James Best on Andy Griffith Show 1960 Episode 3 

They were in no way really playing that lol.

@@jstar1000 It was for the joy of the TV joy haha. Two electric guitar parts on one acoustic with drums following in... Television bliss, fun and humor all and all... still love it! Thanks for the upload! (Matthew Scarborough) !!!

Watch his fingers. He is NOT playing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just wish they would have made Don Knotts a producer and given him a share of the profits when his 5 year contract ended. He would have continued but they didn't want to cut him into the show's profits.

in certain places in this country, there was a time if you asked people who was the holy trinity, they woulda said john wayne, elvis, and andy griffith

@@jamesrawlins735 That's sad, the show would have not existed without him, greed is a terrible thing.

When we had great TV👍👍Still watching

@@kevinworley1254 ?.

Agreed....

I do believe he he set that up….

That’s cool.

As Eddie Van Halen said, “Just keep playing.”

What a great testimony. Thanks for sharing. I just watched this and it inspired me to get off my duff and go practice!

I understand what your saying . I would love to have learned the lead guitar but i couldn't so i went to the NEXT most important part of a band, the Bass, I learned that because it didn't have but 4 strings and it was easier to learn. I got DECENT but was NEVER an expert LOLOL, but i could listen to THIS alllllllll day right here .

It’s actually Barney Kessel of Wrecking Crew fame that is playing the music. In both episodes of the guitar player.

@Grumman F-14 Tomcat, and upright bass. Roscoe rocks.

Like Andy Said, It's just the light

People had real talent back then.

Not only can James best play lead and rhythm, the drummer is able to play drums without a drum set. Those were the days.

Hey look, if Julie Andrews can sing on a mountain in the middle of nowhere while being accompanied by a full orchestra...

Sarah Gregory never be guys like those . each of em was one of kind

Sarah Gregory, Absolutely, Those three were tv icons.

Rip

And James Best

Three awesome and talented people well said sarah

I used to watch it as a kid with my grandma during the Summer and again in her older age the last years of her life. I know exactly what you mean. Simple times, good television, long before reality tv and all this junk online today. It's best to cherish what you have while it's there.

That's a great memory.

Lost my mom 1st day of pandemic lockdown March 2020, yup, we sure miss them, especially limited to 10 at graveside only, not much closure with family & friends

@@donaldstanfield8862 Sorry for your loss bro

That must’ve been a wonderful time. I remember being with my mom.

A great dance I really laughed funny

Don knotts was a comic genius he can make you laugh at any situation and he loved doing it and I love to watch him

You just got to love Barney

Yep. We had a buddy that used to get worked up like him. We’d say Now Barn! And he’d pipe down. So funny. And saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car Protected by FIFE. With a picture of the Barney Fife character. Very funny. He lives on.

That was my favorite part of that sequence

Playing acoustic that sounds electric lol

@@robb1761 … and playing rhythm to his own leads.

@The Doobie Sisters & Sack Blabbath Roscoe P. Coltrane

@The Doobie Sisters & Sack Blabbath Why shore! He can get banjo sounds, guitar sounds, trombone sounds. . . out of an old jug! (Denver Pyle as Briscoe Darling, "The Darlings Come to Town" from season 1 or 2 of Andy Griffith.)

You know the Dukes of Hazzard? I know it and I am 10.

Benjamin Tielking whats the song? It’s been bugging me for so long

Yeah me too😍 Whats the name of the song??

whats the song???:((

I don't think it's an actual song. It's just musicians jamming (improvising) to the basic blues chord progression (I - IV - I - V - IV - I).

And a couple B movies about Killer Shrews

Loved the twilight zone, still do. Nothing but crap on today.

I was thinking the exact same thing. A year later no less!. Damned good actor!

The few seconds starting at 2:13 had me thinking I was watching the Twilight Zone.

I also like how he was in The Dukes of Hazzard

He was a high school music teacher for a time before breaking into acting.

The much better days of television unfortunately gone by us, and the real tragedy is those days are very unlikely to ever return.

I am 71, saw this episode when it played the 1st time during season one....and the writer I am replying to is right !! Even watching this episode 50 times it is still better (at the 51st time) than anything on TV today

Paul griswold I once asked James best for his autograph at an event He told me to go fuck my own mother. He then threw a punch at me. He wasn’t a nice guy at all

James Best passed away at age of 88 in April 6,2015 from complications of pneumonia.

It was Barney Kessel of Wrecking Crew fame that was actually playing the music.

He replied to an e-mail i sent him back in early 2000's and said he appreciated my watching this and the "Dukes of Hazzard"...a real Class Act was Mr. Best, sorry I never got a chance to meet him.

I live in Mr. Best's hometown of Corydon, In. There is a sign in front of his boyhood home that says Home of James Best. Read his book "Best in Hollywood." Some of it is pretty funny.

getting jail cell bars to sound like real drums, now that's talent

Chet Adkins could - yep!

John Smith on an acoustic no less

Yossarian Hahaha!!!! You are exactly right my friend!!! 😂

Beth Bartlett Haha, I think he could too!! 🙏

I’m an African American I love the music from a Griffith show especially the darlings those songs always make me cry.

You're spittin facts, I'm 21. 2001 baby, this show taught me a lot of important values you can't find just anywhere today.

Agreed! I was raised watching shows like this, and Dukes, and Beverly Hillbillies, etc. and these shows I would return to watch any day before watching half of what’s on TV nowadays. So glad my parents showed me these types of shows.

​@@trevthekidd You sound like fine young people. Good for you.

@@JohnSmith-el6lk My man 🤝

Talented man. Not only an actor and musician but an accomplished artist. Many of the paintings on Dukes of Hazzard were painted by Best. Name fits.

Miracles

I guess that's where Roscoe learned it from

!!LOL

andy was a master manipulator for sure!

@@ryanbarker5217 but he prob meant well

Honest people are usually the most sneaky

He sure was a handsome young man .

Barney was main man

Bet he was, daggone!

,

So cool you got to meet him Greg

Just one word: AMEN.❤❤

Yes

monmixer yes but now that we're diversified "they" say we're better off.......

@@kevingee4294 Well hell go back to those good old days. Nobody is stopping you.If they were so great why arent you living that life now?

@Jason Jason...Jason. I see where you got your turn on the computer again down at the old commune. How in the world did you get all that out of one word? You're accusing someone of being a racist without knowing the person. Classic liberalism. Oh, BTW, Trump will be the President for the next 5+ years so might as well adapt.

​@Jason The smallest minority is the individual. And where does he mention minorities? As far as I can see, the "good old days" only set the stage for today's problems --- which you seem to be now embodying in a reactionary way. Rather than being a product of the negative influences of that generation, how about we endeavour to move beyond those to synthesize something better? If we don't, there's only one destination for all of us.

I did the ironing while The Andy Griffith show was on lol. In the summer every one was outside sitting on the stoop. We took out the hose , put our finger on the spout and got everybody soaked. None of us were rich either, but we had fun.. Bungalow Bar ice cream truck came by at night. We’d hear him ringing his bell. My favorite was a Pistachio ice cream on a stick . Sometimes we’d get a lucky stick , good for a free cream bar. I loved Andy , Barney, Opie.. and aunt bee.. she made disgusting pickles. 😝

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Zakk Wylde can make an acoustic sound like an electric guitar

And he totally ripped off the Batman riff 🤘

And at the end you can hear a drum set instead of the sticks on the bars. That is because a band was really playing the song!

@@GM8101PHX Ha, I never caught that before and I've seen this at least 10 times.

@@_stardust62 No….THAT is a basic BLUES RIFF…

me too on prime

Barney Kessel, a guitarist for the Wrecking Crew, played the guitar on this episode. Best could play guitar, but he wasn't a professional musician by any means.

Sims like a different world now . Was good times

How did this show make you CRY?

Life was slow and easy then not fast and hard.

Lol right🤣

Barney Kessel, a guitarist for the Wrecking Crew, played the guitar on this episode. Best could play guitar, but he wasn't a professional musician by any means.

Vickie McFarland my fat little buddy

Com'on Flash, shred that 'ol flat top......oh shit, you got Barney,cutting the rug!!

Vickie McFarland 8

There's a flaw in the slaw little fat buddy

Cletus, this is your superior officer speaking, you got your ears on dipstick?

Sometimes at the local watering hole they're playing Andy on the TV with the sound muted but close captioned. It's still funny as heck, because we've heard every line of dialog many times before.

🤣🤣🤣 Um, he didn't play this at all. Barney Kessel, a guitarist for the Wrecking Crew. Best played guitar, but he wasn't a professional musician by any means.

Yeah, we know.

That episode gives me the chills.

And the episode Jesse Belle to a great one also

I loved the Andy Griffeth Show! Back when lie was simple!

My grandparents rasied me they was depression-era ppl I am from eastern Kentucky we rasied hogs chickens had milk cows..mother would make her own butter ..cream ..butter milk..rasied a huge garden so we can and put up mother would go to the store for flour mill salt coffee anything we couldn't make ourselves ...still plowed with a mule that was just the way the wanted it done I am 40 now boy am I glad they showed me that way of life ...well this show is all about country ppl ..it show you a simpler and better way to live like I did going up ...after all the work was done I was happy to set and watch Andy and Barney .. thanks sorry for writing a book

You do realize.... he's not actually playing there bud. That's electric and acoustic guitar music coming out of one guitar

@@Quint1836 Mr Les Paul played both parts

@@GenX...MCMLXV Right, extremely rare, and 2. The actor isn't playing it. 3 there's only 1 guitar I see here

The one playing that lead guitar and Rhythm at the same time was actually a studio guitarist if you notice they never showed his hands playing and body at the same time

@@Quint1836 lol I like how you let the person down gently

Electric acoustic guitar lol

You mean Merv Griffith

@Mowac First guitar I ever played, was my older brother's '58 or '59 electrified Harmony archtop. I'm gone!

Hello Mary, How are you doing?

THAT'S a good one!

@@Tonetwisters lov it

LMFAO

Gets even weirder. The second guy to play Bobby Fleet was the actor Herb Ellis. He was Jack Webb's Detective partner on an early Black and White version of "Dragnet." And his namesake was the great Jazz Guitarist Herb Ellis!🎸🎼😂B.W.

Yeah let’s not take ANYTHING away from Daisy.

Or boss ✌️🖖😅😅

Jimmy Best was so funny in his episode

Yes, Denver Pyle, was a great character actor too. Loved him on Gunsmoke and Grizzly Adams.

Or Bo...

Hard to believe I saw it _first run._

Kenny Phillips me too. 😞

Those were the days, my friend. We thought they's never end.

It's even sadder to think that not only do they not make shows like this that are this good anymore, but also that Andy, Don, James, and all those other guys in this scene are all dead now. :(

Seriously? I'm 54. Damn. I'm no spring chicken.

I'VE JUST GOT DONE WATCHING JAMES IN A WESTERN MOVIE WITH. JAMES STEWART & HARRY MORGAN

He also played on the Dukes Of Hazzard as Roscoe p coletrain

He sure didn’t look like he ever played the guitar. I know it wasn’t real but as a guitarist myself he didn’t even fake it well as far as I’m concerned.

James Best was also a main star in a horror film call The Killer Shrews.

It’s funny because I’ve been watching some Everly Brothers videos on here and someone said something about James Best resembling them. I googled them and found out that James is related to them so that was weird!!

You must be realted to Dr Sam Mudd and that bunch.

What was the name of the song

James Best couldn't play, but lied to the producers and said that he could...and with the Everly Brothers being his first cousins, they believed him.

Wrong! Barney Kessel, a guitarist for the Wrecking Crew, played the guitar on this episode. Best could play guitar, but he wasn't a professional musician by any means.

@@r.p.mcmurphy6623Are you sure about that? As I remember seeing Herb Ellis's name in the credits at the end of the show.

Cool

You have a fantastic memory!

I was born the 16th

3:44 😂😂

Love Barney. Wonderful guy!

thank god!

theID2 Them some fighting words boy...

@@tonywilkins8381 it's so easy isn't it tony?

@@theID2 u probably watch 2 Broke Girls

You got that right.

Mike I hope so because Jessica is a bit young for you. LoL

I'm older than him and I'd still hit either one.

... Which is why it is still being aired today. Hopefully, shows like Andy Griffith will be showing in 100 years from now. Keeping the classics alive gives newer generations a glimpse into history, first hand.

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Thanks for pointing that out ! He looked familiar but I didnt put it together !

Renamed Freddy Fleet in subsequent episodes by mistake. The wtiters forgot his name was originally Bobby and not Freddy, when they brought him back.

🤣🤣🤣 Um, he didn't play this at all. Barney Kessel, a guitarist for the Wrecking Crew. Best played guitar, but he wasn't a professional musician by any means.

@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 Would you happen to know the name of this instrumental and if it was something Barney Kessel actually recorded?

were

Not really. Both of these were popular character actors that went from show to show, especially westerns.