Who said that? Barn? Ope? Floyd? Gomer? Goober? Thelma Lou? Helen? Otis? Ernest T? -> Close.
Well they came from Missouri with a banjo on their knee. Or, banjos I guess.
Darlings they were.......... kinda.
If you remember mosta those names, congratulations, you're either real old, or a MeTV addict.
Early 1960's the heyday of Andy, Ope and Barn. and that aint Whistlin' Dixie (the whistle theme was actually called "The Fishin' Hole.")
The Darlings were a fictitious musically inclined group of Hillbillies that lived in a shack, somewhere near neighboring Mayberry. Appeared in, I think, 8 episodes of "Andy"... Of course they were real people, composed of Briscoe, the Pops, "Briscoe Darling, tiller of soil, feller of trees" as he liked to call himself.
Daughter Charlene... Wiki say "an attractive but naïve young, blonde woman who often causes trouble for Sheriff Taylor and his family with her flirtatious behavior and her belief in mountain lore. She is also the original object of desire for Ernest T. Bass."
Then there was the boys.... The Darlings. Four of 'em. They almost never spoke, and, their names were contradictory from episode to episode. If you're reading this junk, don't compliment me, it's all from Wiki. I cheat. Plagiarize, that.
The boys were so quiet...... Ed McMahon would ask Johnny "How quiet were they?" (That ain't in Wiki...well, it probably is somewhar, but it ain't got nuttin to do with Andy, the Darlings.) As a running gag, Andy would say 'Howdy" to the boys, and always got blank stares in return. He'd say to Brisoe (Pops) "The boys are talkative today"... swing and a miss on the irony, Brisoe answered "They all keyed up" (over the antics of Ernest T. Bass's quest for sister Charlene.
Or.......another band camp episode, Charlene has a baby daughter, Andy offers the boys "you must be proud to be the uncles".. which, received their pat blank stare... which, on que Briscoe responded "They all choked up."
In answer to the trivia over Aunt Bee's beans........The only lines spoken by the Darling boys occur in the jail scene of the episode "The Darlings Are Coming". Mitch can be heard to say, "About to pop." Another line was spoken by Doug. He could be heard saying, "Great beans, Aunt Bee."
A tad more on the Darling boys. They was really the Dillards... the four boys.. the ones that "came from Missouri with a banjo on their knee. Or, banjos I guess." A legit bluegrass band that had moved from their home in Salem, Missouri to LA in 1962. Brothers Doug and Rodney Dillard, Mitch Jayne and Dean Webb. Not long after their arrival, they signed up with an agency, and they were booked on The Andy Griffith Show.
And, thanks to a Facebook post today (I'm stealing) I'll make a short story, long:
So we were each set to receive a couple hundred dollars, which was fine by us (remember we had just barely arrived from Missouri on our mission to “make it” as a band so you can imagine we were blown away to be on a successful television show).
But then Andy said something that changed our lives forever (and incidentally this also changed the entire genre of bluegrass forever) - he said “now what I will do is allow you all to record/perform your original bluegrass songs and we’ll use them on the show…plus I’ll let you retain the rights to those songs so that you can own them going forward…”
What does this mean? It means that the world has heard our songs like “Dooley” and “There is a Time” nearly every single day for the past 60+ years! Our appearances, along with Flatt & Scruggs’ appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies, turned bluegrass from a regional art form to something known in the mainstream and our songs became bluegrass classics so well known and ubiquitous that many forget we wrote them!
Andy could have made us perform public domain songs or insisted that his company own the publishing of our songs but no, he was so kind and generous to do that for us.
So we never talked on the #1 television show of all time, well, almost never for you trivia buffs, but we were given a gift beyond measure for our musical careers, a gift that really did change an entire music genre as well…
Very thankful for Andy Griffith!"
One more thing. Ya hear banjos? In yet another episode (1963), "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee" (I GOTTA go back and see that one...).. The boys performed the first widespread rendition of Guitar Boogie Smith's "Fruedin' Banjos" which, is actually Dueling Banjos.
So... the Missouri connection.
So... mebbe next time you's in the Ozarks..... mebbe Eldon, Camdenton, Van Buren, Popler Bluff, Salem, and ya hear banjos, ya might oughta run.
Right Ned?
Love, Victurd
Ahm, as an added bonus (ha, as is anything in my blog[s] is considered a bonus), copy, right click, then click 'open' on the below!
https://youtu.be/uhUnyAu-LQI
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