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Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler made a quarter-of-a-million dollars within three months by writing that paean, The Ballad of the Green Berets, one of the big song hits of the gung-ho days of 1966. Sadler himself stayed on with the Green Berets for 18 months, then took a discharge and set out to scale the heights of folk music. He never quite made it. "I went broke three times," Sadler laments. "I just didn't have the knack of keeping money." Today he is vice president of an auto-battery firm...
...Sullivan. Mills admits that O'Sullivan has terrible diction, little rapport with women, and has never set foot on a stage. Despite all that, Gilbert O'Sullivan currently has the No. 1 hit single in the U.S. with Alone Again (Naturally). Last week the effusively bittersweet ballad was making the biggest sweep of Top 40 radio stations since the Beatles' salad days...
BONNER REPEATS a line used by Peckinpah in 1970 to seal the fate of the love-making preacher in the comedy-romance. The Ballad of Cable Hogue: when a svelte rodeo groupie asks him why he's so reticent about making an emotional commitment, he says, "I'm just passing through." His life-fulfillment is limited to the peak experiences of the rodeo. He's just drifting, and if he sounds heroic and his acts seem attractive, that's our problem as well...
...Rather Go Blind" is an old blues ballad, which is really all you have to say about it. Rod sings it beautifully, gives it the pain and heartache it deserves. The arrangement is simple, and respectful. The whole affair is handled much as Otis Redding would've done it, and that's the highest compliment that can be paid a ballad...
...Catholic ballad, written at the time of the Ulster government's first internment of Irish Republican Army suspects a year ago, seemed especially pertinent again. Northern Ireland was still shaking from the I.R.A. Provisional Wing's "Bloody Friday" assault on Belfast (TIME, July 31). Last week British soldiers took the offensive. Discarding the army's "low profile" policy, troops invaded such Catholic strongholds as Belfast's Andersonstown and Ballymurphy districts and rounded up hundreds of men for questioning. Giant bulldozers ripped through the iron-pylon barricades that had marked many Catholic enclaves. In Belfast...