Word: billye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the A. F. A. members had departed, an accountant testified that the A. F. A. benefits had profited its out-of-work members nothing, cited other figures in an attempt to show that its financial methods were careless. Two swimmers, a dancer and a show girl from Billy Rose...
4. Billy B. Rose
William Walker, called "Singin' Billy," was an itinerant singing master who made the rounds of hundreds of singing schools in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee.
The A.S.H. after his name meant "Author of Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In...
Lest they disappear entirely, the WPA Federal Writers' Project last week got out facsimile edition of "Singin' Billy's" song book- just in time for this year's one-day Singing. Armed with fine new copies Southern Harmony, the singers once filled the Court House, yielding...