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From the late 19th century the term ballad began to be used for sentimental songs with their origins in the early ‘Tin Pan Alley’ music industry. [5] As new genres of music, including the blues, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality meant led to this being used as the term for a slow love song from the 1950s onward.
The blues ballad has been seen as a fusion of Anglo-American and Afro-American styles of music from the 19th century. Blues ballads tend to deal with active protagonists, often anti-heroes, resisting adversity and authority, but frequently lacking a strong narrative and emphasizing character instead. [37]
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
I. I Believe in You and Me; I Pledge My Love; I Thought It Took a Little Time; I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) I Won't Say (I'm in Love) I'll Be There (Jackson 5 song)
Billboard gave the album 4 out of 4 stars, indicating "very strong sales potential" to retailers, speculating that it would have pop and rhythm and blues appeal. [1] In the 2004 edition of The New Rolling Stone Album Guide , the two-album compilation was rated 3.5 out of 5 stars and the editors write that this music is the stronger half ...
Ballads & Blues 1982–1994 is a compilation album by Northern Irish rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Gary Moore.Released in 1994, the album encompasses the softer, romantic ballads and blues songs Moore had recorded since 1982.
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
Azure-Te (Paris Blues) is a blues ballad written in 1952 by lyricist Donald E. Wolf for a Wild Bill Davis tune that reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1952 when covered by Frank Sinatra.