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...Army Chorus (Keynote). Eight military and folk songs proving that the U.S.S.R.'s fighting men also sing in a big way. Tachanka, ballad of Budenny's horse-drawn machine guns, is the most stirring; Meadowland has the sweetest melody...
...youngsters on the floor struck up a song: I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech. The others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty...
...Peaceful in the Country (Harry James; Columbia). Sapling Tunesmith Alec Wilder (Neurotic Goldfish, A Debutante's Diary) gets both music and meaning into the ballad of the month...
...Netherlands-born fighter in the Spanish Civil War, Bart van der Schelling. He wears his chin in a brace, is called "official singer" for the U.S. survivors of the International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives...
...Gladstone's taverns that night, loggers and their ladies drank toasts to King Jimmy and Queen Mary Jean before lapsing into the classic lumberjack's nightcap: all 42 verses of the ballad, The Jam on Garry's Rock...