Billy Mayerl
HEN the highbrows at last make their great purge of the broadcasting situation, I hope they will not decide, in righteous wrath, to consign Billy Mayerl to whatever limbo. they have in store for the writers of popular jazz. There was a quarter of an hour devoted to him from (continued on next page)
' (continued from previous page) 4YZ, and I must ,onfess I enjoyed it. Billy Mayer! has the advantage of being one popular composer who doesn’t:set up to be a Great Prophet; he doesn’t claim to have invented an entirely new art or to have revolutionised the theory and practice of musical composition; he writes, and can be listened to; just for the fun of the thing. Somehow or other he ‘seems to have missed the brightest limelight during the handing-out of laurels for popular music, the adulation of the subservient public going to publicity artists like Irving Berlin, who hasn't a tenth of Billy Mayerl’s dexterity in the turning-out of catchy phrases. If you don’t appreciate the full force of that word "catchy," listen to Billy Mayerl’s "Bats in the Belfry"-or rather, don’t listen to it, for it’s one of those things like Mark Twain’s "punch with care’ which remdin in the ear of the listener for days on end, and are more difficult to exorcise than the most persistent devils,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 8
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226Billy Mayerl New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 8
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