# RIP Ed Ames **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743 "2023-05-29T15:47:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/1 "2023-05-29T15:47:07Z")
> **[Ed Ames, Singer With the Ames Brothers & TV Star in ‘Daniel Boone,’ Dies...](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/ed-ames-dies-ames-brothers-singer-dead-obituary-1235341980/)** > > The singer and actor toured extensively in musicals “Man of La Mancha,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “South Pacific” and “I Do, I Do.” I knew him as ‘Mingo’ on _Daniel Boone_. The Ames Brothers were before my time. I didn’t know he was still alive in 2021, when I posted [Wait… \_\_\_\_\_\_ is still alive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-is-still-alive/954212). ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/2 "2023-05-29T16:06:03Z")
> **[Ed Ames Teaches Johnny Carson to Throw a Tomahawk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8%2F)** > > Watch Carson episodes every night on Antenna TV at 10:00PM ET / 7:00PM PT and 4:00PM ET / 1:00AM PT!Ed Ames teaches Johnny Carson how to throw a tomahawk in ... ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/3 "2023-05-29T16:31:25Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8/](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8/) - Without even looking, I know how this one ends. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/4 "2023-05-29T16:50:16Z")
He was also a singer. Here he is with his brothers singing Ragg Mopp: [Rag Mop by the Ames Brothers 1950 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/KM8Ak7z_hiU) And here he is 17 years later, singing My Cup Runneth Over as a solo act: [My Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do") - YouTube](https://youtu.be/bzVbxq8h1BI) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/5 "2023-05-29T17:30:19Z")
He will mostly be recognized from the Tonight Show moment, but his voice may be as well recognized from singing Turn Around in a once very well known [Kodak commercial](https://youtu.be/qBWVWjdNWC0). ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/6 "2023-05-29T17:45:12Z")
Only knowing him as Mingo, and then hearing him sing is kinda Gomer Pyle-ish. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/7 "2023-05-29T19:06:55Z")
He was well known as a singer before playing Mingo. He was chosen to play Mingo after playing the Chief in a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on Broadway. He may have done well in that role but any acting ability he had was wasted on Daniel Boone. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/8 "2023-05-29T19:35:27Z")
I remember back on how AM radio used to be, where you’d hear R&R and country, along side Ames’s “My Heart Runneth Over With Love”. Followed by some goofy novelty song. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/9 "2023-05-29T19:45:22Z")
He was recently alive? Ed was approaching middle-age in the 1950’s on Daniel Boone. He had a successful singing career with his brothers before tv. That was almost 70 years ago. Ed’s Indian character added a lot to the show. RIP Ed. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/10 "2023-05-29T19:55:08Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Ed was approaching middle-age in the 1950’s on Daniel Boone… That was almost 70 years ago. He was in seasons 1-4 on _Daniel Boone_, which ran from 1964 to 1970. (The _Davy Crockett_ miniseries was in 1954-1955. Before my time, Never saw it.) Ames was born in 1927, so he would have been around 37 when he was on _Daniel Boone_ – which was about 60 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/11 "2023-05-29T20:02:15Z")
Daniel Boone was before my time. I thought it was in the 50’s. But I didn’t check imdb. I mixed it up with Davy Crockett. I did see Boone in Syndication later. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/12 "2023-05-29T20:02:48Z")
A bit of trivia. There was a Motown group called the Four Aims who had to change their name so they wouldn’t be confused with the Ames Brothers. Their manager asked them what their “aim” was and when they said “the top”, they got the name The Four Tops. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/13 "2023-05-29T21:42:59Z")
My dad had several of his records in the 1960s. I didn’t even know he was also an actor for a long, long time. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-ames/984743/14 "2023-05-30T07:09:33Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8/](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5QC9ZJkM8/) I would have been VERY disappointed if this hadn’t been right at the top of the thread. I was watching _ **The Tonight Show** _ the night this happened, and I damned near fell out of bed laughing! (What year was it, 1965? And I was ten years old?) 🤣 RIP, Mingo! 👍