Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunges the hall into tense silence by intoning a melancholy ballad...
...such as After All, Rain Check and Day-Dream. Three new songs composed just before his death make most admirable vehicles for the band: locomotive-paced The Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count, a sinuous, sensitive ballad, with a Johnny Hodges alto solo, in the same vein as Passion Flower. Duke pays his respects with a pensive, if plush, rendition of Lotus Blossom, Strayhorn's own favorite...
AERIAL BALLET: NILSSON (RCA Victor). While most rock singers sound like so many caterwauling cats conjugating the verb "to be," Nilsson, 25, sings with clear honesty and lack of pretense. He has composed a highly creative rock-vaudeville show with all the acts: a tap number, a cowboy ballad, a torch song, and an acrobatic display of vocal jazz scatting. Altogether an excellent performance despite an overlying, oddly out-of-place air of melancholy that sometimes threatens to spoil...
...ballad was the work of KRLA's "staff poet-singer," Len Chandler, who regularly performs his own tendentious commentary to the most dramatic news of the hour. Chandler's verses are just one of the innovations by the staff of KRLA Station Manager John Barrett, 35, which have given an otherwise ordinary rock station a young audience of more than 1,500,000 and put it in the top three among the 61 stations jamming the metropolitan Los Angeles airwaves...
...daily composition-he gets Saturday and Sunday off, barring a major newsbreak-takes him about two hours. Once, on deadline at the time of Helen Keller's death, he wrote a dirge in 15 minutes. "I read the news every morning," he sums up in one ballad, "and I sing the blues every...