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  Learn more about Chevy Chase in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Cornelius Crane Chase aka Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, and writer from Woodstock, New York.
Chase is most well known for being one of the original cast members for NBC's Saturday Night Live television series from 1975 to 1976.
Chase was the original anchor for the Weekend Update segment, which he began with the catch phrase "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not".
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  Ballad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ballads should not be confused with the ballade, a 14th and 15th century French verse form.
Ballads are most often folk poetry in a musical format, passed along orally from generation to generation, set to conventional tunes and usually sung by a solo voice, the hearers joining in the refrain.
A ballad is sung to a modal melody.
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 The Ballad of Chevy Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At least two English ballads known as The Ballad of Chevy Chase exist, but the nature of ballads mean that many more versions of this once popular song may not have survived.
The first of the two ballads of Chevy Chase took shape perhaps as early as the 1430s but the earliest record we have of it appears in The Complaynt of Scotland one of the first printed books from Scotland.
The ballads themselves tell the story of a hunting party in the Cheviot hills 'the chevy chase' by Percy, the English Earl of Northumberland.
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 Ballad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A ballad is a story in song, usually a (A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program) narrative song or poem.
Ballads are most often folk (Literature in metrical form) poetry in a musical format, passed along orally from generation to generation, set to conventional tunes and usually sung by a solo voice, the hearers joining in the refrain.
The jazz ballad is a sentimental narrative ((music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)) adagio akin to a (A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes) blues song.
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 Ballad - Wikinfo
Ballads are most often folk poetry in a musical format, passed along orally from generation to generation, set to conventional tunes and usually sung by a solo voice, the hearers joining in the refrain.
Broadsheet ballads, cheaply printed and often topical, humorous, even mildly subversive, were hawked in English streets from the 16th century; the legends of Robin Hood and the pranks of Puck were disseminated through broadsheet ballads.
The form of a ballad has been imitated in modern poetry— most notably by the Canadian ballads of Robert Service, in Kipling's 'Road to Mandalay' or in 'Casey at the Bat.' 'The Ballad of the Bread-man', is Charles Causley's re-telling of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ.
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 Straight Dope Staff Report: Who or what is Chevy Chase?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Newlands' key early purchase was Chevy Chase, a 305-acre plot of land straddling the line between Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Chevy was actually a childhood nickname, possibly based on the Maryland suburb - bestowed by his grandmother.
Chase family was affluent and distinguished and Chevy was listed in Social Register at early age.
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 Ballad of Chevy Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Chevy Chase Elementary School K-6 public school serving Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Ambulance, advanced life support, and heavy rescue squad serving Chevy Chase and Bethesda, Maryland, and sections of Montgomery County and Washington, DC.
North Chevy Chase Elementary School Magnet elementary school (gr 3-6) in the areas of Computer, Science, Math, and Gifted/Talented education in Chevy Chase, MD.
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 Chevy Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Chevy Chase, chev’i chas, a famous old English ballad of border warfare.
The name Chevy Chase has been variously explained, as a corruption of a French word meaning a raid, and as derived from the name Cheviot Hills, and meaning the Cheviot hunting ground.
The old song of Chevy Chase is the favorite ballad of the common people of England; and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the author of it than of all of his works.--Addison, Spectator.
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The Ballad of the Chevy Chase (or The Ballad of the Hunt), first recorded during the reign of Henry VI (1422-71), tells the tale of the rivalry between the two great forces of Percy and Douglas, land lords along each side of the English/Scottish border.
And, although the ballad mentions Henry IV as king, Douglas was actually killed at Otterburn in 1388 during the reign of Richard II.
The Chevy Chase Sideboard, measuring an astounding 12 feet wide by 10 feet high by 4 feet deep, is, for lack of a better word, breathtaking.
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 A Coleridge Companion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Archaic diction (drawn from Chaucer and Spenser as well as from ballad tradition), alliteration, repetition and the ballad-stanza itself are all brought to maturity in The Ancient Mariner and made to support the moral pattern of sin and expiation that lies at the heart of the poem.
Similarly, the crude superstitious animism of the typical medieval ballad, like the gratuitously horrific supernatural of the later ballads of the Gothic revival, is spiritualised, internalised, and transformed into a powerful imaginative instrument to probe the dark recesses of the Mariner's troubled psyche.
The 1816 Preface and Kubla Khan as a "Fragment"
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 Chevy Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Cornelius Crane Chase, better known as Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, writer and television and film actor from Woodstock, New York.
Immediately tagged by the media as the star of the show, and only signed to the show for one year, Chase left in 1976 to pursue a career in film.
In 1993 he hosted a talk show which remains one of the most notorious failures in the history of broadcast television: he later appeared in a television commercial which made humorous reference to the show.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chevy_chase   (287 words)

  
 ipedia.com: The Ballad of Chevy Chase Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The first of the two ballads of Chevy Chase was perhaps written as early as the 1430s but the earliest record we have of it is in The Complaint of Scotland one of the first printed books from Scotland.
This seems to have sparked renewed interest in the old ballad and the second of the ballads appears to have been written shortly afterwards, perhaps around 1620.
Both ballads were collected in Thomas Percy's Reliques and the first of the ballads in Francis James Child's Child Ballads.
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 Chevy Chase -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This article is about an American comedian; Chevy Chase is also (additional info and facts about a ballad) a ballad and a city in Maryland.
Chase is best known as one of the original cast members for NBC's (additional info and facts about Saturday Night Live) Saturday Night Live television series from 1975 to 1976.
Chase was the original anchor for the (additional info and facts about Weekend Update) Weekend Update segment, which he began with the (A phrase that has become a catchword) catch phrase "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not".
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ch/Chevy_Chase.htm   (578 words)

  
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At the end of the old ballad of "Chevy Chase," which reads the corrupted word into a new sense, as the Hunting on the Cheviot Hills, there is an identifying of the Hunting of the Cheviot with the Battle of Otterburn:-- "Old men that knowen the ground well enough call it the Battle of Otterburn.
Dyer's ballad pointed the contrast as a reproach to the Government for half-hearted support of the war, and was meant for suggestion of the success that would reward vigorous action.
CHEVY CHASE The Percy out of Northumberland, and avow to God made he That he would hunt in the mountains of Cheviot within days three, In the maugre of doughty Douglas and all that ever with him be, The fattest harts in all Cheviot he said he would kill and carry them away.
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 Chapter Balderdash <i>to</i> Ballistic of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
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 Biography for Chevy Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
His now-famous "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not" opening line on the "Weekend Update" segments of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) was a takeoff of New York news anchor Roger Grimsby's "Here now the news" opening line.
Chevy was actually a childhood nickname -- possibly based on the Maryland suburb -- bestowed by his grandmother.
Chevy Chase is also the name of a 16th century ballad about the battle between Earl Douglas and Earl Percy.
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 Definition of ballad of the alamo
7:...ues ballads rely on the mainstay three chords and the [[blues scale]].
3:...ommon theme in Border ballads, as are recountings of raids and battles.
1:...e nature of ballads mean that many more versions of this once popular song may not have survived.
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 Preface. Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. 1910. The Oxford Book of Ballads
Child’s method was to get hold of every ballad in every extant version, good, bad, or indifferent, and to print these versions side by side, with a foreword on the ballad’s history, packed with every illustration that could be contributed out of his immense knowledge of the folk-poetry of every race and country.
The various oral versions of a popular ballad obtainable throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland, are perhaps, even at this late day, 2 practically innumerable—one as ‘authentic’ as another.
Of this ticklish license I have been extremely chary, and have used it with the double precaution (1) of employing, so far as might be, words and phrases found elsewhere in the text of the ballad, and (2) of printing these experiments in square brackets, 3 that the reader may not be misled.
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The ballad relates almost wholly to the conflict arising out of this hunting, and only includes a few incidents which are known to have occurred at the battle of Otterbourne—such as the death of Douglas and the captivity of Hotspur.
This ballad is not confined to the incidents arising out of the hunting by Percy, but relates to the raids and counter-raids of the border-chieftains.
The rustics love 'a ballad in print,' for then they 'are sure they are true;' and listen with easy credulity to those which tell of 'strange fish,' and stranger monstrosities.
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 Chevy Chase — Infoplease.com
To louder strains he raised his voice, to tell What woful wars in `Chevy Chase' befell, When Percy drove the deer with hound and horn, Wars to be wept by children yet unborn.
Chevy Chase - Chevy Chase Chevy Chase, town (1990 pop.
Chevy Chase - Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase) actor, comedian Born: 10/8/1943 Birthplace: New York City...
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 Ballad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It is a rhythmic saga of a past affair, which may be heroic, romantic or satirical, almost inevitably catastrophic, which is related in the third person, usually with foreshortened alternating four- and three-stress lines ('ballad meter') and simple repeating rhymes, and often with a refrain.
Often the ballad ends with the murderer in jail or on his way to the gallows, an occasionally with a plea for the listener to learn from the evils committed by the speaker.
For example, "The Wexford Girl"http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiWXFRDGRL.html is essentially the same ballad as "Knoxville Girl'http://www.bluegrassnet.com/tgbs/K/Knoxville_girl.html with the setting transposed from Ireland to Tennessee.
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 FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
[Slang, Eng.] [1913 Webster] One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes.
[Also spelled chivy, chevy, and chevvy.] Syn: harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.
Chevy.] To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch; to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to.
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 Mr. Gomersall in the Role of Earl Douglas from "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" Giclee Print at AllPosters.com
Gomersall in the Role of Earl Douglas from "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" Giclee Print at AllPosters.com
Gomersall in the Role of Earl Douglas from "The Ballad of Chevy Chase"
N.T. Hicks in the Guise of the French Highwayman Claude Duval (1643-70) (Engraving and Collage)
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 Satan's Laundromat: Grassy
There is a Glen Campbell Road in Philly and a Chevy Chase Street in Jamaica Estates.
Posted by: Kevin Walsh at January 17, 2005 08:09 PM is chevy chase street named after the bank?
Posted by: Gray at January 18, 2005 03:10 AM Chevy probably named himself after the MD. town but Glen Campbell Road is a blissful coincidence.
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 The Ballad of Chevy Chase - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Ballad of Chevy Chase - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The first of the two ballads of Chevy Chase took shape perhaps as early as the 1430s but the earliest record we have of it appears in The Complaint of Scotland one of the first printed books from Scotland.
The Ballad of Chevy Chase, See also and External link.
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 After Chevy Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After Chevy Chase by Herbert Dicksee, R.E. This photograph, taken with the picture in situ, comes from the National Trust property, Cragside.
The medieval Ballad of Chevy Chase tells of the quarrel between the neighbouring border families of Percy and Douglas.
Eventually they met in battle on Chevy Chase, where both their leaders are slain.
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 The Chevy Chase Sideboard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This extraordinary piece, meticulously crafted by the most famous of all wood carvers, Gerrard Robinson of Newcastle, is considered by many experts to be the finest piece ever created during the 19th century and the icon of Victorian furniture.
The Ballad narrates the tale of how the Englishman, Sir Henry Percy (who was nicknamed Harry Hotspur and was a prominent figure in Shakespeare’s Henry IV), left Alnwick Castle to go deer hunting in the neighboring Scottish lands.
Gerrard Robinson captured the glory and drama of the ballad with this remarkable sideboard.
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 The Newgate Calendar - SAWNY DOUGLAS
SAWNY DOUGLAS, a Scotsman, was the son of a tanner, and born at Portpatrick in the shire of Galloway, where he lived till the unnatural Civil War broke out in 1641.
While he was under sentence he behaved in a very profane and indecent manner, cursing the bellman for his bad English when he repeated the usual Memento the night before his execution.
When he came thither he took no notice of the ordinary, but bid the hangman be speedy, and not make a great deal of work about nothing, or at most about a mere trifle.
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