IRENE "GRANNY" RYAN sings "I'M A WOMAN" by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller with ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS

Walter Willison ^ | 28/8/11 | Irene Ryan

[Eleutheria5]

Irene Ryan in character as "Granny" singing a burlesque-style number as "Granny" for Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

[Eleutheria5]

Looking for excuses to laugh.

[ComputerGuy]

Where did you find that one?

[Robert DeLong]

Very cute. Harkening back to the days when some degree of innocence still existed to a degree.

[algore]

A singing biologist?

[BBB333]

“If I were Roy Rogers, I sure enough be single, I couldn’t bring myself to marrin’ old Dale...”

[Gay State Conservative]

The black & white episodes of the Hillbillies were absolute classics! IMO something went wrong after they went color. I can’t really explain it but I lost interest in the series after that.

[rlmorel]

Made my heart ache with nostalgia for a different America. Not a perfect one, but a different one that is more in line with being American.

[sasquatch]

In case you didn’t see this.

[rlmorel]

Hahaha...when asked how old she was, she said “I ain’t ready for Medicare!”

Yes. “Some degree of innocence” for sure.

[rlmorel]

Hahahahaha...”I can make a dress out of a feed bag, and a Man out of Jed!”

Ahh.

[rlmorel]

Thank you for posting this. It just made me smile.

[Eleutheria5]

It just was there when I opened You Tube.

[wally_bert]

The same thing happened to The Saint and Danger Man.

Both series weren’t quite as good when they went to color.

[dfwgator]

Back in the day, she was quite a looker.

[ansel12]

I was going to post that, she was one fine looking woman.

[PJ-Comix]

IMO something went wrong after they went color. I can’t really explain it but I lost interest in the series after that.

Same thing happened with the Andy Griffith Show. Most people agree that show Jumped The Shark from the time it went to color.

[Eleutheria5]

But her comedic genius as “Granny” was her best profile. I can never get tired of her shtick.

[Hessian]

THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW also lost Don Knotts the year they switched to color. That’s the bigger reason for the decline in quality.

[dp0622]

I dont think the innocence was as important as keeping the Non Innocent stuff away from kids and the population in general.

That democrat that said Clinton was defining deviancy down nailed it.

Back then, if an actor or singer or media personality had some quite immortal habits, they kept it to themselves because normalizing it would set a new LOW bar.

People will stray from the bar that is set in a country.

The higher the bar the better. So PRETENDING to be a moral good guy when you are in the spotlight is important.

Because straying from that point shouldn’t be too extreme.

If immoral IS the bar that is set...then SICK and VILE things are the bar below.

Boy I used the word BAR a lot :)

[Chode]

thx...