Word: ballades
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Tourists long ago discovered Calypso, found it fun to pay a few dollars to have themselves described in an impromptu ballad. For nearly five years, Columbia and Decca have recorded Calypso songs in Trinidad, but U. S. enthusiasts could obtain discs only by hunting for them in New York's Harlem. By last week, with four midtown Manhattan shops (Liberty, Center, Marconi and Symphony) carrying them in stock Calypsos sold well to an eager public...
...unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...
...such ballad, recently created, celebrates the deeds of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Brave Engineer (to the tune of Casey Jones). Sample stanzas...
...YOUR FACE BEFORE ME (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion). The Schwartz & Dietz ballad taken through darktown by the ablest white blues singer...
...lithe, natural lass with Celtic charm and an unaccountable suggestion of a double chin, she was soon rumored to be David Selznick's choice for Scarlett O'Hara. But Zanuck had already signed her. In Kidnapped her voice lacks depth, except when she is singing a Scottish ballad with Maxine Sullivan flavor. She acts as if she were not quite at home in Scotland or Hollywood...