(e.g., 'Goody Groaner: The Celebrated Stammering Glee'). The stuttering song is an heir of the English/Irish/Scottish ballad tradition (Caliban, in The Tempest, at one point seems to sing with a stammer- ' 'Ban, 'ban, CaCaliban/has a new master, get a new man'), as there are variations found throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries in the U.K. They go too far in their commandments.who enjoin stutterers, stammerers and mafflers to sing. (A 14-year-old migrant worker named Lloyd Stalcup, recorded his own brief a cappella stuttering song in August 1940, at Shafter FSA Camp near Bakersfield, Calif.-it was collected as part of the Voices of the Dust Bowl project). Then it hits you-write a stuttering song! You've got an instant hook, as the chorus will be an easy-to-remember stutter ('Muh-Muh-Muh-Mazie!' 'Chuh-Chuh-Chuh-Changes!') that also serves to pad out a weak line, and you have a ready-made audience of cruel children. Your material's not much, and you've got to compete with the hundreds just like you. Say you're a jobbing hack, trying to get something into the Ziegfeld Follies or, a half-century later, trying to land a song with a Nashville producer. The endurance of the stuttering song is greatly due to its timeless appeal to songwriters. So it was that just after the dawn of recorded sound came a wave of pop records ridiculing stutterers. The printing press quickly rolls out invective, slander and celebrity gossip the photograph, the motion picture and the Internet are soon put to pornographic ends the telephone, right after the first models are installed in someone's office, is used to harass a woman or to sell something. I'd have to change my name by deed poll, but Dad'd never let me.ДЄ new technology enables our baser impulses.

Apart from the Russians starting a nuclear war, my biggest fear is if Hangman gets interested in J-words, 'cause then I won't even be able to say my own name. Look at any dictionary and see which section's the thickest: it's S. When I was nine I dreaded people asking me, 'How old are you?' In the end I'd hold up nine fingers like I was being dead witty but I know the other person'd be thinking, Why didn't he just tell me, the twat? Hangman used to like Y-words too, but lately he's eased off those and has moved on to S-words. Words beginning with N have always been one of Hangman's favorites. His snaky fingers that sink inside my tongue and squeeze my windpipe so nothing'll work. But it's his hands, not his face, that I really feel him by. I imagine him tapping my koochy lips, murmuring down at me, Mine. I imagine him in the baby room at Preston Hospital playing eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Pike lips, broken nose, rhino cheeks, red eyes 'cause he never sleeps. It must've been around then (maybe that same afternoon) that my stammer took on the appearance of a hangman. Morris Minor and the Majors, Stutter Rap. The Cotton Pickers, You Tell Her, I Stutter. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Stuttering Lovers.Д«illy Jones and Ernest Hare, You Tell Her, I Stutter.ДЇrank Guarente's Georgians, You Tell Her, I Stutter. Edward Meeker, Stuttering Dick (and His Stuttering Sweetheart).

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