Smothers Brothers, need trivia answer...
TOMALHE
need trivia help :
According to The Smothers Brothers, this was one of the things "My Old Man"
was.
RasMaster
(TOMALHE) writes:
Cotton picking finger licking chicken plucker.
Whattaya think about that!?!?!?!?!
Bob Purse
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"When You're In the Barn, Stand By the Fan!" - Daif LeGume, 1990
Mr. Clem
> need trivia help :
> According to The Smothers Brothers, this was one of the things "My Old Man"
> was.
Ouch! Brain cramp! Going back too far to remember all the lyrics. I only
remember the off the wall professions mentioned:
Refrigerator Repairman and
Cotton Pickin Finger Lickin Chicken Plucker
KSS71
He starts out as a sailor...
CKnappiii
>
> According to The Smothers Brothers, this was one of the things "My Old Man"
>was.
well, there were 4 verses to that song as i remember.
1. a sailor.
2. an anthropologist
3. a refrigerator repairman.
4. get ready for this..... a cotton pickin' finger lickin' chicken plucker!
e-mail me and I could give you the entire lyrics to the song.
it was on the Smothers Brothers album titled "Think Ethnic" put out by Mercury
Records. There aren't anymore of these records in circulation. Whether or not
Rhino Records will re-release it, i don't know.
Chuck
TEDEBARE9
so one of the thigns his father was was a dustman
HappyFingr
PLAYBOY!!!
<big laugh>
br...@gleep.yesbacon.com
>
> >need trivia help :
> >
> > According to The Smothers Brothers, this was one of the things "My Old Man"
> >was.
>
> well, there were 4 verses to that song as i remember.
>
> 1. a sailor.
> 2. an anthropologist
> 3. a refrigerator repairman.
> 4. get ready for this..... a cotton pickin' finger lickin' chicken plucker!
>
> e-mail me and I could give you the entire lyrics to the song.
>
> it was on the Smothers Brothers album titled "Think Ethnic" put out by Mercury
> Records.
Good memory.
The song is credited to Oscar Brand. The title is "My Old Man"
on the Smothers Brothers record "Think Ethnic"
I don't have Oscar Brand doing that song, so I checked the BMI
database. They list the song as "My Old man's a Sailor" which
is probably Brand's original title for it. Published by Hollis Music.
[which matches the credit on the SmothersBrothers record.]
["My Old Man's a Dustman" is a different song
by Lonnie Donegan.]
The lyrics are pretty simple.
My old man's a sailor
He wears a sailor's collar
He wears a sailor's hat
He wears a sailor's shoes
and every saturday evening, he reads the Sunday news.
....Anthropologist.....
....Refrigerator Repairman....[but ends with "reads Playboy."]
[Tommy does that verse]
....cotton pickin' finger lickin' chicken plucker!....
[with Tommy warning Dick to be careful with that verse.]
Brian
GCarras
>From: happy...@aol.com (HappyFingr)
>Date: Tue, Aug 11, 1998 17:53 EDT
>Message-id: <199808112153...@ladder03.news.aol.com>
>
>And every saturday evening, he reads...
>
>PLAYBOY!!!
>
>
>
Does anybody reclal the 1960s AESPOPS FABLES? It was reissued a few years ago
on Muysuic for Little People.
BTW a good Spice Girls movie should have the Smothers Borthers (can you jsut
imagine..T0ommy,don't fool around with Emma..Dickie,mother always liked you
best.EMma's younger,but old enough to have HER kids..)
(just a cosmic idea..L:))
"Good morning,and in case I don't see you....good afternoon, good evening,and
good night!"-Jim Carrey,THE TRUMAN SHOW (Meryl is my heartthrob)
Mr. Clem
> Does anybody reclal the 1960s AESPOPS FABLES? It was reissued a few years ago
> on Muysuic for Little People.
>
played it on the way to work this morning (I also have the original
vinyl around somewhere).
That's a good thing to remember.....Even if you're not a wolf.
Mary Creasey
[snip info on song title]
["My Old Man's a Sailor"]
>
> The lyrics are pretty simple.
>
> My old man's a sailor
> He wears a sailor's collar
> He wears a sailor's hat
> He wears a sailor's shoes
I learned it as:
"He wears a sailor's raincoat and he wears a sailor's shoes..."
> and every saturday evening, he reads the Sunday news.
> ....Anthropologist.....
When my buddy Darrel did the song for our group, my husband John
came in with this bit of ad-lib dialogue:
Darrel: [sung] "My old man's an anthropologist..."
John: [spoken]"What's an anthropologist?"
Darrel: [spoken] "Oh, it's someone who digs up old bones."
John: [spoken] "Hell, my DOG can do THAT!"
Darrel: "...Whaddya think about that..." [et seq.]
> ....Refrigerator Repairman....[but ends with "reads Playboy."]
> [Tommy does that verse]
Darrel skipped that one.
> ....cotton pickin' finger lickin' chicken plucker!....
> [with Tommy warning Dick to be careful with that verse.]
Darrel added a new last verse:
"Well, my old man is different--whaddya think about that?
He wears a lady's collar and he wears a lady's hat.
He wears a lady's raincoat, and he wears a lady's shoes,
And every Saturday evening, he reads the fashion news.
And some day, if I can--
I'm gonna call the vice squad down on my old man!"
Any idea whether that's by Brand as well?
Best,
Mary the Filker
GCarras
>played it on the way to work this morning (I also have the original
>vinyl around somewhere).
>That's a good thing to remember.....Even if you're not a wolf.
But they're not wolves..sticks!
br...@gleep.yesbacon.com
>
> br...@gleep.yesbacon.com wrote:
> >
> > CKnappiii wrote:
> > >
> > > >need trivia help :
>
> [snip info on song title]
>
> ["My Old Man's a Sailor"]
> >
> > The lyrics are pretty simple.
> >
> > My old man's a sailor
> > He wears a sailor's collar
> > He wears a sailor's hat
> > He wears a sailor's shoes
>
> I learned it as:
> "He wears a sailor's raincoat and he wears a sailor's shoes..."
>
> > and every saturday evening, he reads the Sunday news.
>
Yup. I left a line out when I typed it.
...Collar...hat...raincoat...shoes....
OOOPS,
Brian
HappyFingr
>on Muysuic for Little People.
>
>
Yes, I bought the cassette for my kids when it came out. They were just
listening to it the other night.
robj...@gmail.com
Jeff Morris
Are you sure this is the word you're thinking of? The last verse, sung by Dick, is about his dad being a cotton pickin' finger lickin' chicken plucker, and the joke is that it's a bit of a tongue twister, and if he slips up, he might say "fucker" instead of "plucker". Are you sure you weren't thinking of that word? Of course they never actually say it.
RH Draney
> They released two different versions of this on LP, first on Think Ethnic, then later on Golden Hits Vol. 2. They are more or less the same lyrics, and neither has the line you are referring to. It is credited to Oscar Brand. Are you positive you heard this on an LP and it was the Smothers Brothers?
>
> Are you sure this is the word you're thinking of? The last verse, sung by Dick, is about his dad being a cotton pickin' finger lickin' chicken plucker, and the joke is that it's a bit of a tongue twister, and if he slips up, he might say "fucker" instead of "plucker". Are you sure you weren't thinking of that word? Of course they never actually say it.
parody of the Smothers Brothers on this song, someone more likely to
slip in a term that was already pretty offensive in the sixties when Tom
and Dick were recording their albums (the closest I ever heard them come
to something that would have been considered racist at the time is Tom's
crack that he's "sore at the Indians" because "they massacred Custer")....
In particular, I'm wondering if the more offensive version came from
"The Brothers Brothers", a pair of characters (named Tom and Tom) on the
old "In Living Color" show....r
Lydia I.
> This thread probably isn’t even running anymore...but I’m going to add a commemt, just in case. My uncle had numerous records of the great comedians from the 1960s (I distinctly remember The Smothers Brothers and Bob Newhart). Every once in a while, my dad and I go over to his house to visit him. I distinctly remember being there listening to the Smothers Brothers singing their “My Old Man” song. I swear that on the album we were listening to, there was an added verse. In THIS rendition, “their old man” was a n!&&er. I remember how shocked I was at the iMessage (I was only about eight or nine at the time). I would as my dad or uncle, but they both have passed on. Does anyone remember hearing this version of the song?
I'd have to say it's very unlikely they ever used the other, much more offensive n-word