Lemon-Drop
‘THE 4YO announcer evidently felt, as I did, that the whole performance was mildly incredible, for in the middle of it he took time off to say, "You may not believe me, but you are actually listening to Tchaikovski’s ‘Nutcracker Suite." Those of you who have heard it will guess that he referred to Spike Jones’s remarkable arrangement of this suite, in which the maestro of de-bunkery and his City Slickers administer what should be the coup-de-grace to Walt Disney at his soupiest, to all imitators of the Silly Symphonic manneérisms, to the majority of verse-speaking addicts, and to that combination of inhuman voices scathingly referred to by The Listener's Little Man as the Celestial Choir. In spite of the trouble Mr. Jones has gone to in polishing his parody, I don’t doubt that there will be many people who will buy these recordings in pure and simple good faith, thoroughly enjoying the oh-so-childish story of the dear little girl and her sugary adventures in Lemon-Drop-Land. Others will relish the performance with tongue in cheek. But no matter in what spirit it is approached, I have no doubt that this rendition of "Nutcracker Suite" will prove a. best-seller,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 12
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199Lemon-Drop New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 12
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