Word: hillbillyism
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Pat Boone, 22, was just another hillbilly singer from Nashville 18 months ago. Today, nobody who hears him in person ever hears the first or last few robust notes-they are always drowned in squeals of bobby-sox delight. Boone simply opened his mouth and sang when he was ten...
Died. Francis Albert ("Bee") Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went...
I Almost Lost My Mind (Pat Boone; Dot). A winning voice that can make even the most inane lyrics acceptable. Boone gives the blues−about his lost love−a swooping hillbilly flavor.
In Northern Rhodesia, on the broad lands between the Limpopo and Congo Rivers, more than half a million primitive Africans have found a new, fascinating way to kill time. Every night in their mud huts they listen to their kabulo ka kwa-bamakani (small piece of iron that catches words...
Rock 'n' roll is based on Negro blues, but in a self-conscious style which underlines the primitive qualities of the blues with malice, aforethought. Characteristics: an unrelenting, socking syncopation that sounds like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up...