Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...
...smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago...
Last week, Owens had another scalp on his belt: the fastest rising tune on the hit parade, a soggy, foggy ballad called How Soon? He had written the lyrics five years ago, to a simple tune by Sammy Kaye's arranger, Carroll Lucas. No one paid any attention to it, even when Owens was plugging it on ladies' laps. Then, a year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record...
Radcliffe's Idler has turned to the Eighteenth Century and Isaac Bickerstaffe's ballad opera for its latest offering, and has gathered enough musical talent from the Choral Society and the Glee Club to make possible a production which, if not a complete success, surmounts considerable production weakness to charm its audience...
...Ballad Opera, at best, is a diverting series of slightly bawdy songs interspersed with a stock plot. Idler seems to have blown the dust of nearly two centuries off "Love in a Village" with considerable success...