Word: hillbillyism
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Hillbilly-humor lovers have already bought more than 110,000 recordings of the month-old Ballad of Davy Crew-cut (Homer & Jethro; RCA Victor):
Under strict orders to rest and stay quiet after his recent heart attack (TIME. July 11), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson gazed innocently up from his National Naval Medical Center bed and told doctors of his abiding love for hillbilly music. If he could just have a radio to listen...
Now the pop-music business, having scraped the hillbilly barrel and blown the froth off the mambo craze, has taken over r. and b., known to the teen-age public as "cat music" or "rock 'n' roll.''* The commercial product, whether by Negroes or whites, only...
On the drama front, Eileen Heckart achieved a considerable tour de force on Philco TV Playhouse as a servant who chooses her employer's family over her own mother. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour captured much of (the bestselling novel's fun in an adaptation of Mac...
Many of the top current groups were harmonizing in church or school gatherings when the original Mills Brothers, the Andrews Sisters and the Modernaires were first warbling their close harmonies on the radio. The outfits usually got their break with a performance on a disk-jockey show or an amateur...