Watch Out For Them Folk Singers!...
..They might be dangerous!
It's a little known,nor oft remembered fact,that I was enrolled for my entire Freshman year at Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach,California.
I say enrolled,rather than attended,because it was my routine to walk in the front gate when my mom dropped me off on her way to work,and proceed directly out the back gate to meet up with my runnin' mates at the Horse-shoe Pier in Hermosa Beach for some casual misbehavior.
I do have a vague recollection of sitting in on one class,..English I think,..but can't for the life of me tell you why I bothered.
I'm guessin' there was a female involved..
Clearly,..R.U.H.S. isn't bustin' it's buttons over having me as an alumnus.
They can however,boast of the kids featured in today's Jukebox Video.
Not only did Tommy and Dicky Smothers graduate from that noble institution,but they went on to achieve some measure of fame,along with a notable dash of admirable infamy!
Their top-rated television show,'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour',kept the censors working overtime just trying to figure out '..exactly,what did they mean by that??'..
HA!.. Those of us in the so-called counter culture were hip to what was really goin' on..Know what I'm sayin'?..
Every week,they had folks the likes of George Carlin,Steve Martin,and that euphoric and charming miss Goldie Leigh,putting a fine satirical edge on the socio-political morass that was the Vietnam-era of the late 60's.
Eventually,the powers that be over at CBS decided they were all a bunch of radical Hippies,whose intention it was to overthrow the status quo,..and the show was cancelled.
..It sure was fun while it lasted!
Still,I chose this video not for any kind of political statement,but for the simple fact that,..damm..These boys can sing!
'They call the wind Mariah'
Labels: The Smothers Brothers
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