Jim Nabors

Christmas (Columbia/Legacy) Apparently, when he left the Marine Corps, Gomer Pyle joined the Metropolitan Opera. With a lower register that could swallow Wyoming, his alter ego Jim Nabors’ double-barreled tenor plus kitschy Sixties arrangements equals a stocking full of campy treats. The bizarrely go-go “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is great, but the real fun comes when he busts out the Latin on “O Come, All Ye Faithful.” Shazam!

This article appears in December 20 • 2002.

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