one?

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by cal828

I can remember one of their albums with a song on it called Marching to Pretoria and they had a skit about the "applechain" mountains. Was that the same one?

That's the one! The Applechain mountains was on the intro to "Dance Boatmen Dance." (as you can tell, I listened to that album A LOT) I was too young then to get the joke about the boatmen going to town every Saturday night to pick up their oars.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

That's the one! The Applechain mountains was on the intro to "Dance Boatmen Dance." (as you can tell, I listened to that album A LOT) I was too young then to get the joke about the boatmen going to town every Saturday night to pick up their oars.

Boatmen sing, Boatmen Dance, Boatmen do most anything. Damn, now I'll be singing that to myself all night. Just pulled some of that you tube stuff up. Watched one where Jim Stafford on the Smothers Brothers show played Mason William's Classical Gas. Amazing performance.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by cal828

Boatmen sing, Boatmen Dance, Boatmen do most anything. Damn, now I'll be singing that to myself all night. Just pulled some of that you tube stuff up. Watched one where Jim Stafford on the Smothers Brothers show played Mason William's Classical Gas. Amazing performance.

"I'm a boatman, gee I'm sore; I came home without an oar."

Heh. NOW I get it.

I found the opening from their 1988 reunion special. They made no bones about having been fired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP3VAm_uXdk

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I assume so? I was a seven-year-old kid in PA playing my dad's old LPs. I had no idea what a nightclub even was.

It's an interesting album in that several of the songs are folk songs just performed straight. But it's still a great album. Their intro to "They Call the Wind Maria" is a hoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85H9dv0j5Zk

Pardon me for being nosy but that's just me, but i'm originally from Western PA...what part are you from?
Signed,
The Question Man

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Pardon me for being nosy but that's just me, but i'm originally from Western PA...what part are you from?
Signed,
The Question Man

I grew up outside Harrisburg (my parents now live very close to Penn National), but most of my family is from Williamsport. My uncle is from Western PA- he grew up in Butler.

Where in Western PA did you grow up?

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I grew up outside Harrisburg (my parents now live very close to Penn National), but most of my family is from Williamsport. My uncle is from Western PA- he grew up in Butler.

Where in Western PA did you grow up?

Lawrence Co., about 30 miles from Butler on Rt 422. Near Beaver Falls,Latrobe, Pittsburgh and Monongahela home of these Hall of Famers.
Arnie Palmer
Joe Namath
Joe Montana
Dan Marino
I saw Namath play a game when he was a senior at Beaver Falls..Filled the air with passes of course..and met him once at my aunt's house having coffee with his agent at the time...big thrill..

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by bigrun

Lawrence Co., about 30 miles from Butler on Rt 422. Near Beaver Falls,Latrobe, Pittsburgh and Monongahela home of these Hall of Famers.
Arnie Palmer
Joe Namath
Joe Montana
Dan Marino
I saw Namath play a game when he was a senior at Beaver Falls..Filled the air with passes of course..and met him once at my aunt's house having coffee with his agent at the time...big thrill..

That's really cool. Did you see the episode of Mad Men when the agency proposes using Joe Namath in a spot?