Word: hillbillyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Appalachians are the most hopeless: they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work...
Died. George D. Hay, 72, "the solemn ole judge," as he called himself who created Grand Ole Opry and made it the byword of country-western music; of a heart attack; in Virginia Beach Va. One day in 1927, Hay opened his program of hillbilly music over Nashville's...
AMERICAN PROFILE: MUSIC FROM THE LAND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Eddy Arnold narrates the saga of country and western music from its humble hillbilly origins to its current popularity across the U.S. Among the performers: Flatt and Scruggs, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Minnie Pearl and John Lowdermilk, plus film...
Boff of the Week Standing in as host of NBC's Kraft Music Hall, Woody Allen produced a wicked parody called Bonnie's Clyde- with Allen as "Warren Beauty" and Liza Minnelli as "Faye O'Laye." Best boff: after Bonnie recites her ode to the Barrow Gang...
And when he dressed up like a hillbilly for a high school skit, he was funnier than a bowlegged mule. But later on, after he graduated from the University of Alabama and worked for a spell in New York City as a typist, he came back with a highfalutin accent...