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The ballads figured prominently in the early recordings of Joan Baez, and they crop up even in the work of bands not usually associated with folk material, such as Ween's recording of " The Unquiet Grave " ( Child 78 ) under the title " Cold Blows the Wind ", or versions of " Barbara Allen " ( Child 84 ) recorded by the Everly Brothers, Pete Seeger, Art Garfunkel, and ( on the soundtrack of the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long ) John Travolta.
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Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.
According to Charles Aaron, power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences.
Several primarily freestyle artists released ballads during the 1980s and early 1990s that crossed over to the pop charts and charted higher than their previous work.
In popular culture, Robin Hood and his band of " merry men " are usually portrayed as living in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, where much of the action in the early ballads takes place.
" However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire ( which borders Nottinghamshire ).
The setting of the early ballads is usually attributed by scholars to either the 13th century or the 14th, although it is recognised they are not necessarily historically consistent.
The early ballads are also quite clear on Robin Hood's social status: he is a yeoman.
As well as ballads, the legend was also transmitted by " Robin Hood games " or plays that were an important part of the late medieval and early modern May Day festivities.
The early ballads link Robin Hood to identifiable real places and many are convinced that he was a real person, more or less accurately portrayed.
Another view is that Robin Hood's origins must be sought in folklore or mythology ; Despite the frequent Christian references in the early ballads, Robin Hood has been claimed for the pagan witch-cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe.
The early ballads give a number of possible historical clues: notably, the Gest names the reigning king as " Edward ", but the ballads cannot be assumed to be reliable in such details.
Some problems with this theory are that there is no evidence that Godberd was ever known as Robin Hood and no sign in the early Robin Hood ballads of the specific concerns of de Montfort's revolt.
In the early ballads Robin's men usually kneel before him in strict obedience: in A Gest of Robyn Hode the king even observes that " His men are more at his byddynge / Then my men be at myn.
The only character to use a quarterstaff in the early ballads is the potter, and Robin Hood does not take to a staff until the 18th century Robin Hood and Little John.
The political and social assumptions underlying the early Robin Hood ballads have long been controversial.
Printed versions of the Robin Hood ballads, generally based on the Gest, appear in the early 16th century, shortly after the introduction of printing in England.
In the early ballads, by contrast, he was a member of the yeoman classes, which included common freeholders possessing a small landed estate.
While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.
ballads and recordings
* English Broadside Ballad Archive -- an archive of images and recordings of over 4, 000 pre-1700 broadside ballads
Many Saddlemen recordings would not be released until the 1970s and 1980s, and highlights included romantic ballads such as " Rose of My Heart " and western swing tunes such as " Yodel Your Blues Away ".
( 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 album's sound-consisting largely of ballads and straight-forward rock songs-marked a notable shift in style from the group's previous recordings.
Dawson gained worldwide renown through song recitals and many best-selling recordings of operatic arias, oratorio solos and rousing ballads during a career spanning almost 60 years.
His distinctive style could swing like no other, but some of his best recordings are ballads, such as his best-known composition, " Misty ".
Charles Santley made a few recordings, mostly of ballads.
He recorded for other producers to finance further African Museum recordings, having a string of hits in the three years that followed, ranging from ballads to roots reggae, including " All I Have Is Love ", " Lonely Soldier ", " Black a Kill Black ", " Extra Classic " and his cover version of Dobby Dobson's " Loving Pauper ".
Their various recordings also cover a number of the Child ballads.
That night, two men set fire to the school building, burning Eleanor, Harriet, and Deladis out of their home and destroying Lily's transcriptions of the ballads and her phonograph recordings.
The ballads have been much published, and there are even recordings of readings of some of them.
Its relative failure signaled the beginning of the end of the Temptations and Norman Whitfield's psychedelic soul recordings ; while more Sly & the Family Stone-inspired psychedelic records would turn up on the next four Temptations albums, Whitfield began, for the first time in three years, once again releasing soul ballads as singles for the group.
Sigmund Groven has contributed to over 250 recordings, and has written more than 350 original compositions, from children's songs and instrumental ballads to movie and TV soundtracks, and works on a larger scale.
ballads and Joan
His many translations of Schiller -- including both Classical and Romantic ballads, lyrics, and the verse drama Jungfrau von Orléans ( about Joan of Arc ) -- became classic works in Russian that many consider to be of equal if not higher quality than their originals.
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But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.
The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.
They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.
: 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.
While Robin Hood and his men often show great skill in archery, swordplay and disguise, they are no more exaggerated than those characters in other ballads, such as Kinmont Willie, which were based on historical events.
It has been argued that the fact that the surviving ballads were preserved in written form in itself makes it unlikely they were typical ; in particular stories with an interest for the gentry were by this view more likely to be preserved.
After Thespis, Gilbert and Sullivan went their separate ways until they collaborated on three parlour ballads in late 1874 and early 1875.
While the sisters specialized in swing, boogie-woogie, and novelty hits with their trademark lightning-quick vocal syncopations, they also produced major hits in jazz, ballads, folk, country-western, seasonal, and religious titles, being the first Decca artists to record an album of gospel standards in 1950.
They followed with the ballads, " No One Knows " ( No. 19 ) and " Don't Pity Me " ( No. 40 ), which they also performed on Bandstand.
After the relative failure of the follow-up singles " I'm Sorry I Made You Cry " ( which stalled at No. 36 ) and " Heartaches " ( failing to chart at all ), Francis met with Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield who sang a number of ballads they had written for her.
A number of the ballads describe historical events, and they are often dramatic and tragic.
The men sing satirical ballads as they load coffee on the docks.
It also has a stellar tradition of balladry, such that a whole group of songs exists that are often called " border ballads ", because they were collected in that region.
Industrial folk song emerged in Britain in the 18th century, as workers took the music with which they were familiar, including ballads and agricultural work songs, and adapted them to their new experiences and circumstances.
Industrial folk song emergd in Britain in the eighteenth century, as workers took the forms of music with which they were familiar, including ballads and agricultural work songs, and adapted them to their new experiences and circumstances.
Until the 1830s they were mainly simply regarded as criminals but an increasing public appetite for betyar songs, ballads and stories gradually gave a romantic image to these armed and usually mounted robbers.
Upon Frisk's return they shared lead vocal duties for a period of time with Frisk singing the more straightforward rockers and Hedlund dealing with the ballads.
After they finished, Francis told them they wrote beautiful ballads but that they were too intellectual for the young generation.
As a result one Child number may cover several ballads, which Child considered variants of the same story, although they may differ in many ways ( as in " James Hatley ").
She writes epic ballads about the group's heroic exploits, such as feeding Nodwick to hydras, sundering ancient seals with his head, and so on, which tend to make the four even bigger laughingstocks than they were before.
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