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peppy
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 10:06 pm |
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[size=Singer-turned-actor Jerry Reed, known as "The Guitar Man" of country music, has died aged 71. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Reed released more than 40 albums over a long career that started when he was just 18.]
[size=After scoring US hits like Amos Moses and When You're Hot, he broke into cinema in the 1970s, appearing in all three Smokey and the Bandit movies. The star, who had quadruple bypass surgery in 1999, died on Monday of complications arising from emphysema. He had recently been cared for in a hospice, Country Music Television in Nashville reported. Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante called Reed a larger-than-life personality.]
[size="Everything about Jerry was distinctive - his guitar playing, writing, voice and especially his sense of humour," Galante said. "I was honoured to have worked with him." Reed's booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed (not a relation), called the singer-songwriter "one of the greatest entertainers in the world". ]
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Hooli
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 10:12 pm |
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who was he in smokey then? 
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 10:38 pm |
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Hooli wrote: who was he in smokey then?
he portrayed the "Snowman", Cledus Snow
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 10:50 pm |
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well why didnt you say? never knew he was a singer though. mind you he was only ever a sidekick for fred 
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Posted: Tue Oct 14th, 2008 09:33 pm |
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He sang the song "East Bound and Down" featured in the film.
You can listen to it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8dP4CoFaw
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Posted: Tue Oct 14th, 2008 09:47 pm |
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Hooli wrote: well why didnt you say? never knew he was a singer though. mind you he was only ever a sidekick for fred
Who was fred then?
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Posted: Tue Oct 14th, 2008 09:48 pm |
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hunter wrote: Hooli wrote: well why didnt you say? never knew he was a singer though. mind you he was only ever a sidekick for fred
Who was fred then?
The dawg.
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Posted: Tue Oct 14th, 2008 10:38 pm |
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| Copy! R.I.P. fella
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Posted: Wed Oct 15th, 2008 02:29 pm |
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| A loss I thoughthe was great in those films I just watched smokey and the bandit last night(how strange)
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Posted: Sat Oct 18th, 2008 10:23 pm |
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Well you learn something new everyday. Awesome films! 
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Posted: Mon Oct 20th, 2008 08:03 pm |
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| my boy will be upset Smokey and the Bandit is one of his faves
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