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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?

WHATCHA THINK I was kidding?

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

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??

YES!!!

GB

YES

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

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

Ya never know where Smiley will show up.

10 years with Tommy Overstreet.

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

Smiley was a regular at Twitty City

Now can anyone be more famous?

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

Ken,I would have to say and it's only a guess YES.
And so can these guys

^^^^^

Smiley gets my vote!

Great guy and steel player! Hang in there Smiley!

Terry Wood

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 ?

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

And also was a recording artist in the 60s.

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.

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

Too late to choose Bethal . . .

~Rw

Not many have made the Nashville souvenir book.

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.

Right you are Herb I do understand this.