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Like a swallow to Capistrano, I return to Hawaii often: to Hilo, on the Big Island, where I trained for the Peace Corps in 1966, and to Honolulu, where I visit with old one of whom happens to be Jim Nabors, a.k.a. Gomer Pyle. How did this unlikely friendship come about? Read on, gentile reader.
Long ago, in a kingdom called the Eighties, I made a music video of my song "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven (and Your Buns in the Bed)" with my friend Ruth Buzzi, one of the stars of Laugh-In. During the shot, Ruthie repeatedly hit me over the head with her famous purse until my cowboy hat looked like a black tortilla. Later, her husband, Kent Perkins, told me, "Don't feel bad. She's also hit Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, John Wayne, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, and Jim Nabors."
"Jim Nabors?"
"The nicest guy you'll ever meet. Been living in Hawaii since the sixties. Look him up next time you go."
And...
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