What led to the loss of O'Brien's arm was a case of TV gear. On February 12, he was stacking cases onto a cart after a reporting trip to Japan and the Philippines, and one of them fell on his left forearm.
The field holler or field call is a mostly historical type of vocal music sung by southern labourers to accompany their work, to communicate usefully or to vent feelings.n early description is from 1853 and the first recordings are from the 1930s. The holler is closely related to the call and response of work songs, and arhoolies, to Afro-American and ultimately influenced strands of African American music, such as the blues, rhythm and blues, and spirituals.
View synonyms. 1.1 (also field holler) chiefly US A melodic cry with abrupt or swooping changes of pitch, used originally by black slaves at work in the fields and later contributing to the development of the blues.Example sentences.ello from late 19th century: This, like hallo (mid 16th century) a form found well into the 20th century and still common in the policeman's â'Allo, 'Allo, 'Alloâ, is a variant of the earlier word hollo (early 16th century) and halloo (mid 16th century).