MUSICAL NOMENCLATURE.
Sir,-T trust that you have recovered from the onslaught of your correspond- | ent John MacDougall. A more heinous offence than misprinting "Rebop" for "Bebop" I can hardly conceive. As one of "those of musical learning" I have been laughing ever since (like Hell). Personally, I think you are both wrong. | The word is "Bellhop." _ As for mixing up "My Baby’s Back" with, "Mah Babby’s Back," I feel that the whole of my future has been hashed up and frustrated. Just imagine keeping a listener waiting over four hours for "those fine opening lines," ‘Don’ miss that other baby, now my other ‘baby’s back." Are you, sir, unable to appreciate those "beautiful lines," "Mah -Babby’s back is getting black since soap was rationed here?" Let me repeat these gems, and I would ask you to relax, lay your ears back and imagine ‘some husky-voiced female crooner blurbing out those fine and beautiful lines. Is there anything finer or more beautiful in the English language? Don’t they stir your deepest human emotions? Don’t they tear your soul apart? They do mine. I was apparently not on the air when this second "famous composi.tion" came over, or if I was I reached for the knob and strangled it at birth, as I do all such nauseating nonsense, As for Messrs, Finkelbaum, Guggenheim and Co. "E.never hoida ya." I have often waited deep into the night with the old family blunderbuss across ‘my knees loaded to the muzzle with rusty nails listening to learn who perpetrates these atrocities on a peace-lov-ing community. Now that I know, let your correspondent warn Finkelbaum, Guggenheim and their ilk that only several. thousand miles of ocean saves them from a violent death. "This will, no doubt, bring on a spate of abuse about the intolerance of highbrows, but if your correspondent represents the musical or literary taste of the majority of listeners, then the sooner someone drops an atomic bomb on us the better.
I.
BRAGH
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 5
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331MUSICAL NOMENCLATURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 5
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