Russia gave the maximum 12 points to Azerbaijan's entry - a ballad by Farid Mammadov.
His ballad albums such as "In the Wee Small Hours" set a high bar.
Their separation inspired "He Stopped Loving Her Today, " a towering ballad about a doomed love.
However, Mr McCarthy won't be looking for any power ballad compilations as stocking fillers.
Not to say the ballad of Harold and Erica is altogether lacking in feeling.
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Right now I'm going to slow things down - with a ballad that's called Everytime.
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Just listen to his new ballad, "Denver, " which unfolds as an escalating series of devastating confessions.
Ireland can win this competition again and we can do it with a ballad.
Slow things down for dinner with a ballad of international flavours from the hotel's China Grill.
Thankfully, Intervention seems to have dropped some of the saccharine ballad that used to accompany each episode.
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He knows that even the most downcast, despairing ballad can be uplifting, especially if it's sung like this.
His "rock ballad" Lonely Planet will be performed at this year's contest in Sweden by Armenian act Dorians.
If "Glad Rag Doll" is a heartfelt ballad with guitar accompaniment, "Sweet Man" exists in a temporal phantom zone.
Still, true to form, it hits a glorious peak during a lovely ballad.
One of Mr. Alterman's two compositions in the set, "The First Night Home, " is a ballad for the ages.
If Tedder is the king of the ballad, the trio rules the realm of insanely catchy, fiendishly layered dance-floor-fillers.
She says Danny Boy is known worldwide and that Limavady should be proud of its links to the ballad.
Shirley Horn was considered one of the most expressive ballad singers in jazz.
Lo appreciated how much fun Heejun brought to a ballad-heavy night, but Steven just wasn't buying it at all.
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He said he and partner Justine Thornton sang along to the hit ballad "at the top of our voices" while driving.
At the American Music Awards, she set her piano on fire and belted out a heart-wrenching ballad while smashing wine bottles on the keys.
His most recent effort, the sprawling 17-song folk tale My Name Is Buddy, revisits the Dustbowl ballad form and Depression-era road songs.
"Princess of China" is a ballad about loss and regret, co-starring Rihanna.
Among them was the unreleased 1986 ballad In A Large Room With No Light, which had long been a fan-favourite on bootleg recordings.
Pastora Soler will sing her ballad Quedate Conmigo (Stay With Me) at Saturday's final, to be held in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku.
It was a poem from the Northern Wei period about 1, 500 years ago, however, that inspired the team at Disney: The Ballad of Mulan.
The song recorded by Barrule is a reworking of a traditional 18th century Manx ballad 'Ny Kirree of Niaghtey' (The Sheep Under the Snow).
The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5, 250) is a "detour down a back road, " to lift a line from a country ballad popular there.
Where Are We Now? is a simple, unfussy ballad - Bowie singing mournfully over a piano motif that slowly builds to an understated coda.
In our excerpts, Wilson paces a three-syllable melody (Mon-te-rey) at an allegro tempo, as a romantic ballad, and sets it to a Latin swing beat.
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