Tango
TATION 4YA was on the air, Radiating, from its high antenna Surging waves across the ether, music everywhere . Tuning in, I swung across the dial, Sharply finding its allotted wavelength 4YA was serving tango, Mexicano style, Syncopation, syncopation Tapped a heady pace, Drums and tuba, straight trom. Cuba, Swinging in the bass. Syncopation, syncopation Marked the. rhythm’s beat Spilling thrilling excitation, Giddy with exhilaration Saxes flare in wild pulsation. _ Syncopation, syncopation Modern music’s hot, sensation, Thudding in a mad creating Played for dizzy feet. And I wondered, while the record ran Just a little pace, a few brief minutes; Why the tango, hot tandango, stirs the blood of man. Rourd and round the racing record spun, Cutting the disc the needle ploughed its circles, Needle, singing needle, soon your ecstasy was done, A voice addressed me in a cultured tone, Saying: "This is Station 4YA, That last recording was a tango, played on Parlophone."
Merval H.
Connelly
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 3
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158Tango New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 113, 22 August 1941, Page 3
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