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...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...
...Sinatra had been making spontaneous visits to high schools where he preached little sermons on tolerance. The short's message should be clear enough to anyone. To keep the bobby-sox trade in their seats, Sinatra tosses in two songs, If You Are But a Dream and a ballad with a lesson called The House I Live...
...down-at-heel bistro on the French Riviera one night in August 1944, a pianist lazily fingered a nostalgic ballad from a crudely cleffed manuscript. Some G.I.s at the bar asked to hear it again. The musician played it once more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...
Ives managed to talk 20th Century-Fox out of tampering with The Blue-Tail Fly, though he did have to bowdlerize his other favorite, Foggy, Foggy Dew, an old Irish ballad. The Hays Office objected to these lines...
James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, ballad-singer and tunesmith (You Are My Sunshine), who serenaded the people of Louisiana into electing him governor, went fly-casting (with a bug) in a bayou near Bunkie, hooked and landed...