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James Thurston Nabors (June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and comedian, widely known for his signature character, Gomer Pyle . Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith while working at a Santa Monica nightclub, and he later joined The Andy Griffith Show, where he played the good-natured, unsophisticated Gomer Pyle.
Nabors recorded multiple albums for Columbia Records and Ranwood Records. Like many easy listening pop vocalists of the period Nabors had little U.S. chart singles success. His singles " Love Me With All Your Heart " reached No. 111 in the Cash Box survey (1966), [ 1 ] and "The Impossible Dream" hit the top 30 on the Australian Go-Set chart ...
Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley. " (Back Home Again in) Indiana " is a song composed by James F. Hanley with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald that was published in January 1917. Although it is not the state song of Indiana (which is "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"), it is perhaps the best-known song that pays tribute to the Hoosier state.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.[ fn 1] is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot episode was aired as the season finale of the fourth season of its parent series on May 18, 1964. The show ran for a total of 150 half-hour episodes spanning ...
Thank God I'm a Country Boy. " Thank God I'm a Country Boy ", also known as " Country Boy ", is a song written by John Martin Sommers [ 3] and recorded by American singer/songwriter John Denver. The song was originally included on Denver's 1974 album Back Home Again. A version recorded live on August 26, 1974, at the Universal Amphitheatre in ...
The Jim Nabors Hour. Guest star Andy Griffith and Nabors in a skit from the show's premiere, September 25, 1969. The Jim Nabors Hour is an American variety television series hosted by Jim Nabors that aired on the CBS television network from 1969 to 1971. Fresh from his success with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which put his backwoods "Gomer Pyle ...
In 1964, Jim Nabors, Don Knotts, Andy Griffith, and a choir performed the song on The Andy Griffith Show, in the episode "The Song Festers". Italian-American crooner Jerry Vale recorded a popular version of the song. Tom sang the first verse of the song at the beginning of the Tom and Jerry cartoon Cat and Dupli-cat. Jerry also scats along to ...
They Call the Wind Marīa" (/ m ə ˈ r aɪ. ə /) is an American popular song with lyrics written by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon, which is set in the California Gold Rush. Rufus Smith originally sang the song on Broadway, and Joseph Leader was the original singer in London's West ...