The show helped revive and maintain interest in novelty hits from the 1950s and 1960s that received scant airplay on mainstream pop or oldies radio stations, including " Alley Oop " by the Hollywood Argyles, " The Ballad of Irving " by Frank Gallop, " The Battle of Kookamonga " by Homer and Jethro, " Monster Mash " by Bobby " Boris " Pickett, " Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah ( A Letter from Camp )" by Allan Sherman, " I Want My Baby Back " by Jimmy Cross, and " They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

On occasion, Hurt would use an open tuning and a slide, as he did in his arrangement of " The Ballad of Casey Jones ".

Casey Jones's fame can almost certainly be attributed to the traditional song, The Ballad of Casey Jones, recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Furry Lewis, The Grateful Dead, and Johnny Cash, among others.

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Cookie manages to find a cane he stole from an old man, a chain holding a monster ( Frazzle ) and, at the last second, arrives onto the stage by smashing through the wall with a train ( the same train he rode in " The Ballad of Casey McPhee ").

Her Off-Broadway credits include Ron Taylor and Mayor Maggie in Bat Boy The Musical at Union Square Theatre, The Prince and the Pauper at The Lamb's Theatre, O ' Casey Knock at The John Houseman Theatre, Tango Ballad at The Actor's Studio and A Broadway's Diva Christmas at the Julia Miles Theatre.

Recorded over six months in 1971, and released in March 1972, " The Ballad of Calico " was written by future star Michael Murphy and the First Edition's musical director and arranger Larry Cansler.

In most stagings of the musical Cats, which include the song " Growltiger's Last Stand " — a recollection of an old play by Gus the Theatre Cat — the character of Lady Griddlebone sings " The Ballad of Billy McCaw ".

The first time is in " The Ballad of John and Yoko " where John refers to " eating chocolate cake in a bag ", which was at the Vienna press conference, and the second is in the song " Come Together " where he sings " He bag production ".

Aside from the lead track, the album includes introspective songs such as " Ballad Of Mott The Hoople ", which exposes Mott ’ s near break-up, and the peculiar " I Wish I Was Your Mother ", featuring multi-tracked mandolin, in which Hunter sings of his wish to see his love as a child.

Actress Vanessa Redgrave sings the song in one of the opening scenes to the Merchant-Ivory film of Edward Albee's adaptation of Carson McCullers ' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

" Ballad of the Green Berets " is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U. S. Army.

The song was a send-up of " The Ballad of the Green Berets ", chronicling the adventures of a draft dodger.

* Comedian Paul Shanklin parodied the song with " Ballad of the Black Beret ", referring to the Clinton sex scandal, on his 1999 album Simply Reprehensible.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles ' song " The Ballad of John and Yoko ".

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

Space and Cerys Matthews released " The Ballad of Tom Jones ", a song about a fighting couple who are calmed down by listening to Jones ' music on the radio.

The song " I know a youth who loves a little maid ," can be traced back to the Bab Ballad, " The Modest Couple ", in which the very shy and proper Peter and Sarah are betrothed but are reluctant to shake hands or sit side by side.

The latter song was a secondary theme song for the Soviet Union's second color film, Ballad of Siberia ( in ).

The Allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed that Major Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highland Division composed a bitingly sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting German song " Lili Marleen " ( popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich ) called " The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers ".

For example, consider the references to the use of a Dobro guitar on songs like " The Ballad of Curtis Loew " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Valium Waltz " by the Old 97's, " When Papa Played the Dobro " by Johnny Cash on the Ride This Train album, or " Gold Dust Woman ", a song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours which features a a Dobro.

Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “ Ballad of Easy Rider ” and told the filmmakers, “ Give this to McGuinn, he ’ ll know what to do with it .” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.

The song is named " The Ballad of Blaze Tracy.

These rumours quickly spread across Dublin, gathering momentum until they are turned into a song penned by the character Hosty called " The Ballad of Persse O ' Reilly ".

The song " Ballad of Cleo and Joe " addressed the complications of a drag queen's double life.

His numerous compositions include orchestral work such as the " Concierto para bandoneón, orquesta, cuerdas y percusión ", " Doble concierto para bandoneón y guitarra ", " Tres tangos sinfónicos " and " Concierto de Nácar para 9 tanguistas y orquesta ", pieces for the solo classical guitar — the Cinco Piezas ( 1980 ), as well as song-form compositions that still today are well known by the general public in his country, like " Balada para un loco " ( Ballad for a madman ) and Adiós Nonino ( dedicated to his father ) which he recorded many times with different musicians and ensembles.

The " Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp ( Let It Roll )" composed by the former Beatle George Harrison is dedicated to him.

His other documentary credits include narrating A Passion for Faith ( the history of black Catholics in America ), Eyes on the Prize ( dedicated to legendary singer Marian Anderson ), Walking with Dinosaurs, Jesus: The Complete Story, Land of the Mammoth: Ancient Evidence, The Ballad of Big Al, The Science of Big Al, Engineering the Impossible ( The Colosseum ), Greatest Places and Echoes from the White House, God vs. Satan and Jewels of the Rift ( about the life cycles of African cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika ).

In addition, her 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose is an original concept album that includes many allusions to Parsons in its narrative.

The story can be traced back to The Ballad of Mulan and Disney's Mulan casts the title character in much the same way as the original legenda tomboy daughter of a respected veteran, somewhat troubled by not being the " sophisticated lady " her society expects her to be.

According to the Traditional Ballad Index, " The singer tells his lady that she must love him because he loves her.

After Gangs of New York, Day-Lewis's wife, director Rebecca Miller ( daughter of playwright Arthur Miller ), offered him the lead role in her film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, in which he played a dying man with regrets over how his life had evolved and over how he had brought up his teenage daughter.

She was drawn especially to the Bowery's hard-drug subculture ; these photographs, taken between 1979 and 1986, form her famous work The Ballad of Sexual Dependency — a title taken from a song in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera.

Most of her Ballad subjects were dead by the 1990s, lost either to drug overdose or AIDS ; this tally included close friends and often-photographed subjects Greer Lankton and Cookie Mueller.

" In addition to Ballad, she combined her Bowery pictures in two other series: " I'll Be Your Mirror " ( from a song on The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico album ) and " All By Myself.

In November 1879, she made her first appearance on Broadway at Tony Pastor's Casino Theater, billed as " an English Ballad Singer.

Lydia and her " medicinal compound " are memorialized in the folk song " The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham ," also known as " Lily the Pink ".

Stella Stevens ( born October 1, 1938 ) is an American film, television, and stage actress who began her acting career in 1959 and starred in such popular films as The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), The Courtship of Eddie's Father ( 1963 ), The Silencers ( 1966 ), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows ( 1968 ), The Ballad of Cable Hogue ( 1970 ), and The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ).

Writer Sharyn McCrumb has referenced the hanging of Mary in a few of her ' Ballad ' novels.

In commemoration of his birthday, in the same year, Lady Dunn privately published The Ballad of a Bathurst Boy: 1874-1956, a celebration of her late husband's life in verse.

The Duchess makes no secret of her yen for Cellini, and she's not interested in romance, just sex (" Sing Me Not a Ballad ").

Rebecca Augusta Miller ( born September 15, 1962 ) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits ( winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award ), The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Angela and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, all of which she wrote and directed.

She is the author of the 2003 book Woman Who ... and director of the 2005 film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring her husband, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, whom she first met when he and her father were preparing the film version of the elder Miller's play The Crucible.

* In Child Ballad # 10, " The Twa Sisters ", or " The Dreadful Wind and Rain " the older sister murders the younger sister over the love of a man, and the younger sister's bones are found by a wandering musician who makes an instrument ( either a harp or a fiddle, depending on the version ) out of them and strings it with her hair.

Zhanneta " Zhanna " Trofymovna Prokhorenko (; ; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011 ) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet-era actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier.

After graduating from Columbia University with a degree in English Literature, he formed the New York No Wave band The Del-Byzanteens in the early 1980s with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and painter James Nares, collaborated with photographer Nan Goldin on the soundtrack to her Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and toured the world as a veteran of Glenn Branca's guitar ensemble.

First to Yekaterina Gradova, with whom he had one daughter, Maria Mironova, and second to Larisa Golubkina, a singer and actress best known for her role of the hussar maiden in Hussar Ballad.

In his liner notes for Susannah McCorkle's version of the song on her Ballad Essentials album Scott Yanow writes " usually performed as a corny razzle-dazzle romp, that piece was drastically slowed down by Susannah who performed all of its known lyrics, including stanzas that show Irving Berlin's lyrics were actually quite touching and meaningful ".

Though Ballad Book has since been supplanted by the reissue of most of Baez ' original Vanguard catalog, for a number of years, it remained the only source to obtain a number of these cuts, as most of her early Vanguard albums temporarily went out of print in the early 1980s.

*" Ballad of a Bad Boy ", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1994 book Early Work

In 1765 she published her lyrics to the traditional Border Ballad the Flowers of the Forest beginning " I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling ".