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.

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

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

Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

* In contrast with the Johns and Dench, Judy Collins's performs not as an actress portraying Desirée but as a pop singer of a sad ballad.

His songwriting shifted as well, moving away from the traditional piano-and-strings ballad sound of his 1970s output towards a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tango music, early country music and European folk music as well as the Tin Pan Alley-era songs that influenced his early output.

* April 17 – Sung Si Kyung, South Korean pop / ballad singer

In later years, Lennon stated that the album's title track was a sincere cry for help ; he regretted changing it from a downbeat, piano-driven ballad to an uptempo pop song, which was done only as a result of commercial pressures.

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.

Leonard Chess had envisioned James as a classic ballad stylist who had potential to cross over to the pop charts and soon surrounded the singer with violins and other string instruments.

Originally the B-side to " Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby " ( featuring Wright on lead ), the pop ballad ( co-written by Spector and Leroy Bates, with Barbara Alston on vocals ) reached number 20 in the Billboard chart, registering as an auspicious debut for Spector's Philles label.

The first, up to 1985, was essentially as a synthpop band ; while on the second stage Mecano followed a more acoustic pop rock direction, with elements of ballad, salsa, rumba, bolero, paso doble, flamenco, bossanova, tango, dance and even reggae.

Further singles released from the album included latin pop ballad " Still in Love with You ", which reached the top five and was awarded a NRJ Music Award the following year, as well as Mousse T .- produced funk track " Let's Go to Bed ", the band's first release to miss the German top ten.

In 1975, he released the Grammy-winning " Misty ," which became his biggest country hit ( reaching number three on the country charts and number 14 on the pop charts ); he also entered the country Top 40 with a doo-wop version of " Indian Love Call ," " Everybody Needs a Rainbow ," and a ballad version of " Young Love " in early 1976.

Several Indonesian pop and ballad singers were survived through decades and become Indonesian music legends, such as Iwan Fals, Franky Sahilatua and Chrisye.

The Best of Love included the ballad " Here and Now ", his first single to chart in the Billboard pop chart top ten, peaking at number six.

In 1999, McCutcheon debuted as a solo pop artist with Virgin Records and scored a number 1 in the UK Singles Chart with the ballad " Perfect Moment " ( originally recorded by Edyta Górniak in 1997 ).

In 2011, Azerbaijan won the Eurovision song contest with an all-out pop ballad, which was written by a Swede, the writer of most of their entries, many of which are western inspired.

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

Obscure jazz standards began to show up on the sudden rush of established pop singers to cover jazz standards ( the obscure Billy Barnes ballad " Something Cool ," for instance, had a rise in popularity after Jones introduced it in concert to rock audiences on her debut tour ).

The ballad arrangement, metronome-like percussion and heavy use of the ARP Odyssey synthesiser was effectively a prototype for nearly all synth pop and rock bands that were to follow.

Ham is often credited as being one of the earliest purveyors of the power pop genre, but his most widespread effect in popular music is the ballad " Without You ," written with Badfinger bandmate Tom Evans ( who also committed suicide by hanging himself eight years later ).

The album included the pop ballad " Hold Me ", featuring a then unknown Whitney Houston.

" His 1962 original, a No. 1 hit single, was an upbeat pop song, while the remake was a jazz ballad, based on a similar arrangement by a Lenny Welch 1970 recording.

* " Tú " ( Kudai song ), a 2007 pop ballad by Kudai

The standard 7-inch mix ( by the name of " Cowboys & Indians ") featured a pop / radio-oriented production that dispensed with a section of the song's middle eight altogether.

The song's lyrics alone took rock and pop songwriting to new heights ; never before had such intellectual and literary lyrics been combined with rock instrumentation by a popular music group.

Then Country pop star Faith Hill also took home 3 awards for Best Country Album for the album Breathe, Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song's title track and for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Tim McGraw for " Let's Make Love ".

This song's success, coupled with its pop rock sound that was quite different from the rest of their material at the time, led the band into changing into a mainstream, pop music style.

To better fit the show's spirit, DeLugg preceded the pop song's melody with a sample of Mendelssohn's Wedding March.

The song's musical style combines pop and classical stylings, and its lyrics deal with teenage pregnancy and abortion.

" Stipe compared the song's theme to " Every Breath You Take " by The Police, saying, " It's just a classic obsession pop song.

The 16th Commonwealth Games was officially opened by the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad on 11 September 1998 at 17: 30 MST ( UTC + 08: 00 ) as main focus for the games and the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies was the newly built National Stadium Bukit Jalil a 100, 000-spectator capacity stadium it was officially opening ceremonies a vocalist in theme song's " Malaysiaku Gemilang " was sung by sung by Malaysian pop singers here Norzila Binti Haji Aminuddin, Shahrul Anuar Zain, Siti Roziana Binti Zain, Shaheila binti Abdul Majid, Amy Mastura Binti Suhaimi, Ning Baizura binti Sheikh Hamzah, Siti Nurhaliza Binti Tarudin, a featured 15-sports in 3638-events and 70-countries of region in Commonwealth of Nations.

The sketch satirizes many of the stereotypes of Japanese pop culture, including such tropes as a romantic interlude during the song's bridge that takes place on a city street filled with floating sakura blossoms.

In the 1970s, a different song of the same title, popularized by the pop group Three Dog Night, resulted in occasional recordings in which the pop song's lyrics and melody were combined with that of the carol.

The song's pop rock origins allowed it some crossover success, and it reached number 16 on the Modern Rock Tracks.

The song's B-side, the Marvin Gaye composition, " If This World Were Mine ", became a modest hit on both charts, reaching number sixty-eight on the pop chart and number twenty-seven on the R & B chart.

The lighter pop optimism, with a strong emphasis on rhythm, overcomes the song's gloomy title, " Procession ".

Due perhaps to the song's extraordinary success as well as its " sugary-sweet " pop music sound, " MMMBop " is also the target of considerable criticism and parody.

The success of " Locking " was probably tested due to strong airplay by the song's B-side, the Young-led ballad " Forever ", which also received a pop charting, peaking at # 78.

The bouncy single " All I Wanted ", although out of character for Kansas, fit in well with the mid -' 80s pop music scene and sparked a comeback for the band fueled by the song's promotional video receiving heavy rotation on cable music video channels.

Shut Up and Kiss Me also contained a more pop-oriented version of her 2000 single " I Surrender ", this version had been used for the song's music video and pop radio release.

In the wake of the song's release, the sitar became the new " in " sound for pop recordings, and an American guitar company even manufactured an electric sitar-guitar designed to simulate the sound of the sitar.

While the song's sales didn't meet up to expectations, peaking at # 20 on the pop charts and # 7 on the R & B charts with 500, 000 copies sold, " Reach Out and Touch " became one of Ross ' most popular and notable songs.

Following the mixed reception to the song's parent album, Music Box, " Anytime You Need a Friend " was deemed a strong contrast to the album's pop influence.

The song's signature line " It's not easy being green " is a phrase that has since appeared in many contexts in pop culture.

Additionally, the song's nine-week run at No. 1 on the U. S. pop charts by a British act was a record that stood for 16 years, until The Beatles matched the longevity record ( of nine weeks ) in 1968 with " Hey Jude.