Jim Nabors

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
Go Tell It on the Mountain 02:58 Tools
Joy to the World 00:00 Tools
The Impossible Dream 02:50 Tools
O Come, All Ye Faithful 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bells 00:00 Tools
20 Fans 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night 05:59 Tools
You'll Never Walk Alone 02:09 Tools
You Are the Sunshine of My Life 00:00 Tools
O Little Town Of Bethlehem 00:00 Tools
Sleigh Ride 00:00 Tools
Battle Hymn Of The Republic 03:07 Tools
Silent Night, Holy Night 00:00 Tools
Christmas Eve In My Home Town 00:00 Tools
Try To Remember 00:00 Tools
Shazam! 01:50 Tools
The Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
White Christmas 02:52 Tools
Joy to the World (theme by Handel) 00:00 Tools
The Lord's Prayer 02:38 Tools
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 02:55 Tools
My Cup Runneth Over 00:00 Tools
Silver Bells 00:00 Tools
Sunrise, Sunset 00:00 Tools
The Christmas Song 00:00 Tools
A Time For Us 02:50 Tools
Just A Closer Walk With Thee 00:00 Tools
Green Green Grass Of Home 00:00 Tools
What Now My Love 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 02:27 Tools
O Come All Ye Faithful 03:09 Tools
Ave Maria 00:00 Tools
Love Is Blue 00:00 Tools
Love Me With All Your Heart (Cuando Calienta El Sol) 00:00 Tools
Silent Night 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Beautiful 00:00 Tools
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever 00:00 Tools
More 00:00 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water 00:00 Tools
Christmas All Over The World 00:00 Tools
My Woman, My Woman, My Wife 00:00 Tools
Jean 00:00 Tools
Somewhere My Love 00:00 Tools
The Old Rugged Cross 00:00 Tools
Both Sides Now 00:00 Tools
Love Me With All Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Three Wise Men, Wise Men Three 00:00 Tools
In The Garden 00:00 Tools
And This Is My Beloved 00:00 Tools
Christmas Eve in My Hometown 02:47 Tools
Hot Dog Heart 00:00 Tools
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder 00:00 Tools
And I Love You So 00:00 Tools
Do You Hear What I Hear? 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Home for Christmas 00:00 Tools
It's My Life 00:00 Tools
You Must Have Faith 00:00 Tools
Sunrise Sunset 00:00 Tools
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) 00:00 Tools
O Come, All Ye Faithfull 00:00 Tools
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night) 00:00 Tools
Softly And Tenderly 00:00 Tools
You Don't Have To Say You Love ME 00:00 Tools
A Very Special Love Song 00:00 Tools
Blessed Assurance 00:00 Tools
Games People Play 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation 00:00 Tools
back home again in indiana 01:12 Tools
The First Noel 00:00 Tools
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) 00:00 Tools
How Great Thou Art 00:00 Tools
In a Humble Place 00:00 Tools
Hoo How, What Now? 00:00 Tools
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd 00:00 Tools
Take My Hand, Precious Lord 00:00 Tools
Born Free 00:00 Tools
Old Blue 00:00 Tools
Doodle Ee Doo 00:00 Tools
Holy, Holy, Holy 00:00 Tools
San Antonio Rose 00:00 Tools
The Waltz Of Miss Sarah Green 00:00 Tools
Yesterday When I Was Young 00:00 Tools
If You Want Me To 00:00 Tools
Heart Insurance 00:00 Tools
May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You 00:00 Tools
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo 00:00 Tools
All Of This For Sally 00:00 Tools
The Twelfth of Never 00:00 Tools
Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
Gomer Says Hey! 00:00 Tools
It Takes All Kinds To Make A World 00:00 Tools
He 00:00 Tools
Crying In THe Chapel 00:00 Tools
The Impossible Dream (The Quest) 00:00 Tools
Gomer Seys Hey! 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 00:00 Tools
The Sweetheart Tree 00:00 Tools
I Walk With God 00:00 Tools
Rock of Ages 02:37 Tools
The World I Used To Know 00:00 Tools
If I Never Laugh Again 00:00 Tools
I Can't Stop Loving You 00:00 Tools
Love Theme From "The Godfather" (Speak Softly Love) 00:00 Tools
Till the End of Time 00:00 Tools
A Time For Us - Love Theme From "Romeo & Juliet" 00:00 Tools
Aloha Kalikimaka 00:00 Tools
Mama, A Rainbow - From the Broadway Production "Minnie's Boys" 00:00 Tools
Hasegawa General Store 00:00 Tools
Didn't We 00:00 Tools
Mansion Over the Hilltop 00:00 Tools
(There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays 00:00 Tools
Away in a Manger 00:00 Tools
It Hurts to Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Io Che Non Vivo Senza Te) 00:00 Tools
Strangers in the Night 00:00 Tools
My Reverie 00:00 Tools
The Windmills Of Your Mind - From The Thomas Crown Affair 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know Me 00:00 Tools
You've Got A Friend 00:00 Tools
20 Fans (Original Movie Soundtrack Recording) 00:00 Tools
Whispering Hope 00:00 Tools
Cabaret 00:00 Tools
(Where Do I Begin) Love Story 00:00 Tools
Swanee 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Hear from Me 00:00 Tools
Our Love 00:00 Tools
I've Gotta Be Me 00:00 Tools
Shazam 00:00 Tools
Sweet Hour of Prayer 00:00 Tools
A Girl Named Noel 00:00 Tools
Just A Close Walk With Thee 00:00 Tools
12 Days of Christmas 00:00 Tools
20 Fans (movie Version) 00:00 Tools
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christ 00:00 Tools
What a Friend We Have in Jesus 03:01 Tools
I'd Like You For Christmas 00:00 Tools
Time After Time 00:00 Tools
Full Moon And Empty Arms - Based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor 00:00 Tools
Do You Hear What I Hear 00:00 Tools
Give Me Your Love For Christmas 00:00 Tools
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody 00:00 Tools
I'm Yours 00:00 Tools
Until It's Time for You to Go 00:00 Tools
Will the Circle Be Unbroken 00:00 Tools
Church in the Wildwood 00:00 Tools
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Full Moon And Empty Arms 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Lord 00:00 Tools
JINGLE BELLS (album version) 03:49 Tools
Ave Maria - 1968 Version 00:00 Tools
Somewhere My Love (Lara's Theme from "Dr. Zhivago") 00:00 Tools
Help Me Make It Through the Night 00:00 Tools
Oh Holy Night 00:00 Tools
In the Sweet by and By 00:00 Tools
Stranger In Paradise 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Mama, A Rainbow (From the Broadway Production "Minnie's Boys") 00:00 Tools
The First Noël 00:00 Tools
Love Lifted Me 00:00 Tools
Old Time Religion 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Waltz 00:00 Tools
For Once In My Life 00:00 Tools
Alone Again (Naturally) 00:00 Tools
And This Is My Beloved (from Kismet) - Based on Borodin's "String Quartet In D" 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Never Comes 00:00 Tools
Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy) 03:25 Tools
The Impossible Dream (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
It is no Secret (What God can Do) 00:00 Tools
Abide With Me 00:00 Tools
gomer says hey 00:00 Tools
Full Moon And Empty Arms (Based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor) 00:00 Tools
3 Wise Men, Wise Men 3 00:00 Tools
I'd Like to Teach The World To Sing 00:00 Tools
The Windmills of Your Mind - From "The Thomas Crown Affair" 00:00 Tools
By the Time I Get to Phoenix 00:00 Tools
(There's No Place Line) Home For The Holidays [ Jim Nabors ] 00:00 Tools
That Old Time Religion 00:00 Tools
Twelve Days of Christmas 00:00 Tools
Honey (I Miss You) 00:00 Tools
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree 00:00 Tools
Bringing in the Sheaves 00:00 Tools
Hasta Luego 00:00 Tools
Ave Marie 00:00 Tools
You Know You Don't Want Me 00:00 Tools
My Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do") 00:00 Tools
tv commercial 00:00 Tools
Wichita Lineman 00:00 Tools
There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays 00:00 Tools
I Must Have Been Out of My Mind 00:00 Tools
Onward Christian Soldiers 00:00 Tools
Shall We Gather at the River 00:00 Tools
  • 32,019
    plays
  • 6,723
    listners
  • 32019
    top track count

Jim Nabors (James Thurston Nabors, Sylacauga, Alabama, June 12, 1930 - November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and comedian. While working at a Santa Monica nightclub, The Horn, Jim Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith and later joined The Andy Griffith Show, playing Gomer Pyle. Nabors, Betty Lynn, Elinor Donahue, and Ron Howard are the last surviving regular cast members from that series. The character proved popular, and Nabors was given his own spin-off show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Though known for his portrayal of Gomer Pyle, Nabors became a popular guest on variety shows in the 1960s and 1970s (including two specials of his own in 1969 and 1974), which showcased his rich baritone voice, and sometimes his higher-pitched voice. He subsequently recorded numerous albums and singles, most of them containing romantic ballads. Nabors was also known for singing "Back Home Again in Indiana", prior to the start of the Indianapolis 500, held annually over the Memorial Day Weekend. Save for occasional absences due to health or other conflicts, Nabors sang the unofficial Indiana anthem almost every year from 1972 until his final time in 2014. Nabors has recorded 28 albums and numerous singles; the albums listed have either been certified gold or platinum by the RIAA. Selected discography 1966: Jim Nabors Sings Love Me With All Your Heart (Gold) 1968: Jim Nabors Sings the Lord's Prayer (Gold) 1980: The Heart Touching Magic of Jim Nabors (Platinum) 1989: 16 Most Requested Songs 1990: Jim Nabors Christmas Album (Gold) 1992: The Best of Jim Nabors (Sony, Columbia) Although Nabors has had little U.S. chart singles success, his singles "Love Me With All Your Heart" reached No. 111 in the Cash Box survey (1966), and "The Impossible Dream" hit the top 20 in Australia (1968), according to the Kent Music Report. Nabors was born to Mavis and Fred Nabors in Sylacauga, Alabama, where he sang for his high school and church, and he has two sisters. He attended the University of Alabama, where he began acting in skits. While at Alabama, he became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. After graduating, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a typist for the United Nations; after a year, he moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he got his first job in the television industry as a film cutter. Because of his asthma, Nabors moved to Los Angeles and worked as a film cutter for NBC. He also worked at a Santa Monica tavern, The Horn, singing and acting in cabaret theater. His act featured him as a character similar to the Gomer Pyle character he later portrayed. He sang in a baritone and sometimes spoke and sang in his higher-pitched comedic voice. At the club, comedian Bill Dana saw Nabors' act and invited him to appear on The Steve Allen Show. Nabors signed on to the show, but it was soon canceled. It was at The Horn where Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith and was hired to play a one-shot role of Gomer Pyle, an "addlebrained" gas station attendant, on The Andy Griffith Show (Season 3, episode 13 - "The Bank Job"). Nabors's character (based on his act at The Horn) became so popular that he was made a regular on the show and was later given his own show, the spin-off Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., in which his character joined the United States Marine Corps. The show, which placed Nabors' bungling, naive character opposite Sergeant Vince Carter (Frank Sutton), was also popular. Despite its run during the Vietnam War, Gomer Pyle remained popular, because it avoided war-related themes and instead focused on the show's rural roots and the relationship between Pyle and Carter.[14][15][16] Nabors resigned from Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. after five seasons—prompting producers Aaron Ruben and Sheldon Leonard to ask CBS to cancel it—because he desired to move to something else, "reach for another rung on the ladder, either up or down." Nabors revealed his rich baritone voice first on the February 22, 1964, episode of The Andy Griffith Show and on April 8, 1964, on The Danny Kaye Show, and subsequently capitalized on it with numerous successful recordings and live performances. Most of the songs were romantic ballads, though he sang pop, gospel, and country songs as well. The climactic vocal performance on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. came in an episode titled "The Show Must Go On", aired November 3, 1967, in which Pyle sang "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" in Washington, D.C., at a U.S. Navy relief show, accompanied by the Marine Corps Band. He hosted a variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour (1969–1971), which featured his Gomer Pyle co-stars Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton. Despite a poor critical reception, the show was popular. After the cancellation of The Jim Nabors Hour, Nabors embarked on a nationwide roadshow. Typecast from his role as Gomer Pyle, Nabors found his subsequent roles mostly comedic. In the 1970s, he appeared in the children's television programs Krofft Supershow and Buford and the Galloping Ghost, He appeared in every season premiere of The Carol Burnett Show, because Burnett considered him a "good-luck charm". In a 1973 episode of The Rookies, he played his first "serious" role, a man called on to be an assassin after the death of his sister. Also in 1973, Nabors sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Game One of the Major League Baseball World Series. From 1977 to 1978, Nabors hosted another variety show, The Jim Nabors Show. Though the show lasted only one season, Nabors was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Host or Hostess in a Talk, Service or Variety Series. Nabors eventually grew tired of the "prime-time TV grind" and abandoned television jobs for nightclub and concert engagements and a role in a touring production of Man of La Mancha. However, Sid and Marty Krofft persuaded Nabors to star in the Saturday-morning children's television show The Lost Saucer, about two bumbling androids, Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Nabors), who travel through time with two children. Nabors, whose character was described as a "Gomer Pyle in outer space", sang in a few of the episodes. In the 1980s, Nabors appeared in three feature-length films starring his friend Burt Reynolds, at the latter's request. In The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), about a sheriff (Reynolds) who falls in love with a brothel madam (Dolly Parton), Nabors played Deputy Fred, a character similar to Gomer Pyle. Though the film was given mostly unfavorable reviews, Nabors garnered some positive comments for his performance. In 1983, he was cast as an auto mechanic in Stroker Ace, starring Burt Reynolds as a race car driver who fights a fried-chicken chain entrepreneur. The film was panned, and Nabors earned a Golden Raspberry Award for his performance. In Reynolds' star-studded Cannonball Run II (1984), about a cross-country car chase, Nabors made a cameo appearance alongside such celebrities as Dom DeLuise, Jackie Chan, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Andy Griffith Show co-stars Don Knotts and George Lindsey. Like Reynolds' previous two films, Cannonball received mostly negative reviews. In 1986, Nabors returned to television, reprising his role as Gomer Pyle in the television movie Return to Mayberry, in which the cast of The Andy Griffith Show reunited. Also in 1986, Nabors starred in the half-hour comedy pilot Sylvan in Paradise as the title character, Sylvan Sprayberry, an accident-prone bell captain at a Hawaiian hotel. The series was not picked up by NBC. After moving to Hawaii from Bel Air, California with his partner Stan Cadwallader in 1976, he launched a show, "The Jim Nabors Polynesian Extravaganza" at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, which ran for two years. Nabors eventually experienced "bright-light burnout" and disappeared from the stage, save for an occasional performance. In 1984, after a five-year hiatus, Nabors returned to performing, starring in the "Moulin Rouge" show at the Las Vegas Hilton and other shows in Reno and Las Vegas. He made his theatrical debut as Harold Hill in The Music Man with Florence Henderson at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre. In 1994, Nabors suffered from a near-fatal case of hepatitis B. According to Nabors, he contracted the disease while traveling in India; he shaved with a straight razor and "whacked [his] face all up." The disease caused liver failure, and Nabors was given a dim prognosis; however, his friend Carol Burnett made an arrangement with the transplant division of UCLA and secured Nabors a transplant. Nabors later became involved with the American Liver Foundation as a result of his experience. Shortly after recovering from his transplant, Nabors embarked on another tour, with stops in Phoenix, St. Louis, and Washington. From 1997 to 2006, Nabors starred in the Burton White-produced A Merry Christmas with Friends and Nabors, a live performance at the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu. The production, featuring local and national artists, ran for 40 performances and was directed by Tom Hansen until Hansen's death in 2006. The final performance run was directed by John Rampage and dedicated to Hansen. For more than 30 years, Nabors sang "Back Home Again in Indiana" with the Purdue All-American Marching Band before each Indianapolis 500. In March 2014, Nabors announced that the 2014 Indianapolis 500 would be his final appearance, saying that his health was limiting his ability to travel. Nabors began vacationing in Hawaii in the 1960s, and in 1976, moved from Bel Air, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. For 25 years, he owned a macadamia plantation on Maui before selling it to the National Tropical Botanical Garden, a conservationist organization, though he still retains farming rights to the land and owns a second home on the property. Nabors married his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, at Seattle, Washington's Fairmont Olympic Hotel on January 15, 2013, a month after same-sex marriage became legal in Washington. Although he had been closeted before this, his sexual orientation was not completely secret, with Nabors bringing a boyfriend along to his Indy 500 performance in 1978 for instance. A longstanding rumor maintains that Nabors "married" Rock Hudson in the early 1970s, shortly before Nabors began his relationship with Cadwallader. Not only was same-sex marriage not yet legal in any U.S. state at the time, at least publicly, the two were never more than friends. According to Hudson, the story originated with a group of "middle-aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach", who sent out joke invitations for their annual get-together. One year, the group invited its members to witness "the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors", at which Hudson would take the surname of Nabors' most famous character, Gomer Pyle, becoming "Rock Pyle". The rumor was spread by those who failed to get the joke, and because Nabors was still closeted at the time and Hudson never publicly admitted to being gay (despite widespread suspicion that he was), the two never spoke to each other again. Nabors died on November 30, 2017. Nabors' successes have earned him accolades. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991. "Gomer Pyle" received an honorary promotion to Lance Corporal from the Commandant of the Marine Corps James L. Jones in 2001, and on September 25, 2007, he was promoted from Lance Corporal to Corporal by Lt. General John F. Goodman. The Hawaii Pacific University awarded Nabors the Fellow of the Pacific Award for his "outstanding leadership, service, and dedication to the community". He was inducted into the Alabama Stage and Screen Hall of Fame in 2006 . He received honors from the University of Alabama on September 2, 2006, before a football game against the University of Hawaii. Nabors, along with U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, was honored on January 19, 2007, at "A Night of American Heroes", a yearly dinner held in benefit of the Battleship Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor. U.S. Highway 280 in Talladega County, Alabama was named "Jim Nabors Highway" in honor of the Sylacauga native. Jim Nabors was made an honorary Sergeant during the 238th Marine Corps birthday ball celebration by Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James F. Amos. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.