- The choir director invites Barney to join the choir before he realizes Barney can't sing.
- Barney fancies himself a singer and when he offers his services as a tenor to the Mayberry choir master, the man gladly accepts. Everyone else is aghast however because they know something he doesn't: Barney is the closest thing to tone deaf that there is. His shrieking strikes a discordant note with all members of the choir and disrupts their rehearsals. With an important concert coming up, Andy comes up with an idea: tell Barney he's going to be a soloist, but have him speak, rather than sing, his part. Barney likes the soloist part but insists on singing. Andy has to go to plan B which involves convincing Barney that he has to adapt his voice to a a newfangled "soloist's" microphone.—garykmcd
- Much to the agony of Andy and everyone around him, Barney has taken up singing, a skill he doesn't exactly master - in fact everyone, including Thelma Lou agrees that he stinks at it. The only person who doesn't realize it is Barney. Andy fails at every attempt to engage him in conversation so he'll stop singing but Barney isn't in the mood to talk, he wants to sing. Just then, John Masters, the director of the church choir comes by to tell Andy that the group's regular tenor has to drop out due to the time constraints of his new job. Barney tells him that he'll be glad to fill in. Desperate, John is thrilled that Barney can join even though he's never heard him sing. At practice, he gets a listen at Barney's squeaky pipes and realizes he's made a mistake. Andy and John become desperate to get Barney out of the group but all their efforts fail and Andy doesn't have the heart to tell him directly for fear of hurting his feelings. At the church concert, Andy devises an insane scheme to have Barney unknowingly sing into a dead microphone while the group's baritone, Glen Cripe, stands backstage and sings for him. Barney thinks the microphone is amplifying his voice and the audience loves him. Afterwards Andy tells him that since he's won a cash award for his singing, he is no longer eligible to sing with amateurs and therefore can no longer be part of the church choir. Barney is thrilled and, much to Andy's dismay, launches back into singing.—J. Roberts <armchairoscars@hotmail.com>
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