Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Army Chorus (Keynote). Eight military and folk songs proving that the U.S.S.R.'s fighting men also sing in a big way. Tachanka, ballad of Budenny's horse-drawn machine guns, is the most stirring; Meadowland has the sweetest melody...
...youngsters on the floor struck up a song: I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech. The others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty...
...Peaceful in the Country (Harry James; Columbia). Sapling Tunesmith Alec Wilder (Neurotic Goldfish, A Debutante's Diary) gets both music and meaning into the ballad of the month...