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...late James Agee's A Death in the Family has the simple beauty and drama of a folk ballad. Set in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smokeys, it sings of "quiet summer evenings" and a Knoxville family faced with the problems of love and human loneliness. It's a song about Rufus Follete, a boy of six years or so, who wants a cap like a man's and who finds the night frightening as he lies in his bed. It's about his father, Jay, who drives too fast and sometimes drinks too much, but who sings...
...effort to break out of a mold which has been a success as often as this one. The pattern of musical comedies is nearly always the same. After a fast opening chorus, the romantic male lead meets and wins the romantic female lead, all to the tune of a ballad. Then comes the comic subplot, generally introduced by means of a specialty number. After that, the plot takes over for a while, and by the time the first-act curtain falls, the lovers are parted. The second act, which also opens with a chorus number, is shorter and more sketchy...
Tammy (Debbie Reynolds; Coral). "The old booty owl hooty-hoots to the dove," hoots Cinemactress Reynolds in this ballad about a teen-ager who finds love in the bayou. Mrs. Eddie Fisher's record is a fast-moving bestseller, but as slushy as those bayous in October...
...Brown's Hotel. M-G-M Records liked her throaty, sob-ridden voice, changed her name and signed her up. Her first two singles-Freddy and Didn't I Love You Enough? are currently being followed by a bouncy number, Eighteen, and a sad-toned ballad Faded Orchid, which might go over with what the industry calls the "girdle...
...which he tried to keep the rhythm section ("It should be felt rather than heard") from conflicting with other instruments. As he sees it, the drums and bass ought to play melody too, not just accompaniment, and then give way to the others. ''Each man has a ballad of his own, and he can hear the others. The music resembles chamber music but with jazz feeling...