Michael McDonalds long-lost son reveals heartwarming family moments since discovering his dad was Doobie Brothers star
Michael Goessling always knew he was adopted.But what he did not know for nearly 58 years was that his biological father had one of the most recognizable and beloved voices in American music.The St.
Louis man learned recently that his father is five-time Grammy winner and Doobie Brothers singer Michael McDonald, a musician Goessling had admired since childhood and had unknowingly paid to see perform twice as a young man.But even after receiving the letter that began it all, meeting his biological mother and learning his biological father was a mysterious musician named “Mike,” Goessling still had no idea who was waiting on the other end of the phone.The answer finally came during their first conversation, when “Mike” mentioned he was touring and would be stopping in St.Louis on Sept.
4 at a venue he believed was called “Hollywood.”Goessling thought of the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater and, puzzled that his biological father was apparently still a touring musician at his age, began searching the venue’s concert schedule as the two men spoke.The Doobie Brothers were playing in concert Sept.4.Suddenly, the pieces began falling into place: “Mike.” Musician.
That unmistakable voice.“Are you Michael McDonald?” Goessling finally asked.McDonald chuckled.“Yep, afraid so.”“Oh my gosh, this is getting crazier by the second,” Goessling recalled saying.
“I can’t even, I can’t get my head around this.This is too much.”“I know,” McDonald replied.
“Take a minute.”“I thought I was being punked for a second,” Goessling told Fox News Digital.“It’s like, ‘No, this can’t be real.
This is impossible.What is going on here?'”More than a year later, he said the discovery can still feel unreal.“I still wake up sometimes and my first thought is, ‘Oh my gosh, that was a crazy dream,’ only to realize that here we are.”The extraordinary phone call came just days after a letter ended a mystery stretching back to Goessling�...