The Smothers Brothers At The Purple Onion

The other day I got this LP at Goodwill, "The Smothers Brothers At The Purple Onion." Maybe that's not the precise title, but that's basically the name of it.

I've had Smothers Brothers albums before. They're enjoyable, especially if you grew up listening to their comedy stylings on records or especially on TV. They were funnier on TV, with the various facial expressions that both Dick and Tom made.

As for this particular album, I listened to the whole thing today while doing other stuff. So it buzzed by pretty quickly. It's enjoyable, again in the terms I stated above. For someone who didn't already know about them to listen to it, it probably wouldn't be that enjoyable.

I love Tommy Smothers, of course. But the act that he does of over-explaining something in a pompous/dumb way is way overdone on the album. It's very funny, that part of their act. But it goes on too long on this album. There are definitely some very funny aspects to it, like the boatmen going down by the docks and picking up oars.

They have a couple of non-comedy songs on the album, which are nice too.