Gordie Tapp, of "Hee Haw" fame, has died

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/arts/television/gordie-tapp-hee-haw-regular-of-pfft-you-was-gone-fame-dies-at-94.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

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Gordie Tapp, a regular for more than 20 years on the long-running television variety series “Hee Haw,” died on Dec. 18 in Burlington, Ontario. He was 94.

Born Gordon Robert Tapp on June 4, 1922, in London, Ontario, he began his career on a radio station in Hamilton as a jazz disc jockey and switched to country when he joined the cast of a new show called “Main Street Jamboree.” That led to a job from 1956 to 1965 as host of the CBC television show “Country Hoedown,” on which he also appeared in sketches, most notably as the bumpkin character Cousin Clem.

In addition to Clem, his gallery of characters included the easily flustered proprietor of a general store and Lavern Nagger, a husband constantly arguing with his wife, Ida Lee (played by Roni Stoneman). He was also among the cast members who regularly sang the show’s signature songs “Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me” and “Pfft! You Was Gone!”
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(sigh!) Pfft, now you're gone. Say hi to Archie Campbell for us.

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1. I loved that bit.

R.I.P.