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...Fellow Traveler Paul Robeson cut loose with some fine old wobbly rabble-rousers, the scalp-tingling Ballad for Americans...
Each 15-minute program takes up one side of a $2.50 commercial disc (not playable on an ordinary phonograph). "The Ballad Hunter," whose commentary is part of the programs, is John A. Lomax, honorary curator of the Library's great Archive of American Folk Song...
Convicts, cowboys, housemaids, hillbillies have sung for him, and the Ballad Hunter programs were chosen from the 12,000 records he has given to the Archive...
Pepusch-Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Glyndebourne Opera Company, with small orchestra conducted by Michael Mudie; Victor; 12 sides; $6.50). Poet John Gay's gusty ballad opera, with tunes of the day (1728) arranged by Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch, here gets a nearly complete recording. Well sung but mumbly, and Victor has neglected to supply printed lyrics...
...with his sparkling British star, Anna Neagle. Profiting by the lesson of No, No, Nanette (TIME, Dec. 30), which he made without featuring the musicomedy's best assets, the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, he plugs Who? for all it is worth. Four different orchestrations deliver it in ballad, tap, choral and semi-rumba rhythm. Three more Kern tunes (Sunny, D'Ya Love Me?, Two Little Blue Birds) are tossed in for good measure...