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Chief white singer was Burl Ives (full name: Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives), who sang a ballad he picked up in Ohio, The Bold Soldier. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, Burl Ives bummed around the U. S. with a guitar. His specialty is Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...
Back Where I Come From, directed by Nicholas Ray, comes mostly from the prodigious memories of Singer Ives and Scripter Lomax. Ives can sing for hours on any subject-love, death, the open road. For one ballad alone, There Lived an Old Lord on the Northern Sea, he knows 50 stanzas. When Woody Guthrie, "Okie" balladeer, was on the program, he and Alan Lomax spent an evening singing and listing songs about animals. In six hours they listed over 200. They stopped only because the neighbors were complaining...
Still fighting mad last week was ASCAP. Having scored a success with its first ASCAP on Parade program, it kept the show zooming along by playing two new songs by Irving Berlin. One was an anti-Hitler ballad called When that Man is Dead and Gone, the other: Little Old Church in England. On hand were Al Jolson, Ethel Merman, Benny Fields and Hildegarde...
...language of their composers, as "strictly from hunger." In other words, they stink, and no two ways about it. That includes everything, from God Bless America, I Am An American, He's My Uncle, (Sam--how did you guess?), right down (and I do mean down) to Ballad For Americans, the latter designed to appeal to those intellectuals still hanging on to the battered remains of a party line. (Although I'll qualify this by saying that Paul Robeson's voice is definitely worth the corny lyrics you're forced to wade through. Robeson could give you the weather report...
...physical supremacy, Republic may be taking a grave risk. Previous box-office receipts indicate the country likes him rugged. Possibly as a sop, Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a lively dance routine, croons a torchy ballad. Jimmy Durante garbles his Bronxese with dialogue like: "I resemble dat remark! . . . Dat's libel! . . . It's libel to make...