Word: ballads
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...whose etymological studies was cited by Poet Bret Harte in his Ballad of Mr. Cooke...
...Couple of Favorites. This spring, Band Leader Gordon Jenkins heard them, liked them so well he persuaded Decca's Dave Kapp to record a couple of the Weavers' favorite songs: the Israeli Hora, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, and the Lead Belly ballad, Good Night, Irene (TIME, Aug. 14), with Jenkins' orchestra and chorus furnishing a fancy background...
...Think Things Over? and How Deep Is the Ocean? (Dinah Washington; Mercury). One of the best of today's blues singers wails her way expertly through a torchy ballad, does a passable blues version of a Berlin standard...
...Anyone Explain and Dream a Little Dream of Me (Dinah Shore, with male quartet; Columbia). Dinah back in her best, closer-than-breathing form with an up & coming new ballad and a standard...
...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...