Canadian Hill-Billies
A 3YA broadcast by the Royal Canadian .Air Force Band raised mildly nationalistic speculations, The announcer spoke of it as a programme of largely Canadian music, including, he said, hill-billy songs. And in due course a singer invited us to bury him out on the lone prairie; and other ditties were sung of a similar sort and highly familiar individually. Were these songs Canadian? And what is hill-billy, in the precise
sense of the term? And what is his geographical location, if any? (If I write rhetorically, I must plead that I am listening to the House of Representatives while I do so.) The rest of the programme was entertaining in _ its national and other aspects; the Canadian accent in song can be compared interestingly with the American, and superhuman self-restraint was displayed in getting through a Canadian programme without playing "L’Alouette."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 16
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144Canadian Hill-Billies New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 16
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