technique was conventional, modeled on that of John Keats, and his mood passed from racial pride and optimism in the 1920s to sadness and disappointment in the 1930s. Among his volumes of verse areColor(1925),Copper Sun(1927),The Ballad of the Brown Girl(1927), andOn These I Stand(1947...
The ballad meter of Countee Cullen’s “Incident,” telling of a child stunned and hurt by racial violence, and the mystical images of T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” lulled me to sleep. The last time I saw my sister Susie alive, my father was cradling her in his...
Some believe the song is a veiled reference to the protagonist of Bob Dylan’sBallad of a Thin Man, based on the lyric “I wanna be Bob Dylan, Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky.” According to Adam Duritz on VH1Story Tellers“It’s really a song about my fri...
And, if you are a singer in want of a killer ballad (as singers always are) you inevitably turn to the Goffin/King Songbook because their songs rooted in universal emotions can never go out of style. Never. When it comes to singing a killer ballad The Jukebox will brook no argument th...
(The music's soft and wile).Shake your brown feet, Liza,(The Banjo's sobbin' low),The sun's goin' down this very night—Might never rise no mo'.Countee Cullen in his "Ballad of the BrownGirl" achieves eight lyric lines that are as trueas lifeitself.There is in Claude McKay's "...
Ms. Reese had been under contract to Jubilee Records for three years when, in 1957, she had her first big hit record, the romantic ballad “And That Reminds Me.” Named the year’s most promising “girl singer” by Billboard, Variety and Cash Box, she was soon making regular appearances...
technique was conventional, modeled on that of John Keats, and his mood passed from racial pride and optimism in the 1920s to sadness and disappointment in the 1930s. Among his volumes of verse areColor(1925),Copper Sun(1927),The Ballad of the Brown Girl(1927), andOn These I Stand(1947...
Scottish actor Sean Connery and French actress Brigitte Bardot meet for the first time in Deauville, before the filming of Shalako (Edward Dmytryk, 1968) French actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot on the set ofThe Ballad Of Frenchie King(Christian-Jaque, 1971), a comedy western, filmed in...