Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

* Juan Maria Solare's piano ballad " Jura ser anomalía " ( literally " he / she swears to be an anomaly ") is an anagram of the composer's full name.

*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

The earliest example we have of a recognisable ballad in form in England is ‘ Judas ’ in a 13th-century manuscript.

However, there is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult.

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

The Latin American romantic ballad is a genre on it self among other Latin American musical styles.

The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song.

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.

This version of the original ballad is sung to recruits who have successfully completed the harsh Basic Commando Training ( ECO ), and who receive their Green Beret.

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 elf is occasionally portrayed in a positive light, such as the Queen of Elphame in the ballad Thomas the Rhymer, but many examples exist of elves of sinister character, frequently bent on rape and murder, as in the Tale of Childe Rowland, or the ballad Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, in which the Elf-Knight bears away Isabel to murder her.

Because variants proliferate naturally, it is naive to believe that there is such a thing as the single " authentic " version of a ballad such as " Barbara Allen ".

The proof that Homer does not belong to that school — and that his poetry is not in any true sense ballad poetry — is furnished by the higher artistic structure of his poems and, as regards style, by the fourth of the qualities distinguished by Arnold: the quality of nobleness.

It is his noble and powerful style, sustained through every change of idea and subject, that finally separates Homer from all forms of ballad poetry and popular epic.

The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

The ballad probably derives its name from medieval French dance songs or " ballares " ( from which we also get ballet ), as did the alternative rival form that became the French Ballade.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

" 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 ".

She also returned to number one on the country charts later in 2005 by lending her distinctive harmonies to the Brad Paisley ballad, " When I Get Where I'm Goin '".

She also received minor airplay with the ballad " Mrs. Lennon ".

The Rumours tour also included Christine's " Songbird ", a ballad played as the encore of many Fleetwood Mac concerts.

Most notably he makes several appearances in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the street ballad " Finnegan's Wake ", may also be a blend of " Finn again is awake ," referring to his eventual awakening to defend Ireland.

There was also some experimentation with Haley's style during this time ; one single for Orfeon was a folk ballad, " Jimmy Martinez ", which Haley recorded without the Comets.

The glockenspiel was also featured in Jimi Hendrix's classic ballad " Little Wing ", Avenged Sevenfold's song " Nightmare " during the intro, as well as in indie folk music by artists such as Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost.

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

Additionally, the single " The Arms of Orion " with Sheena Easton charted at # 36, and " Partyman " ( also featuring the vocals of Prince's then-girlfriend, nicknamed Anna Fantastic ) charted at No. 18 on the Hot 100 and at No. 5 on the R & B chart, while the love ballad " Scandalous!

The first definite reference to the ballad, Titus Andronicus ' Complaint, is an entry in the Stationers ' Register by the printer John Danter on 6 February 1594, where the entry " A booke intitled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus " is immediately followed by " Entred also vnto finde that none in all that Authors Works ever receiv'd greater Alterations or Additions, the language not only Refin'd, but many Scenes entirely New: Besides most of the principal Characters heighten'd and the Plot much incresas'd.

Smilin ' Through is also the title of a 1919 ballad with lyrics and music by Arthur A. Penn.

Tam ( or Tamas ) Lin ( also called Tamlane, Tamlin, Tomlin, Tam Lien, Tam-a-Line, Tam Lyn, or Tam Lane ) is the hero of a legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders.

Hence it may also refer to the pattern of lines and accents in the verse of a hymn or ballad, for example, and so to the organization of music into regularly recurring measures or bars of stressed and unstressed " beats ", indicated in Western music notation by a time signature and bar-lines.

As whiskey, the " water of life ", causes both Finnegan's death and resurrection in the ballad, so the word " wake " also represents both a passing ( into death ) and a rising ( from sleep ).

The Hungarian poet János Arany also wrote a ballad called " Az örök zsidó ", meaning " The everlasting Jew ".

As Colorina was one of the most successful telenovelas in the 80s, he also produced for it a pop ballad hit album named Cerca de ti.

The follow-up single, Beckley's ballad " Daisy Jane ", also scored among the Top Twenty shortly after.

Their seventh album also included the epic ballad " Long Lankin " and novelty instrumental " Bach Goes To Limerick ".

In 1958, they released the ballad, " Don't Be Jealous ", on a different label, however that record also bombed.

* Sir Hugh ballad, also known as " The Jew's Garden ", and " The Fatal Flower Garden "

Work songs, hymns, tralling vocals and old printed ballad stories, skillingsviser, have also been popular.

The upbeat, calypso-flavoured " Right by Your Side " showed a different side of Eurythmics altogether and also made the Top 10, and " Here Comes the Rain Again " ( number eight in the UK, number four in the U. S .) was an orchestral / synth ballad ( with orchestrations by Michael Kamen ).