death_date alias name background birth_date instrument article_title birth_name occupation
2 august 2010 mitch jayne mitchell jayne non_vocal_instrumentalist 6 july 1928 double bass mitchell f. jayne
 mitchell franklin jayne emcee , bass player
mitchell f. jayne

mitchell franklin `` mitch '' jayne -lrb- july 6 , 1928 -- august 2 , 2010 -rrb- was emcee and upright bass player in the dillards bluegrass band , the band often remembered for their several andy griffith show appearances as the darling family , 1963 -- 1966 , as well as touring throughout southern california in the late 1960s .
mitch jayne was the son of bea and gus jayne .
following us navy service and after a stint at the university of missouri , he began teaching in one-room schools in dent county , where he documented the use of the forgotten words and phrases of elizabethan english spoken by his pupils .
mitchell jayne was an author , musician , and storyteller .
several tunes mitch jayne co-wrote with the dillards are now considered bluegrass classics .
`` dooley '' ; `` there is a time '' ; `` the old home place '' , and `` the whole world round '' .
he also authored four books , `` home grown stories & home fried lies '' , `` the forest in the wind '' , `` old fish hawk '' , and `` fiddler 's ghost '' .
jayne had almost finished another novel , `` glory hole war '' , prior to his death , with only one chapter left unwritten .
he narrated the ending to his editor during the last two weeks of his life so that the book could be released .
turning his talents to other venues , jayne authored a weekly column in the `` shannon county wave '' , in his adopted ozark hometown of eminence , missouri .
jayne also hosted a radio show in salem , missouri at ksmo that attracted national attention for its satire , including the `` snake and tick market report '' , a regular feature that reported market prices for hoo-boy white dot crushproof dry valley wonder ticks and black , copperhead , coachwhip , garter and rattle snakes .
