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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
theduke
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Marty Robbins: "Gunfighter Songs and Trail Ballads". A 1960 Grammy Award winner available in excellent remastered sound from Columbia/Legacy (Sony). "El Paso" was the hit single from this American music masterpiece.

It's absolutely essential!
zaikesman
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BTW 4yanx, I don't suppose The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron were what you had in mind either...
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viridian
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I second Theduke's recommendation, but shouldn't he be forwarding something from the Ellington canon?
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onhwy61
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I think Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park" fits in this category, but my particular favorite is Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe".
inscrutable
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Arlo's 'Pause of Mr. Claus' and 'Motorcycle Song', 'Bullfrog Blues' by either Bromberg or Rory Gallagher, and Bromberg's 'Mr. Bojangles' - tho they are more songs with a story interspersed.
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