Off to Sydney
THEN Jean McPherson, of Wellington (right), appeared with the Jack Davey show "Can You Top This?" which toured New Zealand last November, her individual style of singing attracted the attention of the Australian director of a sponsored radio unit. He took a recording of some of her songs back to Sydney. The result was a contract for her signature, and she will leave for Sydney on March 27. Miss McPherson is to join a pro-gramme-producing company with a staff of 150, producing at least four musical shows a week, which are broadcast over 60 Australian radio stations. The orchestra is of more than 30 pieces and is in charge of a New Zealander, Dennis Collinson. Well-known artists such as Harold Williams, Strella Wilson, and . Haydn Beck are heard in these programmes. Listeners in New Zealand have heard Miss McPherson principally in a weekly feature from 2YA. She sang at the second concert given by the 2YA Camp Concert Party early in 1942 at the Trentham Military Camp and has ap-
peared since then at hundreds of con-certs.-She has sung many times in hos-" pitals to wounded servicemen and has appeared in National as well as Commercial radio programmes. : During the war many of her songs were recorded for the Forces programmes broadcast from Egypt to the Middle East, and for the Pacific Islands programmes,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 349, 1 March 1946, Page 19
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