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Gomer pyle well golly4/30/2023 ![]() In Play: Today's slightly faded word is often associated with simplemindedness. Gee and Gee whiz! are euphemisms for Jesus, Gosh is another one for god, and darn replaces damn. Usually the euphemism sounds like the word it replaces. Words associated with religious figures, profanity, and sexual and excretory organs are often expressed via euphemisms. Notes: Today's Good Word is a euphemism for God! when used as an exclamation. In addition to Cadwallader, he is survived by two sisters, Freddie and Ruth.Meaning: An interjection used to indicate surprise or wonder. He married his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, in Washington in 2013. ![]() Nabors converted to Catholicism in the mid-’60s. The recurring asthma problems forced him to return home, where he worked as an assistant film editor for a television station in Chattanooga, Tenn., and also sang occasionally on the station’s daytime shows.Īfter moving to Los Angeles, he continued to work as an editor and entertained for free in the evenings - performing operatic arias and monologues - until his discovery and subsequent work in television. Chronic asthma resulted in a childhood of forced seclusion, and after graduation from the University of Alabama, he lived for a time in New York, working as a typist at the United Nations. James Thurston Nabors was born in Sylacauga, Ala. At least four were certified gold, the most recent of which was “Jim Nabors’ Christmas Album” in 1990. Nabors recorded more than two dozen albums. For a time he lived in Honolulu near his close friend Carol Burnett and starred in “The Jim Nabors Polynesian Extravaganza” at the Hilton Hawaiian Village for two years.įilm roles were few, mostly cameo and supporting appearances in three Burt Reynolds vehicles, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” “Stroker Ace” and “Cannonball Run II.” He hosted variety program “The Jim Nabors Hour” for two seasons on CBS and, in the late ’70s, tried it again in syndication, though “The Jim Nabors Show” was more of a combination comedy/talk program.ĭuring this period, he toured almost year-round, reaping the benefits of his natural baritone voice, his disarming Southern-boy personality and his high name recognition. By 1967 he was earning $500,000 annually.Īlthough it was too late to ever completely dissociate himself from Gomer Pyle, Nabors decided to end the series in 1969, while it was still rated in the top five. He entertained onstage in Vegas, Reno and Tahoe, and his first album, “Jim Nabors Sings,” sold a million copies. The program shot into the top 10 in the Nielsen ratings, where it stayed for its entire four seasons.ĭuring that time, Nabors starred in a number of variety specials for CBS, including “Friends and Nabors,” which attracted an audience of 33.9 million, and guested on shows for Danny Thomas and the Smothers Brothers. In the early ’60s, he began to appear regularly on “The Andy Griffith Show” as the ingenuous gas station attendant Gomer Pyle, which led to his own CBS series, produced by Griffith, about Pyle’s misadventures after joining the Marines. Nabors was discovered singing at the Horn cabaret in Santa Monica, Calif., by writer-comedian Bill Dana, who booked Nabors for occasional stints on “The Steve Allen Show.” Later attempts at a variety show did not last long, however, either on network TV or in first-run syndication, though Nabors was a popular headliner on the Vegas-Reno nightclub circuit. The series ran for four seasons, and Nabors’ 20 percent cut of the syndication revenue for the popular show made him financially secure thereafter and able to pursue broader interests as a singer and comic raconteur. He brought the words “golly” and “shazam” into the vernacular as the naive, well-intentioned Pyle, a regular character on “The Andy Griffith Show” who was later the focus of spinoff “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” Pyle was a loving caricature of a Southern rube, completely out of step with the 1960s and all the more lovable for it. ![]() Jim Nabors, whose name is synonymous with the genial bumpkin Gomer Pyle, whom he played on TV, died Thursday morning, his husband told The Associated Press. ![]()
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