1YX Runs Amok
WAS ‘very interested to see whose idols would be smashed in 1YX’s "Iconoclasts’ Corner" late on a Saturday evening. They were not mine, and as a matter of fact when 1YX wants to hurt my feelings it usually goes to it without any such warning. I have no oppressive reverence towards the "Poet-and Peasant" Overture, nor tunes from Offenbach, and I could sit back to take a little passing pleasure out of their parody and distortion, and laugh at the overture to "Raymond" adapted to the drama of a cat fight. Time was when I didn’t know that such records are not so funny the fifth time one hears them as they are the first, and if the salvage drives had ever made a call on old gramophone records I think most houses could unearth a little batch of these-relics of youthful pocket money happily but unwisely spent. Nowadays I am content to let the NBS handle: my buying for me in this department; but judging by the increasing number of such records, there must be many people still determined to. own the precious things,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 15
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1881YX Runs Amok New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 308, 18 May 1945, Page 15
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