Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...song, "I Was Raised to the Tune of the Telegraph Key" or "Shoot the Loco' to me Koko." This little ditty should prove popular with all who are interested in Transportation (alias the glorification of the R.R.'s). Therefore, a conservative estimate places the net circulation of the new ballad at approximately...
...Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...
...main talent, is good except for Frank Parker, who should be replaced if anyone seated beyond the first two rows is expected to hear the show's main ballad. Gertrude Niesen as "Bubbles LaMarr," a curvesome stripper, is fine. To her are allotted much of the good comedy material and the only good songs --"I Wanna Get Married" and "Follow the Girls," and she makes the most of her opportunities...
...enuff Beers in me I don't mind her, in fact I'll Singer that ol' ballad 'Way Down Upon the Sweeney River.' Even though she penalized me five minutes for Holden last time, I still Skord in the first period...
Acuff, son of an oldtime fiddler, was a second-string radio singer a few years ago, when Columbia Recording Corp., trying to trace an old English ballad, The Great Speckled Bird, found that Acuff knew it and hundreds more. Columbia signed him up. Since then, he has made four motion pictures (two still unreleased) and barrowfuls of money. Recently he put down $25,000 cash for an old mansion on Nashville's fashionable Hillsboro Road...