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The Andy Griffith Show/A Singer in Town
| A Singer in Town | |
| Season 6, Episode 30 | |
| Airdate | April 11, 1966 |
| Written by | Stan Dreben and Howard Merrill |
| Directed by | Alan Rafkin |
| Produced by | Bob Ross |
| Stream |  |
| ← 6x29 The Battle of Mayberry |
7x01 → Opie's Girlfriend |
| The Andy Griffith Show — Season Six | |
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A Singer in Town is the thirtieth episode of the sixth season of The Andy Griffith Show, and the one hundred eighty-ninth episode overall.
Starring: Andy Griffith (Sheriff Andy Taylor), Ronny Howard (Opie Taylor), Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee)
George Lindsey (Goober), Jesse Pearson (Keevy Hazelton)
Featuring: Howard McNear (Floyd), Hope Summers (Clara), Byron Foulger (The Clerk), Tom D'Andrea (Bill Stone), Joel Redlin (Ferdie), Edgar Hess (Stage Manager)
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Plot Overview
All of Mayberry is aflutter when TV and singing star Keevy Hazelton comes to town for a stopover on his way to Raleigh, starting with a stop at Goober's service station for gas. He's there for a quiet rest and just wants to go fishing, but when Aunt Bee and her friend Clara hear about Keevy being in town, they decide they will try to get him to record a song called "My Hometown", which they had written some years before for Mayberry's local Flag Day celebration. Keevy isn't too interested at first because the song sounds more like a church hymnal as performed by Aunt Bee and Clara, but his manager thinks there's a potential hit there so they agree to perform the song and also invite the ladies to the TV studio in Raleigh to watch the show.
Andy, Opie, Aunt Bee and Clara travel to Raleigh to see Keevy's performance of "My Hometown" at the studio, but in rehearsal, they discover that Keevy has turned their ballad about Mayberry into a surf rock-style song complete with electric guitars and go-go dancers. While Opie is impressed with the song, Aunt Bee and Clara are both offended by Keevy's arrangement of the song and they refuse to let him perform it that way on the show, and they also refuse to compromise or be reasonable when Andy tries to make peace between them and Keevy. With less than an hour to air time, Aunt Bee and Clara tell Keevy he has to change the arrangement, which he does when he and his backing group play the song on-air as a slower, folkish-sounding ballad.
