CROONING AT BREAKFAST

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 24

CROONING AT BREAKFAST

Sir,-May I be permitted to add my grouch to the others you have received against "crooning" for breakfast. For months past those performances have been a source of annoyance in our home. Whenever we have the misfortune to tune in without first of all consulting The Listener, and the "noise" we are greeted with is a "crooner" there is a rush across the room to "cut his throat." Surely by now organisers must realise what is tolerable, particularly for breakfast sessions. How many folk rise, really thrilled and anxious to set off for their daily routine? Music in the early morning should be bright and tuneful to send people off to business feeling cheerful and happy. " Crooners" are an insult to intelligent listeners. As " Average Listener" stated, the ZB stations supply sufficient in that style, so why can’t we have from the YA’s more Moncrieff, Crooks, Natzke, Dawson, ballad singers, and tuneful orchestral music?

— *ANOTHER AVFRAGE

LISTENER"

(Christchurch).

Sir-In your last week’s publication "Average Listener" made some strong remarks about that Public Enemy No. 1, the crooner. In my opinion he did not write strongly enough. I certainly agree with him in all respects. One station makes a point of even putting on the prime moaner of the lot for a full quarter of an hour every Sunday morning. Why is this monstrosity foisted upon us? I can imagine what a reception some of these singers would have got in the old days of Fuller’s Vaudeville in Wellington. They would have been lucky to get off the stage alive. How anyone can honestly say that he appreciates the efforts of these zoological specimens passes my comprehension.

OLD FASHIONED

(Miramar),