Think Ethnic

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Name = Think Ethnic!
Type = studio
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Artist = Smothers Brothers


Released = February 15, 1963
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Label = Mercury Records
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Last album = The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers" 1962
This album = Think Ethnic! 1963
Next album = Curb Your Tongue, Knave" 1963

"Think Ethnic!" was the third comedy album of the Smothers Brothers, released February 15, 1963 on Mercury Records. Complete Smothers Brothers' discography can be found " [http://www.smothersbrothers.com/discography.htm here] ".

Track listing

#"Soap" (0:30) - A song about "eight bars"...
#"Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love’s Hair)" (3:04) - Turned into "Black Is the Colour of My Love's True Hair" ["But only her Hairdresser knows--/("Does she or Doesn't she?")--/Only her Hairdresser knows!"] {a play on the advertising 'tag line' at that time for Clairol hair-coloring products).
#"The Fox" (6:17) - Tom decides that this song about a fox throwing a duck across his back would be enhanced by quacking, but Dick disagrees.
#"I Never Will Marry" (3:05)
#"Venezuelan Rain Dance" (6:50) - In which the Venezuelans pray to the rain god, Shane to "come back." (actually Hava Nagila)
#"Daniel Boone" (1:16) - Who was "a trailer and a tractor" according to Tom; naturally, Dick had just stated that Boone was "a trader and a trapper."
#"My Old Man" (3:17) - In which Tom warns Dick not to make a mistake about his old man who is a "cotton-pickin' finger-lickin' chicken plucker", after he had (purposely) stumbled through lines about his old man being a refrigerator repairman ("refriraterpairman").
#"The Wreck Of The Old 49" (2:14) - Not a A folk song, but a song written by Shel Silverstein.
#"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (0:25) - Actually, according to Tom he is not.
#"The Saga Of John Henry" (8:50) - There are two false starts before Tom is actually able to get the song going properly; both relate to Tom's questions about what John Henry actually could have done when he was "just a little baby." From Tom's dramatic narration between verses, we learn that John Henry apparently did a lot of spitting.
#"Mary Was Pretty" (2:07) - Dedicated to Dick's then wife (named Linda).

Complete discography

*"Live at the Purple Onion", 1961
*"The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers", 1962
*"Think Ethnic!", 1963
*"Curb Your Tongue, Knave", 1963
*"It Must Have Been Something I Said!", 1964
*"", 1965
*"Aesop's Fables", 1965
*"Mom Always Liked You Best!", 1966
*"The Smothers Brothers Play It Straight", 1966
*"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour", 1968
*"Golden Hits of the Smothers Brothers, Vol. 2", 1969
*"", 1988