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The oldest preserved Swedish broadside ballad, printed in 1583. A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
The Broadside Tapes 1, alternatively known as Broadside Ballads, Vol. 14, was a compilation of demo recordings done by Phil Ochs for Broadside magazine in the early-to-late 1960s. Of the sixteen songs that appeared, ranging from the humorous ("The Ballad of Alferd Packer") to the depressing ("The Passing of My Life"), all were new to listeners.
[1] [2] [3] Another feature of SMB is that the accompanying melodies have been comprehensively printed alongside the text, [1] unlike ballad collections in some of the other languages. In 2005, a ballad collection was discovered in the library of Växjö that contained ballad types not enumerated in the SMB. [4]
Dylan used a pseudonym, "Blind Boy Grunt", due to contractual issues; he was signed to Columbia Records but Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 was released by Folkways Records. [12] He did not attempt the song at the recording sessions for his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which had started in April 1962 and concluded in April 1963. [13]
The ballad was one of the inspirations for the 1828 play Elves' Hill by Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Other works inspired by "Elveskud" include Henrik Ibsen 's 1856 play Olaf Liljekrans ; Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir 's 1995 novel Mávahlátur ; [ 13 ] : 288–289 Böðvar Guðmundsson's 2012 novel Töfrahöllin ; [ 13 ] : 212, 251, 289 and Steeleye ...
(note that Kvällstoppen was a combined singles and album chart, with singles dominating a large portion of the 1960s. The first album to reach number one was Abbey Road by the Beatles in 1969, and the first Swedish-language album was Cornelis sjunger Taube by Cornelis Vreeswijk that same year)
Sings For Broadside, alternatively known as Broadside Ballads, Vol. 10, was a 1976 compilation of songs that Phil Ochs had recorded for Broadside Magazine as demonstration recordings or at benefit shows for them. Initially, Ochs had hoped for the magazine to release one single concert, but when the material he presented to them came up far too ...
[1] One of the most renowned Swedish troubadours of the 20th century was Evert Taube (1890–1976). He established himself as a performing artist in 1920 and toured Sweden for about three decades. He is best known for songs about sailors, ballads about Argentina, and songs about the Swedish countryside. [2] Ole Paus