Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professionally performed with new words to old folk tunes, John Doe's singing scrupulously echoed the mendacious Moscow tune: Franklin Roosevelt is lead ing an unwilling people into a J. P. Morgan war. The ballad of Billy Boy observes that
Chorus of The Ballad of October 16 (draft registration date...
...Song. Thirteen recorded versions of this pandemic double-talk ballad are available. The refrain-Hut sut rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla, soo-it-is not Swedish, as Composers Leo V. Killion, Jack Owens...
Pepusch-Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Glyndebourne Opera Company, with small orchestra conducted by Michael Mudie; Victor; 12 sides; $6.50). Poet John Gay's gusty ballad opera, with tunes of the day (1728) arranged by Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch, here gets a nearly complete recording. Well sung but mumbly, and Victor has neglected to supply printed lyrics...
...with his sparkling British star, Anna Neagle. Profiting by the lesson of No, No, Nanette (TIME, Dec. 30), which he made without featuring the musicomedy's best assets, the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, he plugs Who? for all it is worth. Four different orchestrations deliver it in ballad, tap, choral and semi-rumba rhythm. Three more Kern tunes (Sunny, D'Ya Love Me?, Two Little Blue Birds) are tossed in for good measure...