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Lou Rawls - singer ("You'll Never Find A Love Like Mine") I was at a child care conference in north Georgia in 2006. I had been taking things out to my car and a very nice man wearing a cap and holding a small dog held the door open for me. I thanked him and in his unmistakable voice he said I was welcome. He had such a distinctive voice and I knew immediately who he was. I got on the elevator with him, but never acknowledged that I knew who he was.
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They used to be on the television show "My Three Sons" with Fred McMurray.
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This is a picture of me with Joe Frank Harris in 1990 who was the governor of Georgia at this time. He came to Tifton to deliver some speech at the Chamber of Commerce and my office was right next door, so I got to meet him.
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My biggest claim to meeting fame was in 1971 when we lived in New Jersey. My best friend, Ericka (Ricki) MacPherson was the girlfriend of Jay Osmond. When The Osmonds were coming to Philadelphia for a concert, she and I went and met the entire family and spent time in their hotel room. In fact, we'd even gone a couple of days prior to pick up a birthday gift Ricki had gotten for Marie. We went to the concert and then came back to The Osmonds room afterwards.
Wow! that is so strange. Ricki MacPherson travelled to my home State of Maryland in the early 1970's to see the Osmonds at the Baltimore Civic Center. She told ME she was the girlfriend of Alan Osmond, not Jay. Mrs. Olive Osmond allowed us to the Osmonds' hotel room at the Holiday Inn in Baltimore and I met Donny and Marie, long before they were a singing duo
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