Showing posts with label Andy Griffith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Griffith. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Classic Andy Griffith! Know-it-all city boy Bill Bixby, speeding his way to Miami, runs afoul of Andy's Mayberry-style justice; Sleepy Man Banjo Boys


The Andy Griffith Show (Season 2, Episode 15) - Bailey's Bad Boy. Originally aired on CBS-TV on January 15, 1962.
Even when you can see the moral of the story miles away -self-reliance- it's still goes down nice and smooth like homemade strawberry ice cream on Andy's front porch on a hot summer day.


And here's something that Andy would surely appreciate: Bluegrass playing boys from -wait for it- New Jersey. Meet the 'Sleepy Man Banjo Boys'



The Darlings Music Videos


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

You don't have to be Roy Black or Gerry Spence, you just have to care: Barney for the defense, your Honor



Barney for the defense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNMTQBhatM



Rafe Hollister (Jack Prince) sings Lonesome Road, Andy Griffith on guitar (1963)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDzUATl63vE

A Mayberry State of Mind/AMSOM is the online chapter of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club
http://www.youtube.com/user/AMSOMmp

http://amayberrystateofmind.com/default.aspx


http://www.mayberry.com/


http://www.youtube.com/user/AlexMOFUKA

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341431/videogallery
http://www.tvland.com/shows/andy-griffith-show

Not surprisingly, The Andy Griffith Show was my favorite TV show as a small kid growing-up in mid-1960's Memphis, which was far, far away from a Mayberry existence before we left in 1968 for South Florida, three months after the MLK assassination there, and the subsequent riots and curfews, which I still remember.

The Tennessee National Guard drove their Army tanks right past our apt. complex at night on their way downtown as everyone in our neighborhood, young and old, watched quietly from the sidewalk, utterly transfixed, almost breathless, unsure of what the next day would bring.


Dr. King Is Slain By Sniper headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 6, 1968

Dr. King Is Slain By Sniper headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
April 6, 1968.

Because I was a very precocious kid and early reader, and was easily bored with kids books, just as
Andy Griffith's hugely-popular TV show helped instill in me a certain moral compass about the right way you treat people, The Memphis Commercial Appeal was the newspaper that helped me learn to read and make sense of the wider world beyond the Mississippi River's banks.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/