Remembering Tom Smothers
I was sorry to read about the passing of Tom Smothers at the age of 86. He'd been ill for a while, so this didn't come as a big surprise, but it's still a loss. I loved the Smothers Brothers. I think their debut album, The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion, was the second album I ever owned, and the first I bought.
I have three videos of Tom and Dick. This first is a very early one, an appearance on Judy Garland's TV show where they perform a couple of songs, including "Dance, Boatman, Dance" which was on that first album.
Next, here's a song from their TV variety show -- it looks like it's from the return series they did, not the famous one on CBS from which they got fired -- with a song that's particularly touching today, "Side by Side."
And finally, here's 51 minutes of songs they performed, also (it appears), from that later variety series.
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