Opie Cates

Opie Cates
Birth nameOpal Taft Cates
Born(1909-10-10)October 10, 1909
Arkansas
OriginKansas and Missouri
DiedNovember 6, 1987(1987-11-06) (aged 78)
Oklahoma
GenresSwing
OccupationBand leader
InstrumentClarinet
Years active1930s–1940s

Opie Cates (10 October 1909 – 6 November 1987)[1][2] was an American clarinet player and band leader in the 1930s and 1940s, during the swing era, who became a radio actor.

Life and career

Cates was born Opal Taft Cates, the son of a farmer in Arkansas, and was also raised in Kansas and Missouri.[3][4][5][6]

Opie Cates was on the bill at the Hollywood Palladium in 1947.

By 1931 he was on the radio with his own band.[7] He served for a time in the 1940s as musical director on radio's Judy Canova Show, where his Arkansas drawl amused audiences when he introduced songs. He then became the star of his own radio sitcom, The Opie Cates Show, on ABC in 1947–1948,[8][9] where he played a naive rube getting adjusted to big city life. Barbara Fuller played his love interest, with Francis X. Bushman as her father, Opie's boss. Cates would begin each show by saying, "The doggonedest thing happened to me th' other day," and proceed to introduce the episode's plot. The show found no sponsor and lasted only thirteen weeks.[10] He reappeared in more or less the same role in the rural milieu of radio's Lum and Abner in 1949, telling stories about his hometown of Clinton, Arkansas,[11] and was included in the pilot episode of an unsold television version of Lum and Abner that year.[12][13]

Cates was also musical director of the NBC radio show Meet Me at Parky's (1945), starring Parkyakarkus,[14] and of Granby's Green Acres, a 1950 CBS radio show with much of the Lum and Abner cast that later inspired the television series Green Acres.[15]

Andy Griffith named his character's son "Opie Taylor" on The Andy Griffith Show after Opie Cates, whom Griffith and producer Sheldon Leonard both liked.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Opie T. Cates", Social Security Death Index.
  2. ^ U.S. Census, April 15, 1910, State of Arkansas, County of Van Buren, enumeration district 123, p. 7A, family 82.
  3. ^ "Opal T. Cates" in: U.S. Census, March 15, 1910, State of Arkansas, County of Van Buren, enumeration district 123, p. 6A, family 82.
  4. ^ "Opal T. Cates" in: U.S. Census, Jan. 1, 1920, State Kansas, County of Crawford, enumeration district 96, p. 10A, family 242
  5. ^ "O'P' Cates" [sic], in: U.S. Census, April 1, 1930, State of Missouri, County of Newton, enumeration district 22, p. 20A, family 479.
  6. ^ Liza Jane Hayes-Brown, Email to Allan Newsome, Who's Been Messin' Up the Bulletin Board (Andy Griffith Show mailing list), Jan. 20, 2009.
  7. ^ "Radio Programs" of Tuesday, Jan. 20, The Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio), Jan. 19, 1931, p. 8.
  8. ^ "Groucho Marx and Opie Cates Will Head Consecutive Shows on ABC Mondays", The New York Times, Oct. 23, 1947, p. 50.
  9. ^ John Dunning, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 524. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
  10. ^ Tim Hollis, Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century, University Press of Mississippi, 2008, p. 129–131. ISBN 978-1-934110-73-7.
  11. ^ Hollis, p. 137.
  12. ^ Hollis, p. 143–144.
  13. ^ Lum And Abner Test Footage For TV Pilot, Internet Archive. Cates first appears at 11:47.
  14. ^ Sidney Lohman, "One Thing and Another", The New York Times, June 10, 1945, p. X5
  15. ^ Hollis, p. 141.
  16. ^ Hollis, p. 174–175.
  17. ^ Interview with Ron Howard on YouTube, Archive of American Television, 2006, Part 2.

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