I’ve seen the Beach Boys a couple of times. Once, back in the 70s, but with the lineup of Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and Mike Love. I’ve seen them more recently, with Love and Johnston, plus other family members and others. Great shows both times.
What’s on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Gomer Pyle USMC is like a fever dream in an endless loop of childlike wonder mixed with frantic yelling.
Most people don’t remember this.
Well golllleeee I remember.
I recently re-watched the Andy Griffith Show, including the episode where Gomer joins the Marines, so I’m on board with what you’re saying.
AGS is good, but only through season 5, after which Barney is gone, and the show never regains it’s comedic footing.
Agreed.
“Checkpoint Chickie” has to be one of the quintessential episodes.
Sitting on the porch on a warm evening, playing guitar, deciding whether to go down to the store and get a bottle of pop has to be a quintessential moment.
Oh, and my #1 guiding life’s principle is that you’ve got to nip it — nip it in the bud.
We Love Barney Fife (1989)
https://youtu.be/k5KikCieJlw
Very good!
Thank you. Will show it to another Fife fan I know.
It’s actually a Yankovich-worthy tune.
I read that Don Knotts was under the impression that the series was over and went on to movies. When the studio changed their minds and wanted another season Andy Griffith agreed but Don couldn’t due to movie contracts. The occasional guest star spot was all he could do.
Has the ring of truth and comports with the facts. Sad that it had to end that way, but of course everything ends.
Heard that Don Knotts was a friend of Bob Newhart, which makes sense.
I count this song, and “Caroline, No,” among my top ten favorite songs of all time.
I saw a documentary once where Carl Wilson said he was floored when Brian gave this song to him to sing (because Brian had a voice that could have done it justice as well). Carl’s quote went something like “He said he had my voice in mind when he wrote it. Can you imagine being given a gift like ‘God Only Knows’ just like that?”
It must’ve been similar to how Art Garfunkel felt getting “Bridge Over Troubled Water” handed to him. Another one of my top tens.
(P.S.: I just remembered — in the documentary, either the narrator or Carl goes on to say it’s “surely one of the oddest love songs ever written. I mean, what are the first words? ‘I may not always love you.’ Yet it manages nevertheless to be one of the greatest love songs.” I hadn’t thought of that until then.)
I’ve got a Jack Benny DVD with the Beach Boys on his show
Stanley Donen, who directed some wonderful films in which Audrey Hepburn appeared (Funny Face, Charade, and Two For the Road), was born April 13, 1942, in Columbia, South Carolina.
I’ve got a feeling in my gut what Friday’s video will be. Especially from one particular organ…