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Composer Bennett's opener last fortnight was a "music opera" based upon a fine old U. S. song: The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Throughout the opera, the ballad tune dum-diddled along, festooned with Composer Bennett's shiniest orchestral and harmonic tricks. Best original snatch was sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday...
...Composer Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans), to finish a musical dramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People...
...phrase from San Antonio Rose. Another Crosby hit, It Makes No Difference Now, had a successor in What Difference Does It Make? Some songs proliferate simply by numbers: Sweet Violets, Sweet Violets No. 2, Sweet Violets No. 3. Most Southwest minstrelsy sticks to an ancient form: a 16-measure ballad, repeated over & over. But melodies have taken on a Tin Pan Alley cast, with embellishments which the Southwest takes...
Leadbelly, whose checkered career is most distinguished by his ballad singing, but has also included a stay in a state penitentiary, will accompany himself on the guitar...
...dapper little Pat Rooney took up at Tony Pastor's where his famous dad had left off, danced and sang his way to vaudeville immortality with Rosie O'Grady and a ballad about one Mr. Reilly so enchantingly delivered that everybody has wanted to live Mr. Reilly's life ever since. Last week, 51 years after his debut, and with his own son, Pat Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose...