This post was started almost a year ago when #TonyBennett died months before I joined #Mastodon. It was about the #Reids, my favorite neighborhood family and the bros who became my closest friends back when I was an otherwise lonely #BurbanBoomerBoy. D was 2 days older than my sibling & R was a grade ahead of me with similar tastes in entertainment. I shared my #BillCosby albums with him and he introduced me to the music of #TomLeher. I lost touch with him after I started college and last heard that he had settled in #Bemidji where he matriculated.

R was a huge fan of Tiny Tim and loved imitating his falsetto singing, sometimes in pancake makeup with a ukulele. He once told me that he won a very special prize out of thousands of contestants in the #Chicagoland area. A personal home visit from #MartinMull who arrived in a limo was the grand prize in some promotion for one of his early albums. R told me about it afterwards and played me a few tracks from the records he had.

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