PUTTING DOWN THE CROONER
NOT WANTED IN BRITISH WAR FACTORIES. No more crooners, it is explained, will be allowed on the “Music While You Work” wireless programmes (an English exchange observes), because their usually mournful song does not stimulate output. Considering the violent denunciation which the very mention of crooners frequently arouses it might have been thought that nothing better could have been found for bringing war-workers up to a proper pitch of ferocity—that shells would be filled in no time and grisly weapons poured forth in an ecstasy of irritation. But, contrary to the evidence supplied by nearly all the letters to the press on this subject, it would seem that crooning and soothing must be synonymous terms with some people; on goes the crooner and down goes the output. They had better be tried with Bach and chamber music—that seems to. stir up the most violently hostile reactions with those who admire crooning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 5
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155PUTTING DOWN THE CROONER Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 5
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