Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special animated musical, "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear," marks the coming of age of the U.S. Forest Service's favorite fire-prevention symbol. Jimmy Cagney hosts the benevolent bruin's 21st birthday party...
...Chevy's big attraction was a male folk singer who extemporized rhymed verse for ten minutes to the tune of "Under the Boardwalk." Except for an indifferent plug for Chevy, his ballad was inspired by the grubby bunch who gawked at him. Singling out one middle-aged man, he improvised...
...news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone who saw this accident report to the local authorities?" Hendra reminisces about one of his ancestors, a 16th century poet known as "the Scarlet Pimp,"" who composed the immortal ballad beginning, "Foftly, foftly, blowf the gale,/ Upon my miftreff bofom...
...more often the songs are like Mr. Convy's dreamy love ballad: standard, detached from the rest of the show, and unprovocative. Absurdly contrived stretches of transitory dialogue serve to get the audience away from the plot-line and into the song-line...
...flying machine but five men and a girl, powered only by the usual assortment of guitars and drums. They are billed as producers of a jet-age sound which, in spite of its high-voltage twang, can be disarmingly gentle and folk-flavored. Their best ballad, Come Up the Years, celebrates the sorrows of a too-old lover so sweetly as to suggest that he may be about 15 and his girl...