Quiz:
A popular entertainment Web site reported that the actor Andy Griffith was "indicted into the Gospel Country Music Hall of Fame."
Maybe you can spot at least two reasons why that is not true.
Griffith is well known for his TV roles as Sheriff Andy Taylor on the Andy Griffith Show and as the attorney Ben Matlock on the TV drama Matlock. He is also known for his movie roles and even his gospel albums. But his big break into show business didn't come from his singing or acting. Rather, it was a comedy monologue he recorded in 1953 entitled "What it Was, Was Football."
In the monologue he takes the part of a country preacher who accidentally finds himself at a football game. Having never seen the game before, he describes what he sees. A portion:
"And what I seen was this whole raft a people a-settin’ on these
two banks and a-lookin’ at one another acrosst this purty little
green cow pasture! Well, they was! And somebody had took
and drawed white lines all over it and drove posts in it and
I don’t know what all! And I looked down there and I seen
five or six convicts a-runnin’ up and down and a-blowin’ whistles!"
The album sold more than 800,000 copies.
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4 comments:
Hey dude, hos it going/
great writing there...
i just want to know, how can i make my writing as long as yours, i am i don't get as many line counts as you dude, my half of the blog just vanishes some were when i post it.
please advise.
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That is a technical question above my pay grade. Maybe blogger.com offers an explanation.
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That is a technical question above my pay grade. Maybe blogger.com offers an explanation.
—David Cox
Your post was really a blast from the past for me. I was 12 years old when everyone was getting such a kick out of "What It Was, Was Football." Andy has come a long way!
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