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...home with a good scandal can test their aim at a Watergate dart board, or brood over a Watergate jigsaw puzzle, or even write their friends on Watergate stationery. Or they can listen to a recording of the first (but undoubtedly not the last) country-and-western Watergate ballad, At the Watergate (The Truth Come Pouriri Out). Sample lyric: "If you're wonderin' why they wouldn't blow the whistle, it's no mystery/ Lots of cash and lots of hints of Executive clemency...
THURSDAY: Ballad of a Soldier. (1960) Russian-made love story traces the romance of a young soldier on leave during WWII and the girl he falls for. CH.2...
...relatively unknown, illustrate Seeger's musicological points. But I was most pleased at private discoveries--finding that a denunciation of an MTA fare hike someone once sang for me was originally a Progressive Party campaign song from the 1948 Boston mayoral race, or recognizing "The House Carpenter," an English Ballad, as a source or relative of Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather." There are enough songs for everyone to make similar discoveries of his own, or just to revel in familiar things, like the gruesome fates of the wedding guests in "Froggy Went A-Courting...
...predecessor. His office is dominated by a painting of Michael the Brave, a Walachian prince who briefly united what is present-day Rumania for the first time in 1600. At private gatherings it is not uncommon for the defiantly nationalistic Ceauşescu to break into a folk ballad about Michael's exploits...
...music of Suffragette, written by Rubins and arranged by Peter Larson, orchestrator for the production, combines Alf and Charlie's music hall ditties with traditional theater music. With a full-pit orchestra and a strong emphasis on brass and cymbals, many of the songs have a marching, ballad-like quality which communicates the spirit of commitment that is at the center of Suffragette...