Then - and this is what really sets the Ballads apart - MacColl wrote songs ... A new, hybrid format emerged, in which the original voices, carefully edited and interwoven with the music, could ...

Their one ballad hit is a bit of an oddity ... rock version gets to the heart of the song better than the understated original (by no less than The Everly Brothers, in this case).

Both the software that produced the original concordance and the programming necessary ... Francis James Child's five volume edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (New York: Dover, [1882 ...

‘Goodbye To Love’ by the Carpenters is the original power ballad. It became the template for countless other ballads that followed. Written by Richard Carpenter and his long time writing ...