Andy Samuel Griffith, born June 1, 1926, in Mount Airy, North Carolina, was an
American singer and actor whose music career spanned several decades. He studied
music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated
with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1949 and performed in several student
operettas. He released his debut single, the comic monologue "What It Was, Was
Football," in 1953, which reached number 9 on the charts in 1954. Over the
following decades, his recordings included Just for Laughs (1958), Shouts the
Blues and Old Timey Songs (1959), Somebody B...