Think Ethnic
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| Think Ethnic! | ||
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| Studio album by Smothers Brothers | ||
| Released | February 15, 1963 | |
| Label | Mercury Records | |
| Smothers Brothers chronology | ||
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| The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers 1962 |
Think Ethnic! 1963 |
Curb Your Tongue, Knave 1963 |
Think Ethnic! was the third comedy album of the Smothers Brothers, released February 15, 1963 on Mercury Records. Complete Smothers Brothers' discography can be found here.
[edit] Track listing
- "Soap" (0:30) - A song about "eight bars"...
- "Black Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Hair" (3:04) - Turned into "Black Is the Colour of My Love's True Hair" [But only her Hairdresser knows--/("Does she or Doesn't she?")--/Only her Hairdresser knows!] {a play on the advertising 'tag line' at that time for Clairol hair-coloring products).
- "The Fox" (6:17) - Tom decides that this song about a fox throwing a duck across his back would be enhanced by quacking, but Dick disagrees.
- "I Never Will Marry" (3:05)
- "Venezuelan Rain Dance (Hava Nagila)" (6:50) - In which the Venezuelans pray to the rain god, Shane to "come back."
- "Daniel Boone" (1:16) - Who was "a trailer and a tractor" according to Tom; naturally, Dick had just stated that Boone was "a trader and a trapper."
- "My Old Man" (3:17) - In which Tom warns Dick not to make a mistake about his old man who is a "cotton-pickin' finger-lickin' chicken plucker", after he had (purposely) stumbled through lines about his old man being a refrigerator repairman ("refigermaterman").
- "The Wreck Of The Old 49" (2:14) - A folk song that is rarely sung (for a reason)
- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (0:25) - Actually, according to Tom he is not.
- "The Saga Of John Henry" (8:50) - There are two false starts before Tom is actually able to get the song going properly; both relate to Tom's questions about what John Henry actually could have done when he was "just a little baby." From Tom's dramatic narration between verses, we learn that John Henry apparently did a lot of spitting.
- "Mary Was Pretty" (2:07) - Dedicated to Dick's then wife (named Linda).
[edit] Complete discography
- Live at the Purple Onion, 1961
- The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers, 1962
- Think Ethnic!, 1963
- Curb Your Tongue, Knave, 1963
- It Must Have Been Something I Said!, 1964
- Tour de Farce: American History and Other Unrelated Subjects, 1965
- Aesop's Fables, 1965
- Mom Always Liked You Best!, 1966
- The Smothers Brothers Play It Straight, 1966
- Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1968
- Golden Hits of the Smothers Brothers, Vol. 2, 1969
- Sibling Revelry: The Best of the Smothers Brothers, 1988
