A REAL HILL-BILLY
-~And Proud of It ANYONE who listens to the session "You Ain’t Heard Nothin’: Yet," at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from the ZB stations, may wonder if the leader of the show, Bob Dyer, is really a genuine hill-billy or just a very good imitation of one. Bob himself in a recent interview put all doubts at rest and confessed that he was born right down in Tennessee and brought up on a farm in the heart of the hill-billy country. The Dyer farm was practically self-supporting-they spun their own wool and even made their own rifles. They also made their own liquor from the corn they grew-but that is a hush-hush story. Bob didn’t like school much and there came a day when he was overcome by a burning ambition to see the world, so taking an ancient Ford which no one else seemed to want, he started off on his new adventure. After a few days he fell in with a travelling tent show, which
presented six dramatic performances a week, and that’s how Bob first became a comedian. In the intervals he sold candy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 140, 27 February 1942, Page 11
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192A REAL HILL-BILLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 140, 27 February 1942, Page 11
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