Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make our story complete, Glenn Miller has just made a record of "Stardust." Seems very fitting that the biggest thing in bandom at the present moment should make a disc of what has proven to be America's most consistently popular ballad...
...Aran Islands. Their poetry that always symbolized Ireland as a woman beautiful and bereaved was brought back to life. The story of Ireland's long struggle for independence, delivered of yore by ragged, foot-sore balladiers, was resurrected so that again, on Dublin streets, could be heard ballad singers raising the cry: "Arise ye dead of Ireland, and rouse her living...
...note your allusion to Senator George and SPCSCPG. If the presidency of same goes by priority,* may I call your attention to a ballad I printed in the old Bowling Green (Saturday Review of Literature) some time in 1927 or maybe 1928. I give you only one stanza: Obedient to the phobias of the regimented herd, To the dictates of the masses I have properly deferred: I always sent out Greeting Cards, and Mother's Day I kept, I never wore my panama beyond the 15th Sept...
Gene Autry is no stranger to radio. He twanged his first radio ballad over KVOO in Tulsa in 1928, for nothing. Hollywood tapped him in 1934 to start a movie career that no other hell-for-leather guitar plunker has ever equaled...
Darn That Dream (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Mr. Dorsey does about as well by this de Lange ballad as Benny Good man did in the (late) show, Swingin' the Dream...