Word: balladeers
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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...
...Ballad of the National Guard...
Accompanied by a 26-piece orchestra, Dietrich works her way through a four-language repertory that ranges from Australian rock to the antiwar ballad Where Have All the Flowers Gone...
...Eire-borne visions work as screedwriter becomes screenwriter and his prose gains the breadth of life. A tavernkeeper, H. C. Earwicker (Martin J. Kelley) sleeps drunkenly dreaming of his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, his daughter and his two sons Shem and Shaun. In the back ground runs the ballad about Finnegan's Wake, the saga of a laborer who falls off a scaffold, then returns to life when the word whisky is mentioned...