chitlin' circuit (Dec. 1966)

[Wilson Gray]

Billboard - Feb 21, 1953 - Page 57
books.google.com/books?id=jgoEAAAAMBAJ
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... playing □*•"□ his usual route over the

_Grits and Chittlins_ Circuit

thru the South, typewrites from Natchez, Miss., under date of February 4,
to report that business is okay but that heavy opposition in the territory
is making ...


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On NPR's Code Switch blog, Tanya Ballard Brown has a piece on the
> origins of the term "chitlin' circuit," citing Jon Lighter and me,
> among others:
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> http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/02/16/275313723/the-origin-and-hot-stank-of-the-chitlin-circuit
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> There's a modest antedating in there -- a Dec. 3, 1966 Billboard
> article that edges out the Jan. 8, 1967 L.A. Times article noted by
> Bill Mullins on the list back in '05. As with the other early
> examples, Lou Rawls is the credited source of the term:
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=eQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6
> "As a result of the disk hits, [Lou] Rawls has become an artist in
> demand. He's booked solid through next August and is first starting to
> play cities off the 'chitlin' circuit,' his affectionate name for the
> small blues clubs."
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> --bgz
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