By A Longtime Reader
tuesday, march 4, 2025 at 2:16:00 p.m. est
Fun Fact aaaaaaaabout Ewan MacColl--direct quote from wikipedia:
"in the early 1950s he penned 'The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh' and 'The Ballad of Stalin' for the British Communist Party.
Joe Stalin was a mighty man and a mighty man was he,
He led the Soviet people on the road to victory,
All through the revolution he fought at Lenin's side,
And they made a combination till the day that Lenin died.
When asked about the song in a 1985 interview, he said that it was "a very good song" and that "it dealt with some of the positive things that Stalin did.'"
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2 comments:
Just bad luck that McColl was edged out of the top 10 by inferior songs such as these,lol :
1 "Too Young" Nat King Cole with Les Baxter
2 "Because of You" Tony Bennett with Percy Faith
3 "How High the Moon" Les Paul and Mary Ford
4 "Come On-a My House" Rosemary Clooney
5 "Be My Love" Mario Lanza with Ray Sinatra and Jeff Alexander
6 "On Top of Old Smoky" The Weavers and Terry Gilkyson with Vic Schoen
7 "Cold, Cold Heart" Tony Bennett with Percy Faith
8 "If" Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres
9 "The Loveliest Night of the Year" Mario Lanza
10 "Tennessee Waltz" Patti Page.
GRA:Timing is everything.
--GRA
I'd never heard of this person before--one of many. I'll probably forget about him just as fast,not that it wasn't interesting,in a way.
--GRA
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