CROONERS FOR BREAKFAST
Sir,-I fully appreciate the difficulty of trying to please everybody, but could not something be done about those dread~ ful "crooners" — especially at breakfast time when something cheerful is needed, Incredible as it seems to most normal people, it is said that there are those who actually enjoy this depressing rubbish; if so, let the. crooners have their "ZB" Stations, but keep them off the YA lot. It has been aptly said that crooners are the lowest form of life yet discovered. The sounds they emit would be excusable in a sick goat, but why inflict them on a long-suffering public? The YA Stations are supposed to have an educative influence, and the management would not consider employing an announcer who could not pronounce and speak decent English. So why tolerate the crooner? We always turn on the radio at 7 o'clock breakfast a little before time so as to get the news, and a little decent music or something cheerful is all to the good; but often we strike a crooner. The other morning we got one of these pests at 2YA, hastily shut him off, only to get another more poisonous still at 1YA, and then another at 3YA. We missed the news that morning. Surely there should be some escape.
AVERAGE LISTENER
(Hicks Bay)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 14
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220CROONERS FOR BREAKFAST New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 14
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