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'I was just sitting listening to the two of them talk on the air and then in between. I think I did about two or three of those telethons, and I always said I'd be happy to do them any time of day as long as I could be with them. They were just as gracious as could be, and it was such a thrill to meet them. 'They were both always such gentlemen and so nice,' Patterson said. Retired WTVC News Channel 9 sportscaster Darrell Patterson said by phone on Friday that he got to spend some time with Gooden and Cash during the Jerry Lewis telethons in the 1970s to raise money to fight muscular dystrophy and said he loved listening to the stories the two men shared. In fact, I told him, 'Sam, you wake up in the morning looking sharp.' He took such great pride in the suits he wore, and he never had a hair out of place.' 'We had a great conversation,' Carroll said by phone. Local 3 News on-air personality David Carroll said he visited with Gooden last week at his home in Brainerd and said he 'was sharp as a tack.' But we stopped drinking long ago, don't smoke and no drugs.' 'We are able to sing in the same key today as we always have.

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Gooden and Cash told the Times Free Press in a previous interview that their longevity can be credited to several things, including living here among old friends and family. The original group featured Gooden, Arthur and Richard Brooks, Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler.

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The Impressions continued to perform until Gooden and Cash retired for good to garden and spend time with family in Chattanooga, they told the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2019. He eventually joined with Jerry Butler and singer-songwriter Curtis Mayfield to form The Impressions, and the group would release such million sellers as 'For Your Precious Love,' 'Gypsy Woman,' 'It's Alright,' 'Amen,' 'People Get Ready' and 'Choice of Colors.' Gooden moved to Chicago in the late '50s to pursue music and a minor league baseball career. King Boulevard in downtown Chattanooga in 2019.įew had a career as long, or as successful, as The Impressions and Gooden, who retired from the business earlier that year, but throughout it all, he never forgot Chattanooga, which he always called home, even when he was living in Chicago, where the Impressions became a doo-wop reality, or when he was traveling the world. The state of Tennessee honored the group with a Tennessee Pathways sign at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center on M.L. He, along with fellow Chattanoogan and Impressions member Fred Cash were invited to the Barack Obama White House, and none other than Eric Clapton asked them to sing on one of his albums. As a member of The Impressions, Sam Gooden had a career that spanned almost seven decades, traveled the world over several times and was inducted into the Rock & Roll and Vocal Group halls of fame.

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