Andy Griffith - Shady Grove

[harley881931]

I think it's great the way they sing and dance around. Some people are unable to to all of that!!

[TheDashingRor]

She looks like Francis McDormand.

[garymichael1950]

@TheDashingRor Never noticed that before! You're so right!

[Authorized77]

Oh wow, this is an old comment. I have no idea what elicited my comment - I think I must have been replying to someone. What I was saying was that if someone personally thinks something is demeaning, they don't have to participate. I agree, there is nothing demeaning about being a hillbilly.

[SnarlyCharly44]

lmao I love the looks on the guy's faces while they play, especially Doug on banjo

[WilliamCerf]

Great version of Shady Grove.

[55Mizzou]

The Dillards are from the great state of Missouri -- Salem, Missouri not far from the beautiful Current River.

[grave91rsb]

this is like my favorite andy griffith scene in the whole 1,000 shows i seen so far

i love it when andy sings especially it's soooooo neat i love these shows =)

[qwertyESquirt]

Them 8 people are going have to fight it out... what'll it be? Guns? fightin' in dem boots? willow branches and widdlin' knives? how about just plain slappin n' buttin?

[GooglFascists]

Strange as it may seem to "sophisticated", (rude, selfish, dirty-minded),

people today, being a "hillbilly" is NOT "demeaning"!

Hillbillies even exist these days. You just have to know where to find them.

If and when America experiences the BIG CRASH as many are predicting,

MOUNTAIN PEOPLE will be living their ruggedly independent lives just

as they always have while complicated city folks will be jumping off of

buildings. If you ever get around hillbillies you will want to be like them!

[jmikes1derboy]

@GooglFascists Its funny man.....I live up in Boone NC, and we just call them LOCALS...theyre smart people.

[aliwhitwell]

Doug Dillard inspirational banjo picker!

[AVBKansas]

I don't call hillbillies demeaning! For the Andy Griffith Show it helps complete it, besides, being hillbillies was the perfect way to introduce their music into the show, not just their characters.

[harvey1954]

Eric White told me the Whites were the original band on the Andy Griffith Show and when they left the Dillards were hired to replace them. The characters had already been set up by the time the Dillards were hired.

[InsertName125]

I love rhyming "holler" and "foller".

[CarolinaGurl99]

OMG, pa always had that jug! you gotta love the darlings!

[banjoist123]

The story the way I heard it was that within a day or two of arriving in California, they went to hear the Greenbriar Boys play and were invited to come up and play a set. A rep from the AG show was looking for a "Flatt and Scruggs" for the show after the huge success of Lester and Earl on the Beverly Hillbillies.  These guys were in town two days and were signed on the spot for a recurring role on one of the most succesful shows of all time.

[andrealuvshouse]

Also, bear in mind that I believe the Dillards replaced Roland White and the Country Gentlemen, who at the time were THE up and coming bluegrass talent. To replace Roland and Clarence White and their band on the Andy Griffith Show was an amazing achievement and said, right then and there, a lot about how much talent the Dillards had (and have).

[npccostumes]

That one always makes me cry!

[CSBluesman]

Haha leave it to a liberal to take offense to a generic comment!

[welder541]

If this is the way mountain people use to entertain themselves with good homemade music & dance. They sure must'a had some awfully good times back then. Family nights together at home in true All American fashion.

[OSUex]

great. very great

[Iseeme63]

Lack of morals is whats decaying the US from the inside out.

[Alana8480]

Lots of stereotyping going on here.

[Authorized77]

Hum, I don't even remember watching this. However, I think the point of my comment was pretty much what you're saying. Was I replying to someone saying that the part of the hillbillies was demeaning? I guess I meant if *they* felt the part was demeaning, they could have refused to play the part. :shrug: I hope you didn't take offense at what I said :)

[Livingnthewoods41]

Charlene was pretty hot!!!!!!

[EliT3snipa]

Aahahah! she kisses him on the cheek and he just looks up barely blinking xD

[blueridger28]

Moonshine,bluegrass,women, every week here In the blueridge. I must be in Heavan

[looneypride]

@blueridger28 i wanna live there then!! wow where is that?

[blueridger28]

Blue Ridge mountains Western North Carolina !!!!!!!!!!!

[looneypride]

Oh my cousin came from N.C wow! that is nice i bet! i live in Stockton, Ca with a bunch of idiots and Rap and hip hop people! :(

[jleemindt]

@looneypride ..

[looneypride]

Yeah? whats up?

[dirtyjew1974]

@looneypride I live in nc and i could never imagine living anywhere else, I love it here. lots of great mnts and rivers and hills.

[dirtyjew1974]

@blueridger28 thats about where i live!

[station6761]

@looneypride brevard nc is one nice place i am from there

[looneypride]

Yeah, well I am sure anything can be an upgrade from where I live, Stockton, CA. look it up and I am sure murder, crime, drugs and hookers will pop up! haha

[knowMusicMan]

Moonshine killed Keith Whitley.

[1artistcyclist]

Would Dudley be Dud Wash from Darlene's wedding episode?

[mosrite60]

hard to beat moonshine, bluegrass and a pretty lady dancing, can you?

[bitterballoffrogs]

My lord, this is some sweet music and old time values. Love this.

[Abigaele1]

"Anj" was so patient with this family. I loved when they broke into song!

[ShinboneRidge]

They did. Matter of fact they did it twice, Once in b/w then color the second time. The color episode was their last appearence on the show and one that CBS won't let me put on here.

[oilkills]

I could have sworn they did SALTY DOG!

[bigkellyr]

That was in the first episode they were in. The one where the Darlings come to Mayberry to meet the bus as Charlene's true love Dudley is returning from the army and they are to be wed. The Darlings wind up spending the night in the jail as there is nowhere else they can go to play their music without breaking a city violation.

[markbird1965]

I too have seen salty dog on here

[mariposa362]

Lover, Darling! - You're sweeter than sour/wood honey !

[mariposa362]

I love the Darlings, The Dillards & The Andy Griffith Show - This is great, to have them all wrapped up in one ;)

[naiirita]

i dont think that kiss was in the script.

[amerikanerMarinen]

Probably not. Haha, I like how they done it in old shows though, improvise

[dukelovera]

I am trying to learn the banjo but when I see the dillards they blow my mind on how fast they play

[amerikanerMarinen]

They blew my mind for two years. Especially Doug's style of playin. You'll get it though

[Mrcharliebobo]

Hey thats mike nesmith from the Monkeys. lol

[flyingcursor]

Nope. It looks like him but it's Dean Webb.

[Flap999]

Maggie Peterson + The Dillards are amazing...

[baldy194859]

she,s pretty too

[porcupine07]

I'm no banjo expert, but I am learning the instument. I have a blank look on my face too most of the time when I'm playing. It's just me concentrating on what my hands are doing. It wouldnt make sense to feature country and bluegrass on a TV show all the time, and at the same time be putting the players down.I think you took it the wrong way

[donc1949]

I love the Dillards! Check out The Pine Street Ramblers version on Youtube.

[baldy194859]

is she part of the dillards?

[rebelstang]

GET"DONE & HAVE A GOOD ONE!

[danateetampabay]

That's the Dillards I believe. Classic!!!

[xie4xie4]

This'n makes me cry.

[5041carol]

Fun video to watch.

[thewackingtons]

What eventually changed your mind?

[GammatronTriode]

NonStop

yes its the same tune

is just that blue grass / folk music

the words can change and evolve

often folk singers

use new or diffrent words

to fit how they feel

[rabbitwho]

It's not the same tune, it's the same song. But the tune has changed along with some of the words.

[0bh]

I've heard at least 6 versions of this song and they're all a little different and there must be a dozen different verses. My favorite is Doc Watson's version but I really like this one too, it fits Charlene's character better. The needle and thread verse is almost the same as Doc Watson's verse.

[NonStopRocker]

Patty Loveless does a song called "Shady Grove" that sounds a little like this...but its defintely different...just wonder if they didnt derive from the same tune?

[letebaguere]

boy is this version whack compared to the garcia/rice/grisman combo on the pizza tapes.

[porcupine07]

you're "whack" for saying the word whack. get the hell outta here

[triggert531]

Shady Grove is also a community near the city of Marianna, FL.

[122099]

LOL

[letebaguere]

you are ignorant and uneducated

[Jcrain09]

Shady Grove is a town in Metcalfe County Kentucky,I go their to work with my grandpa

[Jcrain09]

Shady Grove is A real town in Kentucky I go their to see my grandparents

[dulcajack]

aahh!! The good old days.

Thanks

Jack

[MrSteve55]

It is pretty obvious you know nothing of the Dillards or the deal they had with Andy Griffith. Doug and Rodney still tour as the Dillards, and Doug always, even today has that stare... it is his stage "thing" Attend one of the Dillard concerts, and you will learn alot about the show and the respect they had from a lot of people... it wasnt a demeaning role... I caught their show in Mountain View, AR this past fall and it was great.....

[Chrisdjon]

@MrSteve55 I know what you mean. I just truly understand.

[cowboyswin2007423]

"You're sweeter than sourwood honey"

[kattsas]

That Is Douglas Flint Dillard playing banjo with the blank stare, on their live shows he grinned like a possum eating bumblebees.

[BMFRaw]

Seth Green on banjo at 0:20! LOL

[Authorized77]

They weren't forced to play in the Andy Griffith Show were they? If they refused to play in the show, they wouldn't have played the part of hillbillies. No one forces you to play a demeaning part on TV, last I checked.

[lefthooklacey]

@Authorized77 I live in NC, and there's nothing demeaning about being from the hills or from the South in general in my book. A lot of crazy liberals, and politicians could take some lessons from the Andy Griffith show about morals, and doing whats right if you ask me. This country needs to "slow down" and use some common sense about things.

[shizzy35]

@lefthooklacey, I'm "liberal," at least by U.S. standards, and I love the Andy Griffith Show, too. And I love the music. And I was born in N.C. And I used to live up in the mountains in Boone. And a lot of the native mountain people might be conservative in many ways, but they also are liberal in other ways, and in any event they don't judge people by their politics. Stop putting up walls between people based on their political viewpoints.

[speakwhnspkn2]

@shizzy35 ( agree Lefthook. These labels like "conservative" and "liberal" are only another example of how the government uses propoganda to keep people divided so that they won't focus on the real issues and won't pay attention to the mess that they are making of the job of governing. It's the same stuff they do to keep the races fighting amongst each other, various religious groups and any other categories they can use to divide people and create a diversion.

[andrealuvshouse]

@Authorized77

I believe that they auditioned for the part in front of Andy and were hired. I think, if I remember one of Doug Dillard's interviews correctly, that Andy had caught at least one of their shows and was impressed enough with them to get them in for an audition. They are not from the South. They are from Sullivan, Missouri, just down the road from us in St. Louis. We are proud of our native celebrities!

[lochldy]

@Authorized77 Where in Heaven's name did you get the idea these roles were "demeaning?" "Forced" to play in the show??? You don't have a clue how popular and how very much this show was and is loved do you? That's like saying Scotty McCreery was "forced" to sing on American Idol.

[JohnGee1977]

Charlene's hot!

[nicefrigginrack]

Thelma Lou is my favorite. Peach ice cream, brownies, and Thelma Lou is heaven!

[pit032]

How could you hate andy griffith? shame on you :{

[mccrabapple]

If you're interested, the "Darlings" were a real bluegrass band called "The Dillards," and their live album is great!

[MrSteve55]

And if you really interested, Doug (banjo) and Rodney (guitar) are still touring as the Dillards... caught them this summer in Mountain View, AR

[Engage777]

She's a damn sight better than Helen Crump...

[alal77alal]

Haha. Helen was quite bloodless.

[faustia44]

Saw the other day on T.V. Land... The "black rider" going east to west got Andy off the hook... LOL

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Love it!

Nothing better!!

George Vreeland Hill

[BubbaStrangelove]

Is this the Darlin's?

[BubbaStrangelove]

Ah... Yes, yes it is. One of the greatest episodes when they are doing the marriage.

[coolwafferman]

That is some Serious Ass Music. I like that song.

I laughed so Hard when I seen this episode.Recently on TV Land.

I would like to see something like this on a show today.Maybe television would get interesting again.

[scarletshade]

Yeah, that was terrific. Too bad you never see anything like that on TV these days (except in reruns, of course).

[Ginyu]

If I was Andy I'd be all nervous with Charlene too,she's so cute.

[nejixtentenforever22]

i like the look that guy gives charlene when she kisses him on the cheek

[Ginyu]

LOL I think thats her brother.

[ameiliz]

WOW, people actually enjoyed that back in the day. LOL!!

[porcupine07]

people still enjoy it, you moron, move along. no need for you here.

[baldy194859]

is she 1 of the dillards?

[jamsmi174]

no ... she only an actor ...

[NapaLuvsDY]

Love it, thanks! Yee Haw!

[whipsnade13]

Dayum, that second banjo break is just hotter than hot. I could listen to Doug Dillard and the rest of the boys all day.

[2ndgeneration]

It just don't get no better than this!