"Hep" vs. "Hip"

[Wilson Gray]

As I was reading through a list of the Christmas sounds (here =
"music") of my lost youth, I came across

1955-ROCKIN' 'N' ROLLIN' WITH SANTA CLAUS-The Hepsters

19_55_?! The _Hep_sters?!

I would have bet money, i.e. as opposed to merely using the phrase, "I
bet you," that "hep" in all its forms had died out before 1950!

One never knows, do one?

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Sam'l Clemens

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