Eagle in the Groove
"LJNCLE SAM Presents," usually for hectic quarter-hour before the 11.0 p.m. news, various orchestras of wartime America-chiefly those of the armed services, but a few of civilian war workers. The music they discourse is much of a muchness, always very fast, highly rhythmic, but-what surely defeats the purpose of rhythm-somehow formless and a little monotonous. The whole tone is too high-pitched-there is I suspect that half the attraction of a sort of shrill, slovenly, pointless urgency. swing and its kinsmen is an ultimate simplicity, to be traced to its negro origin. In any case, good swing, for all its speed, is not hurried, and permits itself a certain depth, colour, and variety which the "Uncle Sam" programmes altogether lack, In this connection it occurs to me that the equivalent of good swing in the words of dialogue is Tommy Handley; but for the equivalent of bad we should have to look for the Tower of Babel. ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 14
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160Eagle in the Groove New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 14
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