Word: gittar
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...When he was 20, Lewis made the rounds of Nashville's country career-makers. JLL recalls that, in the post-Elvis greeding frenzy, "They said, 'Well, now, you change your act to a gittar and you might could make it.' I said, 'You can take your gittar and ram it up your ass.'" What an affront! Jerry Lee was, after all, the consummate keyboard man, with the best left hand in the business. Pumpin' that piano was his religion and his most consummate vice. But even commercially, his retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some...
...radio audience last week, Poet Carl Sandburg strummed this sardonic ditty on his "gittar." The song was written by some wags in the Office of Price Administration during World War II, said Sandburg, and he thought that it was mighty timely...
After three hours, only Mattie Lou and husky, intense Sonya Rodolfo, 14, of Chicago, were left. The crowd rooted impartially for both. They liked Mattie Lou's "gittar" twang and the lickety-split way she bobbed up, spelled a word. Sonya, entering the contest for the first time, is a native of the Philippines...