Brother dave gardner the motorcycle story
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Brother Dave Gardner
By Jesse Kornbluth
Published: Dec 07, 2010
Category: Spoken Word
Chuck, a good ol’ boy from Alabama, has “zippers in the sides of his aviator cap so his sideburns could hang out.”
His girlfriend is named Baby. She is this dumb: When he says “Let’s blow this joint,” she replies, “No, man, pass it on to the waitress.”
No wonder Chuck has eyes for the waitress: “married, 3 kids and a husband overseas… like little animals when she walks.”
Then they get on his motorcycle — there’s a sidecar for Baby — and because we have a “no spoilers” policy, I must stop there. Good thing. You might just laugh yourself sick.
Oh, okay. Here:
That’s one side of Brother Dave Gardner, a comedian from Jackson, Tennessee who was so big in the 1950s and early 1960s that he was sometimes called “the Southern Lenny Bruce.” [To buy the ”Best Of” CD, click here.]
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The Kingpin
“Brother Dave,” as he styled himself, was never a huge star, but he made some pretty good money for a while. He had trouble keeping it, however, because he was a bit of a gambler. One weekend he showed up at the Leighton, Ala., residence of Willie Dewitt Dawson, a no-nonsense sort of guy who earned his keep by robbing banks, bootlegging whiskey, conducting strong-arm shakedowns, running a mini-casino out of his house and evading taxes.
By the end of the weekend, Brother Dave was $5,000 in the hole, which was not surprising since every game of chance at Dewitt’s place was outrageously rigged. Brother Dave told Dewitt that he would have to send him the money.
No, Dewitt said, that just wouldn’t do. Brother Dave needed to pay. Now.
Brother Dave got a little huffy and told Dewitt that was impossible. This was not a prudent way to deal with Mr. Dawson.
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Brother Dave Gardner
American drummer
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David Gardner (June 11, 1926[1] – September 22, 1983),[2] known as Brother Dave Gardner, was an American comedian, professional drummer and singer.
A Tennessee native, Gardner studied drumming, beginning at age 13. After a one-semester term as a Southern Baptist ministerial student at Union University in his hometown of Jackson, Tennessee, he began a musical career as a drummer and occasional vocalist. After a pair of demo singles for Decca Records around 1956, he had a 1957 Top-20 hit on OJ Records with "White Silver Sands".[1]
It was his comedic routines between songs, however, that brought him to the attention of RCA Records artist and producer Chet Atkins.[3] The eventual result was a comedy album interspersed with a couple of songs – Rejoice, Dear Hearts! (1959),[1] which propelled Brother Dave into the national eye, along wit
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