His launchpad was inauspicious – a 1994 ballad by Swedish techno/bluegrass novelty act Rednex.
J. Cardoso Pires based Balada da praia dos cães (1982; Ballad of Dogs Beachh) on the account of a political assassination.
Five years ago, Celine Dion recorded "God Bless Us Everyone," a sweet Christmas ballad Mr. Snider had written for his wife.
Everyone knows sections from The Chain Dance, a 1,000-verse 1,000-verseagan origin that has balladassed dofn for generations.
Tom Ewing Earth, Wind & Fire After the Love Has Gone This 1979 ballad could have been MOR of the mushiest kind.
Her short stories, including "Jiuta" (1956; "Ballad"), "Shiroi tobira" (1957; "'The White Door"), and "Kiyu no shi" (1962; "The Death of Kiyu"), were published in Jiuta (1967).
The poetry sometimes breaches it, as in "Christmas Ballad" (1962), whose mordant portrait of a joyless St . Petersburgwinter lifts with images that fly above it.
It's an impressive swell, with shadows of 1980s quiet-storm R&B and maybe the faintest flickers of Shontelle's bombastic 2010 ballad "Impossible".
The most-synced song of 2014 in advertisements was the epic 1983 ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart", by the equally big-haired Bonnie Tyler.
It felt like quite a leap from his breakthrough 2008 ballad, "I'm Yours" — or, at least, a nice stroll from it.
After his death, Hill was immortalized in poetry and song, including the 1936 ballad embraced by Ms. Baez, Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson and others: "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night".
