Take a break from politics - TVLand has Andy Griffith reruns on all day.

[jillan]

From one baby boomer to another....

enjoy!

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Are you old enough to remember

"What It Was, Was Football"? I think I was about 6 when he made that record, but even then it cracked me up.

[jillan]

2. No - I'll have to check that out.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Link to the 1953 audio clip, "Football":

So folksy! He was 27, the idiosyncrasies of speech, many of them subtle, are very endearing!

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Thank you for that. :)

I don't think I'd heard that in at least 55 years (probably more), but as I was listening, I could remember every line. Isn't it funny how things imprint on your brain when you're a child?

And if that was in 1953, I would have been 7.

[NYC_SKP]

12. The Darlings: "There is a Time"...

There is a Time
From Here's A Little Song
(Rodney Dillard & Mitch Jayne, Lansdowne Music/Winston Music Publishers, ASCAP )

There is a time for love and laughter
(The days will pass like summer storms(
The winter wind will follow after(
But there is love and love is warm((

Chorus: There is a time for us to wander(
When time is young and so are we(
The woods are greener over yonder(
The path is new and the world is free((

There is a time when leaves are fallin'(
The woods are gray the paths are old(
The snow will come when geese are callin'(
You need a fire against the cold

Chorus: There is a time for us to wander(
When time is young and so are we(
The woods are greener over yonder(
The path is new and the world is free((

So do your roaming in the springtime(
And you'll find your love in the summer sun(
The frost will come and bring the harvest(
And you can sleep when day is done

Chorus: There is a time for us to wander(
When time is young and so are we(
The woods are greener over yonder(
The path is new and the world is free

[NYC_SKP]

3. Right now: Episode featuring the Darlings!

[taterguy]

4. Thanks TV Guide

Or I could just watch them all on Netflix w/o commercials.

[RKP5637]

5. K&R !!! He was clever, witty and very talented!!! And always seemed

a very nice person!

[jillan]

8. Lol! That marriage certificate doesn't mean a thing.... Ernest T Bass.

Come to think of it, the birthers do remind me quite a bit of Ernest T Bass.

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Even Barney called him nuts

[thelordofhell]

9. TCM showed "A Face In The Crowd" on Thursday

R.I.P. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau

[jillan]

10. Walter Matthau was one of the best. I loved him... he was such an adorable goof.

I'll have to put "A Face in the Crowd" on my Netflix queue.
Thanks

[thelordofhell]

15. Oh, man, if you've never seen "A Face In The Crowd" do so immediately

Andy Griffith was incredible in the movie. He based his performance off of Oral Roberts......and it shows!!

[Uncle Joe]

11. My favorite episode is when Opie used his savings to purchase a coat for a poor classmate.

Andy; thinking his son had just foolishly wasted his savings, berated him before realizing Opie had helped the girl.

Thanks for the thread, jillian.

[NYC_SKP]

13. Season 1, Episode 8, Episode title: "Opie's Charity"

Storyline

Andy is upset when he finds out that Opie gave only three cents to a charity drive and starts to teach the boy about sharing with others less fortunate. When he finds out the reason Opie can't contribute more is because he is saving up to buy his girlfriend Charlotte something, Andy thinks he's going to squander it on toys and calls him a playboy. Aunt Bee scolds Andy for not having more faith in his son and he must eat crow when Opie tells him he is going to buy Charlotte a new coat for next winter because her mother cannot afford to.

Part one: http://www.viddler.com/v/55dca8e0

[Uncle Joe]

14. Thanks for the link NYC_SKP, that one is a tear jerker.

[Elwood P Dowd]

16. Barney, the cigarette lighter, a box of dynamite, and a dynamite loaded goat wandering

around Mayberry.

[Faygo Kid]

17. Thanks! Wish I had known earlier.

Golly.

[jillan]

18. It's still going on :)