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There are several songs in this picture, including a ballad called "baby Won't You Say You Love Me" and "Wilhelmina, The Cutest Little Girl in Copenhagen." The former is the key to Miss Grable's downfall because what little voice she has is not sufficient to sustain a note. Unfortunately the number has several sustained notes...
Narrative ballads were only a small part of his program; he thinks the tradition of the ballad singer is a declining one, "like privies and plumbing, interesting sociologically, but no way of life...
...Washington, the safety-conscious Association of American Railroads went much farther; it wanted to discourage people from singing the song, because it perpetuated the memory of a disaster. Hoping to start a different trend, the association mailed out to U.S. editors a new ballad composed by Folk Singer L. Parker ("Pick") Temple on commission from the A.A.R. It sang the fame of Wesley Clark, a conductor on a runaway Arizona logging train last December, who had succeeded in stopping the train after the rest of the crew had jumped...
...kept two Spad pursuit ships, each bearing the number 1, and the famed hat-in-the-ring insigne. He landed one, gulped coffee, and took off in the other, often flew six or seven hours a day. His haggard young men followed, and celebrated their adventures with a squadron ballad...
...music that sounded good to a lot of people who would not have listened twice to old-style polka bands with their hard-blowing brass and woodwinds and their um-pa-pa .beat. Frankie also managed to please polka experts. In 1948, when his polka version of the hillbilly ballad Just Because became a national bestseller (more than 1,000,000 records), Frankie's popularity began spreading outside his old beat...