Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MITCHELL TRIO: TYPICAL AMERICAN BOYS (Mercury). They look typical enough-conventional haircuts, clean shirts-but when it comes to singing, Chad Mitchell and friends pride themselves on being latter-day Weavers, a combo with a conscience. They specialize in satirical numbers such as Which Hat Shall I Wear (a giddy social type talking to her Negro cleaning woman) and Yowzah ("Shonuf, Yassuh Boss!"), an acid comment on the Uncle Tom refrain. They have three of the smoothest voices in folkdom, and their racial protests, though skimpy in content, are strictly nonviolent...
...point in devising a system that didn't have any more rules to hang its hat on," he said...
Such were the ceremonials, old hat by now to many Americans, and yet insistently thrilling. But what followed was a departure from ritual and routine, so startling, so moving, that few who saw it or heard it will ever forget...
...Kill the bastards!" screamed posseman. "Go get that one!" another cried. A posseman in a blue denim jacket and cowboy hat yelled "Whooopee!" and lashed his horse to a gallop to catch and whip a fleeing Negro...
...parade reached the county courthouse and the sheriff emerged--the short, squat man who, the day before, had donned a white cowboy hat, mounted a horse, and galloped through a-panicking band of Forman's pickers. He shook hands with King. The crowd cheered the triumph. "We Shall Overcome" rang one again, and then a chorus of "I Love Everybody in My Heart...