Musical Donnybrook
[OR the title of the week’s Public Benefactor No, 1, I recommend one Spike Jones, a short programme by this gentleman and his City Slickers having just provided me with the best musical laugh I have ever had from 4ZB. What this irreverent Mr. Jones does to certain trite and sentimental ditties is nobody’s business; any sickly, over-rated tune is grist to the Jones mill, and for popular jazz songs Spike and his boys have about as much regard as Walton had for the popular classics in Facade. Of course, anybody can" parody a song, but it isn’t every arranger who can turn the parody into a devastating critical attack on the good taste of the original, and ‘the methods used in good faith by singers who choose to interpret such songs. Surely, the wicked parody of the ubiquitous Hawaiian orchestra will not fail to blush the ears of all amateur performers on the Ha-
waiian guitar; surely nobody can hear Spike’s "Glow-worm" and remain an admirer of sopranos who insist on holding their top C’s, But possibly I overestimate Mr. Jones’s talent for divine de-bunking-there are actually people who take Facade quite seriously, and such musical morons may even plunge into the middle of a City Slickers’ donnybrook and emerge unscathed, without so'much as a change of heart!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 10
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221Musical Donnybrook New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 10
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