As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

( Judy Tristano now has poems as well as ballads written for her.

The elf makes many appearances in ballads of English and Scottish origin, as well as folk tales, many involving trips to Elphame or Elfland ( the Álfheim of Norse mythology ), a mystical realm which is sometimes an eerie and unpleasant place.

: Then arose the famous murderer, Robert Hood, as well as Little John, together with their accomplices from among the disinherited, whom the foolish populace are so inordinately fond of celebrating both in tragedies and comedies, and about whom they are delighted to hear the jesters and minstrels sing above all other ballads.

Some ballads, such as Erlinton, feature Robin Hood in some variants, where the folk hero appears to be added to a ballad pre-existing him and in which he does not fit very well.

The collection of traditional folk ballads, blues and laments sung to her own guitar accompaniment sold moderately well.

The folk-music-influenced album included John D. Loudermilk's " Tobacco Road " and Dino Valente's " Let's Get Together ", as well as original ballads " It's No Secret " and " Come Up the Years.

The Faust of early books — as well as the ballads, dramas, movies and puppet-plays which grew out of them — is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge ; " he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine ".

The plans for the CD have changed a bit, because of the loss of a family member she wrote some ballads she will record for the cd as well as new live versions of her hits.

( The cpo series of recordings of Loewe's complete ballads includes as well a recording of two piano sonatas and a " tone poem in sonata form ", with one of the sonatas-the E major of 1829-having a vocal part for soprano and baritone.

The Humpty Doo Hotel is well known and features in several bush ballads, including ‘ The Man from Humpty Doo ’ by Ted Egan and Slim Dusty's ‘ Humpty Doo Waltz ’.

In addition, there are two straightforward ballads about life and relationships (" Accidentally Like a Martyr " and " Tenderness on the Block "), as well as a disco tune (" Nighttime in the Switching Yard ").

The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, are performed in English and have themes such as vodka, tractors, rockets, and Genghis Khan, as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Modern Talking, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all presented with lots of humour.

Glam metal arose along the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in the 1980s with bands like Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, and later Poison and quickly became known for anthemic hard rock and power ballads, as well as band members ' distinctively feminine make-up, hair, and clothing in spite of the scene's macho posturing.

Songs with a fixed set of verses, or ballads, which tell a story, were not so well suited to tasks that could end abruptly at any time or that might require extending.

Portuguese colonizers arrived centuries after the Buddha, in the mid 15th century, bringing with them cantiga ballads, ukuleles and guitars ; as well as descendants of Africa ( referred to, historically, as kaffrinhas ), who brought with them a style of music now referred to as baila.

DeShannon recorded many other singles that encompassed teen pop, country ballads, rockabilly, gospel, and Ray Charles-style soul that didn't fare as well on the charts.

After the 1998 reunion, Bohlen produced eurodance, as well as American-style MOR ballads.

Lloyd also pointed to various types of song, including chants of labour, love and erotic occupational songs and industrial protest songs, which included narratives of disasters ( particularly among miners ), laments for conditions, as well as overtly political strike ballads.

As well as collecting many plants he recorded the languages, ballads and customs of the local tribes.

Through his death, Constantin Brâncoveanu became the hero of a series Romanian folk ballads, as well as being depicted on some of Romania's official coinage.

He wrote some stirring nationalistic ballads, originally contributed to The Nation, and afterwards republished as Spirit of the Nation, as well as a memoir of Curran, the Irish lawyer and orator, prefixed to an edition of his speeches, and a history of King James II's parliament of 1689 ; and he had formed many literary plans which were brought to naught by his early death.

She had a contralto vocal range, and was a drummer whose skills earned her admiration from her peers, although she is most well known for her vocal performances of romantic ballads.

They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads, and sold millions of records at the height of their popularity.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Burns's articles popularized both the legend and its new name, making it well known in western Canada before it gained popularity in the United States.

Some of the well known individuals who have become involved include former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former presidents of Chile Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, actress Susan Sarandon, actors Jeremy Irons and Raul Bova, singers Céline Dion and Anggun, authors Isabelle Allende and Andrea Camilleri, musician Chucho Valdés and Olympic track-and-field legend Carl Lewis.

This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.

Nevertheless, instances in legend of humans reincarnated as wolves are often classed with lycanthropy, as well as these instances being labeled werewolves in local folklore.

It is possible that Callixtus was martyred around 222, perhaps during a popular uprising, but the legend that he was thrown down a well has no historical foundation, though the church does contain an ancient well.

This could suggest two main possibilities: either that an early form of the Robin Hood legend was already well established in the mid-13th century ; or alternatively that the name " Robin Hood " preceded the outlaw hero that we know ; so that the " Robin Hood " of legend was so called because that was seen as an appropriate name for an outlaw.

As well, their song " So Far Away " was featured on an episode of WWE Raw as part of a video tribute to hardcore wrestling legend Mick Foley.

However, the cryptic nature of the problems that led to the decision to abort Mariner 1, as well as the confusion in various reports on the incident, gave rise to an urban legend of sorts.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

This new literature in Czech consisted largely of epic poetry of two types: the legend and the knightly epic, both based on apocryphal tales from the Bible, as well as hagiographic legends of earlier periods.

This legend I heard from other Phœnicians as well ; and the coinage current among the Sidonians bears upon it the effigy of Europa sitting upon a bull, none other than Zeus.

Several medieval scholars were considered to be magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d ' Aurillac and Albertus Magnus: both men were active in the scientific research of their day as well as in ecclesiastical matters, which was enough to attach to them a nimbus of the occult.

A solidus of Constantine as well as a gold medallion from his reign depict the Emperor's bust in profile twinned (" jugate ") with Sol Invictus, with the legend.

In that year, Gautier, drawing upon Deburau's newly acquired audacity as a Pierrot, as well as upon the Romantics ’ store of Shakespearean plots and of Don-Juanesque legend, published a " review " of a pantomime he claimed to have seen at the Funambules.

" The Vanishing Hitchhiker " is the most popular and well known American legend.

Faie became Modern English fay " a fairy "; the word is, however, rarely used, although it is well known as part of the name of the legendary sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend.

Another tradition indicates Taras as the founder of the city ; the symbol of the Greek city ( as well as of the modern city ) depicts the legend of Taras being saved from a shipwreck by riding a dolphin that was sent to him by Poseidon.

The three of them appear roughly at their final places on the original Tolkien's working map of the southern lands, as well as all locations mentioned above, the approximate line of coast, including Tolfalas, and the forerunner of Dol Amroth, apparently brought about with the development of the legend of Nimrodel while writing the " Lothlórien " chapter.

He became the epitome of the tragic artist, creating a posthumous legend almost as well known as that of Vincent van Gogh.

He was the first uncomprehending victim, as well as the chief beneficiary, of a legend already in circulation that he, Weygand, was the victor of Warsaw.

The site is on a steep hill and legend has it that his head rolled down the hill after being cut off and that a well sprang up at the point where it stopped.