Word: hillbillyism
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When Jack Kapp was recording master for Brunswick, he used to roam the South looking for new hillbilly quartets, jug bands, spiritual singers, colored jazz outfits and blues shouters to add to Brunswick's list. Jack Kapp not only has big, useful ears, but kind eyes and a soft...
When psalm-singing, radiorating Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel became Texas' 32nd Governor, he turned over his flour company to his two good-looking young sons, Pat and Mike. He also left them a sales idea that sounded sure-fire for Bible Belt sales of...
Last week it was tithing time, but Hillbilly had had a bad year. To 917 pastor-holders of tithing certificates went a rueful letter from the O'Daniel boys:
"Instead of making a profit for 1939 our company lost a lot of money. We think our company lost money because so many grocers quit handling Hillbilly flour because dad was trying to get some kind of a tax bill* passed so the State could pay pensions to the old...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard man.