Alice

Jerry Reed, Aug. 31, age 71: Reed was a talented songwriter and sometime country performer, whose songs were covered by the likes of Brenda Lee ("That's All You Got to Do") and Elvis ("Guitar Man"). Reed also played guitar for Elvis, and dueted and played frequently over the years... more with good friend Chet Atkins. He launched his solo career with "Amos Moses" and followed that with more novelty tunes, among them "When You're Hot, You're Hot" and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)." He acted with good bud Burt Reynolds in the "Smokey and the Bandit" films and appeared as himself on "Alice." "Amos Moses" went on to be covered by Primus, and it appeared in the videogame "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." That Amos was a hell of a man.

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