>Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:15:06 -0600
>To: "Richard Taylor" <tarch@bellsouth.net>,Joe_Alexander,Tony_Drews,Tom
>Chandler
>From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
>Subject: RE: Nomination of Tom Chandler to FoT
>
>At 09:00 AM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
>I will second this nomination ONLY if Tom will sing "Goofus" with the backup
>of the Iowa Glee Club at The Mitty.
>
>Richard Taylor
>
>Oh my gosh --
>
>FOT-ers, Richard was host to four Iowa based FOT's for a weekend -- Joe
>Alexander, Tom Chandler, Tony Drews, Jack Drews. And a fine weekend it
>was, too. Now, I knew that Taylor was a bon vivant, raconteur, and judge
>of fine booze, but I had no idea that he had such taste in music.
>Somewhere during the weekend he broke into a fractured chorus of "Goofus",
>something none of us had heard for years and years, originally performed
>by the Carpenters. Since our favorite state is mentioned in the lyrics, it
>could well become the Iowa FOT anthem.
>
>So, fellow Iowans, the gauntlet has been thrown down. Since new FOT
>nominee Tom Chandler is a saxaphone player who has actually performed with
>the Thicktones at Midwest races, I hereby challenge Tom to learn this on
>the sax, and my fellow travelers to practice up on the words and music --
>ya never know --
>
>http://www.smickandsmodoo.com/aaa/lyrics/goofus.htm
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