Swing It!
(Two Variations on a Theme) B le Woogie breaks down social Listen to the merciless eight-beat thythm of fat na 3 a ana & gota , a ue "In Kalamazoo." Mr. "aut it’s true That Kalamazoo beak Sie to be known to you. Sir, you can have yer Well-tempered Klavier, Pm just crazy on the sax ophone, Sing F ey He fling it, Bing it, gie, TI like Boogie Woogie, she likes Bach.
Helen
Bretherton
* % * H, Mr. Shelley, give us Swing, Sir! Give us Bing, Sit; Give us something hot To make us dance and sing, Sir! Switch the stations of the nation From Concertos and Cantatas To suit the locomotions Of the ey Social Strata; Give us Swing, Sir, Give us Bing, Sir, Give us any — thing, Sir, But make it ho _ Leave the Ramping on the rostrum; Shoo old Schumann out of 2YA! Chop out Chopin. do with Donizetti; eee Handel in the proper But Pn ‘Swing, Sir, Give us Bing, Sir, Give us all the very latest thing, Sir, And make it hot! Leave Pe Leopold brandishing his Let Liszt_to geri Get the Duke to pla We'll knock spots 'Spivokovaki yz that Boogie Woogie’s here to 'y. 4
Anton
Vogt
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 248, 24 March 1944, Page 5
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203Swing It! New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 248, 24 March 1944, Page 5
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