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* Rhodesian singer-songwriter John Edmond recorded the " Ballad of the Green Berets " with reference to the soldiers of the Rhodesian Light Infantry ( RLI ), commando-style fireforce units of Rhodesian Security Forces who wore berets of green color.
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.
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 ".
* The Ballad Of The Wogglers Moulie / Green Grow My Nadgers Oh ( 7 " 1967 )
Two Rambling Syd Rumpo songs, " Green Grow My Nadgers Oh " and " The Ballad of the Woggler's Moulie ", were also included in the 1971 compilation album Oh!
( 1961 ), Frankie Howerd at The Establishment ( 1963 ), a series of recordings with Paddy Roberts ( best known for " The Ballad of Bethnal Green "), numerous " original cast " and soundtrack albums including Oh!
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.
Another clue to Fink being Armstrong is that on the CD Short Music For Short People, Green Day plays a song called " The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink.
* E. Wyn James, ' Painting the World Green: Dafydd Iwan and the Welsh Protest Ballad ', Folk Music Journal, 8: 5 ( 2005 ), pp. 594 – 618.
" California Dreaming " and " The Ballad Of The Green Berets " sharply divided the popular music market in March 1966.
His favorite music consists of classical, " Taps " and " Ballad of the Green Berets ".
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Sadler promised himself that if he successfully fought off the infection, he would give away the rights to his song " The Ballad of the Green Berets.
Sadler recorded his now-famous song, " The Ballad Of The Green Berets ," a patriotic song in ballad style.
The book became a 1968 movie, The Green Berets, starring John Wayne, with " The Ballad of the Green Berets " arranged in a choral version by Ken Darby as the title song of the film.
" The Ballad of the Green Berets " was picked up by the RCA Victor Records label in early 1966 and became a fast-selling single, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five consecutive weeks from March 5 to April 2, 1966.
According to the ribbons and badges worn by Sadler in a televised performance of " The Ballad of the Green Berets ," he received the following awards for his military service: Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Longevity Service Award, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, and the South Vietnamese Parachutist Badge.
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Two examples of right-wing topical songwriters are Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, whose " Ballad of the Green Berets " reached # 1 on the Billboard charts for five weeks in 1966 and was also Billboards # 1 single for that year ; and Toby Keith, who has written numerous songs in favor of aggressive U. S. military policies in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
As a title song, the producers used a Ken Darby choral arrangement of Barry Sadler's hit song Ballad of the Green Berets.
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*" 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.
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 is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as Don McLean's " American Pie ".
" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.
Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.
Thomas ' poetry is notable for its musicality, most clear in " Fern Hill ", " In Country Sleep ", " Ballad of the Long-legged Bait " and " In the White Giant's Thigh " from Under Milk Wood.
In addition, her 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose is an original concept album that includes many allusions to Parsons in its narrative.
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.
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.
In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.
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 character is inspired by the legendary Hua Mulan from the Chinese poem The Ballad of Mulan.
The " Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp ( Let It Roll )" composed by the former Beatle George Harrison is dedicated to him.
* Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest ( Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes ' names.
The song is named " The Ballad of Blaze Tracy.
The ballad type is classified as D 280 in The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad ; the variant from Västmanland that Dybeck reproduced is classified as SMB 133 G. It was recorded by Rosa Wretman in the beginning of the 1840s.
The Ballad of Peckham Rye, a 1960 novel by Muriel Spark, is set in Peckham.
The movie's theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road ", was later recorded by Mitchum and became a popular single record, although Mitchum's rendition is not the one in the film itself.
The word TWAIN is from Rudyard Kipling's " The Ballad of East and West " — "... and never the twain shall meet ..." — reflecting the difficulty at the time of connecting scanners and personal computers.
According to the notes by Cecil Sharp on a variant of the Ballad of Little Sir Hugh, the story is as follows:

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