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Thread #109288 Message #2284417
Posted By: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
10-Mar-08 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: What is a ballad?
Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a ballad?
Re. Hide Your Love:
What hits you first, feelings or a narrative? Re-do from start.
Sinatra used "ballad" in the other sense; what I referred to as the particularly saccharine lyric type-deal. Not that old blue eyes was particularly saccharine; I like listening to him. He just didn't do ballads in the "folk" sense.
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