WOMEN WHO SING MEN'S SONGS.
Sir,-Why are women allowed to sing men’s songs on the air? If there is one thing that maddens me more than the classics v. jazz debate, it is to hear a good New Zealand girl waste her and mine with songs which were not only written for men, but which are also inevitably sung better by men. In recent months I have heard women sing " Friend o’ Mine," "Annie Laurie,’ "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose," and "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air." If I listen long enough I dare say I shall hear some young girl do her worst with "I Am a Bandolero." And these women can’t get away with the excuse that they like the tunes better (there are thousands of beautiful tunes written for women’s songs), or that it suits their voices (the songs were written for men’s voices), or that they like the sentiments (they are engaged to sing a song, hot to tell us a story). The correct and obvious reprisal is for men to start singing women’s songs, and show the whole stunt up for the silly exhibitionism it is. Why don’t some of our local basses give us "My Mother Bids Me Bind
My Hair’?-
AB
C
(Wellington)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 4
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