So, did the weird neighbor actually write the music for the song The Tears of a Clown, by Smokey Robinson? It's not said straight out but he claims to have been a musician or something and they show a clip of a guy in an old children's show singing a tune surprisingly like the Smokey Robinson song.
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What? Tears of a Clown? I think I need to watch the movie again, I don't recall this.
shareThe Tears of a Clown was written by Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder & Hank Cosby. so no... the weird neighbor "Tony Eyes" didn't write that song. He doesn't ever say he's a musician. He's just a "Not quite right in the head" neighbor of theirs that doesn't play an electric organ very well and sings bad Tom Jones songs. In the children's tv show clip your referring to it appears to be the same actor playing another character. He is a televangelist singing an actual standard children's church song called "123 the Devil's after me" (or The Hallelujah song) a song i recall singing at Sunday school myself as a kid in the 70's. The two are not connected other than just being played by the same actor.
Everything i know i learned from 70's After School Specials.