Hit and Miss
HAVE been following 2ZB’s Hit Parade for some weeks now and am at a loss to understand why half-an-hour of listening to the World’s Top Voices and the World’s Top Bands in the World’s Top Tunes should make me feel low. This is not entirely due to the prevailing melancholy of the numbers, for to do the session justice, not more than half the lyrics yearn ineffectually. It may have something to do with the fact that the parade takes the form of a relentless progression from bottom to top. One is not surprised that Number Eight should be a little on the paltry side (the other day it was Pickle in the Middle and dealt with the composition of a sandwich) but when Number Eight is succeeded by seven others, each of them in turn seemingly lacking in the audi-ence-impact necessary before they can be termed hits, one begins to question the necessity for the session. Top Tune last week was Irving Berlin’s "Doing What Comes Naturally" which Dinah Shore, with superb artistry, manages to sing as if it had never been purged of the improprieties which made it famous.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 22
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194Hit and Miss New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 22
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