Hands Off!
fl THOUGHT I had suffered enough in hearing "Waltzing Matilda" and "Alouette" battered into singularly dull marches, but this pales beside the treatment meted out to "Sarie . Marais," which is to South Africa what the above are to Australia and Canada. First it was combined with another Afrikaans song ("Ferreira") and the two, emasculated as to music and provided with Tin Pan Alley’s worst in the way of words, were wished on an innocent public under the name of "Trek Song." Then it was, provided with a fair-to-middling English
translation and recorded -I know not why-at a funereal. pace and in an undulating manner. Then it was shoved, like its Imperial brethren, into a series of dull marches with titles like "British Empire Fantasia." However, one does occasionally hear it, usually from 3ZB, sung, with other South African folk tunes, either in the original Afrikaans or at the correct brisk pace.. Why most entertainment manufacturers can’t leave a good thing alone is beyond the wit of man to discern.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 299, 16 March 1945, Page 9
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171Hands Off! New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 299, 16 March 1945, Page 9
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