Smiley Roberts for Hall of Fame.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 19 Mar 2014 12:10 pm

And why not? The mans a New England legend ,Later a wheeling Jamboree Mainstay and about 40 years + surviving the Road and Nashville maze. He has been awarded the NTSG Legends award among others. The Mass Country Music HOF. Western mass HOF and I believe a CCMA honor. And like the Energizer Bunny he just keeps going and going and goinnnnn. I even wrote a song about him called" your just a pain in the wellllllll Before he's gone why not?

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 20 Mar 2014 7:20 am

WHATCHA THINK I was kidding?

Bryce Baker · Post by **Bryce Baker** » 20 Mar 2014 8:12 am

Great idea, 100% for Smiley. A super guy, as well as a
great guitarist. He deserves it.

SCOTT TYLER · Post by **SCOTT TYLER** » 20 Mar 2014 4:29 pm

He's got my vote Joe!! He's a great player, funny as all get out, and he survived playing for quite a few years with my Dad and the Cowboy Caravan at Lake Compounce. Where do I sign??

Brandin · Post by **Brandin** » 20 Mar 2014 6:07 pm

YES!!!

GB

pdl20 · Post by **pdl20** » 20 Mar 2014 8:35 pm

Tony Davis · Post by **Tony Davis** » 21 Mar 2014 5:16 pm

Smiley will get my vote..anytime.....for anything !!!!!
Tony

Al Udeen · Post by **Al Udeen** » 21 Mar 2014 5:25 pm

Smiley! You know you've got my vote! Also I want to thank you for helping me celebrate my birthday along with Lynn & Jeremy Owlsley at Cowboy Saloon in Gallatin
in January where my son C.J. was playing! Al

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 22 Mar 2014 6:21 am

Ya never know where Smiley will show up.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 23 Mar 2014 9:04 am

10 years with Tommy Overstreet.

Kenny Foy · Post by **Kenny Foy** » 23 Mar 2014 4:29 pm

Here here. I'm in.. WHO doesn't know Smiley. And he has to take a back seat to nobody on his steel playing.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 25 Mar 2014 7:12 am

Smiley was a regular at Twitty City

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 27 Mar 2014 7:38 am

Now can anyone be more famous?

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 27 Mar 2014 8:19 am

Whose the guy on the left? Is he a player?

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 27 Mar 2014 8:48 am

Ken,I would have to say and it's only a guess

YES.

And so can these guys

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 27 Mar 2014 2:17 pm

^^^^^

Terry Wood · Post by **Terry Wood** » 27 Mar 2014 3:06 pm

Smiley gets my vote!

Great guy and steel player! Hang in there Smiley!

Terry Wood

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 27 Mar 2014 11:09 pm

Smiley recorded on the Texas Twist Album with Chubby Checker. On the Sun label.

The picture was from an article in the Nashburg News about the session. Now talk about versatility ?

W. C. Edgar · Post by **W. C. Edgar** » 28 Mar 2014 7:54 am

I vote YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 28 Mar 2014 10:14 am

And also was a recording artist in the 60s.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 28 Mar 2014 11:17 am

For 2015 a nice deserving class to choose from would be Smiley, Mike Johnson Terry Bethel, Dan Dugmore and though he is too humble to about a nomination. Who has done more for the Steel Guitar than our b0b.

Russ Wever · Post by **Russ Wever** » 28 Mar 2014 10:44 pm

Joe Casey wrote:For 2015 a nice deserving class to choose
from would be . . . . . . . Terry Bethel . . . . . .

Too late to choose Bethal . . .

~Rw

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 29 Mar 2014 6:44 am

Not many have made the Nashville souvenir book.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 29 Mar 2014 8:14 am

Not to throw water on anyone's public wish list, their homage to their hero or heroine, or online attempt to rouse the rabble

, but to my knowledge neither Joe Casey nor anyone else has ever bothered to assemble a nomination packet for Smiley Roberts and sent it to the HOF Committee.

Surely the veteran members of this Forum, like Joe, know the drill for nomination procedures. It's been posted here time and time again, obviously to the deaf ears and blind eyes of some. And also that y'all's "votes" are actually votes for the amorphous "hall of fame of public opinion," and not for the ISGHOF.

I also realize that it's much easier to post comments here on the Forum than it is to actually assemble the information and send it to Chuck Lettes, the sec'y of the Hall of Fame Convention Board. Sending the information to Chuck will put Smiley on the list of suitable candidates for HOF induction.

So Joe, if you REALLY want to move the process along, write the material and send it on, rather than fan the flames here, which frequently does little other than to bring on complaints and innuendos about the decisions of the Board members; all of whom BTW, with one exception, are members of the Forum and can be addressed publicly by our names.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 29 Mar 2014 9:00 am

Right you are Herb I do understand this.

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