Good Old Days

Here's a Smothers Brothers clip. Move the cursor up to 3:45 and listen to the "Anthropologist Song" all the way through. Just do it.

LOLable but you know they would have been toast had it been 2008.

(Thanks to Krazy Ken)

UPDATE: Once upon a time one member of the sixties equivalent of the Dixie Chicks tangled with Bill Cosby.

I was wondering whether the two were still alive. They are and are still touring. Interesting fact: their father, Major Thomas Smothers, Sr., was a West Point graduate who died as a POW while experiencing the tender mercies of the Japanese. :::shudder:::

It's interesting to speculate how differently they might have turned out had their father lived.

(Thanks to reader Jim C.)

Comments

[JimC]

Yeah, and Tommy'd be crying censorship.

Did you ever read about him and Bill Cosby?

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/11/the_case_of_bil.html

[Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life]

Thanks for the link, Beautiful!

I don't care for much of their politics but they're screamingly funny.

[benning]

Whoever writes that blog is living in Bill Ayers' world: Old Hippies, Dead arguments, Stupidity Embraced.

[Don]

One more reason to like Bill Cosby . . .

Somehow I doubt that bill had to sucker punch him . . .

[Casey]

True that, Ken. I remember The Anthropologist Song from their album, way back in the day. My folks had several, including Aesop's Fables as interpreted by the brothers. Hilarious.

Best stanza from the above song relates to "my old man is a cotton-picking, finger-licking, chicken plucker." 'Nuff said.

It's sad that Tommy (at least) has gone that far around the bend. There were a lot of sane people who opposed the Vietnam War, but now he's just spouting the same tired rhetoric. Feh.

BTW, I would not dignify the Chicks by comparing them to the Smothers Brothers, as the Chicks are only moderately talented, and their fans dumped them of their own free will.

Finally, no matter how silly their politics, I've always enjoyed Peter, Paul, and Mary, especially their Album 1700. Not to mention that Mary Travers was hot, and had a lovely voice.