Mama Guitar by Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes

[LadyMissCoppertone]

how young we were

[lonestarstormtrooper]

This movie is a TRIP!!!.....Andy is so off the "HOOK" type guy....

[joanbolets]

Great movie, second only to Citizen Kane in its genre.

[DougPatton1]

Real Rockin '50s Long Gone Lonesome Roads

[hebneh]

I've always thought that the version of "Mama Guitar" playing in the background here ("on the Golden Oak label") sounds good enough to have actually been released commercially in 1957. I wonder if it really was? As a promo for the film?

[6irondriver]

Naw, Peggy May was the best, had that double-time goin'.

[kberken]

Finally made the connection that Olbermann was making for quite awhile. Lonesome Rhoades Beck. My God, there needs to be a remake of this movie. Can you imagine what Hollywood could do with that??

[WildmanWoodie]

@kberken Honestly, I don't think Hollywood would remake this movie very well these days. Leave the classics alone and just make movies based on video games, in 3-D, of course. :-)

[ShawDAMAN]

@WildmanWoodie I agree. leave this classic alone. they'd probably ruin it.

[HunterMann]

@WildmanWoodie I agree. Remakes are almost always worse than the original. I can't imagine watching a colorized version of this classic.

[ednaboopadoop]

@WildmanWoodie -- I agree, the only thing Hollyweird would do by "remaking" this would be to put tons of profanity and sex in it -- in other words, ruin it.

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

@kberken They lived the rockabilly era. To take the movie out of the rockabilly era, they'd need to do it as a period piece, otherwise, it wouldn't be a remake. The problem with a lot of remakes is that they update too much and lose the effect and spirit of the original. Example is the Longest Yard.

[newyorksalright]

@kberken no way. Hollywood doesnt have the brains or skill to touch this. Im about fed up with all the remakes. No originality. Just re-release the original, i say.

[bdzmusicprod]

This was a powerful movie which shows a side of Andy Griffith one would never associate with Andy Taylor. Lee Remick DID twirl the baton but not entirely...notice around 3:10, it's a double twirling. It's easy to spot on the dvd on your tv screen.

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

@bdzmusicprod Lee was a champion twirler. She could have done any of it herself.

[missaprilm]

Love this movie , love this song...baton twirling a lost American art : (

[phoenixtimes2]

To Lee Remick: My, my, my, oh, my!!!! :)

[Jaybird1103]

I wish that the scene where Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) gets mobbed by the majorettes. Those girls were mobbing him like he was Elvis Presley.

[WildmanWoodie]

I vote for Lee Remick, too!