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

http://youtu.be/c2c2fvRWSg4

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.

See also: http://mayberry.wikia.com/wiki/Bailey's_Bad_Boy

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

http://youtu.be/txGXhuOWot8

The Darlings Music Videos

http://youtu.be/cnniyab94WY

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.

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/