Word: hillbillyism
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Kaw-Liga (Champ Butler; Columbia). A spirited hillbilly song about a cigar-store Indian who hides his longings beneath a wooden exterior. In the back ground, a quartet grunts "Ugh-ugh."
The vogue of hillbilly and "country" tunes may have something to do with Marais' new popularity with the jukebox trade. But his songs have engaging, Calypso-style rhythms of their own, and turns of phrase in the lyrics (e.g., "How lovely cooks the meat") that never came from Tin...
Meanwhile, if U.S. listeners are determined to have "country" music, Marais will do his best to oblige. He has finished one original operetta called Tony Beaver, with a West Virginia hillbilly theme, and is on the last lap of another.
Her mind seems almost as wiry as her body. "There isn't a crossword puzzle I can't finish in half an hour," Babe admits modestly. She likes to play gin rummy but is too good at it to get many opponents. The once lonely, homely tomboy is...
While waiting for that happy day Pleasant Grove's own school board went on with its regular work. For one thing it chose a site for a new high school, and in the process began condemning the land of several prominent property owners. The property owners promptly decided that...