Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 8,000 fan letters bombarded Kraft; offers came to Sands from twelve movie companies and the major networks. The two songs from the show, Teen-Age Crush, an insipid ballad-with-a-beat that relates in sobbing tones something about young love misunderstood, and Hep Dee Hootie ("Cutie wootie, you're all rootie with me"), sold as fast as they could be scratched onto disks. Crush, says Capitol Records, has sold 1,160,000 copies to date, and in the two weeks since Sands's first LP album, Steady Date, was released, some 225,000 copies have...
...Native Art Form." The little jingle is now bigtime. Admen long ago realized that not since Young crossed the Rubicam has advertising found a more hypnotic pitch. In the 18 years since Pepsi-Cola hit the spot with a jazzy version of the English ballad John Peel, the singing commercial has become as entrenched in U.S. culture as the madrigal in the Italian Renaissance. Says Scott: "There's a definite challenge to writing jingles. To me, they've become as much a part of the American scene as any native art form." Says Columbia Records' spade-bearded...
...harsh, possesses just the right quality to project the rather angular music which Menotti has written to depict the spiritualist's descent into horror. And Miss Blanchard, whose singing carries a lovely, lyrical quality did not faulter for a moment even in the highest passages. Her rendition of the ballad-like piece which opens the opera was entirely captivating. Both young women, furthermore, are not only fine singers but actresses of the first caliber. Under the very intelligent direction of Bruce MacDonald, neither at any time resorted to the discouraging opera-singer's stance...
...Head, in a "modern" style, the Dunces sacrifice much of the originals' flavor for the more effects of radical chords, which may be interesting but which sound like an experimental tour de force. They get in too deep with Early Autumn, a jazz ballad taken from Burn's Summer Sequence. The difficult solo, however, is handled with skill and restraint by Gurton, who has surprising control of his voice and his music...
Most of his repertory changes as rapidly as political news, and in true calypso style he composes most of the songs on the spot. His current favorites are the Murphy song and a long, sad ballad mourning the recent, unsuccessful uprising in Havana