Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Think Things Over? and How Deep Is the Ocean? (Dinah Washington; Mercury). One of the best of today's blues singers wails her way expertly through a torchy ballad, does a passable blues version of a Berlin standard...
...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...
There are several songs in this picture, including a ballad called "baby Won't You Say You Love Me" and "Wilhelmina, The Cutest Little Girl in Copenhagen." The former is the key to Miss Grable's downfall because what little voice she has is not sufficient to sustain a note. Unfortunately the number has several sustained notes...
Narrative ballads were only a small part of his program; he thinks the tradition of the ballad singer is a declining one, "like privies and plumbing, interesting sociologically, but no way of life...
...Washington, the safety-conscious Association of American Railroads went much farther; it wanted to discourage people from singing the song, because it perpetuated the memory of a disaster. Hoping to start a different trend, the association mailed out to U.S. editors a new ballad composed by Folk Singer L. Parker ("Pick") Temple on commission from the A.A.R. It sang the fame of Wesley Clark, a conductor on a runaway Arizona logging train last December, who had succeeded in stopping the train after the rest of the crew had jumped...