The Smothers Brothers

One of the most popular comedy teams of the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers rose to fame at a time when commercial folk music and comedy albums were both big business, and they were the rare group that enjoyed the best of both worlds. Tom and Dick Smothers were talented singers and instrumentalists with a firm grasp of the folk repertoire, but their greatest success came from the comic routines, that usually appeared midway through their songs, in which impish, childlike Tom would verbally spar with his more sensible brother, Dick. After making a splash in nightclubs and on TV, t...