![]() ![]() I told him "listen, thats a guy who used to play a character on The Andy Griffith Show.be nice to him, he is old, and relax. I could hardly hold the phone I was laughing so hard, and realized that in this great Cosmic Joke, Gomer Pyle had tried to pick up my oldest son. Anyway, he finally said "Sooprize sooprize sooprize!".īut, Mom, I still have no idea who he is. I was polite but he kept saying 'do ya know who I am?' and I had no idea who he was. ![]() He was really old, and was driving a yellow Hummer. "Mom.some old guy,well, he kind of flirted with me at the airport. ![]() My son called me that night, (my son is a hetero), and said My son was standing at the airport (they were taking flying lessons), when this yellow Hummer drives up. He was promoted to full corporal in 2007.Back in the early 70s, I used to hang out in Chicago gay disco bars, and EVERYONE knew that Jim was gay.Ībout 7 yrs ago my oldest son, and his youngest brother, were in Hawaii. Nabors had severe asthma as a child, which kept him away from more rough-and-tumble activities and strenuous athletics. His rural upbringing would later help him shape his most beloved TV character, Gomer Pyle. While Gomer Pyle never rose above the rank of private on television, the Marine Corps made Nabors an honorary Marine with the rank of lance corporal in 2001. Jim Nabors was born in 1930 in Sylacauga, Alabama, and was the youngest of three children. He said he contracted the virus several years before in India but it had remained dormant. In February 1994 Nabors suffered from hepatitis B and underwent a liver transplant. "And at my age, it's probably the best thing to do." ![]() Whether it was the Gomer Pyle show as a Marine or the Andy Griffith show as a gas station attendant, you could always count on Gomer for comedic relief in his gullible nature and naivety. "It's pretty obvious that we had no rights as a couple, yet when you've been together 38 years, I think something's got to happen there, you've got to solidify something," Nabors said of his marriage. I spent many hours as a kid laughing at this character played by the late Jim Nabors. gomergolly.wav Jim Nabors: Golly gomershame.wav Jim Nabors: Shame, shame, shame gomershutup.wav Frank Sutton as Sergeant Carter: Whatever youre. Nabors, who moved to Hawaii in the 1980s, told Hawaii News Now that his television colleagues knew he was gay in the 1960s and '70s but that he never sought to publicize it because he preferred privacy. Nabors made headlines in January 2013 when he married Cadwallader, a former Honolulu firefighter and his partner of 38 years at that time, in Seattle shortly after the state of Washington made same-sex marriage legal. He recorded dozens of albums of country, inspirational and religious music with five of them selling more than 500,000 copies. When he wasn't acting, Nabors was singing in a glorious baritone that made listeners forget all about Gomer Pyle's hayseed twang. His career was helped along by friend Burt Reynolds, who put him in three of his 1980s movies - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stroker Ace and Cannonball Run II. Nabors was so strongly identified as Gomer that it limited the roles he was offered. His subsequent variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour, had a two-year run and he made frequent guest appearances on other television shows. It proved to be a viewers' favorite, sometimes reaching No. Gomer was the town's rustic, kind-hearted gas station attendant who was given to exclamations of "golly" and "shazam" when he was impressed, as well as "surprise, surprise, surprise" and "shame, shame, shame" - depending on the circumstances and stretching each word to several syllables.Īfter two years on the Griffith show, Nabors was given his own sitcom, Gomer Pyle, USMC, with Gomer enlisting in the US Marine Corps. Griffith's sitcom - tales of down-home people in a slow-moving Southern town - was one of the most popular on US television at the time and Nabors' Gomer Pyle character was a hit after joining the cast in 1962. Nabors' show business break came in the early 1960s when Andy Griffith saw him in a Los Angeles cabaret - singing in a sophisticated, ear-grabbing voice and telling stories between songs in a Deep South drawl - and offered him a part on The Andy Griffith Show. #BREAKINGJim Nabors, star of 'Gomer Pyle' and`The Andy Griffith Show,'dies at age 87.□□ #Golly #Shazam #RIP #SurpriseSurpriseSurprise /0CzXJwPaA9- Tom Hall ☘ November 30, 2017 ![]()
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