Sentences with phrase «old ballads»

I actually love all her old ballad songs a lot!

It consists of my own original poems, a rhyming verse and an old ballad connected to Summer.

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The sales numbers reflect the wide appeal of the emotional and personal ballads by the 27 year - old British singer, as well as the decision by her independent record company XL Recordings not to make the album available for streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Google Play.

In the notes he wrote for Biograph (1985), he explains that the melody was influenced by an early Scottish ballad he had heard on an old 78 and could not get out of his head.

So put your child in a diaper or disposable training pants when you put him in his pj's — the whole family will get a good night's sleep (3 - year - old Alex Ballad calls his bedtime diaper «overnight underwear,» according to his mom, Tricia, of Bloomington, Illinois).

Caleb Finch has played fiddle in the Iron Mountain String Band for more than 30 years, bowing old - time ballads from the southwestern Virginia Appalachians.

Love Me Tender — Elvis Presley (1956) Adapted from a 1861 Civil War ballad (yes, really), Love Me Tender's tune is the oldest on this list.

Told in three parts, this gunfighter ballad is about a tragic relationship between a daring cowboy and a Mexican maiden in the Old West.

For Once In My Life — Stevie Wonder This old love song existed as a slower ballad before Stevie Wonder got his hands on it and found gold.

Shy, mellow easy going and kinda laid back, simple guy who still rocks with 80 «s rock and ballads, but can still listen to «real» old traditional Country music.

Ummm, that may be because the 24 - year - old is dating his ex-wife, Kailyn Lowry's Teen Mom When we think about some of the most romantic gestures — someone standing in the rain to profess their love or writing a monster ballad for the love of

Throughout, he manages to dip into old - school doo - wop sounds, grand orchestral ballads and Johnny Cash - inspired country anthems, not at the same time, but almost within their own little worlds.

The choice of this mewling ballad reflects Dick's occasional missteps in The Invisible War, like having Cioca read her old suicide note aloud.

August 15, 2016 • Hear the self - described «accidental brass quartet» put a new spin on an old British ballad in an evocative arrangement by Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon.

«Three Billboards» plays like a country ballad that's full of improvised riffs on old themes: its verses head off in different directions, some violent and swearing, others reflective or funny.

The title is perfect: «Distant Voices, Still Lives» writer - director Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's 1932 novel of life in the Scottish countryside is like an old familiar tune, a lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power, and just a handful of off - key notes.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

Venice Film Festival British filmmaker Andrea Arnold would have been 16 years old when Kate Bush topped the UK pop charts with «Wuthering Heights,» a swirling art - rock ballad that stripped the Emily Brontë novel for which it is named down to a few key lines and narrative details, but evoked its grand - scale tragic romance in -LSB-...]

Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener for Capote (and The 40 Year Old Virgin and The Ballad of Jack and Rose)

Gregg (Marvel's The Avengers, Iron Man, The New Adventures of Old Christine) will lead an ensemble cast that includes Saxon Sharbino, Amanda Peet (Syriana, Please Give, Something's Got ta Give), Paul Sparks (Boardwalk Empire, Edge of Darkness, Rachel Getting Married), Felicity Huffman (Transamerica, Phoebe in Wonderland, Desperate Housewives), Allison Janney (The Help, Juno, American Beauty), William H. Macy (The Sessions, Fargo, Shameless), Molly Shannon (Saturday Night Live, Year of the Dog, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby), Niecy Nash (Reno 911!)

Interestingly, the breakout ballad «Memory» was one of the few songs whose lyrics didn't come from T.S. Eliot's «Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.»

Older members of the audience will find cheer in the possibility of their entering a second chapter in their own lives, but one may well wonder what attraction songs like «Hey, Baby Doll,» which does not have a rock rhythm, and a new composition from Danny which is more like a ballad you'd find on «Your Hit Parade» during the 1950s.

Though the project is tentatively backed by old friend Max (Paul Bettany), a Nick Carraway figure who sadly narrates the ballad of Will and Evelyn for us from a few years» distance, it has an enemy in self - professed «neo-Luddite radical» Bree (Kate Mara, fittingly introduced as Depp waxes on the dangers of putting a human face on a robot's consciousness).

There, inside Bessemer's American Mill No. 2 - and inside Wiley Cash's novel The Last Ballad - labored Ella May Wiggins: «sunken, wide - set dark eyes,» grim mouth, all of 28 - years old.

In poems as various as the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard - boiled poems of twentieth - century noir, Killer Verse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims - from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men - ever to be immortalized in verse.

Wiley Cash (who might have the best name in the literary world) has penned an old - fashioned Southern saga with The Last Ballad, while Alice Hoffman returns to her mystical realm with the prequel to Practical Magic, The Rules of Magic.

And watching Thompson and his wife struggle to separate fact from fiction in the «Ballad,» then explain the difference between them to a four - year - old, is a hoot; they end up having to read aloud, «at her insistence,» an entire biography of Andrew Jackson to establish historical context.

Across campus at Smith Warehouse, a grieving Professor Richard J. Powell played an old soul ballad for his Art of the United States class: Ashford and Simpson's «Take All the Time You Need.»

But in the end, it was 45 - year - old Glaswegian artist Susan Philipsz, with recordings of three different versions of a traditional Scottish ballad, who bagged the Turner Prize last night.

Philipsz sings three disjointed renditions of an old Scottish ballad, and it's lovely, but the installation — spartan, industrial — saps some of the atmosphere.

Sedley's review covers «von Emmich's infantry crossed the frontier [in August 1914] in parade - ground order, accompanied by horse - drawn field kitchens with fires burning and army cooks stirring the regimental stew», the seaman's ballad «The Flying Cloud», [1830s, after which Toronto's oldest folk club is named],

According to legend, the music used in the song was lifted from an old bar room ballad.