Word: balladeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle, its famed tunes as neat as a whistle. Sample...
...Thought About You (Bluebird). Johnny Mercer's railroad ballad-probably the first from inside a Pullman-sung as low down as a tie-plate by Newcomer Dinah Shore...
...TIME'S review (Nov. 20) of CBS' The Pursuit of Happiness, you told only half the story of Ballad for Americans which Paul Robeson sang so magnificently. The ballad, evidently through some oversight, was credited to me as creator. Actually, while I wrote the music, the entire text including the beautiful selections you reprinted, was the work of the young poet, John Latouche...
...minutes after. In the next half-hour 150 telephone calls managed to get through CBS's jammed Manhattan switchboard. The Hollywood switchboard was jammed for two hours. In the next few days bales of letters demanded words, music, recordings, another time at bat for Ballad for Americans...
...Paul Robeson to stampede an audience was not particularly startling. But last week's bravos established that: 1) Pursuit of Happiness was a hit radio show; 2) U. S. radio listeners are starved for such stuff. Composer Earl Robinson used to sing his own ballads in overalls, to his own guitar, barely subsisting on pickings from the late Federal Theatre, from earnest groups in Manhattan who found his songs good. Last week, Earl Robinson's song was on its way to a publisher, was slated for early recording, and in the wind was a Broadway stage production, with...