Remembering Andy Taylor

jazzed

As a child in the 60's I found the Andy Griffith show a very welcome alternative to the horrors of the network news. I forever associate the teletype sound with death an moon landings. Between those extremes of despair and hope I think of "awe shucks" and Aunt Bea's dinner table.

Thank you sir and all involved for your humble portrayal of rural america and small town humor.
R.I.P. Andy Griffith.

davejames

........ditto.

sylvie369

I enjoyed the show - and of course the theme music - as a child, and I'm very sad to hear of his passing. Andy Griffith was a man deserving of our respect.

erco

Anyone who has never seen Andy in "No Time for Sergeants" is in for a treat. Howling good fun and one of my favorite movies of all time. The original Project Prometheus!

RIP, Andy.

GordonMcComb

Among my favorite Any Griffith routines: "What It Was, Was Football." In it he attempts to describe the game of football, which he's never seen before, to an audience he believes is equally mystified by the sport.

Andy Griffith was also in a movie I liked the first time I saw it, Angle In My Pocket. For whatever reason, the movie was not well received, and has never been out on home video. Wikipedia mentions Griffith himself disliked the film, but I'm not sure why. It's in the ilk of the Don Knotts movies of the time, like Reluctant Astronaut (written by the same comedy team), so it's lightweight fluff by today's standards. Still, maybe they'll bring it out now.

-- Gordon

erco

Andy & Don Knotts were a great team from the start (jump to 1:15) :

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

My parents drug me to see No Time for Sergeants when I was a kid. The most memorable scene for me was when Andy Griffith's character, assigned the -- for him -- enviable title of Permanent Latrine Orderly, figured out a way to make the toilet lids flip up to attention in unison for inspection. I didn't remember Don Knotts in that movie, though. My first recollection of him was as a Man on the Street, along with Louie Nye, on The Steve Allen Show. Oddly enough, a Mayberry regular later starred in a no-time-for-sergeants spinoff of sorts: Gomer Pyle: USMC.

-Phil

bsnut

Andy Griffith will be greatly missed and will live for years in re-runs.

JimInCA

I loved seeing Andy in Brad Paisley's music video for "Waiting on a Woman". It was pure Andy through and through. So when I heard that Andy had passed, my first thought was of him dressed all in white sitting on a bench with that wonderful smile of his.

Goodbye Andy and thanks for a lifetime of laughs that you brought me...

Edit:
Here's a link to the video if you haven't seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-C-IbkuNWs

lardom

I'm a baby boomer. He was part of my childhood memories. I also find myself searching old commerials on YouTube to recall long forgotten memories.

davejames

JimInCA wrote: »

I loved seeing Andy in Brad Paisley's music video for "Waiting on a Woman". Here's a link to the video if you haven't seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-C-IbkuNWs

Hey Jim - thanks for posting that. I'd never heard of this Paisley guy, and never saw the video.

That scene where Griffith is waiting for his woman to come join him on the "other side" was very touching.

erco

davejames wrote: »

Hey Jim - thanks for posting that. I'd never heard of this Paisley guy, and never saw the video.

That scene where Griffith is waiting for his woman to come join him on the "other side" was very touching.

+1, Andy was great in that video and (always) a real gentleman.

JimInCA

davejames wrote: »

Hey Jim - thanks for posting that. I'd never heard of this Paisley guy, and never saw the video.

That scene where Griffith is waiting for his woman to come join him on the "other side" was very touching.

We've seen Brad at Shoreline twice. When he does this song live he intermixes his performance with the video of Andy talking. We have tickets to see Brad at Shoreline later this month. It's going to be good...