MickyDolenz said:

^^I've never seen those interviews, they're fairly recent. The Sammy story has been told for decades, so I guess it's well known enough for the interviewers to ask about it. I've never heard anything about Bill Medley though.

You have a good point about the tale being apparently well known. I do remember though Mac's explanation even from years ago - back when he had his own variety show and some pop & country hits of his own - he was probably asked about it a lot. My dad took me to a Davis concert back then and he probably even talked about it there, he was really a chatterbox hence the variety show.

^^I've never checked out for Mac Davis like that. I listened to some of his music, but that's about it. He wasn't someone I've seen written about in magazines or saw on TV other than music programs. I saw him in a few movies, like the one about football that I don't remember the name of right now.

I think he did movies with Burt Reynolds. Not familiar with that show Barry wrote for. Was it a show in the 70's?

JoeBala said:

I think he did movies with Burt Reynolds. Not familiar with that show Barry wrote for. Was it a show in the 70's?

I don't know about that. Jerry Reed has made several movies with Burt.

Banana Splits was a kids show that came on Saturday mornings in the 1970's.

Maybe this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079640/

Will have to look up the theme might have been too young to see it.

http://www.evtv1.com/play...emnum=5060

Yep never saw this show at all.

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^^Yeah, that's the movie. It used to get shown on TV all the time, back when they had VHF/UHF and the channels went off at night.