Word: ballades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
Friday night offered a "Battle of Music" featuring a fiddle contest, blues cutting, ballad topping, and gospel battle. This gimmick consumed a great deal of musical time and allowed Dorothy Love and the Gospel Harmonettes and the Swan Silvertones, led by Claude Jetter's beautifully controlled falsetto, only two songs apiece. The Gospel Harmonettes sang again Sunday morning but the Swan Silvertones left immediately for a revival in Belglade, Florida...
...known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...