Ballads With Background
HE incomparable artistry of Burl Ives as a ballad-singer makes Historical America in Song one of the most, delightful series to hit the air for some time. Any kind of ballad, from the drama of "Edward" and "Sioux Indians" and the robust vigour of "Hullabaloo Belay" to the nostalgia of "Haul Away, Joe" and the tenderness of "Cotton-Eye Joe," seems to’ come equally easily to him. It is a joy to hear such an array of unfamiliar folk-songs as well as to encounter in their fresh, original form pieces which have been mauled by swingsters. But the over-long and slightly pompous introductions by Cecil and Celia Manson are dragons at the gate of this programme. Bur! Ives’s own brief comments on each song make only a minimum of introduction necessary, while his easy, relaxed manner serves to emphasise the solemnity of the local background talks. This is a case, I feel, = which well might well have been left alone.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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162Ballads With Background New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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