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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 19

Sir,-For some time past I have read listeners’ views on crooners and I feel that somebody ought to put in a good word for them instead of crying them down all the time. Please do not think I am an ardent fan of crooners, because I can listen to Peter Dawson, Richard Tauber, or Lawrence Tibbet with equal pleasure, but I also find pleasure in listening to Bing Crosby. I do agree with these objectors to crooning on one point. It is certainly most disappointing to tune in from one station to another and hear nothing else but crooning. However, we can only presume that this is accidental. ..- Perhaps the organisers could arrange it so that each station could have their crooners on different mornings, then crooner objectors could partake of their breakfast in peace. "Old Fashioned " says that one station gives fifteen minutes every Sunday morning to the "prime moaner" of them all. I believe he referred to Bing Crosby. It is not necessary for "Old Fashioned" or anyone else to listen to the station which presents Mr. Crosby on Sunday morning. At the time this session is broadcast "Old Fashioned" should be either at church or have the radio tuned into a station that is broadcasting a church service-that -is why I never listen to Bing for fifteen minutes on Sunday mornings. Besides, "even a crooner must eat," and isn’t crooning the way they earn their bread

and butter? Even if Bing is a "prime moaner"’ he is tops in his section of the musical world. . . . I feel somebody should be helping crooners, not insulting them! For the first time in my short life I heard them referred to as zoological specimens-words fail me. — "FLABBERGASTED " \ (Gisborne).