Word: hillbillyism
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Slow Poke (Arthur Godfrey; Columbia), a fast-moving hillbilly song about a girl (or a fellow) with all the time in the world. A surprisingly straightforward Godfrey version of a number that is breaking out all over the bestseller lists, and climbing hard.
The lyrics, sung to familiar melodies, were, as usual, varied--some dirty, some very dirty. Contingents from two dormitories. Cabot and Whitman, were attired in hillbilly costumes, and the residents of Moors tried to pass themselves off as a choral society.
Later the Gardners moved to Newport News, Va., where her father went to work in a sawmill and her mother ran a boarding house. In school the kids made fun of her. She was shy with boys. "Here I was," she says, "this strange little hillbilly ..." She went to secretarial...
The Musical Ego. Into Miller's mid-Manhattan office three days a week troop 40 or 50 professionally bright-eyed song publishers, each with a few tunes for Miller's examination. If he likes a song, it's in; if not, he may edit or recommend. Next...
Thus in Nashville, the Broadway of "country" music, another hillbilly tune was sent on its way last week. The singer, Tennessee-bred Carl Smith, 24, Columbia's latest country star, was cutting a few sides to follow up the three (Let's Live a Little, Mr. Moon, If...