2. The Smothers Brothers—All Three of Them—Take the Stage

10 “When we were going back”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, Fresh Air, August 11, 1997.

10 “My mother”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

11 “clarinet, piano, and me”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, October 5, 2008.

12 “My apologies”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

12 “I always kept saying”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, October 5, 2008.

12 “He was talking”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, Fresh Air, August 11, 1997.

13 “I’m not a true tenor”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 6, 2008.

13 “When we were in high school”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, Fresh Air, August 11, 1997.

14 “I don’t know what drove Tommy”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

14 “Tom wasn’t that comedically developed”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 21, 2008.

16 “He knew a lot of Harry Belafonte tunes”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 21, 2008.

17 Barry Drew, the manager of the Purple Onion: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 7, 1999.

18 “Tommy plays the guitar”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 6, 2008.

18 “We’d practice on a song”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

18 “I would make up an introduction”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

19 “I was always sitting there beaming”: Sherry Smothers. Interview with author, December 6, 2008.

19 “We were a trio”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

21 “He could not tolerate Dick and me”: Tom Smothers. Interview with author, July 1, 1999.

21 “I was going to go back to school”: Dick Smothers. Interview with author, October 21, 2008.