I was born in 1958 and spend my formative years enjoying family time. I can remember catchint the lightning bugs and eating watermelon outside "cause it is so messy" because the kids dived into a slice of watermelon face first. Now everyone gets a plate of food(generally cooked by a restaurant) at dinner and goes to a seperate room to eat. What happened to the good ole days?
Growing up in the 60's was great. I lived in east Tn and yes we sang togeher, the kids would caching lighting bugs at night for entertainment. Families went to chuch together and actually ate meals together cooked by Mom,
@highlandbeagles I don't know all the players but the mandolin player is Roland White. The guitar player is his brother the late Clarence White who is a guitar legend and later played in the Byrds. The banjo player is Billy Ray Lathum who think has passed away. Roland White is still playing. You can look up "The Kentucky Colonels" and I think you'll find this group and all the names.
Thank You for posting...THE HOLY GRAIL!!!!!!!! at 1:35, You catch in action, a rare glimpse at the legendary Clarence White playing the 1935 Martin D-28 with the enlarged soundhole, Tony's Baby!
guy at very beginning ( 0:03) is the Actor from "It came from Outter Space" in the mid-50's! Lol! forget his name, but.......that's him. think he did lots of roles, and i remember hearing about this guy in Tons of movies from late -40's thru early mid 60's. you'll see him a bunch if your an old Movie Buff.
Oh my god, Roland is so young! I've been studying his recording of Dixie Hoedown with Sam Bush, Jesse McReynolds, David Grisman. Awesome stuff. I'm learning mandolin and using many of Roland's recordings to teach myself.
@floafy1 yep that would be the "Bone". kinda supprised he didnt tear off on a guitar cut, cause we all know he can, but i guess thats not the most traditional way to do things.
@floafy1 Tony's? Clarence had it first, and like Elisha, who caught the mantle of the Prophet Elijah when that chariot to heaven swung down, Tony grabbed that axe and made musical history with it. I'll bet there was a lot of magic left in that old Martin.
Andy Griffith is still living! Not a lot of cast on the show are living. the ones who are still here today are; Andy, Thelma Lou, Goober, Gomer, Elenor Walker, the Darlings (except for the dad), and Opie! the ones who passed on; Barney, Aunt Bee, Floyd, Otis Cambell, Helen Crump, Peggy and a whole heap more
Stop posting conservative crap. This vid is about Andy Griffith and the Dillards. Leave "god" and politics out of it of I'll have the ghost of Don Knotts come and haunt you. :)
C'mon guys - we were a segregated country where a significant percentage of our country had no rights at all and when women were routinely abused with no recourse. Of course you're right if people would do right now it'd be a better country - but that was true back then as well. Plus, this is just music.
There was once a bluegrass trivia question on who was the first bluegrass band on TAGS. Well, the Country Boys were it! Most think of the Dillards. Some of the best here!
@EricFlatpick That "little guy" is none other than Clarence White. The base player is his brother Eric and the mandolin player is his other brother Roland.
@cholly853 Thanks. Actually, I was just being facetious ... what with Andy's guitar up there front and center, and Clarence's mostly hidden behind Billy Ray ... Anyway, Andy knew a good band when he saw one, didn't he.
@EricFlatpick Yup, Andy had good taste in music as far as I'm concerned. I'd loved to have gotten to pick with these guys. You know that guitar Clarence is playing there is the same one Tony Rice ended up with. You see it here with the previous neck it had on it, before Clarence backed over it with a car. Roland left it on the ground behind it and after that they had it rebuilt.
You DO need more to do, ;-) but so do I & I agree w/ your list of Andy's pretty girlfriends. Great eye! I think Miss Ellie was played by Elenore Donahue who had earlier played Kitten's older sister on "Father Knows Best".
Love the Darlings on The Andy Griffith Show. Those episodes are among my favorites!
Who do you think was Andy's prettiest girlfriend? Here is my list - what do you think? 1. Peggy 2. Miss Ellie 3. Mary- one of the county nurses 4.Miss Crump- yes I know I need more to do!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!! Been listening to this music since I was little. At 39 I still enjoy it!! I was just playing tex ritter for my 4 year old, it gave him the giggles!
@jms8888 As if this is actually an accurate representation of life in the 60s. This A.G. show tells you what America wanted to think of itself as, not what it was. You would rather go back to the Cold War, racial segregation and *everything* in the 60s?
@zhudson Mayberry is is a VERY accurate representation of my life growing up in a small southern town. We were so far removed from hippies, war protests, etc that we hardly even noticed them. Outsiders love to point at the KKK and criticize racial segregation, but most rural blacks & whites got along well. Segregation was more about culture & choices than race, that's why it still exists. Forced integration by outsiders ruined small town life as white flight created urban sprawl.
I can't agree with you more! Some people try to take away from the good things about this country and always bring up the negatives. I always smile when I see these video becuase the bring me back to better times when things were simple. Not everyone who lived before the Civil Rights Act of 68 was a racist. I wish we could go back to that time before hippies, war protests, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Global Warming, ect...
I can't agree with you more! Some people try to take away from the good things about this country and always bring up the negatives. I always smile when I see these video becuase the bring me back to better times when things were simple. Not everyone who lived before the Civil Rights Act of 68 was a racist. I wish we could go back to that time before hippies, war protests, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Global Warming, ect...
But at least at that time the family was stronger than it is now. A more stable family made for a more stable society. The better question to ask is this: Is what we have gained worth what we lost?
I think we ought to take the good that existed than and use that as a role model for the present and future.
We ought not repeat the grave errors in order to move past the failed experiments of today to the proven methods of yesterday. Perhaps with faith in God a balanced approach is self evident
AS a kid I always loved the music on the Andy Griffith show. It was so homesome and pleasant listening. I didn't what bluegrass music was back then. It's no wonder that as an adult I've discovered bluegrass music and Love it.
The group performing here was known at the time as "The Country Boys", later to become the "The Kentucky Colonels", including Clarence and Roland White (mandolin and guitar) and Billy Ray Lathum (banjo), who would years later replace Herb Pederson in "The Dillards", the band that had also starred on Andy Griffith as "The Darlings".
Clarence and Roland were in their late teens when they performed on the AG show.
I've seen this video bunches of times- on here and on TV, and just noticed something I never noticed before: Andy's not playing his regular guitar! Andy's (now famous) D-18 Martin had no pickguard ( another interesting story)- this guitar has one.
i keep sending this on all the andy griffith clips. does anyone know how i can get clips of the 1966 "look paw, i'm dancing" andy griffith episode that featured opie and all the other little vitalis headed groovsters dancing?
I got the pleasure this past summer and will this summer to attend a guitar workshop, yes a guitar workshop with Roland White playing mandolin here. He is a genuine person. They don't get any nicer than him. His approachability is unmatched in this day and time of egos.
As a note pay close attention to the guitar Clarence White is playing, this is the guitar Tony Rice currently plays and has for many years. The sound hole was cut out larger and the finger board has no position markers, The White family payed $25.00 for that guitar and another $25.00 for the fretboard that you see.
When you say White family do you mean Clarence paid $25? I know he bought the D-28 from McCabes out of a barrel (I think it was in pieces) and then bought a Gretch? fingerboard and had it put on the guitar. How did tony everr end up with that guitar?
Yes His Dad bought it as he was a youngster and it was a family type of band At the time.
Later on with the boys your seeing here on Andy Griffith Bobby Slone a left hand fiddler played with them now being called the KY Colonels thus he new Clarence, after his death Bobby played with JD Crowe many years and when Tony started with JD. The Guitar was located as Bobby knew Clarence's wife and she let Tony Buy it.
I don't for sure, but I'm guessing that "Mr. Maxwell" doing the field recording may indeed be Alan Lomax, who travelled around the South in the 1930s and '40s, recording folk and blues music. His recordings were the root library for Folkways Music which was later donated to the Smithsonian Institute. Lomax's interest in Leadbelly, eventually got him pardoned.
The actor is Hugh Marlowe, who is most famous as Patricia Neal's boyfrind in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), which also featured Frances Bavier (Aunt Bea).
I have heard that there are at least two Andy Griffith segments that feature the Country Boys (Clarence and Roland White). Does anyone at there in cyberspace have another clip of Andy Griffith featuring the Country Boys?
The dobro player is actually Leroy Mack, he was a member of the the Kentucky Coloniels, which is Clarence and Roland White, I don't remember the banjo players name though.
The banjo player is Billy Ray Lathum who was the Colonels banjo player as well. The D-28 that Clarence is playing is the one that he bought in scraps at McCabes Music in Santa Monica. Of course Tony Rice owns it as everyone knows.
Leroy Mack is in my hometown right now. I'll be playing music with him this week!!! I'm playing guitar. So, I get to play the part of Clarence.... The truth is, I'm not fit to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Clarence. Regardless, I can't adequately describe how cool this is going to be.
ok 60's were before my time i was raised however on the bluegrass and reall southern music im now 38 and still enjoy this music
pastorgeorgem 2 months ago
@zhudson... I guess we know which side of the racks you lived on.
WoodyGuthrieDemocrat 3 months ago
this is another one of those songs that the best version you will ever hear is done on the andy griffith show. thumbs up if you agree
KNOXVILLEFLYER 4 months ago 8
I was born in 1958 and spend my formative years enjoying family time. I can remember catchint the lightning bugs and eating watermelon outside "cause it is so messy" because the kids dived into a slice of watermelon face first. Now everyone gets a plate of food(generally cooked by a restaurant) at dinner and goes to a seperate room to eat. What happened to the good ole days?
Buzzsawman 5 months ago
5 people are new yorkers
JonahBlack100 5 months ago 2
the sound is tooo quiet.
lizajane0bags 7 months ago
Growing up in the 60's was great. I lived in east Tn and yes we sang togeher, the kids would caching lighting bugs at night for entertainment. Families went to chuch together and actually ate meals together cooked by Mom,
volsuzie 7 months ago 9
@volsuzie You make me miss it so much... even though it was 30 years before I was born - if that makes sense.
thebenstrong 5 months ago
@volsuzie well, we still do round here on the Mississippi, in West TN
Fentanyl3 2 months ago
@volsuzie
Other than singing together, which actually a good few still do, most still do all of that.
Socioistic 3 weeks ago
awe shux, I was hoping for Clarence to get a run in.
skajellafetty 7 months ago
Wait! I see Clarence White and his bro jamming. The masters at their respective craft.
yongadog 8 months ago
the upright bass player is my papa (grandpa) lol Eric White
v2thaness 8 months ago
i luv andy griffith
darlindooley 9 months ago
This is a fantastic vid thanx for posting!!
fngrpkn06 10 months ago
Clarence often did not solo on "straight bluegrass" songs, but stepped out when featured on instrumentals with Roland.
shubbcapos 10 months ago
The Andy show was my first exposure to bluegrass.
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gottalovebluegrass 10 months ago
Was this before Clarence started soloing? I've never seen Roland playing an F4 before.
PHJimY 10 months ago
Awww...Paw! This'un makes me cry!
HappyTrailz2u 10 months ago
very sad but true statement jim
BearLeeAble 10 months ago
Does anyone know what episode this is?
zack123456789ish 10 months ago
Who are all the players?
highlandbeagles 11 months ago
@highlandbeagles I don't know all the players but the mandolin player is Roland White. The guitar player is his brother the late Clarence White who is a guitar legend and later played in the Byrds. The banjo player is Billy Ray Lathum who think has passed away. Roland White is still playing. You can look up "The Kentucky Colonels" and I think you'll find this group and all the names.
bluegrassgod 10 months ago
The 2 guys in front of the chello player have to be brothers as they look like twins
TheRetroDude1 11 months ago
Hello type in "Ron Howard Palace" listen to "opie" sing "Lady" and "Reason to Believe
opie1956 11 months ago
@opie1956 Why?
GooglFascists 10 months ago
Great song and great Andy Griffith episode!
coolanddark 1 year ago
the banjo picker looks like bobby thompson. can anybody confirm or deny this ?
shoestrang2375 1 year ago
@shoestrang2375
billy ray lathum
mcrane77 1 year ago
@jms888 Where were all the black people in Mayberry?
biglongcadillac 1 year ago
@biglongcadillac this was the early sixties. they had all moved to detroit by then.
bornhere54 11 months ago
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bornhere54 11 months ago
" we done gone down and sang in a can and he gave us some money"
6irondriver 1 year ago
Thank You for posting...THE HOLY GRAIL!!!!!!!! at 1:35, You catch in action, a rare glimpse at the legendary Clarence White playing the 1935 Martin D-28 with the enlarged soundhole, Tony's Baby!
Williams66D28 1 year ago
@Williams66D28 Yes. And I wonmder if it had its original Martin neck at this time. What a great clip!
peerman2006 9 months ago
guy at very beginning ( 0:03) is the Actor from "It came from Outter Space" in the mid-50's! Lol! forget his name, but.......that's him. think he did lots of roles, and i remember hearing about this guy in Tons of movies from late -40's thru early mid 60's. you'll see him a bunch if your an old Movie Buff.
drumdude46 1 year ago
@drumdude46 hugh marlowe, a well-known character actor
bornhere54 11 months ago
@bornhere54 yes! that's it. i believe he was the actor in "it came from outer space".
boy, i'm only 50, but i can clearly see how these simpler days of yester-year, sure do seem appealing.
this is when we were a far greater country. sad to think about what we've become now..........
hate to admit it, but "jms8888" above, is probably right. :(
drumdude46 11 months ago
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bornhere54 11 months ago
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>Is that the Tony Rice D-28 he's playing? Looks like an enlarged sound hole...<
Actually, Tony Rice now plays Clarence White's old D-28, not the other way around. Yes, it is the very same guitar.
pfslow 1 year ago
why did we let Folk die? D:
ElAqero 1 year ago
@ElAqero Did it die? D:
Gonnakillyou 1 year ago
Oh my god, Roland is so young! I've been studying his recording of Dixie Hoedown with Sam Bush, Jesse McReynolds, David Grisman. Awesome stuff. I'm learning mandolin and using many of Roland's recordings to teach myself.
andrealuvshouse 1 year ago
Is that the Tony Rice D-28 he's playing? Looks like an enlarged sound hole...
floafy1 1 year ago
@floafy1 yep that would be the "Bone". kinda supprised he didnt tear off on a guitar cut, cause we all know he can, but i guess thats not the most traditional way to do things.
flatpikinguitar 1 year ago
@floafy1 Tony's? Clarence had it first, and like Elisha, who caught the mantle of the Prophet Elijah when that chariot to heaven swung down, Tony grabbed that axe and made musical history with it. I'll bet there was a lot of magic left in that old Martin.
JimmyDeLocke 1 year ago
AN AMERICAN CLASSIC
SuperBajabug 1 year ago
The young gentlemen, third from the right, was an unknown Clarence White from 'The Birds'.
Mowac 1 year ago
The Byrds rather
Mowac 1 year ago
Thats when Doug Dillard could really play!
MrGitpicker 1 year ago
That's not the Dillards. That's Billy Ray Latham. He joined the Dillards in 1974 and left in 1978.
FancyGapClawhammer 1 year ago
your face is like a coffee pot, your nose is like a spout, your mouth is like a fireplace with all the ashes out !!
dougfrombaltimore 1 year ago 2
ain`t got time, to kiss you now, my mules runnin away
gitardave 1 year ago
Great music.
mcleisai 1 year ago
awww it is not the dillards.they are way better but i do like the song.
harriswa 1 year ago
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Andy Griffith is still living! Not a lot of cast on the show are living. the ones who are still here today are; Andy, Thelma Lou, Goober, Gomer, Elenor Walker, the Darlings (except for the dad), and Opie! the ones who passed on; Barney, Aunt Bee, Floyd, Otis Cambell, Helen Crump, Peggy and a whole heap more
Junebugg573 1 year ago
"woah mule, u kicking mule, whoa mule i saaay, i aint got time to kiss ya now my mule-a run away" ahhh this is great!!
Junebugg573 1 year ago
i was born in the late 80's, hearing this makes me WISH times were like it was in the earls 60's (without racism and etc.)
Junebugg573 1 year ago
why cant these days be like that anymore? man..so much fighting going on. wish i was back in those times:/
XxDIRTYNAZIxX 1 year ago
good old white days..
mzltv 1 year ago
The Andy Griffith show is my favorite of all the older sixties shows. I never get tired of watching it.
Smalltowngal29 1 year ago
Stop posting conservative crap. This vid is about Andy Griffith and the Dillards. Leave "god" and politics out of it of I'll have the ghost of Don Knotts come and haunt you. :)
earlygates 1 year ago
@earlygates Actually in this video it's the Kentucky Colonels - not the Dillards.
powerthomas 1 year ago
The Good 'ol days...man i'd like to see the USA go back to some morals...This is one of the GREAT shows from better days gone by.
zombietom69 1 year ago 2
@zombietom69 Some Ten Commandments, and some humility, decency and modesty for good measure and that would cure most of our problems.
ytuseruber 1 year ago
@ytuseruber I totally agree...it's a shame how GOD and the 10 commandments have been removed from your schools and government buildings.
zombietom69 1 year ago
C'mon guys - we were a segregated country where a significant percentage of our country had no rights at all and when women were routinely abused with no recourse. Of course you're right if people would do right now it'd be a better country - but that was true back then as well. Plus, this is just music.
denzilmack 1 year ago
thank you so much for caring to post what used to be
the best thing which is now the worst thing=TV
gitardave 1 year ago 2
What's the name of this episode?
3pianists 1 year ago
Awesome banjo playing
aimpointvw 2 years ago 29
There was once a bluegrass trivia question on who was the first bluegrass band on TAGS. Well, the Country Boys were it! Most think of the Dillards. Some of the best here!
bluegrass4me1 2 years ago 2
Griffith would go on to sing this with Dick Van Dyke when he played Ben Matlock on 'Diagnosis Murder'.
SG1Mitchell 2 years ago
Great banjo and mandolin players.
RoyFive 2 years ago
@RoyFive Not to mention that little guy on the other guitar!
EricFlatpick 1 year ago
@EricFlatpick That "little guy" is none other than Clarence White. The base player is his brother Eric and the mandolin player is his other brother Roland.
cholly853 1 year ago
@cholly853 Thanks. Actually, I was just being facetious ... what with Andy's guitar up there front and center, and Clarence's mostly hidden behind Billy Ray ... Anyway, Andy knew a good band when he saw one, didn't he.
EricFlatpick 1 year ago
@EricFlatpick Yup, Andy had good taste in music as far as I'm concerned. I'd loved to have gotten to pick with these guys. You know that guitar Clarence is playing there is the same one Tony Rice ended up with. You see it here with the previous neck it had on it, before Clarence backed over it with a car. Roland left it on the ground behind it and after that they had it rebuilt.
cholly853 1 year ago
awesome song. is it on an album?
paully494 2 years ago
AWESOME :)))
enyvokaz 2 years ago
res57,
You DO need more to do, ;-) but so do I & I agree w/ your list of Andy's pretty girlfriends. Great eye! I think Miss Ellie was played by Elenore Donahue who had earlier played Kitten's older sister on "Father Knows Best".
Love the Darlings on The Andy Griffith Show. Those episodes are among my favorites!
1artistcyclist 2 years ago
You are right...Elinor Donahue played Miss Ellie. She was SO pretty (still is!) but she just didn't have the right fit for the show, I guess.
msymsed 2 years ago
That was the Mary I listed- you are right she was beautiful
res57 2 years ago
Who do you think was Andy's prettiest girlfriend? Here is my list - what do you think? 1. Peggy 2. Miss Ellie 3. Mary- one of the county nurses 4.Miss Crump- yes I know I need more to do!
res57 2 years ago
1.) Mary who made the pizza...She was a beautiful thing with her dimples.
2.) Peggy....she had a beautiful voice singing "Down in the Valley".
3.) Ellie
4.) Helen
maedawg 2 years ago
Does anyone else think that Miss Ellie was a babe?
res57 2 years ago
I do!
lutherheggs 2 years ago
Martin Co. was or does make an Andy Griffith model guitar. Expensive though.
owlman33 2 years ago
Tony Rice plays that guitar ...? AWESOME !!!!!!!
owlman33 2 years ago
i do!!!!!!!
TrueBluegrass 2 years ago
What a great song. These were the good times. Be nice to have people love this type of music again.
headingwest710 2 years ago 2
I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!! Been listening to this music since I was little. At 39 I still enjoy it!! I was just playing tex ritter for my 4 year old, it gave him the giggles!
imbeebop 2 years ago 2
Thats not Bob Dylan play'n guitar?
dramaqueenlol123 2 years ago
Clarence White on guitar, that's the guitar Tony Rice now plays ;)
paleoman1999 2 years ago 2
I agree 100%
wvfisherguy 2 years ago
This was when America was a great country. So sad to see where we've come to.
jms8888 2 years ago 66
@jms8888 For some, those times were actually much harder.
0Fear 1 year ago
@jms8888 Sad but true. I was very young at that time, maybe 5 or 6, but I can remember those times...we were a much better nation.
ytuseruber 1 year ago
Amen... :( I would have loved to lived in those days..
VWingTMA 1 year ago
@jms8888 Yeah, if you were male and white and had a family that is.
Gonnakillyou 1 year ago
@Gonnakillyou I'm aware this is likely an extreme exaggeration, btw. But it gets the point across.
Gonnakillyou 1 year ago
@jms8888 i could not say it any better god what have we become
MrGrandoleopry 9 months ago
@jms8888 america is still a great country it always will until the day usa is no more
sockmonkey449 9 months ago
@jms8888 As if this is actually an accurate representation of life in the 60s. This A.G. show tells you what America wanted to think of itself as, not what it was. You would rather go back to the Cold War, racial segregation and *everything* in the 60s?
zhudson 8 months ago
@zhudson HECK YEAH
1954danol 8 months ago
@zhudson Mayberry is is a VERY accurate representation of my life growing up in a small southern town. We were so far removed from hippies, war protests, etc that we hardly even noticed them. Outsiders love to point at the KKK and criticize racial segregation, but most rural blacks & whites got along well. Segregation was more about culture & choices than race, that's why it still exists. Forced integration by outsiders ruined small town life as white flight created urban sprawl.
joejjl 7 months ago 5
I can't agree with you more! Some people try to take away from the good things about this country and always bring up the negatives. I always smile when I see these video becuase the bring me back to better times when things were simple. Not everyone who lived before the Civil Rights Act of 68 was a racist. I wish we could go back to that time before hippies, war protests, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Global Warming, ect...
rpverdi 4 months ago 2
I can't agree with you more! Some people try to take away from the good things about this country and always bring up the negatives. I always smile when I see these video becuase the bring me back to better times when things were simple. Not everyone who lived before the Civil Rights Act of 68 was a racist. I wish we could go back to that time before hippies, war protests, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Global Warming, ect...
rpverdi 4 months ago 2
But at least at that time the family was stronger than it is now. A more stable family made for a more stable society. The better question to ask is this: Is what we have gained worth what we lost?
I think we ought to take the good that existed than and use that as a role model for the present and future.
We ought not repeat the grave errors in order to move past the failed experiments of today to the proven methods of yesterday. Perhaps with faith in God a balanced approach is self evident
LiturgicalChants 6 months ago 2
No, that's not Roscoe P. Coltraine on the right. Jim Lindsey was Roscoe. That's not Jim Lindsey.
titleist185 2 years ago
James Best was Roscoe P. Coltraine.....
psuttonsr 2 years ago 2
IMDb lists James Best as Roscoe. And yes he's on here also as Jim Lindsey, that was his character name ;)
lilprincessred 2 years ago
Sometimes I wish that Ellie were on the show more often...she's pretty easy on the eyes.
xxxlotus000 2 years ago 2
That's Roscoe P. Coltraine on the right
granitefinder 2 years ago
That's dobro player Leroy McNees...
SteveGaines 2 years ago
Holy crap there great i wish i could play like them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dukelovera 2 years ago 2
i just wish i could play, good or bad.
baldy194859 2 years ago
The guitar Clarence white is playing Tony Rice has not Andy's
steviec46 2 years ago
I THOUGHT ANDY PLAYED A D18
markrv123 2 years ago
That guitar he is playing is the one Tony Rice ended up with..1935 D-28...
SteveGaines 2 years ago
Gee, wouldn't you like to have that one. I could pay my house off.
jlkendri 2 years ago
THE KENTUCKY COLONELS!..Clarence and Roland White.
SteveGaines 2 years ago
GET"R"DONE & HAVING FUN!
rebelstang 2 years ago
The banjo should be a Gibson RB 250. Great tune amazingly performed. Thanks
alextw13jf 3 years ago
if you can get clips from this show;
episode 9, a feud is a feud..
where andy tells opie romeo & juliet.
thanks, cant find it ANYWHERE.
kmwxo 3 years ago
Thanks for the awesome post! Andy Griffith Show Rocks!
basefan3 3 years ago 2
Thanks for the clip!
stovall1 3 years ago
This is a fun video. If you like this sort of stuff then check out the TruegrassBoy videos.
bigdaddybluegrass 3 years ago
AS a kid I always loved the music on the Andy Griffith show. It was so homesome and pleasant listening. I didn't what bluegrass music was back then. It's no wonder that as an adult I've discovered bluegrass music and Love it.
5041carol 3 years ago 2
GASP* This is EPIC. : 0
cubeus19 3 years ago
Fantastic. Billy Ray Latham on banjo, of course Roland on that F4 and Clarence on guitar, Roger Bush on bass and Leroy McNees on dobro.
BanjoBoyMatteo 3 years ago 3
cool clip thanks for posting.
deeandzo 3 years ago
Clarence White is just a kid here. Who'd have known he'd go on to be a legend on both acoustic and electric guitar with the Byrds??
Is that Billy Ray Lathem on banjo? He was a fine Scruggs-style picker.
sodakmonk 3 years ago 2
Nice -- Thanks .
1Bandit455 3 years ago
old days are gone and its a shame.
cornforkpicker334 3 years ago 3
the "old days" are yet to come....
tanglefingers 3 years ago
where have those innocent days gone.....
tv today....craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap
richard10661066 3 years ago
Loved it!
Bravo!
cewduncan 3 years ago 2
Great clip! I have just about every episode memorized, but I still love to watch it.
muscleviewer 3 years ago
anyone else notice that wasn't Andy's regular guitar, his that belonged to him didn't have a pick guard on it. Thanks for the post too.
Great video
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capt777737 3 years ago
Thank you for this post.Love it!
Evrastus 3 years ago
I saw Tony 2 weeks ago...... I touched the guitar!!!!!
Burtnernie 3 years ago
Hey is that the guitar Tony Rice now plays, with the enlarged sound hole? Just wondering...
TD
paleoman1999 3 years ago
It damn sure is...... Thats Clarence White and "THE GUITAR"......... Or atleast thats what Internet Movie Database says so........
Burtnernie 3 years ago
Sure is.
earnestw 3 years ago
The group performing here was known at the time as "The Country Boys", later to become the "The Kentucky Colonels", including Clarence and Roland White (mandolin and guitar) and Billy Ray Lathum (banjo), who would years later replace Herb Pederson in "The Dillards", the band that had also starred on Andy Griffith as "The Darlings".
Clarence and Roland were in their late teens when they performed on the AG show.
banjoist123 3 years ago 2
The early Dillard group have a rendition of this on and Album called "Back Porch Bluegrass". They call the song "Bucking Mule".
mwm2654 3 years ago
Make that TWO to record!
earnestw 3 years ago
Notice that the reel-to-reel only has one button pressed .... takes to to record something.
I notice things like that ... guess I should get a hobby.
earnestw 3 years ago
that's "two" -t.w.o.
missystu 3 years ago
I've seen this video bunches of times- on here and on TV, and just noticed something I never noticed before: Andy's not playing his regular guitar! Andy's (now famous) D-18 Martin had no pickguard ( another interesting story)- this guitar has one.
Buddawg1960 3 years ago
It sure is. You can download it on iTunes as well. It's called "American Originals." It's good stuff.
PhinehasRex 3 years ago
is this song on a cd anywhere?
Doug41160 3 years ago
This is the same song Andy sings in the beginning of No Time For Seargents.
moviehound71 3 years ago
GREAT
OSCAR82AA 3 years ago
That makes me Cry !
milfin5 3 years ago
clarence and roland white. no shit. this is really awesome!!!
cnedwick 3 years ago
christ! how young are clarence and roland here?
powerthomas 3 years ago
i keep sending this on all the andy griffith clips. does anyone know how i can get clips of the 1966 "look paw, i'm dancing" andy griffith episode that featured opie and all the other little vitalis headed groovsters dancing?
resumeus 4 years ago
I got the pleasure this past summer and will this summer to attend a guitar workshop, yes a guitar workshop with Roland White playing mandolin here. He is a genuine person. They don't get any nicer than him. His approachability is unmatched in this day and time of egos.
baddd60 4 years ago
wish i could get a haircut for four bucks in a barber shop today, lol. good clip. ty
vulturejawz 4 years ago
As a note pay close attention to the guitar Clarence White is playing, this is the guitar Tony Rice currently plays and has for many years. The sound hole was cut out larger and the finger board has no position markers, The White family payed $25.00 for that guitar and another $25.00 for the fretboard that you see.
kattsas 4 years ago
When you say White family do you mean Clarence paid $25? I know he bought the D-28 from McCabes out of a barrel (I think it was in pieces) and then bought a Gretch? fingerboard and had it put on the guitar. How did tony everr end up with that guitar?
munit1954 3 years ago
Yes His Dad bought it as he was a youngster and it was a family type of band At the time.
Later on with the boys your seeing here on Andy Griffith Bobby Slone a left hand fiddler played with them now being called the KY Colonels thus he new Clarence, after his death Bobby played with JD Crowe many years and when Tony started with JD. The Guitar was located as Bobby knew Clarence's wife and she let Tony Buy it.
Yes that is what I heard on the Finger board too.
kattsas 3 years ago
Andy Griffith is Fantastic
maj1986 4 years ago
The boys in the band always reminds me of ,this is my brother Darrel and my other brother Darrel.
catsmithyu 4 years ago
I don't for sure, but I'm guessing that "Mr. Maxwell" doing the field recording may indeed be Alan Lomax, who travelled around the South in the 1930s and '40s, recording folk and blues music. His recordings were the root library for Folkways Music which was later donated to the Smithsonian Institute. Lomax's interest in Leadbelly, eventually got him pardoned.
Sublette217 4 years ago
The actor is Hugh Marlowe, who is most famous as Patricia Neal's boyfrind in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), which also featured Frances Bavier (Aunt Bea).
RetiredProfessor 4 years ago
Andy's getting down!
JohnGee1977 4 years ago
I absolutly love this song
tayman1519 4 years ago
Clarance has always been my favorite. Rolland and Billy Ray!!!!!!!!!!
Hankray2 4 years ago
where is jim mcguinn, and david crosby??? lol
kaleyjoi 4 years ago
Funny close-up edit of Clarence. Suddenly no banjo player in front of him. then , there he is again.
clucaspik 4 years ago
I have heard that there are at least two Andy Griffith segments that feature the Country Boys (Clarence and Roland White). Does anyone at there in cyberspace have another clip of Andy Griffith featuring the Country Boys?
munit1954 4 years ago
Yes, there is another segment but it isn't complete as a song would normally be. I will find it and put it up later when time allows.
CaleraEagleBand 4 years ago
Who is the dobro player? Looks like Vince Gill, although I don't think he is that old.
Chadahvw 4 years ago
The dobro player is actually Leroy Mack, he was a member of the the Kentucky Coloniels, which is Clarence and Roland White, I don't remember the banjo players name though.
bluegrassguy33 4 years ago
The banjo player is Billy Ray Lathum who was the Colonels banjo player as well. The D-28 that Clarence is playing is the one that he bought in scraps at McCabes Music in Santa Monica. Of course Tony Rice owns it as everyone knows.
munit1954 4 years ago
Leroy Mack is in my hometown right now. I'll be playing music with him this week!!! I'm playing guitar. So, I get to play the part of Clarence.... The truth is, I'm not fit to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Clarence. Regardless, I can't adequately describe how cool this is going to be.
SantaCruzOM 4 years ago
Andy's wife died of choking and he put it in a song?
k9feces 4 years ago