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60's/70's Talking/Singing Story Ballads

The thread with "Jack Johnson" in the title reminded me of growing up in Iowa and listening late-night Fridays to Beaker Street with Clyde Clifford on claer-channel KAAY - Little Rock. He would play stuff like the Jaime Brockett classic "Legend of the Titanic" and Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" and others of this genre when radio stations allowed more than 5 minutes of continuous programming.

I know there were quite a number of other "songs" like this but memory of the titles escape me for various and sundry (mostly sundry) reasons. What were a few others, please?
4yanx
mmrog
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By the ones I am recalled, it seemed to be more of a 50's and 60s thing.

Ballad of the Green Beret
16 Tons
Tell Laura I Love Her

A few that are probably too fast to be ballads

Hot Rod Lincoln
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, that Cigarette
4yanx OP
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Yeah, Tom...but the phrase "swimmin' pools, movie stars" doesn't quite have the same cache these days! :-)
analogphil
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Harry Chapin - 30,000 lbs of bananas
Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall - Scheherazade
David Bromberg - Will Not be Your Fool
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
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waltersalas
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Tom T. Hall--a great American storyteller.
spudco
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Mickey Newberry "Frisco Mabel Joy" is the ultimate.
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