Speaking of Tommy Smothers and Lorenzo Music, as I was: There was a brief period when Lorenzo was not the voice of Garfield and Tommy was. It had to do with a contract dispute and money and I was somehow in the middle of it, which is a place I always hate to be.
Eventually, everything was worked out and no friendships were harmed in the making of several commercials for Alpo Cat Food. Alpo no longer makes cat food, by the way. When they did, they occasionally sent me crates of it, gratis, and the feral cats I was feeding in my backyard loved the stuff. Maybe giving it away for free like that is the reason they didn't show a profit.
Here's one of the commercials in which Tom Smothers spoke for the cat…