Word: ballades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week, played Donnie a new ballad called Sunday, the Day Before Monday...
...lover and his lass, that o'er the green cornfield did pass." It is no coincidence that critics describe London's vibrant theater as being in the midst of a second Elizabethan era, that one number on the Rolling Stones' newest LP is a mock-Elizabethan ballad with a harpsichord and dulcimer for accompaniment, or that Italian Novelist Alberto Mo ravia describes the British cinema today as "undergoing a renaissance...
...luckiest one is U.S. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. At 25, he has come away from Viet Nam not only with his skin but with a clutch of ballads that have made him famous and rich. His recording of The Ballad of the Green Berets, only three months old, has sold more than 2,000,000 copies, and a subsequently released twelve-tune album has already leaped to the top of the bestselling LP lists. For this, Sergeant Sadler has earned $250,000 so far this year, and the demand for personal appearances is so great that the Army...
...cropped, ruggedest (Black Belt in judo), and most musically illiterate performer on the pop charts. But give him a subject and a guitar and he comes up with a song in ten minutes. RCA Victor arrangers transcribe the work for him which he describes as "kind of intermediate between ballad and country-western, with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings...
...Morgan's fluent and expressive trumpeting and some good tenor-sax playing by Joe Henderson. The title piece is a bit ponderous, with more rump than roll, but Morgan's composition Eclipso is a humorous bit of hopscotch through calypsoland, and The Lady is a dreamlike, moving ballad for Billie Holiday...