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...American Ballad Contest of barbershop quartets and Gibson Girl trios in Manhattan's Central Park, rasp-voiced
Frankie & Johnnie (Ethel Waters; Bluebird). Vocalist Waters and a gifted arrangement turn a ballad hitherto sung as funny fiddle-faddle into a tragic folk tale, with much the same quality found in Artist Thomas Benton's garish Frankie & Johnnie mural...
Title. The title of Finnegans Wake comes from an Irish music-hall ballad, telling how Tim Finnigan of Dublin's Sackville Street, a hod carrier and "an Irish gentleman very odd" who loved his liquor, fell from his ladder one morning and broke his skull. His friends, thinking him dead, assembled for a wake, began to fight, weep, dance...
Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
Three of the outstanding numbers are a gastronomic comment on amorous disillusionment, "Love is Like a Pickle in a Barrel," a modern love ballad, "Let's Agree to Disagree," and an original tango written and played on the accordion with the orchestra by tennist David S. Burt '40, entitled "La Camarisita" (The Cute Little Chambermaid...