Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finale, a projector cast a few words from Schillaci himself on the screen: "As most of the world's ills are traceable to old imperatives, old superstitions and old fools, this church is exuberantly dedicated to the future." The message was accompanied by a pop ballad, What the World Needs Now Is Love...
...with Love, best of all in In the Heat of the Night. But this plethora of creditable performances apparently worked against him. Poitier got no nomination at all. One of the year's best-selling single records was the title tune from To Sir, with Love; a rock ballad, it was absent from the always conservative best-song list...
Moral & Misanthrope. The new songs are shapely and graceful, but their simplicity is deceptive. Several of them are suffused with religious feeling-a sorrowing series of meditations on the Christian ethic, outlined in a language that is close to simplistic. One, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, is a parable on temptation: Judas lures Jesus into a bawdyhouse, where he dies. "The moral of this story, the moral of this song,/Is simply that one should never be where one does not belong." I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, an easygoing paraphrase of Joe Hill, becomes a jeremiad...
WOVEN into that poignant ballad of a runaway daughter is her parents' haunting lament: "We gave her everything money could buy." That money can't buy love is one of pop music's hoariest cliches, but the Beatles well know that too many parents have reached that desperate extreme. In a day when the generation gap yawns ever wider, the Beatles get rich by singing that communication has supposedly ceased, that parents and children have become strangers to one another...
Senior citizens now tottering through the din of pop and rock may nostalgically recall a ballad that went its maddening round a quarter of a century ago. It was different from today's Noise in that its nonsense was deliberate. It went...