The Rascal Flatts entry, as Miss Crump would say, raises some interesting points. How many other songs about TAGS, Mayberry, etc. are there? One of the best known may be ""The Andy Griffith Show" by the Bellamy Brothers from their 1993 album "Rip Off The Knob." Another big one was Confederate Railroad's "Elvis and Andy," off their 1994 album "Notorious." Of course our favorite deputy, David Browning, did a whole tribute album in 2005 called "Thinkin' About Mayberry." I found some lesser known songs listed at www.allmusic.com, including "Barney Fife" by Dwight Oglesbee, several different songs called "Mayberry" including the one by Rascal Flatts. There's also Mayberry RIP, Mayberry Blues, Mayberry Lsdna, Another Mayberry, Chaos in Mayberry, Bury Me In Mayberry, Santa Goes To Mayberry and Searching the Map for Mayberry, among others. Kind of strange that they don't list "Mayberry, My Hometown" by the songwriting team of Clara Edwards & Bee Taylor, nor anything by Jim Lindsey, Keevy Hazelton, Bobby Fleet & his Band With the Beat (did Freddie take over when Bobby joined the army?) or Opie's band (wasn't it called the Sound Committee?). If all of this sounds trivial, just remember "Got time to breathe - got time for music." Ben Weaver Lots 'a Luck to you 'n yours chapter Macon, GA (home of Little Richard, Otis Redding, Capricorn Records and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame)
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