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Title: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: roadman65 on December 01, 2017, 02:23:53 PM
Surprise Surprise Surprise!  Also the man who said Golly and Hey There Sergeant Carter and Hey there Andy has passed away.
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: roadman on December 01, 2017, 02:31:21 PM
As this is a roadgeek site, let us not forget "Citizens Arrest, Citizen's Arrest!"
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: roadman65 on December 01, 2017, 02:34:19 PM
Quote from: roadman on December 01, 2017, 02:31:21 PM
As this is a roadgeek site, let us not forget "Citizens Arrest, Citizen's Arrest!"
Running down the street of fictional Mayberry modeled after Mount Airy, NC.
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: roadman on December 01, 2017, 02:40:13 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on December 01, 2017, 02:34:19 PM
Quote from: roadman on December 01, 2017, 02:31:21 PM
As this is a roadgeek site, let us not forget "Citizens Arrest, Citizen's Arrest!"
Running down the street of fictional Mayberry modeled after Mount Airy, NC.
Except that the fictional Mayberry was supposedly located between Greensboro and Asheboro.  Mount Airy was represented in the show by Mount Pilot, which was an amalgamation of the town names Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain.
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: cl94 on December 01, 2017, 07:44:28 PM
Is this a bad time to tell the Gomer Pyle joke?  :-D
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: cjk374 on December 01, 2017, 08:17:18 PM
Well gawwwwwwleeee!
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: allniter89 on December 01, 2017, 09:45:49 PM
Quote from: cl94 on December 01, 2017, 07:44:28 PM
Is this a bad time to tell the Gomer Pyle joke?  :-D
There's never a bad time to tell a GP joke. Please make me smile on this dark dark day of my life  :-( :-(
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: wanderer2575 on December 01, 2017, 11:31:56 PM
Jim Nabors was the first guest star on the Carol Burnett Show.  With the show's success, Carol considered Jim the show's good luck charm.  So she had him as the guest on the first episode of every season (eleven years).
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: cjk374 on December 02, 2017, 07:43:54 AM
Have you ever heard him sing? Definitely not what you would expect from "Gomer Pyle, USMC".
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: 02 Park Ave on December 02, 2017, 08:30:14 AM
He sang Back Home Again in Indiana before the 500 mile race for years, maybe even decades.
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: roadman65 on December 02, 2017, 12:05:20 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on December 02, 2017, 07:43:54 AM
Have you ever heard him sing? Definitely not what you would expect from "Gomer Pyle, USMC".
He sang on the Andy Griffith Show the famous song Santa Lucia and not like the geek he was.

I also found out that Burt Reynolds was his good friend as he gave a speech about knowing him to the press.  Both appeared in Cannonball Run and in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas Together.   

He also appeared in the Saturday Cartoon's of the seventies but in a real show called The Lost Saucer with Ruth Buzzi produced by Sid and Marty Croff, the same producers of Land of the Lost and Puff In Stuff.
Title: Re: Jim Nabors Dies
Post by: Max Rockatansky on December 02, 2017, 12:20:20 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on December 02, 2017, 07:43:54 AM
Have you ever heard him sing? Definitely not what you would expect from "Gomer Pyle, USMC".

He always sung "Back Home in Indiana"  before the start of the Indianapolis 500.  Really his rendition was what made the song notable and one of the reasons to turn on the pre-race ceremonies.