rest in peace tommy. thanks for all the laughs,and for being there when the world needed you the most.
@petecartwright5211 Жыл бұрын
It's so easy to let the musicianship slip by as the comedy rolls. Both of them are outrageously good musicians.
@milosterwheeler25205 ай бұрын
So sad that we lost Tom. I hope Dick is holding up and in good health.
@hflora10497 ай бұрын
Tommy Smothers is certainly one of the funniest men who ever lived.
@wangson5 ай бұрын
Absolutely agreed.
@ppettegr10 ай бұрын
Entertainment that one doesn't see on TV these days. I truly miss these guys.
@loge106 ай бұрын
And now we're losing our humanity even further and faster with AI... Very saddened to hear of Tommy's passing. My condolences to Dick and to their families. What a profound loss - to all of us.
@guillermo35645 ай бұрын
An act that will never be replicated. RIP, Tommy Smothers.
@5ivestring Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to see them live. The stuff that went on during a comercial would make you cry with laughter.
@adcoxrobert37866 ай бұрын
RIP Tom. You guys were the best and always will be.
@puttentanesame66875 ай бұрын
Oh, hell yeah. Smothers Bros had more talent, more guts, more heart and more smarts than anyone on TV at the time...or anytime. Thanks, Brothers!
@MagravatorMag Жыл бұрын
No wonder CBS threw them out the window. These two were the funniest act in the 70's and we never missed their show. Thanks for posting this Paul Brownstein!
@stevet81216 ай бұрын
RIP, Tommy. Thanks for the laughs.
@user-dc8vr2gd2y9 ай бұрын
The most perfect duo with so much talent I first saw them on TV in 1961 and laughed so hard I am still laughing at their amazing talent.
@blackholeentry34896 ай бұрын
They actually started their career not far from where I lived for over 60 years but recently moved. They started thier career as a serious act, Tommy kept flubbing his lines, which got laughs and the rest is history. To me they still remain one of the best sources of 'clean' comedy.
@geerterri6 ай бұрын
@@blackholeentry3489 San Jose?
@blackholeentry34896 ай бұрын
@@geerterri Yes......How did you know that? For over 60 years, I lived in Watsonville (50 miles south of San Jose...but have just recently moved) and became aware of the Smothers Brothers quite early in their career. While I have never seen them in person, (but friends of mine have) I have loved their 'clean' comedy for decades....and still have at least four of their LPs (which 'dates' me) NOT that I'm a 'squeaky clean' person, but they just so elloquently prove comedy doesn't have to 'sink low and be vulgar' to be hilarius. I don't know if you are aware of this....they actually started out being a serious comedy act, supported by their music, but Tommy kept honestly flubbing his lines, which they soon discovered brought laughs, and the rest, as they say, is history. BHE
@tomregan6979 Жыл бұрын
"I'm not going to bore you with the details of 'race'..." (such a great sarcastic double entendre).
@bellysize Жыл бұрын
They were and are so talented. They weave these wonderful comedic stories and dialogues. They deserved better.
@mauimarcus Жыл бұрын
I remember hearing all these bits on vinyl when I was a kid... my folks had a few of their albums. I listened to them over and over, had them pretty much memorized. When I got a little older, I became a professional bassist, which is still my profession today. I moved here to Maui in 1985, and there was a lot of commercial work. I worked with a whole bunch of major acts. One of my very first gigs here was with the Smothers Brothers. Dick is a very competent bassist, but they had a pit trio that included a second bassist so he could do the routines without having to lay down all the bass lines for ninety minutes. Their book contained charts for all these classics... but I barely needed them, because I'd heard them all as a child. 😁 good fun.
@wangson5 ай бұрын
Ha!! Same here! When I was about 6 my dad showed me "The Ballad of John Henry" from one of their comedy albums and man alive - I never forgot how much I loved it!!!
@MrsRosencranz12 ай бұрын
Keep in mind that Dickie is actually left handed. Tommy got him to play the bass right handed.
@mikeoak52898 ай бұрын
My parents used to let us watch this show when there was nothing else on tv they wanted to see. I guess they weren't old enough to appreciate their humor.
@ruthboykin98736 ай бұрын
Rest in Peace Tom Smothers. Great entertainer.
@danielmurphy44298 ай бұрын
Shear creative, comic genius.
@TheYellowMask54216 ай бұрын
RIP Tom Smothers.
@jayb.5017 Жыл бұрын
Tommy loved to push the envelope. 🤣
@wangson5 ай бұрын
Brilliant. The music as much as the lyrics as much as the delivery of those lyrics - great harmonies, great music, great story! An absolute classic!
@bobp37386 ай бұрын
RIP Tommy. You really made me laugh over the years.
@AliasJimWirth10 ай бұрын
What a superb and creative version of this most classic folk tune! Bravo and cheers, brothers Somthers.
@JaniceHofmann6 ай бұрын
Goodbye Yo-Yo Man. I loved you on so many levels, (the high ones mostly) >S
@terryrich72354 жыл бұрын
This is the best version I have heard of this song by the Smothers Brothers. I will have to admit, though, as a child during their original comedy hour, I thought Tommy doing John Henry as a baby was hilarious.
@leonmarkham6756 ай бұрын
Rock in roll heaven
@AdoraBelle2073 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager we were lucky enough for the BBC to show The Smothers Brothers Show on a Sunday evening. I really loved them and it’s so very good to be able to see them again on here. Social Media can be so bad these days but seeing stuff from your childhood makes up for everything
@wangson3 жыл бұрын
You speak the truth.
@Lee.Higginbotham2 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager we were lucky enough to see Monty Pythons Flying Circus on PBS!!
@elizabethbeckman1947 Жыл бұрын
I agree. Glad to hear the Smothers Brothers crossed the pond. I've wondered how far their reach beyond continental U.S.
@sierrafoxtrotgolf36386 ай бұрын
RIP, Tommy! :(
@jillmadigan9841 Жыл бұрын
Tommy sure did wonderful things with his face and they had a terrific vocal/musical blend. I hope they are well and in possession of their 'evil, wicked, mean, and bad, and nasty' but not malicious humor that celebrates absurdity!
@downhillblur70810 ай бұрын
I want Tommy's beautiful Guild guitar.
@davidhull1481 Жыл бұрын
So funny. Dickie can hardly hide his laughter.
@harrywest65252 жыл бұрын
As funny today as it was in the 60s -- maybe even FUNNIER due to the present lack of such sophisticated humorists today.
@elizabethbeckman1947 Жыл бұрын
I agree.
@Living2bLoved Жыл бұрын
❤️
@jerbear79526 ай бұрын
There are many sophisticated comedians today you just don't know where they are and if you only watch what the tv feeds you you are lost.
@dianahaugh75214 ай бұрын
I loved the Smothers Brothers as a young teenager and every one of the adult jokes sailed right over my head
@luishumbertovega39003 жыл бұрын
Here I am at 4:55 AM laughing, trying to avoid doing it loud and not waking up my mother. These guys kill me, God bless them !!!!
@larrygrant-hy8sk7 ай бұрын
I wish these variety shows would come back. Too much politics, and racism are hammered to us every time you turn on tbe TV.
@wangson5 ай бұрын
Agreed - sans rap, though...
@unrulyjulie4382 Жыл бұрын
My mom loved these guys. She was so mad when they got canceled. I remember this song from one of their albums that she had.
@smalltownusa31246 ай бұрын
RIP, Tom. Thanks for the smailes and laughs.
@gretchencomfort64719 ай бұрын
Great music to hear and then laugh out loud!,
@danielmurphy4429 Жыл бұрын
These two were stupendous, I have an even greater appreciation for them now than as a kid. Genius.
@blackholeentry34897 ай бұрын
They actually started out as a serious act not too far from where I lived at the time. Tommy kept flubbing his lines, it got laughs, and so that set them off down the path which has brought them so much fame.
@stephenwlodarczyk175 Жыл бұрын
The good old days. Thanks 🙏
@CookieCaspari2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this show on Sunday evenings. I was in 7th grade and I don't think I really understood the controversial comments. But I enjoyed the show watching with my parents. Pat Paulson and Lee French were my favorites.
@montanacrone8984Ай бұрын
Loved these guys
@montanacrone89846 күн бұрын
My generation loved these guys! He was right on with his politics❤
@walterschiller8281 Жыл бұрын
Incredible.
@garychambers5850 Жыл бұрын
So funny!🤣 I faithfully watched there show back in the 60's, Was sad when it was cancelled! Only because Tommy spoke his mind. ❤❤
@davidgoehner765011 ай бұрын
I chatted with Dick Smothers before he went into a performance in Spokane about 20 years ago. He said he thought the stuff they did during the CBS shows in the late 1980s were some of the best stuff the brothers ever did. He was hoping ... then ... that those shows could get out on DVD at some point.
@diane89376 ай бұрын
Are they on DVD?
@danielschultz7840 Жыл бұрын
I remember these guys.
@chatryna2 жыл бұрын
They had a wonderful way of honoring our history and bringing to life the shoulders upon which we stand.
@terryrich72352 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday, Tommy. 2/2/2022.
@georgewilliams6109 Жыл бұрын
Eternally thankful
@Bluebark64FIS Жыл бұрын
I forgot just how good Tommy was...not to mention being the Yo-Yo Man!!
@simbad9096 ай бұрын
Very cool tune and so funny as only the smothers brothers could ... thank goodness for modern tech that captured them for future ppl to enjoy
@kbrock91463 жыл бұрын
My dying highlight will be to have seen them in concert.
@mini14head Жыл бұрын
Now That's Good shit!
@indowneastmaine Жыл бұрын
Oh God I love it! Thank you Grampy for your sense of humor. Robert Doucette 1930-2021.
@waynegatehouse3998 Жыл бұрын
Well done, I've heard that song many times even my father sang it, but this is the best version. Thanks.
@amaree9732 Жыл бұрын
I remember when I use to watch these guys with my folks at night, and they didn't seem so corny then... but time moves on, doesn't it.
@BillYovino4 жыл бұрын
They are brilliant.
@bronxbombers13026 ай бұрын
RIP what a blessing to know about them. Today offers garbage. 😊
@kingdavid2553 жыл бұрын
My how times have changed.
@yossarianmnichols96418 ай бұрын
They were great TV entertainers.
@andrewwalsh531 Жыл бұрын
It's not hard to see why they had so much trouble w/ the network censors back in those days 🤭
@thereisbeautyinthisworld7251 Жыл бұрын
I still crack up watching the Smothers Brothers. They had such a wonderful show.
@mwalker35476 ай бұрын
Rest Easy Tommy....
@thesilencers13 Жыл бұрын
Tommy was a very clever Boy...slicing and dicing what is meant to be metaphorical humor! Leadbelly's ( gone way too soon ) ode to and remembrance of...what it was like before ' civilized ' Man ? in Song...no less!
@claudeanmankin15394 жыл бұрын
Thanx Paul ,because my husband is the last of the boomers and I am the first of the X'ers and we didn't remember them this way.He is a Portland boy and I am a Midwest small town girl.We are cerebral people and needed a fabulous distraction right now.
@roberthinck518310 ай бұрын
I so remember watching this on TV when it came out & we recorded it on good ole VHS. 👍
@paulmenkens599711 ай бұрын
l was just a kid when this show was on, l watched it every weak, back then l didn't understand the jokes about the girl next door, but l do now.
@richardvargas6219 Жыл бұрын
The best!
@maureenoh23 жыл бұрын
before I die with a hammer in my hand, gonna get me a steam drill too, lord lord, get me a steam drill too
@houliemon1315 Жыл бұрын
They were a lot of fun ! RIP ! You two !
@gr1629 Жыл бұрын
They're still alive as of February 2023.
@AdrianaK Жыл бұрын
They are still alive as of June 2023.
@annbush18263 жыл бұрын
The Smothers Brothers! The magical combination of harmony and musical talent and zny humor created by the wittiest team ever to stand on a stage.. Ony Tom Lehrer can compare.
@gregoryeatroff86082 жыл бұрын
And Allan Sherman. Those three acts were the holy trinity of comedy music in the 60s.
@dorothypatton23183 жыл бұрын
Tjose were the days of real entertsinment!
@jeffj93223 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Tom Smothers born on February 2, 1937. He is an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Smothers
@CapitanFantasma1776 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@michaelpoole82604 жыл бұрын
Funny natural talent.
@gregphillips6707 Жыл бұрын
I think that this might be one of their only opening acts from the Smother's Brothers Show that didn't end up in an argument...
@stevenlipka6632 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome stuff,,,,
@asmith7876 Жыл бұрын
These guys and Laugh In…f*ck me I’m old…😂😂😂. Omg classic TV, brilliant.
@daingammer86462 жыл бұрын
And the steam drill only made 9 lord, lord the steam drill only made 9
@MikeM275 Жыл бұрын
This was hilariously perfect!
@BaconTomatoCheese10 ай бұрын
Man, these guys were good… Hard to believe that CBS fired them pretty much out of spite - and at the top of their popularity!
@myfavoritemartian1 Жыл бұрын
They do a version where: "When John Henry was a little baby, sitt'in on his Daddies knee. They gave him a hammer and a little piece of steel and he drove it in his Daddie's knee." ALSO: "When John Henry was a little baby, sitt'in on his Daddies knee. His Daddy picked him up and he threw him on the floor and said Baby don't wet on me." Really funny.
@Tyler-xd9rb Жыл бұрын
This baby done wet all over me was the one I remember. Was young and yeah, I laughed.
@unrulyjulie4382 Жыл бұрын
I remember that version too!
@SenorZorrozzz3 жыл бұрын
Fabulous
@daingammer86462 жыл бұрын
These fellas cracks me up. But the end of the song about the john henry not beating that steam drill. Well that just ain't true he died all right but not after winning that race and beating that dang steam drill by 16 feet
@sagerdood4 жыл бұрын
And he nailed this lil girl next door! Hahah so funby
@brendapetersen364 Жыл бұрын
I’m surprised they got away with that, lol
@reneblanchfield38012 жыл бұрын
Wow these guys r funny
@fab423555 ай бұрын
When Dick was asked how he never broke up no matter what Tommy did he said he was thinking the worst stuff 🤔 😕 🤣
@nordogvids7 ай бұрын
Now that's entertainment!
@dianamarie56635 ай бұрын
"He hammered the girl next door." Got that one by the censors!
@elizabethbeckman1947Ай бұрын
Material changes as times change, and they certainly did between this performance, 1988/89 and the 1960s.
@bossfan496 ай бұрын
Nothing like a history lesson from Prof. Tom Smothers, however factually questionable. 😅
@Woody6156 ай бұрын
RIP Tommy, I think their version on the Think Ethnic album is better.
@chuckleberryfinn1992 Жыл бұрын
What a yo-yo
@davidjaap21309 ай бұрын
I surely do remember watching these 2 guys on the tube. Thought they were funny back then & still do today. Their voices harmonize beautifully. After the censors, being the arse wipes that they were, studied them awhile, they decided to cancel their show. Imo, they just couldn't handle the truth. Would love to see them doing some sort of "Special". 🙏💓😡
@constancelacount6341 Жыл бұрын
Can anyone please tell me the night that this first aired? I'd be so appreciative!
@vincentconti36334 жыл бұрын
When was this?
@kevinplummer973 Жыл бұрын
don’t make em like this anymore
@lokijam2 жыл бұрын
they left out the part about him being born a slave in the 1850’s and took the job laying railroads for pennies after the slaves were freed. he dies of exhaustion when being overworked in the hot summer days is the moral of this story.
@elizabethbeckman1947 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you shared this. I expect Tom and Dick Smothers know well, know more than most, this American folk hero perhaps best known in the South; in their ballad of John Henry they do well to remember, to publicize this man's accomplishment. I see the choice they made to be one of inclusion, not omission. Comedy - such as theirs, comments - such as yours, educate, inspiring others (like me) to find out more.
@madisonpritchard884 Жыл бұрын
Hey Terry check out Sebastian and grismans on the Satisfied CD Trac 5
@debbienockels72553 жыл бұрын
This is humorous but the album version is funnier. JMO.
@Marjax3 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for the 'hammering trees, people's fences,....fire hydrants"