Curiouser and curiouser! The sheet music I have is hand-written, in pencil, by Earle Hagen's very own hand, and it's in the key of B flat! He very kindly did this for me in 1998, and I have it framed with a picture and Andy and Opie with their fishing poles, and it's proudly displayed above my old upright piano. But that's not the key used on The Show, at least not during the credits. Maybe there's some episode with the theme playing in the background in B flat, I've never checked. And as I said earlier, the correct original title is "The Andy Griffith Theme." Is it not "The Andy Griffith Show Theme" as some seem to think. The version with lyrics (penned later, by Everett "Jubal Jubal Jubal" Sloane) is entitled "The Fishin' Hole." Paul Mulik >>>I don't have the answer either for the different keys for the theme song, >>>but to make it more confusing, I have the theme song script signed by Earl >>>Hagen and it is in the key of F. I got it autographed by him at Mayberry >>>Days a few years ago. Maybe after he wrote it in that key he found out that >>>he couldn't whistle it in that key and he is the one who whistled it for the >>>actual recording of the song. The Gollywobbler _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
