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|F you prefer your escapism scented with lavender rather than with frangipani, I unhesitatingly recommend
2YA’s Saturday night Victor Silvester session Tunes You Used to Dance To. Now one of the many desirable features of the session is that the tempo is so strictly marked that it is impossible to think of ahy of the numbers as Tunes You Used to Sit Out To, and this makes for general pleasantness. The tunes themselves -- "When Mother Nature Sings a Lullaby," "The Moon Got in
My Eyes," "I'll Keep You in My Heart Always’-are easy on the ear, and serve to remind the listener that in good old pre-war days there was sweet jazz as well as hot jazz. The ‘thirties have indeed gone to join those dear dead days beyond recall, and there seemed to be something of an obituary flavour about the session, largely because it was entirely composed of nice songs-de mortuis nil nisi bonum.,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 10
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157Old-Time New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 10
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