Word: hillbillyism
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Spreading the Word. In Nashville, six years ago, Wally Fowler staged the first all-night sing, switching from profitable ($75,000 a year) hillbilly music to "dedicate my singing to the Lord." Today, there are a dozen full-time gospel groups roving the countryside, singing about 250 engagements a year...
Hayride is one of the weirdest things that ever opened a Broadway season, as well as one of the worst. A long, noisy evening of hillbilly music and song, it would lack charm even if it were authentically folkish. Actually, it seems about one part Texas to four parts television...
Some five centuries before Christ, the Chinese put together a kind of 3O5-poem treasury of their own verse. Around 484 B.C., Confucius, an inveterate lute player, edited the musical scores for the poems, and told his son: "A man who hasn't worked on the [Odes] is like...
The three-year-old Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, the only full symphony orchestra in the *Army,- had just won itself and the occupying forces some new friends. Their success was no surprise to orchestra members. "We are," says one, "the best lowest-paid orchestra in the world." No Army brass...
The Pajama Game (John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy Jr., Carol Haney, Stanley Prager; Columbia LP). The song list of the George Abbott-Richard Bissell hit has a few nifties: Hey There, Her Is, There Once Was a Man (a satire on hillbilly tunes), and Hernando's Hideaway (a...