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...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...that's how Hootenannies began, according to Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Guthrie. Last week one of the shoutin'est Hootenannies ever was held in Irving Plaza's faded second-floor dance hall a block from Manhattan's Union Square. On stage were 20 folk singers with guitars, mandolins and harmonicas. In the audience were 1,000 men, women & children (some also with guitars) who sang along with them. Smallest and loudest of them all was curly-haired Woody Guthrie. He sang...
...finest composers and singers of Negro music in the U.S. is the wife of a Lynchburg, Va. overall manufacturer. Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood. But when she cuts loose on a blues or a "shoutin' " spiritual, she gives the effect of a New Orleans barrelhouse contralto...
...before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
...even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...