JAZZ AND CROONING
LONDON, May 9.
“I cannot imagine a crooner inspiring anyone into war service,” said Sir Sydney Nicholson, who is director of the school of English church music and a former organist at Westminster Abbey, when he was asked why this war has not produced thrilling marching soage comparable with those of 1914-18, ' “It is conceivably due to the, degradation of popular taste by the "perpetual sound of jazz and crooning,” he said. “We are going through an age of the most terrible sentimentality. The wireless is constantly giving out ‘Darling. Let. Me 'Sit BesiiL You.’ If people like such stuff it is likely that they will not waut to sing anything decent.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 5
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115JAZZ AND CROONING Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 5
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