Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Shelley Hamilton, 69, composer of the famed college ballad Lord Jeffrey Amherst, and pioneer Hollywood scriptwriter (The Perils of Pauline); of uremic poisoning; in Rutland...
Above all, Lehrer is a satirist, and his greatest talent lies in parodying the conventional run of popular numbers. He tweaks the sentimental home town, commemorating the kindly school master who sells French postal cards after class, and then jibes at the Irish Ballad, the love song, and cowboys' lament...
...before. He spent two days shooting Walking My Baby Back Home, took three days off to put together this week's Comedy Hour (he revised all the dances in the show, wrote part of the skits, ad-libbed additions to his routine with Sid Miller, and sang a ballad, Dreaming, for which he wrote the music and Miller the words). In spare moments throughout the week, he met with his associates in Donald O'Connor Enterprises, Inc., dozed through the Hollywood premiere of Call Me Madam ("After all, I'd seen the show before"), conferred with Cartoonist...
...productions. This is certainly a compliment to composer Harry Flynn who has supplied the cast with a varied and original score. Of the eight songs, I felt that Economy and Meet Me at the Coop were freshest, but I'm certain that a more fully orchestrated version of the ballad So Long Love would put that number far above the others. Although this is the first public presentation of any of Mr. Flynn's work, it is polished and neat, and shows considerable promise...
Kentucky Melody. Rosemary Clooney comes from historic ballad country, about ten miles upstream from the place where Eliza nipped across the ice ahead of the bloodhounds. She was born on May 23, 1928, the daughter of a housepainter in Maysville, Ky. (pop. 8,600). Her sister Betty came along three years later and, two years after that, a brother, Nicholas. Later her parents separated, and Rosemary, moving from relative to relative and town to town, has never settled down since (though, nowadays, two blocks of a Maysville street is officially known as "Rosemary Clooney Street...