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All Things Brewer &
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Brewer & Shipley appearances on
National TV Shows |
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photo by
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The
Tonight Show With Johnny Carson
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April 21, 1971
Joey Bishop guest hosted the night we appeared. John Kahn flew out
to New York from the West coast and joined on bass but the show
didn't want to pay to show John. Also, they neglected to turn on
his microphone, so he was there and he played, but couldn’t be seen
or heard. To add insult to injury Tom's wallet was stolen out of his
hotel room that was furnished by The Tonight Show. Ah, showbiz!
Other guests: Shelly Berman, Abe Drazed, Ashley Montagu, Romina
Power
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The David Frost Show - 1971
Performed "One Toke Over The Line" |
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Top
of The Pops
(London) - 1971
The show wanted us to perform "People Love Each Other" and because
of some British law we had to re-record the song with the band,
“Southern Comfort”, and they had to be on the show with us. The
only thing live were our vocals, only they neglected to have Tom's
voice up loud enough to be heard. Nobody was plugged in, but just
playing along with the recording. We’d recorded it on the first 16
trk board to come to San Francisco, which, was quite an undertaking
at the time, but had to re-record it live in London on an antique 4
trk machine. Oddly enough, it sounded better than the original. Go
figure. Then, again, The Beatles recorded everything up to “Sgt.
Pepper” on 4 trk machines. Sometimes “new” isn’t necessarily
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The
Dick Cavett Show
- 1971
Just before going on, a publicity agent from LA we were working with
at the time came to our dressing room and made us do a “bad” thing,
which, made us perform our song like a blue grass tune; far too
fast. Seconds before the curtain went up and we were under the
bright lights, we were told we had to edit 20 seconds from the song.
Without even a chance to discuss it, somehow we edited exactly 20
seconds from the song. Are we good or what? Dick Cavett
wanted to interview us, but we knew all he’d want to talk about was
the controversy, so we passed on the couch.
The Nixon
administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by -
often just in time to see the act they wanted to see."
~ Dick Cavett |
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Midnight Special
- March, 23, 1973
Lou Rawls (guest host) - "A Natural
Woman" & Dead End Street" - Lou Rawls - medley: "Memory Lane," "It
Was a Very Good Year" & "Old Folks"
--Brewer & Shipley - "One Toke Over the Line"
--George
Burns - "Mr. Bojangles" and "You Made Me Love You" (2nd song with
the Honey Cone) --George Burns & Honey Cone - "You Made Me Love You"
--The Committee (comedy segment) - routines about a surprise party;
movies; an argument; a police station --The Grass Roots - "Midnight
Confession" & "Love Is What You Make It" --Honey Cone - "Want Ads"
--The O'Jays - "Backstabbers" & "Love Train" (2nd song with Lou
Rawls) --Eric Weissberg and Deliverance - "Dueling Banjos" and "I'm
My Own Grandpa |
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Midnight Special
- June 29, 1973
Paul Williams (guest host) - "Someday
Man," "That's What Friends Are For" & Look What I Have Found"--Paul
Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Rita Collidge - "Me and Bobby
McGee" --Kris Kristofferson - "Loving Her Was Easier" & "Out of
Mind, Out of Sight" --Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge - "I
Never Had it So Good" --Rita Coolidge - "I'll Be Your Baby" & "My
Crew" --Brewer and Shipley - "Black Sky" &
"Yankee Lady" --Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
- "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)" & "Jailhouse Rock"
--Electric Light Orchestra - "Roll Over Beethoven" & "Kuiama" --King
Harvest - "Dancing in the Moonlight" & "A Little Bit Like Magic |
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Don
Kirshner's Rock Concert - 1973
After spending hours and hours at an old theater called “Banana Fish
Gardens” in Brooklyn, we were told it wasn’t going to happen that
day so we went back to Manhattan to our hotel. Shortly thereafter,
we got a call saying it was going to happen after all so we turned
around and went back. After spending more hours and Steve Stills and
Mannassas playing way over their allotted time, we finally got to go
on in the wee hours of the morning. Randy Newman, who had been
there for the duration in a tiny, funky makeshift dressing room
finally got to go on and said, “I hope I haven’t lost my edge”.
Funny guy. |
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Brewer &
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