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Ballad and Red
* " The Ballad of the Red Earl "
* The Ballad of the Red Shoes, an EP by Andrew Bird with instrumental music written to accompany a series of prints inspired by the fairy tale
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Ballad and Beret
* In 1966, The Beach Bums, an ad hoc group featuring a young Bob Seger, recorded " The Ballad of the Yellow Beret ".
* Comedian Paul Shanklin parodied the song with " Ballad of the Black Beret ", referring to the Clinton sex scandal, on his 1999 album Simply Reprehensible.
Seger later appeared on Doug Brown and the Omens ' parody of Barry Sadler's song " Ballad of the Green Berets " which was re-titled " Ballad of the Yellow Beret " and mocked draft dodgers.
", which reflected a marked change in Seger's political attitudes from " The Ballad of the Yellow Beret ".

Ballad and was
*" 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.
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.
Ballad opera was attempted in America and Prussia.
Examples include ‘ The Streets of Laredo ’, which was found in Britain and Ireland as ‘ The Unfortunate Rake ’; however, a further 400 have been identified as originating in North America, including among the best known, ‘ The Ballad of Davy Crockett ' and ' Jesse James '.
In South Africa, the " Ballad of the Green Berets " was recorded as the " Ballad of the Maroon Berets ".
The song was a send-up of " The Ballad of the Green Berets ", chronicling the adventures of a draft dodger.
The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".
The single was taken from the album " Street Fighting Years " and the single version was also published with the title " Ballad Of The Streets ".
Mötley Crüe has been featured on a number of VH1 countdown shows, " Dr. Feelgood " was ranked the No. 7 Greatest Air Guitar Song, " Live Wire " was ranked the No. 17 Greatest Metal Song Of All Time, and " Home Sweet Home " was ranked the No. 12 Greatest Power Ballad Of All Time.
The film was his final attempt to make a low-key, dramatic work in the vein of Noon Wine and The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
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 ".
Russian fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko's mythological epics Sadko, Ilya Muromets, and Sampo were internationally acclaimed as was Ballad of a Soldier, a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai
Hua Mulan () is a legendary figure from ancient China who was originally described in a Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan ( 木蘭辭 ).
The Ballad of Mulan was first transcribed in the Musical Records of Old and New ( 古今乐录, 古今樂錄 ) in the 6th century, the century before the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Her character was based on the protagonist of the ancient Chinese legend, " The Ballad of Hua Mulan.
The latter song was a secondary theme song for the Soviet Union's second color film, Ballad of Siberia ( in ).
On September 24, 1962, singer Jerry Scoggins, Lester Flatt and Scruggs recorded " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " for the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, which was released October 12, 1962.
The subculture surfaced on Broadway as musical comedy in The Nervous Set ( 1959 ) by Neurotica editor Jay Landesman and Theodore J. Flicker with music by Tommy Wolf and lyrics by Fran Landesman ; this was the source of two jazz standards, " Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most " and " The Ballad of the Sad Young Men " ( recorded by Gil Evans, Anita O ' Day, Roberta Flack, Petula Clark, Rod McKuen, Shirley Bassey and others ).
His most notable appearance was as " Easy " in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

Ballad and sung
Their Solidarity Song became a popular militant anthem sung in street protests and public meetings throughout Europe, and their Ballad of Paragraph 218 was the world's first song protesting laws against abortion.
The Ballad of Baby Doe has several rag elements ( a honky-tonk piano is used extensively in the first scene ) and in his 1958 " soap opera " Gallantry, the commercials for Lochinvar soap and Billy Boy wax are sung in a blueslike fashion.
* Go Down Ye Murderers ( The Ballad of Tim Evans ) sung by Christy Moore
" Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel " is entirely sung by Nicky Wire.
" The Ballad of Springhill " was subsequently sung by popular folk revival group Peter, Paul, & Mary and in 1987 the Irish rock stars U2 drew international attention to the memory of the disaster when they included " The Ballad of Springhill " in the playlist for their Joshua Tree Tour.
In an interview after the 1987 performance on a 25th anniversary television tribute to the Irish band The Dubliners, Bono stated that the first recording of " The Ballad of Springhill " he heard was that sung by Irish folk singer Luke Kelly a member of The Dubliners.
The melody of " Female Of The Species " appeared earlier than its Jeeves incarnation, with lyrics written and sung by Tim Rice as " The Ballad Of Robert And Peter " in 1973 ( for private recording purposes ).
" ( 19thC ) a spiritual sung by North American slaves in the 19th century, is unrelated to the Child Ballad.
*" The Ballad of Davy Crockett " – Lyrics by Tom Blackburn, Music by George Bruns, sung by The Wellingtons
* " The Ballad about Two Sisters " (" Ballada o dwóch siostrach "), with music by Stanisław Staszewski, sung by Kazik Staszewski with Kult
* " The Ballad about Two Sisters " (" Ballada o dwóch siostrach "), with music by Adam Sławiński, sung by Stan Borys
* " The Ballad about Easter Ham " (" Ballada o Wielkanocnej szynce "), with music by Krzysztof Knittel, sung by Jan Kobuszewski
In the third movement, the piano brings out the melody taken from the " Ballad of the Yellow Rivers ", originally a mellow number sung by female chorus.

Ballad and by
*" The Ballad of John Henry " typically contain four major components: a premonition by John Henry as a child that steel-driving would lead to his death, the lead-up to and the results of the race against the steam hammer, Henry's death and burial, and the reaction of John Henry's wife.
" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.
** The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton ( 1911 )
There is also a Soviet movie The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe ( Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, 1983 ), directed by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe.
This concurs with the name of the hound mentioned in an " Ossianic Ballad ," sometimes referred to by its opening line " Dám Thrír Táncatair Ille ( They came here as a band of three )".
Largely ignored upon its initial release, The Ballad of Cable Hogue has been rediscovered in recent years and is often held up by critics as exemplary of the breadth of Peckinpah's talents.
Titles like " Fedra West " ( also called Ballad of a Bounty Hunter ) and Johnny Hamlet signify the connection to the Greek myth and possibly the plays by Euripides and Racine and the play by William Shakespeare, respectively.
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.
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 Ballad of Baby Doe, 1956 opera by Douglas Moore
* Cameron Dokey created ' Wild Orchid ' in 2009, a retelling of the Ballad of Mulan as part of the Once Upon A Time series of novels published by Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
The character is inspired by the legendary Hua Mulan from the Chinese poem The Ballad of Mulan.
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.
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.

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