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...Johnny Mathis; Columbia). One of the freshest young practitioners of the crewcut, scrubbed-voice style made popular by Pat Boone, Mathis quavers out his fast-selling ballad and all but soft-sells himself out of the lady's vision: "We may never meet again, but then...
Thus sang thousands in the streets of Melbourne as they stood outside the city jail on Nov. 11, 1880. Inside, the ballad's hero, Bushranger Ned Kelly, stood silently as the hangman slipped the noose over his head, said with a shrug, "Such is life," and was dropped to his death. Ever since, the legend of Ned Kelly, the last of Australia's hell-for-leather desperadoes, has lingered on as Australia's private pride and public shame, celebrated in half a dozen movies and retold in scores of paperbacks and biographies. Now Ned Kelly is riding...
...golds, indigos and vermilions. There were flashes of the Duke's fine musicianship. Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity in the insolent whines of Johnny Hodges' sax on Ballad of the Flying Saucers, the staccato bleats of Trumpeter Ray Nance on Hey, Buddy Bolden...
Some 8,000 fan letters bombarded Kraft; offers came to Sands from twelve movie companies and the major networks. The two songs from the show, Teen-Age Crush, an insipid ballad-with-a-beat that relates in sobbing tones something about young love misunderstood, and Hep Dee Hootie ("Cutie wootie, you're all rootie with me"), sold as fast as they could be scratched onto disks. Crush, says Capitol Records, has sold 1,160,000 copies to date, and in the two weeks since Sands's first LP album, Steady Date, was released, some 225,000 copies have...
...Native Art Form." The little jingle is now bigtime. Admen long ago realized that not since Young crossed the Rubicam has advertising found a more hypnotic pitch. In the 18 years since Pepsi-Cola hit the spot with a jazzy version of the English ballad John Peel, the singing commercial has become as entrenched in U.S. culture as the madrigal in the Italian Renaissance. Says Scott: "There's a definite challenge to writing jingles. To me, they've become as much a part of the American scene as any native art form." Says Columbia Records' spade-bearded...