The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion information
"Live at the Purple Onion" redirects here. For the Zach Galifianakis special, see Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion.
1961 live album by Smothers Brothers
The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion
Live album by
Smothers Brothers
Released
May 1, 1961
Venue
Purple Onion, San Francisco, California Tidelands Motor Inn, Houston, Texas
Genre
comedy, folk music parody
Label
Mercury
Smothers Brothers chronology
The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion (1961)
The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers (1962)
The Smothers Brothers at the Purple Onion, released May 1, 1961 on Mercury Records, is the first album released by the Smothers Brothers and established their reputation as folk music satirists. The Purple Onion was a celebrated comedy and music club in the North Beach area of San Francisco that also launched the careers of The Kingston Trio and Phyllis Diller, besides the Smothers Brothers. The album's full cover text is: The Songs and Comedy of the Smothers Brothers! Recorded at the Purple Onion, San Francisco, and is Mercury catalog number MG 20611 (monaural), and SR 60611 (stereo). It is sometimes referred to as Live at the Purple Onion.
Despite its title, the majority of the album was in fact recorded at the Tidelands Club in Houston, Texas, not at the Purple Onion. According to Dick Smothers (quoted in the duo's biography, Dangerously Funny), the Purple Onion performances were good, but the tapes were marred by technical issues. As a result, the only part of the Purple Onion recording that made it onto the album was the introduction. The rest of the record was sourced from the tapes of the duo's subsequent Tidelands Club shows. The brothers were grateful to the Purple Onion for giving them their first break, so the entire album was credited as having been recorded there.[1]
^David Bianculli, Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers (Simon & Schuster, 2009), p.31
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