Smothers Brother

[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

[cal828]

Here ya go GR. You should enjoy this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34GN1ZT1Kc

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by cal828

Here ya go GR. You should enjoy this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34GN1ZT1Kc

That was a hoot; thanks for that. Here's the Purple Onion track (starts at about the 5 minute mark)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yEDLSOKYI

Best history lesson ever.

[cal828]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

That was a hoot; thanks for that. Here's the Purple Onion track (starts at about the 5 minute mark)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yEDLSOKYI

Best history lesson ever.

You're welcome. There was another one on youtube that was the Smothers Brothers, Peter Paul and Mary and Donovan all performing together. Good stuff, but the interesting thing was that after you watched it, you could then watch a whole lot more videos of PP&M. I stayed up until about 2 watching videos of them. God, they were good. Paul Stookey singing The Wedding Song could just about move you to tears.