Rafe was also a moonshiner!

MrPalval That was a time when life was simply better and had better quality people. Not once did that show to against moral character, respect, or induce politics.

MrPalval Yep, it seems the standard requirement that they all were multi-talented (act, tap dance, play an instrument and many could surprisingly sing quite well!) 🎹

@@TheMinistryofKnowing Well, not Barney Fife!

Haha! Actually, that's what's so amazing about Don Knotts. The talent to be a good singer and then impersonate a poor one! Spectacularly hilarious. Gorgeous voice, Rafe!!!

@@marcustulliuscicero237 Haha! That's what's so amazing about Don Knotts. The ability to be a good singer as well as impersonate a poor one! Spectacularly hilarious. Gorgeous voice, Rafe!

Agreed!

Ditto one hundred percent!!

Yes!!!

He was on the show for five years. Won five Emmys. Barney Five.

He was so naturally wiry

That was the song they played.

RJ Walker Jack was a performance singer on stage. Google him.

*I was in elementary school when "The Andy Griffith Show" premiered. And it well deserved all the Emmys that it won year after year. Even "Floyd's Barber Shop" can later be seen in an episode of original Star Trek ("The City On The Edge of Forever") when that series filmed on that same Hollywood lot. For a memorable moment, "Captain Kirk & Edith Keeler" stand outside it in one scene. That said, I consider singer Joni James rendition of this 200 year old song to be the absolute best ever sung:* kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptykqMWS2NnSnXk.html&ab_channel=HealingLove528HzMusic

Don Knotts was the best.

Mine, too.

Yes. This episode and “Man In A Hurry” always get me.

Very nice.

This is very nicely written but it is inappropriate to the song, or at least the last stanza is; it leads in the wrong direction. The song has nothing to do with the the passing of beauty and youth. It was written in regard to a woman's looks (her face) being decimated by smallpox.

@@macthompson3279 You seem to know a little about this song, so I'm surprised that you're so spectacularly wrong. You wrote that "The song has nothing to do with the passing of beauty and youth." The song is entirely about the passing of beauty and youth. That's the reason for the song's existence. The first line of the second stanza (which is not sung here) is "It is not while beauty and youth are thine own..." Also, my final line is a tribute to John Keats.

@@finnmccool684 You make the same mistake that was made by many listeners and readers, not only in recent times but also in Thomas Moore’s day, which forced him to address the issue. Writing under the pen name of Anacreon Moore, Thomas Moore wrote an article on the subject which was published in the March 1838 edition of Bentley's Miscellany. In it Moore specifically states that the song is not at all about the natural passing of beauty and youth, but rather that it brings the message that the love of the singer is not dependent on the woman's beauty, that although “looks” are a temporary aberration in nature - his love is permanent. The language of the song tries to diminish the value of beauty, describing good looks as mere fairy gifts. He goes on to explain that even beyond his personal motivations for writing the piece (later found to be the results of his wife’s bout of small pox), he was also thinking of a young woman he once knew who fell onto a primitive mechanical lathe (which decimated her face) - neither of which has anything to do with the passing of youth and beauty. You are certainly free to “interpret” the work any way you wish. However, most reasonable people will accept the author’s explanation as to what its real meaning is.

@@macthompson3279 I agree that the song is about eternal love (on an earthly plane). However, intertwined with that theme are the elements of beauty and youth. The poem explicitly refers to "beauty and youth," so I don't know what other proof you would need. I'm aware of the autobiographical elements that inspired the poem. And my addition is clearly about eternal love. Here is where we disagree: it sounds like you don't think the poem is about beauty. You mention the author's wife was scarred from small pox and another woman whose face was badly damaged. These are both significant examples because they both lost their beauty. This poem is clearly about the passing of beauty, among other things (although that's not the central theme). Also, when we approach art, we are not restricted to author's (or artist's) intent. It's the text (or artifact) that matters, and most of the time, we have no way of knowing the artist's intent. When the work leaves the creator's hand, it becomes an autonomous entity from which we can extract anthropological knowledge (as expressed in Roland Barthes' essay "The Death of the Author"). Authorial intent plays a role (when it's available), but fortunately we're not beholden to it.

Yosemete Sam/Daffy Duck: "no, that's not how you sing it! try it again!"

Are you referring to this? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbujfbuoqp2XgYk.html

Yup

Sure thing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbujfbuoqp2XgYk.html

It wasn’t in his key 😂

I agree.You just wanna smack him.