He argues that the power ballad broke into the mainstream of American consciousness in 1976 as FM radio gave a new lease of life to earlier songs like Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven " ( 1971 ), Aerosmith's " Dream On " ( 1973 ), and Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird " ( 1974 ).

" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

On the strength of these releases and constant playing in local clubs and schools, the band established a fan base in the Chicago area, but was unable to break into the mainstream until an earlier song, the power ballad " Lady " ( from Styx II ), began to earn some radio time, first on WLS in Chicago and then nationwide.

After two successive Top 40 R & B singles, the ballad " In and Out of My Life " (# 22 US R & B ) and the Marvin Gaye cover, " Tear It On Down " (# 37 US R & B ), the group disbanded following a farewell concert, held at Detroit's Cobo Hall on December 21, 1972.

" Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as " Easy ," " Three Times a Lady ," " Still ," and the tragic breakup ballad " Sail On.

The most successful single from the album became the classically influenced ballad " My Heart Will Go On ", which was written and composed by James Horner and Will Jennings, and produced by Horner and Walter Afanasieff.

On 11 December, their first ballad compilation album The Ballads ~ Love & B ' z ~ was released.

Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern's 1937 ballad " The Folks Who Live On the Hill " mentions Darby and Joan:

Five of the recorded songs are yodels-" Sleep, Baby, Sleep ", " Comic Yodle Song ", " Coo Coo " ( J K Emmett's Cuckoo Song, adapted for Anderson's famous 60-second sustained soprano note ), " Laughing Yodel " and " Roll On Silver Moon ", a sentimental ballad, similar to Jimmie Rodgers ' various Southern ballad recordings.

On the other hand, in their notes to the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs ( London, 1959 ), editors A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams ponder whether the ballad is " an unusually coherent folklore survival " or " the creation of an antiquarian revivalist, which has passed into popular currency and become ' folklorized '".

On the Atlantis: The Lost Empire soundtrack, she performed and recorded the tender pop ballad " Where the Dream Takes You.

Jostein Hasselgård ( born 24 March 1979 ) was the winner of Norway's national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest and he won Norway a fourth place in the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the ballad " I'm Not Afraid To Move On ".

On August 12, Aerosmith wrapped up their Global Warming Tour with a rescheduled performance in Bristow, Virginia and on August 28, the band released two singles simultaneously, the rocker " Lover Alot " and the ballad " What Could Have Been Love ", both of which were co-produced and co-written by Tyler.

Womack also worked with rock musicians Sly and the Family Stone and Janis Joplin, contributing vocals and guitar work on The Family Stone's accomplished album, There's a Riot Goin ' On, and penning the ballad " Trust Me ", for Joplin on her album, Pearl.

On January 5, 2011, he was featured on NBC's Jimmy Fallon Show in a live performance and a subsequent video of " We Are The Ducks ", a power ballad written for University of Oregon Ducks, set to play in the BCS national championship game Monday, January 10, 2011.

", " Hunting High and Low ", " Take on Me ", the James Bond theme " The Living Daylights " and the ballad " Summer Moved On ".

Kevin Lyttle ( born Lescott Kevin Lyttle Coombs, 14 September 1976 ) is a soca artist hailing from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who had a worldwide monster hit with the interpellative soca ballad " Turn Me On ", which was recorded by Lyttle and the dancehall artist Spragga Benz.

Books, films, and songs about sailors on shore leave include Jean Genet's 1953 novel, Querelle of Brest ; Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 1949 film musical of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town ; and Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel's 1964 ballad " Amsterdam ".

In March 1996 this was followed by the ballad " On and On ", which received considerable radio airplay and hit the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart.

The second album, Owner's Manual, is a recording of a live show at Shank Hall in Milwaukee in 1996, and features some audience favorites, notably the partly tongue-in-cheek love ballad, " Florence ", and the fast-paced " Freak On The Floor ", featuring some interesting improvizations by Tabakin.

" The other, more familiar, English ballad begins " On the banks of Allan Water " and relates the death of a miller's daughter whose soldier lover proves untrue.

Potemkin has an idea: since Orphan reminds Mr. Rich of his younger self, Orphan will portray a youthful Mr. Rich and pretend to fall in love with Angel by singing a romantic ballad.

Terlingua, recorded live in a Texas dance hall and including Clark's ballad " Desperados Waiting for a Train.

The theme ballad, " A Man and a Train ", written by Frank De Vol with lyrics by Hal David and sung by Marty Robbins, appears on his album All-Time Greatest Hits ( Catalog # 77425 ), and the CD The Best of Marty Robbins released by Curb Records in January 2006, both featuring a second verse not used in the film.

The album closes with " Sugar Baby ", a lengthy, dirge-like ballad, noted for its evocative, apocalyptic imagery and sparse production drenched in echo.

The most famous bush ballad is " Waltzing Matilda ", which has been called " the unofficial national anthem of Australia ".

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

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.

The original recorded version of Wills ' " Faded Love ", appeared on the Tiffanys as a fairly swinging instrumental unlike the ballad it became when lyrics were added in 1950.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

The ballad, " Lost Someone ", credited with the Famous Flames, became, along with " Please, Please, Please ", an early show-stopper to Brown's shows, while the recording of the Joe Tex composition, " Baby You're Right " ( to which Brown altered completely from the original ), increased his reputation with R & B audiences.

After " Get Up Offa That Thing ", thirteen of Brown's late 1970s recordings for Polydor, failed to reach the Top 10 of the R & B chart, with only " Body Heat " in 1976 and the disco-oriented " It's Too Funky in Here " in 1979 reaching the R & B Top 15 and the ballad " Kiss in ' 77 " reaching the Top 20.

Rock's next single, the rock ballad " Only God Knows Why ", was the biggest hit off the album charting at No 19 on the Billboard Hot 100.

* " Patches ", 1962 ballad sung by Dickey Lee

In " Robin Hood and the Monk ", for example, he is shown as quick tempered and violent, assaulting Little John for defeating him in an archery contest ; in the same ballad Much the Miller's Son casually kills a " little page " in the course of rescuing Robin Hood from prison.

No extant ballad actually shows Robin Hood " giving to the poor ", although in a " A Gest of Robyn Hode " Robin does make a large loan to an unfortunate knight which he does not in the end require to be repaid ; and later in the same ballad Robin Hood states his intention of giving money to the next traveller to come down the road if he happens to be poor.

Further hit singles came, including " Scarborough Fair / Canticle ", based on a traditional English ballad with an arrangement by Martin Carthy, and " Homeward Bound " ( later U. S. No. 5 ), about life on the road while Simon was touring in England in 1965.

and its first three singles, two more singles were released in the second half of 2003 with up-tempo " Thank You Baby " (# 11 in the UK, Top 20 in Germany ) and just before Christmas the romantic, acoustic ballad " When You Kiss Me ", at least a minor hit in both territories.

The album spawned five hit singles: " It's Been Awhile " ( which hit the Billboard Top 10 ), " Fade " ( which has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks and television shows ), " Outside ", " For You ", and the acoustic ballad " Epiphany ".

Their debut single was the bush ballad, " Waltzing Matilda ", which appeared in November and reached the Melbourne top 40 singles chart.