Just Saw We Lost Another GOAT

[LMichaels]

Just saw news report that Tommy Smothers has passed away. IIRC he was the elder of the 2. Says he was 86

 

[Joan]

Thank you Larry, I think you are right. So sorry to hear that.

 

[Joan]

On trying to check which brother (oldest/youngest) it is hard to tell then apart. , at least for me.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

I saw that earlier today, sad.

 

[Mark Silver]

I used to be Dick Smother’s paperboy in Salinas, CA. I never collected at his house, he paid the newspaper in advance. It was a nice, but modest house. My favorite Smother’s Brothers song was “My old man. (‘s a cotton-pickin, finger lickin’, chicken plucker)

 

[Dan Leighton]

He sure was good with a Duncan YoYo! He ended up with the YoYo Man title. Heck, I had trouble getting beyond "walking the dog"! His younger brother Dick did play a good role as a Nevada politician in the movie Casino.