"The Andy Griffith Show Theme" is the theme for the 1960–1968 CBS television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. It was composed in 1960 by Earle Hagen, who also performs the whistling heard in the theme. Its success resulted in widespread demand in the United States for a commercial recording. In 1961, actor Everett Sloane wrote lyrics for an expanded vocal version of the theme, which in this guise was renamed "The Fishin' Hole". Television music scholar Jon Burlingame called the theme "a classic of musical Americana".