Food Songs
N a session of latest recordings from 2ZB we heard Dinah Shore sing a little number called "Shoe-shy Pie and Apple, Pandowdy" which Miss Shore reports, make her eyes light up and@#her voice say howdy. If the warmth and fervour implicit in Miss Shore’s singing are any indication of the worth of these comestibles they should repay investigation, but research at the U.S. Library of Information failed to yield any precise information as to ingredients or method. So we conclude that there are perhaps no such dishes, but that these terms are cooked up to express thesinger’s own emotional attitude to food, more particularly as depicted in the glossy technicoloured pages of the highclass American magazine. And baulked of the primary object of our research we got to thinking of the jewel-like rarity of songs about food. Psychologically speaking, the hunger instinct is as important as the sex instinct, yet in spite of all the pleas of UNRRA the lyricwriter continues to believe with Nelson Eddy that "It’s love and love alone the world is needing." Miss Shore’s contribu. tion may not be a very important one, but at any rate it makes a nice change,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 16
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198Food Songs New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 362, 31 May 1946, Page 16
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