Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There'll Always Be An England (British Fusiliers Military Band; Columbia). The patriotic ballad that, among other things, is keeping British hearts high in spite of the blare of Hitler's bombers...
...Republican Convention opened with the most popular of the new songs currently reflecting American surge of patriotism, W.P.A.-written: 1. Ballad for Americans. 2. God Bless America. 3. I Am an American. 4. Our Side of the Ocean. 5. And They Lynched Him on a Tree...
...Leading phonograph record makers startled the industry in August by: 1. Withdrawing all records by German composers. 2. Cutting in two the price of classical records. 3. Calling "Ballad for Americans" Red propaganda. 4. Turning thumbs down on swing music. 5. Putting an $18 radio-phonograph on the market...
Almost as well known as the genesis of The Star-Spangled Banner is the history of God Bless America-how Kate Smith's Manager & Partner Ted Collins asked Irving Berlin to whip up a patriotic ballad for the diva's Armistice Eve program in 1938; how Songwriter Berlin sat down at a piano, pecked out a variation of a ballad he had written in 1917; how Kate Smith relentlessly plugged the song. Not so well known are the many commercial and artistic complications through which God Bless America has recently staggered...
Most important change in artists is at the University of Iowa, where Grant Wood has long carried a heavy teaching schedule, and loved it. But for an artist who can command $10,000 a canvas (price of Parson Weems' Fable and Sentimental Ballad), teaching at $4,000 a year is a definite sacrifice. Moreover Artist Wood paints slowly, fussing, niggling, spreading glaze after glaze to achieve the hard candylike effect that is his specialty. After a period of financial and marital difficulties (he has been divorced), Grant Wood resolved to take a year off to paint. Last week...