Denny Reese, author of Gomer Says Hey! Inside the Manic and Much-Loved Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., offers, "While in college, besides a love of dancing, another bug hit when Jim fell head over hills with ...

Actor Jim Nabors, whose portrayal of the grinning country bumpkin Gomer Pyle on the 1960s television hit "The Andy Griffith Show" belied a classic baritone singing voice, died on Thursday at the ...