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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 3, 2012 11:02:45 GMT -5
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Post by scousette on Jul 3, 2012 17:19:56 GMT -5
Yes, he sure did make some music. Some of the best episodes were when Andy played bluegrass with the Darling Family, who were played by the Dillards.
Andy Griffith is best known for his TV work on the Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, but he was a versatile and accomplished film actor as well. His portrayal of the conniving Lonesome Rhodes in A Face In The Crowd is magnificent.
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Post by kc on Jul 3, 2012 18:43:12 GMT -5
He was very funny in the movie No Time For Sergeants also.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 3, 2012 20:13:56 GMT -5
Yes, he sure did make some music. Some of the best episodes were when Andy played bluegrass with the Darling Family, who were played by the Dillards. Andy Griffith is best known for his TV work on the Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, but he was a versatile and accomplished film actor as well. His portrayal of the conniving Lonesome Rhodes in A Face In The Crowd is magnificent. He was a pretty evil guy in Pray for the Wildcats, too. He, Robert Reed and William Shatner were bikers taking a road trip.
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Post by lowbasso on Jul 3, 2012 20:59:17 GMT -5
I just found out Andy Griffith majored in voice at UNC/Chapel Hill. He wanted to be an opera singer. I just saw his 1948 Student recital Program where he sang Mozart, Schumann, Duparc, and many selections from other classical composers. GOLLY ANDY!!!
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Post by lowbasso on Jul 3, 2012 21:04:48 GMT -5
Yes, he sure did make some music. Some of the best episodes were when Andy played bluegrass with the Darling Family, who were played by the Dillards. Andy Griffith is best known for his TV work on the Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, but he was a versatile and accomplished film actor as well. His portrayal of the conniving Lonesome Rhodes in A Face In The Crowd is magnificent. That is one of my favorite movies. His public was so shocked at his portrayal of such an evil character who really was cruel to Patricia Neal in the movie that Andy swore he would never again play a bad person on film, and he then went on to do his TV show.
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Post by mikev on Jul 3, 2012 21:29:20 GMT -5
We all remember the lighter and darker side of Mayberry:
Episode 66 : Aunt Bee is featured running her lily white "cooking" club the "Krazy Kitchen Kookers". The strange, all white encompassing aprons the ladies wear get mistaken as a visit from the Pope and his cardinals.
Episode 67: Floyd the Barber wraps a strange pink litmus hot shaving cloth around four British musicians traveling through Mayberry on tour. The band leader Syd ponders a name change.
Episode 169 Gomer on leave from the US Marines discusses "a Don't ask don't tell" policy with an Arkansas law student and later accidentally busts up a pot party getting a son of a Texas politician in deep W ater
Episode 422 Opie drinks moonshine with Otis and wakes up in 1958 Milwaukee where he befriends a jewish italian biker who jumps sharks.
Episode 912 follows Barney Fife back to a sunny beach town in Southern California where he gets busted for being a peeping tom on his cute blonde tennant Chrissy.
RIP Andy.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 3, 2012 22:39:11 GMT -5
Mike, I never saw those episodes in syndication on WGN Chicago in the 1970's! ;D
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Post by OldFred on Jul 3, 2012 23:28:59 GMT -5
RIP Andy
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Post by mikev on Jul 3, 2012 23:39:28 GMT -5
Mike, I never saw those episodes in syndication on WGN Chicago in the 1970's! ;D Then you missed perhaps Mayberry's darkest hour in the final episode "Howard Sprague Goes Postal". Ohh how I shudder when I think of all of the bloodshed mixed with that zany hometown humor. I remember as Andy carted off the bloody Howard...he looked at Howard and said "baaaaadddd cracker...baaaadddd cracker".
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Post by winstonoboogie on Jul 4, 2012 10:35:46 GMT -5
Errrr...I don't remember those episodes either. But R.I.P., Sheriff.....also Mr. Matlock.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 4, 2012 13:30:14 GMT -5
I do remember the MADD TV take-off of Reservoir Dogs that had Andy cutting off Floyd's ear to the tune of Stuck in the Middle with You. That was hilarious.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 4, 2012 16:37:22 GMT -5
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Post by RockoRoll on Jul 5, 2012 2:17:26 GMT -5
RIP also to Andy, and thanking you also for the memories..... I used luv his show at 4:00pm each afternoon, or I had to sometimes swap from channel to channel to watch F-Troop, or my favourite (German Sheperd) dog (london), *The Littlest Hobo* (now I'm showing my age...lol)...... ;D How does the lyrics go again..... Travelling around from town to town, sometimes I'II think I'II settle down...... ;D ;D "Looks like we're comin' into town. Seems like this train is slowin' down. Can't help but wonder what's in store. Could be I've been here once before. A-driftin'. The world is my friend. I'm travlin' along the road without end. Ridin' these rails town to town. Sometimes I think I'll settle down. But I know I'd hunger to be free. Rovin's the only life for me. A-driftin'. The world is my friend. I'm travlin' along the road without end."
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 6, 2012 15:36:16 GMT -5
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