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A star of TV, screen and musics country and pop, Jerry Reed has passed away at age 71 . He was Burt Reynolds' truck-driving sidekick "The Snowman" in the Hollywood trilogy Smokey and the Bandit, appeared regularly on friend Glen Campbell's Goodtime Hour and had hit songs like "When You're Hot Your Hot," "Amos Moses," (yeah, here comes Amos!) and "She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft)." Reed was indeed a classic. "She Got The Goldmine"