But on February 5, 1966, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler’s hawkish patriotic single, The Ballad Of The Green Berets/ Letter From Vietnam, entered the US chart, and Uncle Sam had a new military hero.

“The Ballad of the Green Berets” may be the most divisive song ... (Yes – the very same Bert Kaempfert mentioned in Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week,” another number-one hit.

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In 1939, singer Roberta Flack was born in Asheville, N.C. She had a half-dozen ballad hits in the 1970s, including three No. 1 -- ``The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,'' ``Killing Me Softly With His ...

A weapons sergeant with the 7th’s 2nd Battalion, Tommy, 27, was barely a year into his service there as a Green Beret at Eglin Air Force Base on the Panhandle, sandwiched between surf ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

While James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is built on a smidge of deception — Nell and Herb long ago parted ways, both personally and professionally, and it’s quite clear Herb ...

The irresistibly charming, bittersweet “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is jam-packed with whimsy, comedy, and emotion—earning one of Sundance’s biggest standing ovations thus far. Senior ...

Because “The Ballad of Wallis Island” wants to give some time alone to Herb and Nell, Michael feels a little absent from the story at times. But as writers, Basden and Key avoid toothless ...

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