BILL CHERRY'S GREATEST DALLAS PARK CITIES REAL ESTATE BLOG: SOME THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE -- TAKE WILLIE NELSON...

GARTH BROOKS, TIM MC GRAW, WILLIE NELSON AND BIG MIKE

I don't know Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Big Mike, but I do know Willie Nelson...at least this Willie Nelson

Before he started performing full-time, this Willie Nelson was an insurance company executive who worked for my daddy at American National Insurance Co.'s home office in Galveston

And before that, we went to high school together.

Since he retired from the insurance industry, Roy Hammock has been impersonating country music singer, Willie Nelson, in lounge shows throughout Las Vegas.  And he not only looks like him when he's dolled up like he is here, but he sounds like him when he sings.

Roy as Willie, along with the fellows who impersonate Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw, who are with Roy in this photo, also have others who join them from time to time, like a look alike of Marilyn Monroe.

So how do they do this?  I remember a professional theatrical make-up artist told me one time, "Why do you find this so hard to believe?  Carol Channing, Elvis and Judy Garland didn't look like themselves either until they were made up to look like themselves."

Roy, not as Willie but as himself, has one more interesting accomplishment.  He and former Bill Clinton girlfriend, Gennifer Flowers, are (as we say in the trade) "close friends."

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