Thanks for responding to LucyT on this - I’ve been away. Dave Gardner died in 1983. Wikipedia has an informative life and career description EXCEPT for their cheap-shot characterization of him as racist. Of course, that’s the typical left-wing Wiki bias we all know and expect.
Flip Wilson’s “Geraldine” character was inspired by Brother Dave. He was a gentle, funny man and gave me many laughs back in the day as I enjoyed an Ar-Uh-See Cola, Moon Pie and peanuts... /g
“Now Missuh Junior... he wuz kilt outright... but Miss Baby... she was alright until they tried to turn her head around”. “Chuck was cool man... he had one of them leather aviator caps and he grew them sideburns like Elvis. Well he’d pull them sideburns out the slits in them straps and let ‘em blow in the breeze”. “He had zippers up his sleeves and zippers up his back... and a tatoo on his arm that said, “Mammy you the most”. Another favorite, “Et Tu Brutus”? “Naw man... I ain’t et nuthin’.” Loved Brother Dave!
LLS
Then we'd pour the little package of peanuts into the Ar-Uh-See Cola. : )
"Those were the days my friends,
We thought they'd never end..."