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unusual facts about Ballad


Thiruvalluvar

Thirukkuṛaḷ is a combined word formed by joining the two words Thiru (meaning revered) and Kural (is a form of poem writing style, like Ballad in English Poems. Other forms of poem writing styles in Tamil are Venpa, Yaappu etc.).


A1010 road

The route is featured in William Cowper's 1782 comic ballad The Diverting History of John Gilpin, which describes the chaotic progress of the hero along the road from London to Ware and back, failing twice to stop his borrowed horse at his intended destination, the Bell in Edmonton.

All My Tomorrows

The album is a collection of classic standards including Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me" and the ballad "Cry Me a River".

Archie o Cawfield

Bono was quoted in Rolling Stone magazine as saying the ballad was deeply moving since he felt a strong connection to the ballad's protagonist.

Balada da Praia dos Cães

Ballad of Dog's Beach (in original Portuguese Balada da Praia dos Cães) is a fiction novel by the Portuguese author José Cardoso Pires, relating the investigation into the murder of a political dissident, taking place around 1961.

Belinda Chapple

She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.

Catherine Wheels Theatre Company

Other productions include Caged, Pobby and Dingan (TMA 2010 award winner for Best Show for Children and Young People), The Book of Beasts, Something Wicked This Way Comes (with National Theatre of Scotland), The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk, Hansel and Gretel, Kes, The Lion of Kabul, The Book of Beasts, Cyrano, Snow Baby, and The Story of the Little Gentleman.

Christina Perri

Her debut single, which was an emotional ballad called "Jar of Hearts," charted after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010.

Chuck Brodsky

He is particularly known for his often humorous and political lyrics, as well as his songs about baseball, such as "The Ballad of Eddie Klepp" and "Moe Berg: The Song".

Chuck Suchy

One of his folk ballads, featured on his Much to Share, Dancing Dakota, and Dakota Breezes CDs, is The Story of Hazel Miner. The folk ballad tells the story of Hazel Miner, a 15-year-old girl who died saving her brother and sister during a March 1920 blizzard in Center, North Dakota.

Constantin and Doruntinë

Robert Elsie has translated into English the ballad from the version of Margëlliç, now in modern Greece, called Kostandini e Dhoqina.

David Markson

The movie Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra, is based on Markson's anti-Western, The Ballad of Dingus Magee.

Dick at Nite

# "Gilligan's Island Theme" (a.k.a. The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle) – 1:54

Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself

This slow dramatic piano ballad was described by Robin in the liner notes of Tales from the Brothers Gibb box set as "...the dawning, or the closing, of the 'gotta find out who I really am' era."

Dream Merchant

Dream Merchant is a R&B ballad written by Larry Weiss and Jerry Ross.

East Bay Grease

"Sparkling in the Sand" became a #1 ballad in the San Francisco Bay Area with major airplay on defunct AM radio station, KDIA, then local pop stations, KYA and KFRC and then eventually a standard oldie on FM stations, KSOL and KBLX.

East Nashville Skyline

The song "Ballad of The Kingsmen" concerns the controversy surrounding their hit song "Louie Louie".

Everybody Cries

Whilst discussing the single during the ITV2 documentary The Big Reunion, band member Kelli Young revealed that the band were worried that releasing "Everybody Cries" as a single would be a risk, and she wasn't sure whether the fans "would get it", as the song was a power ballad.

Fet-Mats

The philosopher and naturalist Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert wrote about him in Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaft, Achim von Arnim wrote a ballad about Fet-Mats, Johann Peter Hebel wrote a short story about him called Unverhofftes Wiedersehen (Unexpected Reunion).

Finally in Love

Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song three out of five stars, he described it as "a slick R&B ballad with lyrics as sentimental as the ending of a Richard Curtis film".

Florence Aylward

The Graphic described it as a "simple and graceful ballad".

From the Soul of Man

Lattimore also reimagines The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as a soulful ballad that closes with a hypnotically layered arrangement of background vocals.

Hanoch Levin

For example, "A Hardened Ballad of a Soldier Man and Woman" from June 1966 was revised as "Black Eagle on a Red Roof" and published after the 1982 Lebanon War.

Herr Mannelig

The ballad has recently been performed and recorded by the following notable artists: In Extremo, Garmarna, Hedningarna (in Swedish), Haggard (in Italian), Heimataerde (in German) and Litvintroll (in Belarusian).

Hold Me for a While

"Hold Me for a While" is a pop ballad by the Swedish band Rednex, released from their second album Farm Out as the third and final single.

I Hear You Calling Me

Harold Lake had been a great friend of Harry Dearth, the ballad singer, from when they had been in the choir school of Westminster Abbey together.

I Want to Be Loved Like That

The song is a ballad, in which the narrator gives examples of relationships like Natalie Wood and James Dean, and his mother and father, and then states that he wants to be loved with the same affection that they had for each other.

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing

Jimmy Dean's 1962 song "Steel Men" is a ballad about the Second Narrows bridge disaster.

Kidung Abadi

"Kidung Abadi" (Indonesian for "Eternal Ballad") is a song written by father and daughter team Erwin and Gita Gutawa for the Kidung Abadi Chrisye concert; the concert was held on 5 April 2012 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Chrisye's death.

Meșterul Manole

The ballad "Monastirea Argeșului" was published - alongside "Miorița", "Toma Alimoș", "Dolca" - by Vasile Alecsandri in the first collection of Romanian folk creations in 1852, entitled "Poezii populare, balade (Cântice bătrânești) adunate și îndreptate de Vasile Alecsandri".

Palms of Victory

Perhaps John B. Matthias was well known for singing the anonymous religious ballad or folk hymn (to use George Pullen Jackson’s categories), and so received credit for writing it.

Part of Your World

Originally recorded by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in her film role as Ariel, "Part of Your World" is a Broadway-style ballad in which the film's heroine, a mermaid, expresses her desire to become human.

Pavel Katenin

Disappointed by Zhukovsky's mellifluent translation of Bürger's Lenore, Katenin brought out his own version of the ballad, whose title was Russified as Olga (1816).

Que No Se Rompa la Noche

"Que No Se Rompa la Noche" ("May the Night Have No End") is a ballad written and produced by Spanish singer-songwriter Manuel Alejandro, co-written by Ana Magdalena, and performed by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.

Rattray, Aberdeenshire

The ballad Sir James the Rose was set in Battle Fauld where he is supposedly buried.

Rude Jude

He also appeared on Kanye West's "Heavy Hitters" track, as well as being referenced by Eminem in the song "Drug Ballad" from his album The Marshall Mathers LP.

Silver Sun

It contained their biggest hit "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late", a cover of the Johnny Mathis ballad which the band originally recorded for fun during a B-side recording session.

Silvester Harding

They produced also the Memoirs of Count Grammont, 1793; The Economy of Human Life, with plates by Gardiner from designs by Harding, 1795; Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora, translated by William Robert Spencer, 1796, and John Dryden's Fables, 1797, both illustrated with plates from drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk.

Soy Rebelde

"Soy Rebelde" (English: "I am a Rebel"), also known as "Yo Soy Rebelde", is a Spanish pop ballad written by Manuel Alejandro and Ana Magdalena.

Summertime Dream

The album shot to popularity on the back of the haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in November 1975.

T. Texas Tyler

"T-Texas Tyler", a ballad on songwriter and recording artist Bucky Halker's 2008 CD Wisconsin 2.13.63, Volume 2, recalls Tyler's performances in Burley, Idaho in the early 1950s when he struggled with alcohol and drugs and barely made it through his set many nights, but still managed moments of skillful performance.

The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil

"The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" is a song by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.

The Day Is Brave

Tomas handpicked Brendan's ballad “Hero's Song” —a piano-driven anthem about war from a soldier’s perspective—to appear, alongside tracks by Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, on the Eddie Vedder's soundtrack Body of War: Songs that Inspired an Iraq War Veteran, a documentary about Tomas's experience.

The Shackshakers

• You Drive Me Insane
• Please Don't Tell Me (featuring Joe Terry of The Morells)
• Sweet Nothins
• (She's My) Rockabilly Baby
• When Will This Heartache End (featuring Bill Cowsill)
• The Ballad Of Desiree
• Morse Code Of Love
• Hey Doll Baby
• I'll Find A Way
• Hurricane (featuring Steve Bloomfield of Matchbox)
• Lotta Lovin' (featuring The Roses)
• No Other Love
• Hit The Brakes
• They Don't Know

The Soul Children

In 1973, they recorded the ballad "I'll Be the Other Woman", written and produced by Homer Banks and Carl Hampton, and with lead vocals by Shelbra Bennett, which became their biggest hit, reaching no. 3 on the R&B chart and no. 36 on the pop chart.

Tillman Franks

In his later years he lived in southwestern Shreveport near his long-term friend Claude King, known for the 1962 hit songs "Wolverton Mountain" and "The Burning of Atlanta", a ballad about the 1864 battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War.

Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju

With a somewhat darker atmosphere, the album was not as nearly successful as Riblja Čorba's previous albums, bringing only one hit, Momčilo Bajagić's gentle ballad "Kad hodaš".

Wendy Rae Fowler

Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (2006) "I Like to Move in the Night", "The Ballad of Queen Bee and Baby Duck", and "Poor Doggie"

When Something Is Wrong with My Baby

"When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" is a classic hit song, a soul ballad, written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, sung by Sam & Dave, and first released in 1967 by Stax Records.

Willis Alan Ramsey

At the same time, he enjoyed a revival in the United States, due in part to numerous artists who cut versions of Ramsey's songs, including Widespread Panic ("Geraldine & The Honey Bee"), Jerry Jeff Walker ("Northeast Texas Women"), Waylon Jennings, Shawn Colvin ("Satin Sheets"), Jimmy Buffett ("The Ballad of Spider John," "Northeast Texas Women"), and Jimmie Dale Gilmore ("Goodbye to Old Missoula").


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