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...congregations when he was an itinerant preacher in his student days. Manhattan-born Pete Seeger, 31, left Harvard to thumb his way across country to see what he could pick up in the way of American folk songs. On the road he learned to play the oldfashioned, long-necked banjo, later worked as folk archivist in the Library of Congress. Guitarist Fred Hellerman, 24, and pretty, clear-voiced Ronnie Gilbert, 24, developed their taste for folk music while they were counselors at a children's camp in New Jersey...
Following the politicians, Chamber of Commerce officials thanked unheard of committees and unheard of committee heads for "splendid efforts;" the crowd applauded politely, and dwindled. People perked up, though, when Burl Ives appeared to banjo "The Blue Tail Fly," and they joined in the "cracked corn" chorus. Then the dinner chairman arose and introduced a bagpipe band. Cranced necks and scampering children greeted it with curiosity; but when it played "Auld Lang Syne" only a few voices followed the chairman's plea for song. Instead, most people started moving away...
...Each His Own. In San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Herbert C. Kaufman awarded Mrs. Chesley L. Woodfield a divorce and $100 a month alimony, also stipulated that she must return her husband's banjo, stamp & coin collections and false teeth...
However, I cannot agree with your description of me as a "banjo-twanging playboy." I do play the banjo . . . [but if] you have in mind the commonly accepted definition of one who leads a life of lazy indolence, imbibes freely of strong liquor and chases women, then I must take issue with you. Mrs. Taylor and I lead a very quiet life. We seldom entertain and seldom go out except to official functions. My drinking is limited to an occasional highball. I have been absolutely faithful to my wife for all the 20 years of our happy marriage. I work...
...combining two accordions, a banjo, bass fiddle and piano with two solovoxes, he made music that sounded good to a lot of people who would not have listened twice to old-style polka bands with their hard-blowing brass and woodwinds and their um-pa-pa .beat. Frankie also managed to please polka experts. In 1948, when his polka version of the hillbilly ballad Just Because became a national bestseller (more than 1,000,000 records), Frankie's popularity began spreading outside his old beat...