MUSIC AND PILLS.
Sir.-Your "Music and Pills" article was much appreciated. I wonder how many of your readers would remember Beechams’ Music Portfolios’ published in the early eighties, each containing about 20 items, Pianoforte Solos, Songs, Duets, etc.,. and retailed at 2d each. From memory I think there were about 20 volumes: issued, pages about 6in. x 5in., and very clear and accurate print. By a boy of working class parentage, these were much appreciated, and spare coppers in those days went to buy new copies. Such old favourites as "Drink To Me Only," "Tom Bowling," "Sall in our Alley," "Lass of Richmond Hill," "When Other Lips," etc., were among the song selections in the earliest of these volumes, and I distinctly remember "one fingering" out the air on the old harmonium, and, as a boy soprano singing many of these at public concerts in my home town and district. It is really no exaggeration to say that this was really the basis of my education in music and when I say that I have held paid positions as Tenor Soloist at English Churches and sung Tenor roles in several Oratorios and was one of the first to broadcast in New Zealand, this is a sincere appreciation of the earlier Beechams, who not only introduced the Pills, but the Music Portfolio at so low ~
a price.
OLD-TIMER
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 310, 1 June 1945, Page 5
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