FASHIONS IN FOX TROTS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 264, 29 November 1928, Page 2

FASHIONS IN FOX TROTS.

Dance music is changing again (writes “A Dance Expert” in the Daily Mail). The type of jazz tune that was hugely successful a year ago will not sell to-day. There are fashions in jazz—more so than ever to-day, when the life of the average jazz tune is down to six months, and may soon have contst _:ted to four. Try a series of June loxtrots for 1925, 1926, and 1927, and the latest for this year, on your gramophone. You will find they date as decidedly as a woman’s hat l . As for the foxtrots of 1922, to hear them gives one the sensation one experiences on glancing through an old phetograoh album. Strange that we once lookeo use that! Strange that we were once ravished by that!

A new dance-music fashion comes by .way of a reaction of the vast public against something it is tired of. It has ideas in the ballr,oom, for it is tne irresistible music which keeps dancing alive and which brings new dances in, and not vice versa. Just now the . dance-music composer who calls .at-] the music publisher’s with a new tango, a new blackbottom number, or a new Charleston tune is being shown th door. The demand has died. Blues numbers also have lost much of tfhe popularity with which they started the year. Mammy and “Ole Kentucky” songs are as dead as the Livery Stable Blues of 12 years ago. A temple bell in a foxtrot “dates” it fatally now; so dees a Chinese lilt. The public has had Indian and Chinese jazz effects and is sick of tlhem. .Foxtrots that are carried along on a fuii tide of gay melody are in high , favour". Melancholy themes of the “v/nere-is-ma-baby’ ! and “my-broken- ] heart” have had their spell of popularity. Joy songs of the “marvel- • Ibus-girl” and June-love” description are in vogue.

Waltzes, too, with strong romantic melodies are tlhe successes of the hour. But the big hit, another “Tea for Two,” the jazz number that will alone make a musical show and captivate 20 million dancers, has not yet appeared in the 1928 list.

Four years’ experience in Australia s Leading Ladies’ Hairdressing Saloon.