Curb Your Tongue, Knave

Infobox Album
Name = Curb your tongue, knave!
Type = live
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Artist =Smothers Brothers


Released = November 1, 1963
Recorded =
Genre = comedy
Length =
Label = Mercury Records
Producer =
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Last album = Think Ethnic!" 1963
This album = Curb your tongue, knave! 1963
Next album = It Must Have Been Something I Said!" 1964

"Curb your tongue, knave!"" was the fourth comedy album recorded by the Smothers Brothers, released November 1, 1963 on Mercury Records. The album was recorded live at Mr. Kelly's in Chicago, Illinois. This was the first of their original albums to be released on CD. Complete Smothers Brothers' discography can be found " [http://www.smothersbrothers.com/discography.htm here] ".

Track listing

#"Church Bells" (4:25) - Song about the bells of a Catholic Church, a Protestant Church, and a Synagogue during which Dick mistakenly says "Catholic Chowers" instead of "Catholic Towers". The song is a "shaggy dog story", a drawn out explanation ending with the church bells finally playing in sequence, the effect being to ring out "Shave and a Haircut".
#"American History-1A" (5:09) - Tom tells what he knows about Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, John Henry, and the ballad of Big Ben Covington, a friend of Johnny Appleseed, the main topic of the dissertation. "American History-IIA" and "IIB" are found on "".
#"Lonesome Traveler" (4:16) - Tom thinks he is the classic radio detective "The Whistler," for he walks by night and he knows many things. Some of Tom's best guitar work is featured on this classic folk song.
#"Gnus" (2:29) - Tom has thought about being a big game hunter and hunting the vicious gnus.
#"The Incredible Jazz Banjoist" (4:24) - Tom attempts to play "Nola" and "Whispering" on the banjo.
#"I Talk to the Trees" (3:40) - Dick is singing the show tune from "Paint Your Wagon" but has to stop to explain to Tom what the song was about. Tom thinks the guy in the song sounds like a nut.
#"Flamenco" (2:51) - Tom attempts a Flamenco guitar number from his "Spanish homeland."
#"Swiss Christmas" (4:35) - Actually the Israeli song "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena", which was previously the story of a one-humped camel race on "Live at the Purple Onion".

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