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MONG a lot of ‘cheap sentimental songs in 1YA’s Saturday programme, Patricia McLeod’s Hebridean group stood out as something genuine. The common balladic descriptions of the moon, dawn, sunset, the sea, and other natural phenomena are neither poetically nor scientifically true. At the best they are pleasant for those not allergic to sugar, and funny to those for whom "a mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." To most others they are positively embarrassing. But these songs of the Hebrides are the speech of folk accustomed to think, to feel and to understand. It is not only love of people they express, but love of the earth, the air and the sea, and, above all, love of living. Patricia McLeod sang them with sincerity and simplicity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 9
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129Real Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 9
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