Many country ballads from the 1950s have long been standards, using simple melodies and raw lyrics we can't stop singing.

“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

For generations, tales of African-American life have been told through a musical genre known as black ballads. A new CD, Classic African-American Ballads, is reviving this part of black musical ...

HARDY & Lainey Wilson's "Wait in the Truck" is the latest in a long history of fatal country tunes. Country music is rich with murder ballads — emotional tales of revenge that often end in some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the song that started it all. In 1980, then-unknown New Jersey songwriter Jon Bongiovi recorded a rough version of this ...

Adele’s 21 has ruled the American charts for most of 2011, and it’s done so almost entirely on the back of one song: the lead single “Rolling In The Deep.” While the British singer was topping charts ...

Neil Sedaka, known for hits like “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Love Will Keep Us Together” and “Calendar Girl” died Friday at ...

Some stories stand the test of time: Shakespeare's plays, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the Child ballads. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're not for children. They're Scottish and ...

"Our Ballad" makes its mark in audition history by unifying all generations through ballads. The new SBS music audition "Our Ballad," directed by Jung Ik-seung, Ahn Jung-hyun, Han Ye-seul and Go ...