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...applause lasted longer than the song itself. She followed it with the somewhat bigger Barbara Allen. Then she sang an old Irish song, and a Scotch ballad with a bit of a burr. For her encore she brought out a zither, and broke into the jingling Foggy, Foggy Dew, which another Barney Josephson find, tubby Troubadour Burl Ives, has made...
Though she sings 20 ballads an evening, she seldom repeats one in a night of performances. Besides the southern Appalachian songs which she learned at singing gatherings in North Carolina, she sings Old English, Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...
Ella Logan, ballad swinger on a U.S.O. swing through Europe, broke out (in Darmstadt, Germany) with a blast at fraternization, which looked to her like a Hitler dream-fulfillment. "Having gotten rid of a good part of the German male population, which normally would keep the population down," she reasoned, "I don't see why our boys should step into their shoes in that department...
This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...