Smothers Brothers
Folk music and comedy duo The Smothers Brothers was one of the most popular folk
acts of the 1960s thanks to the duo’s penchant for humorous onstage banter.
Comprised of brothers Tommy ( born February 2, 1937, in New York City) and Dick
Smothers (born November 20th, 1938, in New York City), the duo spent their
formative years in Los Angeles, California after the death of their father
during World War II. Initially members of a folk quartet in the late 1950s, they
debuted a duo in San Francisco, California in February 1959. Tommy did not feel
that they were good enough musicians, ...
