BOOMPS-A-DAISY INTO BATTLE!
New Marching Song Is In Waltz Time
"Boomps-a-Daisy!" has boomped into fame as a possible new marching song for the troops, in competition with "Tipperary." But "Tipperary" should win, for the new crazy dance craze is in three-quarter time, and as it is at present the troops couldn’t even goose-step to it. Already strained by the new edict that platoons shall form in threes instead of fours, tradition would surely not stand for the spectacle of soldiers waltzing into battle. Imagine a tank spinning round in a barbed wire entanglement to "Blue Danube" time. Marching to * Boomps-a-Daisy!" would be something like that. Only radical alteration of the time would make it in any way suitable. Publisher Lawrence Wright co-operated with Jack Hylton and other prominent band leaders a month or two ago to give " Boomps-a-Daisy!" a sales push rivalling and finally outclassing "The Lambeth Walk." The bands featured it, bustle-ballets featured it, music shops featured it, and half the population boomped around London to the jingle. Now, say the cables, the Tommies and Poilus have adopted it. In New Zealand, the song has so far barely got beyond the news stage, and though the catchy mélody has already been heard over the air, other popular songs have not yet been " boomped off" B OOSTED by Jack Hylton in London
under the latest musical barrage. But both the song and the dance will be quickly learned. Simplicity is the big thing. Roughly, the dance-step sequence is: Partners face in and clap both hands, touch knees, rustle bustles, and bow. Then, holding lett and right hands, spare arm poised gracefully, they
swing the inside foot across, then the outside foot, swing back to back again, and come into a clinch for a final waltz-valeta twirl. Mademoiselle from Armentieres is getting on in years now. But she could still beat this one. Below we give the music and directions for dancing "Boomps-a-Daisy!" as reproduced ig English papers: —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 7
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