who in the hell is "jerry reed" and why is scooby doo meeting him today?

(tears stream down my face, smearing my eyeliner..;])

"You touch her once with your greasy hands I'm gonna stretch your neck like a long rubber band She's wearin' a ring that I bought her on sale And that makes her the property of this U.S. Male"

Hence, in 1972 when he was a guest star on Scooby Doo, Reed truly WAS hot.

Reed's recordings tend to fall into three categories. One is the jokey novelty tune. Besides "Amos Moses" and "When You're Hot, You're Hot," these have also included the #1 country hits "Lord, Mr. Ford" and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)," the #2 country hit "The Bird" (a shaggy dog story in which Reed successfully mimics country singers George Jones and Willie Nelson), and "(I'm Just A) Redneck In A Rock And Roll Bar," "With His Pants In His Hand," "Another Puff," "The Uptown Poker Club" and the cross-dressing "Tryin' Stuff On," to name a few. Reed really seems to excel when he's doing this type of material.

Reed is also looked up to by musicians for his guitar-picking technique and he has recorded his share of guitar-picking instrumentals (such as "The Claw").

The third type of song Reed tends to record is the straight, sentimental, schmaltzy song, the type that is frequently but not always a ballad.

Jerry Reed's talent and versatility have paid off. As of 1988 (when my copy of "Joel Whitburn's Top Country Singles 1944-1988" ends), he had scored 57 hit singles on the U.S. country chart. Unfortunately, he has only scored 10 hits on the U.S. Hot 100, and only two of those have made the top 40. Still in all, Jerry Reed can definitely be considered a successful and well-known artist.

In the mid-to-late 1970s, Reed branched out into movies while continuing his involvement with TV. He starred in "W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings" in 1975 and "Gator" in 1976. He scored a #2 country hit in 1977 with "East Bound and Down," theme from the movie "Smokey and the Bandit," which he also costarred in, as well as the two follow-up movies. (The song was a bit of an anomaly for Reed, in that it was an uptempo song but wasn't terribly humorous. It WAS definitely catchy, though. "Redneck In A Rock and Roll Bar," the unusually successful B-side of the single, was a more typical novelty number.)

He also starred in CBS's short-lived police drama "Nashville 99" in 1977, and CBS's almost-as-short-lived adventure series "Concrete Cowboys" in 1981.

amos moses is so funky

Supposedly a huge influence on Les Claypool, which makes perfect sense.

I also remember him in a movie with Suzanne Pleshette and Dom DeLuise where they were undercover cops who ran a pawn shop as a sting operation. There was a big party at the end and the cops came in and arrested everyone. The only other things I remember about this film are a badly faked explosion involving a Trans Am and the creative way they got the perps to look into the two-way mirror.

-- zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 3 March 2003 18:04 (4 years ago) Link

i need to see this. it is like my dream movie.

I'll always love him for that movie in which he attempts to murder Robin Williams.

Favorite part about having a boy: Getting to shout "SON!" in my best Jerry-Reed/Amos-Moses voice whenever he's getting into something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lczi4KQno

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO JERRY REED IS I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU.
― Tom james, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait, is the band name US Maple a pun on US Male?

His version of Alabama Jubilee is one of the craziest guitar things I've ever heard... and also, unfortunately, very true to the song's racist minstrel origins

love the dadadada-da-da hook to “when youre hot youre hot”

and he’s my favorite part of Smokey & The Bandit