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...Down is full of sprightly tunes, includes some dazzling dance routines. The title song, a combination Dale Carnegie-George M. Cohan inspirational piece addressed to "the little guy," has the swing of a fine marching song. But the hit of the show is a ballad called That Mittel-Europa of Mine, sung by highborn refugees. Sample lyrics...
...spins up here in the hinterlands. I admired the acting, settings, legs, and Danny Kaye involved, but it was the music which most gladdened my heart. Only one song, "Everything I Love," incorporated all the cliches of the type which has come to be known generally as the romantic ballad, and it will probably be the hit of the musical. The others are too unorthodox, or too sophisticated or complex in their lyrics, to reach the heights...
Some stimulating bits by the stimulating tyros: Nancy Walker as a rowdy blind date, putting over a gutbucket ballad The Three Bs (boogie-woogie, barrelhouse and blues) with Co-workers Victoria Schools and June Allyson; Maureen Cannon as a forsaken lyrical young lady, singing of her desire to be a Shady Lady Bird, and stopping the show dead in its tracks; triple-talented Betty Anne Nyman as a tap-dancing, singing, acrobatic prom date; a rousing Buckle Down, Winsocki, with a full chorus led by minuscule Tommy...
...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...
...first time out, Freedom's People undertook to reveal the origins of Negro spirituals, ballads and blues, demonstrate their influence on American music. Paced by towering Paul Robeson, who sang Many Thousands Gone and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, the cast included famed Ballad Singer Joshua White, Jazzman Noble Sissle & orchestra, Blues Composer W. C. Handy. The show did right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People...