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Nabors back home in Indiana to say farewell (The Associated Press)
 Jim Nabors is back home again in Indiana, this time to say farewell. The actor whose bumbling Gomer Pyle character endeared Nabors to an entire generation, and whose rich baritone voice has provided the soundtrack for the Indianapolis 500 for more than four decades, will perform ''Back Home Again in Indiana'' on Sunday for the last time. ''To many Indianapolis 500 fans the pre-race pageantry is as important as the race itself,'' Indianapolis Motor Speedway president J. Douglas Boles said this week, ''especially as the lead-up reaches its highest point with Jim Nabors singing 'Back Home Again in Indiana' and Mari Hulman-George giving the command to start engines.'' People tend to forget Nabors was actually born in Alabama. More...
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