AMERICAN RECORDINGS
Sir,-However pleasant the voices of our American visitors are to our ears, the recorded accent of their countrymen (and women), grates on the ear of the average listener in this country, and as few of us have any knowledge of. the American background, idiom, and customs, much of the entertainment value of American presentations is wasted, while the cheap melodrama of the "Hi Ho Silver!" and Nazi spy sort of thing is even worse, Surely when the national stations have proven so conclusively that New Zealand performers, speaking our own New Zealand language, can put over programmes equal with anything in the world ("The Lutine’s Gold," for instance), it is not fitting that currency exchange, so hardly earned by import restrictions, should be sent to America for recordings of such little merit. The sponsors of many of the flamboyant American serials would be assisting the war effort to a greater extent if they would use a little more discrimination in the type of "presentation" they sponsor.
JANUS
(Upper Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 199, 16 April 1943, Page 3
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171AMERICAN RECORDINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 199, 16 April 1943, Page 3
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