Million-Airs
‘TO one who has always been, encour- : aged to believe that popular music bears the same relation to great music as pot-boiling to poetry the first of 2YA’s Wednesday . night Méillion-Airs session was a pleasant surprise. When listening to a programme of old-time music one is inclined to attribute the success of the session purely to nostalgia, but Wednesday night revealed that the music-buyer of the first 20 years of the Century knew a good tune when he heard one. The Campdown Races has no: moths on it, and The Farmer’s Boy no glue of sentiment to make it stick in the mind. But even that faded bouquet of rosemary and rue, After the Ball is Over, has a waltz refrain that sets the feet tapping. I shall be interested to see what happens when the compiler of the programme reaches the ‘thirties and ‘forties, when, thanks to modern methods of salesmanship, he should have the whole field of popular music to make his selections from. However I hope he follows along ‘the lines of his first programme arid makes the tune rather than the words his criterion, disregarding the verbal niceties of ‘Swinging on a Star and Accentuate the Positive in favour of the more fundamental melodics of Stardust or Rum and Coco-Cola.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 10
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215Million-Airs New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 10
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