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...more often the songs are like Mr. Convy's dreamy love ballad: standard, detached from the rest of the show, and unprovocative. Absurdly contrived stretches of transitory dialogue serve to get the audience away from the plot-line and into the song-line...
REVOLVER (Capitol). If the Beatles are slipping, their record sales provide no clue, for Revolver popped straight up the record charts. It includes a haunting, folklike ballad, mostly by Paul ("Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church Where a wedding has been"), and Yellow Submarine, a bright, repetitive ditty delivered by Ringo. The album has considerable variety in mood, harmony and orchestration-including Oriental overtones provided by a tabla in Love You To, and violins, violas and cellos for poor Eleanor Rigby...
...flying machine but five men and a girl, powered only by the usual assortment of guitars and drums. They are billed as producers of a jet-age sound which, in spite of its high-voltage twang, can be disarmingly gentle and folk-flavored. Their best ballad, Come Up the Years, celebrates the sorrows of a too-old lover so sweetly as to suggest that he may be about 15 and his girl...
...Ballad of Reading Gaol
...Pertinent to your excellent article on middle age are those lines from Chesterton's great epic, The Ballad of the White Horse: "But the hour shall come after his youth,/ When a man shall know not tales but truth,/ And his heart fail thereat...